Friday, October 9, 2009

Sally's Weekly Update for 10/09/09

The Mysterious Bookshop

58 Warren Street

New York, NY. 10007

Ph: 212-587-1011

Fax: 212-587-1126

Open Seven Days, 11.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m.



Weekly Update 10/9/09



UPCOMING EVENTS

Thursday, October 15th 6.30p.m. - 8.00p.m.

Detectives Don’t Wear Seatbelts: True Adventures of a Female P.I.

Author Cici McNair will discuss her book and her career as a P.I.

Light refreshments will be served.



Thursday, October 29th 6.00p.m. - 8.00p.m.

THREE PARTIES IN ONE!

We will be celebrating threefold!!

Our fourth year at this location

A slightly early Halloween Party

Publication of The Vampire Archives, edited by Otto Penzler.

Please join us



SIGNED BOOKS NOW AVAILABLE

Pete Dexter signed copies of Spooner, his latest novel, which is receiving stellar reviews. An Unclassifiable Club Selection. $26.99

Gerald Elias was here this week discussing his book Devil’s Trill. He also played some of the music referred to in his story of a stolen violin. $25.99

Joshua Gaylord is a first time author (married to Megan Abbott). His book, Hummingbirds, is set in an all-girls prep school where tensions between students, students and teachers, and especially students and the male teachers, always bubble beneath the surface of higher education. Oh, there’s also a mystery involved. This is on my list! $25.99





The Dark Page II, edited and signed by Kevin Johnson, is now available. The sub title is Books That Inspired American Film Noir and the years covered are 1950-1965. Gorgeous color photographs show the dust jackets of some of the most important books in the genre with text accompanying each selection. $95.00

Dark Mirror by Barry Maitland is the latest mystery featuring DCI Brock and DI Kolla. Maitland lives in Australia so this is the first U.S. edition. $24.99

Robert B. Parker spent some time at the store and signed several of his books. If you previously ordered, we are in the process of getting your books to you.

The Professional is his latest Spenser is A Crime Collector’s Club Selection. $26.95

Brimstone is the third Western featuring Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole. $25.95

Night and Day features Jesse Stone, police chief of Paradise, Massachusetts. $25.95

Chasing the Bear is a book for young adults and features a young Spenser. $14.99



SIGNED AND NOT SIGNED FROM THE UK

The Gates is John Connolly’s latest featuring young Samuel Johnson who, with the help of a small dog and an unlucky demon, is trying to stop his neighbors, led by the villainous Mrs. Abernathy, from opening the gates of hell. Just in time for Halloween! $33.00

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest is the third and last book by Stieg Larsson. It is definitely first come, first served for this title. And of course it isn’t signed. $48.



FOR COLLECTORS

Hieronymus Bosch Profile by Michael Connelly, The Mysterious Bookshop, NY. 2007. SIGNED. $75.00

Commissioned by The Mysterious Bookshop and limited to 100 numbered copies. Fine.

Lullaby Town by Robert Crais, Bantam, NY. 1992. First Edition. SIGNED. $750.00

Author’s scarcest book. An immaculate, as new copy in like dust jacket.

The Monkey’s Raincoat by Robert Crais, Doubleday, NY. 1993. First American Hardcover Edition.SIGNED. $125.00

Author’s first novel. Introduces Elvis Cole. Very fine in dust jacket.



Elvis Cole & Joe Pike Profile by Robert Crais, The Mysterious Bookshop, NY. 2007. SIGNED. $75.00

Commissioned by The Mysterious Bookshop and limited to 100 numbered copies. Fine.

Inspector Morse Profile by Colin Dexter, The Mysterious Bookshop, NY. 2007. SIGNED. $75.00

Commissioned by The Mysterious Bookshop and limited to 100 numbered copies. Fine.

Crime Wave by James Ellroy, Arrow Books, London. 1999. First Edition. SIGNED. $45.00

The true first edition of Ellroy’s reportage and fiction about the dark side of L.A. Fine in wraps as issued.

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, Knopf, NY. 1929. First Editiion. $2,000.00

A fine copy of this iconic Haycraft-Queen cornerstone, regarded by many as the greatest detective novel written by an American. A fine copy (but no dust jacket).

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett, Knopf, NY. 1934. First Edition. $2,000.00

Cloth, as always, is faded, else very good in the green dust jacket, which is sunned on the spine and has nicks and closed tears at edges, corners and spine ends.

Fifty-Two Pickup by Elmore Leonard, Delacorte, NY. 1974. First Edition. SIGNED. $350.00

A fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket which has very small nicks and tears along edges, corners and spine ends.

The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper by John D. MacDonald, Lippincott, PA. 1973. First American Hardcover. $400.00

Bookplate, else a fine copy in a beautiful, sharp dust jacket and scarce in this condition.

Spenser Profile by Robert B. Parker, The Mysterious Bookshop, NY. 2007. SIGNED. $75.00

Commissioned by The Mysterious Bookshop and limited to 100 numbered copies. Fine.

Cast a Yellow Shadow by Ross Thomas, Morrow, NY. 1967. First Edition. $200.00

Very fine in dust jacket.

The Backup Men by Ross Thomas, Morrow, NY. 1971. First Edition. $100.00

Fine in dust jacket, which has light fraying at spine ends.

(Ross Thomas) The Highbinders by Oliver Bleeck, Morrow, NY. 1974. First Edition. $100.00

Fine in dust jacket.

Sally

sally@mysteriousbookshop.com

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