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 9/25/09
UPCOMING EVENTS
Wednesday, September 30th 7.00 p.m. - 8.30 p.m.
Celebrate the publication of
Tower by Reed Farrel Coleman (written with Ken Bruen)
and
The Fury by Jason Pinter.
Both books are paperback originals.
Thursday, October 1st 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.
Rizzo’s War by Lou Manfredo
Hardboiled debut.
Books will be available for signing and light refreshments will be served.
The Lineup
We are expecting copies of The Lineup to be delivered today. We have been told that each volume weighs 2.5lbs and we are going to have to charge $10 postage and handling for each volume. Sorry about that, but the postage is actually higher than that. If you are buying more than one copy the price will be pro-rated. International customers will be charged the actual cost by weight plus $3.00.
SIGNED BOOKS NOW AVAILABLE
Blood’s A Rover by James Ellroy completes The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand are the first two books in the series). Set in the summer of 1968 following the assassination of both Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, this is political noir as only Ellroy can tell it. A Crime Collector’s Club Selection. $28.95
Hell’s Kitchen is a first novel by screenwriter Charles Kipps and introduces Conor Bard, a New York City homicide cop who works out of Hell’s Kitchen. When the body is found of a successful criminal defense attorney with rumored ties to the Mafia, Bard must deal with a long list of suspects. A Hard Boiled Club Selection. $25.00
The Vampire Archives, edited by Otto Penzler, is bound to be popular as Halloween approaches. This oversize paperback volume received rave reviews from Publisher’s Weekly not only because it is the most complete volume of vampire tales ever published, but also because of the superb extensive Bibliography compiled by our very own Dan Seitler. Otto and Dan will sign. $25.00
After the Fire, A Still Small Voice is a first novel by Evie Wyld set in Australia . This beautifully written story of two men and the wars that shaped them is high on Ian Kern’s list of favorites. $24.00
SIGNED FROM THE U.K.
Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks by John Curran is a very important contribution to the world of mystery. Curran deciphered Christie’s notebooks, 73 of them, after the death of Christie’s daughter. He discovered alternative plots, titles, and characters and previously unpublished work including two Hercule Poirot stories. We don’t have many of this title. $50.00
Lindsey Davis returns to her first love, the 17th century, with Rebels and Traitors, and pens a novel set against the English Civil War and the dark plots of the Commonwealth. Again, not many of this title. $48.00
The Price of Love by Peter Robinson is a collection of short stories, one of which features DCI Alan Banks. Not many of these either. $45.00
FOR COLLECTORS
A Coffin For Dimitrios by Eric Ambler, Alfred A. Knopf, NY. 1939. First U.S. Edition. $2,000.00
Collector’s blind stamped ex-libris on the front free endpaper, else fine in a dust jacket with a little creasing. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone.
The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley, Crime Club, Garden City. 1929. First U.S. Edition. $500.00
Very good to fine in a very good dust jacket with some minor chipping and a waterstain on the front panel. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone.
The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake, Harper & Brothers, NY. 1938. First U.S. Edition. $350.00
Owner’s faint ex-libris blind stamp on the front free endpaper; owner’s ink name. Very good in a dust jacket with numerous small chips and tears. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone.
The Judas Window by John Dickson Carr (Carter Dickson), Morrow. NY. 1938. First Edition. $875.00
Very good in dust jacket. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone.
The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton, Cassell, London. 1911. First Edition. $350.00
First Father Brown book. Queen’s Quorum; Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Goldstone bookplate; blind-stamp ex-libris; minor staining to the last two leaves; very good, bright copy.
His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle, John Murray, London. 1917. First Edition. $500.00
Bookplate; spine a little faded; some spotting; very good.
The Old Man in the Corner by Baroness Orczy, Greening, London. 1909. First Edition. $650.00
Previous owner’s blind ex-libris stamp on the front free endpaper; back hinge started; very good. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone and Queen’s Quorum.
The Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen, Frederick A. Stokes, NY. 1929. First Edition. SIGNED. $650.00
Author’s first book. Front hinge cracked about half-way from the bottom; faint owner’s ex-libris blind stamp on the front free endpaper; slight spine cocking and cloth fraying; signed as Dannay and Queen on the title page.
The Patience of Maigret by Georges Simenon, Harcourt Brace, 1940. First U.S. Edition. $350.00
Very good in dust jacket. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone.
Phantom Lady by Cornell Woolrich (William Irish), Lippincott, Philadelphia. 1942. First Edition. $1,750.00
A very good or better copy in a very good dust jacket with some chips and tears. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone.
Sally
sally@mysteriousbookshop.com
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Neglected Authors: Helen Reilly
HELEN REILLY
At a time when many women mystery writers were still writing in the "Had-I-but-Known" school, Helen Reilly (1891-1962) began to write realistic police procedurals before Ed McBain ever saw the inside of a precinct house. Her series character Christopher McKee, is a member of the New York Police Department who has, by the mid-1940s, worked his way up to be the Chief of the Homicide Squad. He absolutely hates murderers and blackmailers and is relentless in his pursuit of them. All the following books feature McKee, were published in New York and are first editions, unless noted. Note: DCC=Doubleday Crime Club.
The Thirty-First Bullfinch, DCC, 1930. (pre-McKee). Neat library stamps on endpapers, no other marks. Front flap excised and pasted inside front cover. Very good. $20.00
Another copy. DCC. Later printing. Very good plus. $15.00
Murder in the Mews, DCC, 1931. About fine. The second McKee. $25.00
McKee of Centre Street, DCC, 1933. Very good. $15.00
The Lineup, Sun Dial, 1942 (first published in 1934). Reprint. Fine in near fine dust jacket. $20.00
Dead Man Control, DCC, 1936. Soiled, else very good. $15.00
Mr. Smith’s Hat, DCC,1936. Good reading copy. $10.00
Murder in Shinbone Alley, DCC, 1940. Name, some rubbing to spine, else very good in near fine dust jacket. $75.00
Another copy. DCC, 1940. Corner cut off front endpaper, else very good in chipped dust jacket. $45.00
Death Demands an Audience, DCC, 1940. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with minor wear at spine ends. Scarce in such collector’s condition. $200.00
Another copy. Library stamps, else very good in glued down dust jacket. $10.00
Another copy. About fine. $17.50
Murder on Angler’s Island, Random House, 1945. Bookplate, else near fine in dust jacket. $25.00
The Silver Leopard, Random House, 1946. Very good in chipped dust jacket. $15.00
The Farmhouse, Random House, 1947. Front endpaper scuffed, else fine in very good, nicked and lightly chipped dust jacket. $20.00
Tell Her It’s Murder, Random House, 1954. Fine in dust jacket. $20.00
The Canvas Dagger, Random House, 1956. Near fine in dust jacket. $25.00
Ding Dong Bell, Random House, 1958. Gift inscription, else very good in dust jacket. $20.00
Another copy. Fine in near fine dust jacket. $25.00
Not Me, Inspector, Random House, 1959. Book store stamp, else about fine in soiled dust jacket. $20.00
Follow Me, Random House, 1960. Features Inspector Todhunter in Santa Fe. Fine in slightly rubbed dust jacket with one closed tear. $20.00
Certain Sleep, Random House, 1961. Name, else about fine in near fine dust jacket.
The Day She Died, Random House, 1962. Near fine in chipped dust jacket. $17.50
At a time when many women mystery writers were still writing in the "Had-I-but-Known" school, Helen Reilly (1891-1962) began to write realistic police procedurals before Ed McBain ever saw the inside of a precinct house. Her series character Christopher McKee, is a member of the New York Police Department who has, by the mid-1940s, worked his way up to be the Chief of the Homicide Squad. He absolutely hates murderers and blackmailers and is relentless in his pursuit of them. All the following books feature McKee, were published in New York and are first editions, unless noted. Note: DCC=Doubleday Crime Club.
The Thirty-First Bullfinch, DCC, 1930. (pre-McKee). Neat library stamps on endpapers, no other marks. Front flap excised and pasted inside front cover. Very good. $20.00
Another copy. DCC. Later printing. Very good plus. $15.00
Murder in the Mews, DCC, 1931. About fine. The second McKee. $25.00
McKee of Centre Street, DCC, 1933. Very good. $15.00
The Lineup, Sun Dial, 1942 (first published in 1934). Reprint. Fine in near fine dust jacket. $20.00
Dead Man Control, DCC, 1936. Soiled, else very good. $15.00
Mr. Smith’s Hat, DCC,1936. Good reading copy. $10.00
Murder in Shinbone Alley, DCC, 1940. Name, some rubbing to spine, else very good in near fine dust jacket. $75.00
Another copy. DCC, 1940. Corner cut off front endpaper, else very good in chipped dust jacket. $45.00
Death Demands an Audience, DCC, 1940. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with minor wear at spine ends. Scarce in such collector’s condition. $200.00
Another copy. Library stamps, else very good in glued down dust jacket. $10.00
Another copy. About fine. $17.50
Murder on Angler’s Island, Random House, 1945. Bookplate, else near fine in dust jacket. $25.00
The Silver Leopard, Random House, 1946. Very good in chipped dust jacket. $15.00
The Farmhouse, Random House, 1947. Front endpaper scuffed, else fine in very good, nicked and lightly chipped dust jacket. $20.00
Tell Her It’s Murder, Random House, 1954. Fine in dust jacket. $20.00
The Canvas Dagger, Random House, 1956. Near fine in dust jacket. $25.00
Ding Dong Bell, Random House, 1958. Gift inscription, else very good in dust jacket. $20.00
Another copy. Fine in near fine dust jacket. $25.00
Not Me, Inspector, Random House, 1959. Book store stamp, else about fine in soiled dust jacket. $20.00
Follow Me, Random House, 1960. Features Inspector Todhunter in Santa Fe. Fine in slightly rubbed dust jacket with one closed tear. $20.00
Certain Sleep, Random House, 1961. Name, else about fine in near fine dust jacket.
The Day She Died, Random House, 1962. Near fine in chipped dust jacket. $17.50
Friday, September 18, 2009
Nancy Mauro on NEW WORLD MONKEYS
Nancy Mauro talks about her writing process and her provocative new novel- NEW WORLD MONKEYS during a recent appearance at the store.
Sally's Weekly Update for 09/18/09
I know, it was a crazy couple of days!
Here's the latest update.
Sally Owen
The Mysterious Bookshop
sally@mysteriousbookshop.com
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 9/18/09
DAN BROWN UPDATE
We announced the availability of signed first editions of The Lost Symbol at about 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday and were sold out by 3.30p.m. Never in my 30+ years as a bookseller have we had such an extraordinary response. Thank you all for your support. For those who (very understandably) did not reply within that first hour, I apologize for the disappointment in getting shut out. We wish we had another 500 copies so that everyone who wanted one could have had one. Just as an aside, you all should know how gracious Dan Brown was to come down to Tribeca to sign books for us. Let’s face it: With the first printing of 5,000,000 copies, the few hundred that he signed for us don’t matter. He did it just because he’s an old friend of the store – a form of loyalty and generosity that can’t be taught or forced. Otto
We were all here answering ‘phones. Some of you responded instantly via email. I was here taking your name and compiling a list as those emails arrived. I understand your anxiety about not receiving a confirmation, but I assure you that if you responded via email, you are either getting a signed copy of The Lost Symbol or you are on the waiting list. If you can restrain yourself, please don’t email again. I will get to you as soon as I can.
A note for Crime Club Members. Some of you asked if Dan Brown would be a selection. No. I will be holding The Lost Symbol to send with your September selection. If you are in the Crime Collector’s Club, you already know that we are holding up for James Ellroy who will be signing copies of Blood’s a Rover the last week in September. Sally
SIGNED BOOKS NOW AVAILABLE
Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow tells the story of the Collyer brothers, one blind and one damaged by the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue apartment and yet the epic events of the century play out in their lives. From the author of Ragtime. An Unclassifiable Club Selection. $26.00
New World Monkeys by Nancy Mauro is a darkly comic mystery which exposes the idols of marital tranquillity , small town idyll, and corporate Darwinism as Duncan and Lily take possession of their inherited Victorian home. A First Mystery Club Selection. $23.00
I recently wrote that we did not have enough copies of The Arms Maker of Berlin by Dan Fesperman and so could not offer to anybody but our Thriller/Esionage Crime Club members. Happy to report that Dan Fesperman intercepted that email and was kind enough to come by the store and sign more copies. A Thriller/Espionage Club Selection. $25.95
Not Signed but......
Val McDermid has a new mystery featuring Tony Hill and Carol Jordan. Beneath the Bleeding is a U.S. first edition and a paperback original. I understand that there will be UK editions in hardcover and they will be signed. We’re trying to get copies of those now. But for you "true first" people.... $14.99
FOR COLLECTORS
Wanted: Someone Innocent by Margery Allingham, Pony, NY. 1946. First Edition. $35.00
Uncommon paperback original containing the title novella and three short stories. Very good-near fine copy with a small tear on rear cover.
Another copy. Spine faded as usual, else good-very good. $15.00
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, Collins, London. 1926. $1,000.00
Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. A very good copy.
The Monkey’s Raincoat by Robert Crais, Bantam, NY. 1987. First Edition. SIGNED. $45.00
Author’s Edgar-nominated first book. Price neatly inked out, else about fine, clean, uncreased copy.
(Edwardian Mystery) The Old Bank by William Westall, Chatto & Windus, London. 1902. First Edition. $100.00
Previous owner’s name, some foxing to pages, else a very good copy in a handsome decorated binding.
(Edwardian Fiction) The Slave of Silence by Fred M. White, Little Brown, Boston. 1906. First Edition. $35.00
Precedes the British edition. Some waterstaining to lower page corners, else very good-near fine in a nice pictorial binding.
Murder for Love, Otto Penzler, Ed., Delacorte, NY. 1996. First Edition. SIGNED. $45.00
An anthology of all original stories signed by the editor and contributors Carol Higgins Clark, Mary Higgins Clark, Ed McBain, Michael Malone, Joyce Carol Oates and Anne Perry. Very fine in dust jacket with light creases at spine ends.
The Law of the Three Just Men by Edgar Wallace, Doubleday Crime Club, NY. 1931. First U.S. Edition. $20.00
Very good-fine.
The Thief in the Night by Edgar Wallace, Worldwide, NY. 1929. First U.S. Edition. $35.00
Scarce short story collection. Very good in a bright pictorial dust with a large chip at top of spine.
Writ in Barracks by Edgar Wallace, Methuen, London. 1900. First Edition. $100.00
Scarce book of war poetry by famous thriller writer. Hinges cracked, else very good-near fine. Laid in is a scarce pamphlet entitled "When London Calls!" a separately printed poem from the book. Fine.
Sally
sally@mysteriousbookshop.com
Here's the latest update.
Sally Owen
The Mysterious Bookshop
sally@mysteriousbookshop.com
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 9/18/09
DAN BROWN UPDATE
We announced the availability of signed first editions of The Lost Symbol at about 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday and were sold out by 3.30p.m. Never in my 30+ years as a bookseller have we had such an extraordinary response. Thank you all for your support. For those who (very understandably) did not reply within that first hour, I apologize for the disappointment in getting shut out. We wish we had another 500 copies so that everyone who wanted one could have had one. Just as an aside, you all should know how gracious Dan Brown was to come down to Tribeca to sign books for us. Let’s face it: With the first printing of 5,000,000 copies, the few hundred that he signed for us don’t matter. He did it just because he’s an old friend of the store – a form of loyalty and generosity that can’t be taught or forced. Otto
We were all here answering ‘phones. Some of you responded instantly via email. I was here taking your name and compiling a list as those emails arrived. I understand your anxiety about not receiving a confirmation, but I assure you that if you responded via email, you are either getting a signed copy of The Lost Symbol or you are on the waiting list. If you can restrain yourself, please don’t email again. I will get to you as soon as I can.
A note for Crime Club Members. Some of you asked if Dan Brown would be a selection. No. I will be holding The Lost Symbol to send with your September selection. If you are in the Crime Collector’s Club, you already know that we are holding up for James Ellroy who will be signing copies of Blood’s a Rover the last week in September. Sally
SIGNED BOOKS NOW AVAILABLE
Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow tells the story of the Collyer brothers, one blind and one damaged by the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue apartment and yet the epic events of the century play out in their lives. From the author of Ragtime. An Unclassifiable Club Selection. $26.00
New World Monkeys by Nancy Mauro is a darkly comic mystery which exposes the idols of marital tranquillity , small town idyll, and corporate Darwinism as Duncan and Lily take possession of their inherited Victorian home. A First Mystery Club Selection. $23.00
I recently wrote that we did not have enough copies of The Arms Maker of Berlin by Dan Fesperman and so could not offer to anybody but our Thriller/Esionage Crime Club members. Happy to report that Dan Fesperman intercepted that email and was kind enough to come by the store and sign more copies. A Thriller/Espionage Club Selection. $25.95
Not Signed but......
Val McDermid has a new mystery featuring Tony Hill and Carol Jordan. Beneath the Bleeding is a U.S. first edition and a paperback original. I understand that there will be UK editions in hardcover and they will be signed. We’re trying to get copies of those now. But for you "true first" people.... $14.99
FOR COLLECTORS
Wanted: Someone Innocent by Margery Allingham, Pony, NY. 1946. First Edition. $35.00
Uncommon paperback original containing the title novella and three short stories. Very good-near fine copy with a small tear on rear cover.
Another copy. Spine faded as usual, else good-very good. $15.00
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, Collins, London. 1926. $1,000.00
Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. A very good copy.
The Monkey’s Raincoat by Robert Crais, Bantam, NY. 1987. First Edition. SIGNED. $45.00
Author’s Edgar-nominated first book. Price neatly inked out, else about fine, clean, uncreased copy.
(Edwardian Mystery) The Old Bank by William Westall, Chatto & Windus, London. 1902. First Edition. $100.00
Previous owner’s name, some foxing to pages, else a very good copy in a handsome decorated binding.
(Edwardian Fiction) The Slave of Silence by Fred M. White, Little Brown, Boston. 1906. First Edition. $35.00
Precedes the British edition. Some waterstaining to lower page corners, else very good-near fine in a nice pictorial binding.
Murder for Love, Otto Penzler, Ed., Delacorte, NY. 1996. First Edition. SIGNED. $45.00
An anthology of all original stories signed by the editor and contributors Carol Higgins Clark, Mary Higgins Clark, Ed McBain, Michael Malone, Joyce Carol Oates and Anne Perry. Very fine in dust jacket with light creases at spine ends.
The Law of the Three Just Men by Edgar Wallace, Doubleday Crime Club, NY. 1931. First U.S. Edition. $20.00
Very good-fine.
The Thief in the Night by Edgar Wallace, Worldwide, NY. 1929. First U.S. Edition. $35.00
Scarce short story collection. Very good in a bright pictorial dust with a large chip at top of spine.
Writ in Barracks by Edgar Wallace, Methuen, London. 1900. First Edition. $100.00
Scarce book of war poetry by famous thriller writer. Hinges cracked, else very good-near fine. Laid in is a scarce pamphlet entitled "When London Calls!" a separately printed poem from the book. Fine.
Sally
sally@mysteriousbookshop.com
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Dan Brown's Visit to The Mysterious Bookshop
Publishing phenomenon Dan Brown dropped by the store recently to sign copies of his new thriller: THE LOST SYMBOL. We were thrilled with his visit and the store sold out of the book within two hours!
Once again we are sad to say we are SOLD OUT of signed copies!
Once again we are sad to say we are SOLD OUT of signed copies!
DEVIL'S TRILL Author Gerald Ellis Speaks and Performs 10/06/09
The Mysterious Bookshop
will host a party
celebrating the release of
Devil's Trill
by Gerald Elias
Join us in celebrating the debut crime novel
Devil's Trill ($25.99, Minotaur)
Violinist, composer and conductor Gerald Elias will discuss his book and give a short performance.
Copies will be available for autographs.
Light refreshments will be served.
Tuesday, October 6th
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm.
Admission is Free
The Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street. (Between Church and West Broadway)
New York, NY 10007
(212) 587-1011
info@mysteriousbookshop.com
will host a party
celebrating the release of
Devil's Trill
by Gerald Elias
Join us in celebrating the debut crime novel
Devil's Trill ($25.99, Minotaur)
Violinist, composer and conductor Gerald Elias will discuss his book and give a short performance.
Copies will be available for autographs.
Light refreshments will be served.
Tuesday, October 6th
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm.
Admission is Free
The Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street. (Between Church and West Broadway)
New York, NY 10007
(212) 587-1011
info@mysteriousbookshop.com
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Lou Manfredo Discusses RIZZO'S WAR 10/01/09!
The Mysterious Bookshop
is proud to present:
Lou Manfredo
discusses his hardboiled debut
Rizzo's War
Thursday, October 1st
from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm.
Admission is free.
The Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street (Between Church and West Broadway)
New York, NY 10007
(212) 587-1011
info@mysteriousbookshop.com
is proud to present:
Lou Manfredo
discusses his hardboiled debut
Rizzo's War
Thursday, October 1st
from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm.
Admission is free.
The Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street (Between Church and West Broadway)
New York, NY 10007
(212) 587-1011
info@mysteriousbookshop.com
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