Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Sally's Weekly Update for December 31 2010

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Weekly Update 12/31/10



EVENT

Friday, January 7th, 11.00 a.m. - 12.00 p.m.

Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger

The Grand Game: A Celebration of Sherlockian Scholarship

Volume One, 1902 - 1959. $39.95



SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE

We have received the signed limited edition of THE SENTRY by Robert Crais.

This edition is limited to only 100 copies, numbered and signed by Robert Crais. Bound in marbled boards with a leather spine. The price is $150.00. There are also 26 lettered copies available at $275.00. If you have not already reserved a copy, please let us know just as soon as you can. They are going fast.



The trade edition of this book which comes out next year will be a Crime Collectors Club Main Selection. $26.95

Stephen Hunter stopped by to sign the latest Bob Lee Swagger thriller, Dead Zero. This is a Crime Collectors Club Main Selection. $26.00.



We have managed to get some signed copies of Three Seconds by Roslund & Hellstrom. This is the first U.S. Edition and both authors have signed with a message, Roslund in Swedish and Hellstrom in English. This thriller has taken Europe by storm and was winner of the Best Swedish Crime Novel when it was published there in 2009. $24.95



We have received our signed copies of The Four Stages of Cruelty by Keith Hollihan. This unusual first novel set in the world of Ditmarsh Penitentiary is receiving all kinds of kudos from critics and readers. An Unclassifiable Club Selection. $25.99




FOR COLLECTORS

The Root of His Evil by William Ard, Rinehart, NY. 1957. First Edition. $65.00

Very fine in dust jacket.



The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza by Lawrence Block, Random House, NY. 1980. First Edition. SIGNED. $125.00

Very fine in dust jacket. Review slip laid in.

No Good from a Corpse by Leigh Brackett, McMillan, Tucson. 1997. First Edition. SIGNED. $45.00

Giant collection of the complete crime fiction of this outstanding pulp writer of hard-boiled fiction. With an introduction by Ray Bradbury and an afterword by Michael Connelly. Very fine in dust jacket. Although not called for, this copy is signed by Bradbury and Connelly.

Incredible Ink by Howard Browne, McMillan, Tucson. 1997. First Edition. SIGNED. $100.00

Giant volume of stories from the pulps, a new autobiographical essay, a bibliography, etc. Limited to 350 copies in a slipcase, numbered and signed by Browne, one of the best of all pulp writers and the closest in style to Raymond Chandler.

The Devil by Ken Bruen, Mysterious Bookshop, NY. 2010. Limited Edition. SIGNED. $150.00

True first edition limited to 150 signed and numbered copies. Fine in marbled boards as issued.

The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly, Little Brown, Boston. 2008. First Edition. SIGNED. $26.99

As new in dust jacket.

The First Rule by Robert Crais, Mysterious Bookshop, NY. 2010. Limited Edition. SIGNED. $150.00

True first edition limited to 150 signed and numbered copies. Fine in marbled boards as issued.

The Daughters of Cain by Colin Dexter, Macmillan, London. 1994. First Edition. SIGNED. $35.00

Inspector Morse novel. Very fine in dust jacket.

Room by Emma Donoghue, Picador, London. 2010. First Edition. SIGNED. $35.00

Fine in fine dust jacket.

Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, NY. 2006. First Edition. SIGNED. $25.95

Fine in fine dust jacket.

The Second Saladin by Stephen Hunter, Morrow, 1982. First Edition. SIGNED. $150.00

Author’s second book. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Devices and Desires by P.D. James, Knopf, NY. 1989. First Trade Edition. SIGNED. $19.95

Signed on tipped in page. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon, Broadway Books, NY. 1997. First Edition. SIGNED. $25.00

Author’s first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Self Portrait: Ceaselessly into the Past by Ross Macdonald, Santa Barbara, CA. 1981. First Edition. $20.00

Collection of essays and miscellaneous writings, edited by Ralph B. Sipper; foreword by Eudora Welty. Fine in near fine dust jacket.

Daniel by Henning Mankell, New Press, NY. 2010. First U.S. Edition. $26.95

Set in Africa and Sweden. As new.

The Tragedy of Errors by Ellery Queen, Crippen & Landru, VA. 1999. $45.00

A pamphlet reproducing in reduced size the original manuscript and typescript pages of the title story. Issued with the limited hardcover edition of the book. (Pamphlet only). Very fine in stiff wrappers.

The Death Artist by Jonathan Santlofer, Morrow, NY. 2002. First Edition. SIGNED. $24.95

Author’s first mystery. As new in dust jacket. Signed and dated October 5, 2002.

The Fortune Hunter by Louis Joseph Vance, Dodd, Mead, NY. 1910. First Edition. $150.00

Date inside front cover, else a remarkably fine, fresh copy in dust jacket, which is chipped at spine ends and along edges. Rare I n dust jacket.

Murder in Canton by Robert Van Gulik, Scribners, NY. 1967. First U.S. Edition. $75.00

A Judge Dee mystery. Fine in dust jacket.

The Black Path of Fear by Cornell Woolrich, Doubleday Crime Club, NY. 1944. First Edition. $30.00

Name, else about very good.



Sally

sally@mysteriousbookshop.com

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