Sally's Weekly Update for 08/26/11!

We have just heard that the MTA will be shutting down at Noon tomorrow and that The Mysterious Bookshop is sitting in a flooding zone.

We will not be open on Saturday and Sunday as Hurricane Irene passes by, but be assured that before we leave, all hatches will be battened down, windows will be taped, and books will be stowed away safely.

We will open on Monday at the usual time, weather permitting.

Good luck to everybody out there who will be getting hit before and after us.

Oh, yes. Happy reading.

Sally Owen
The Mysterious Bookshop
sally@mysteriousbookshop.com


The Mysterious Bookshop

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Ph: 212-587-1011

Fax: 212-587-1126

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Weekly Update 8/26/11



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UPCOMING EVENT




Wednesday, August 31st. 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.

Death and The Maiden by Gerald Elias $25.99

Violinist and composer Gerald Elias will discuss his new book and give a short performance.





SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE



We now have paperback editions of Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop edited by Otto Penzler. These stories, which feature The Mysterious Bookshop and the staff, were commissioned by Otto from some of your favorite authors, many of whom are no longer with us, to give away to customers during the festive season. Otto will be happy to sign these editions. It is never too early to gather together your stocking stuffers! $14.99



Luminarium is a first novel from Alex Shakar. Twins Fred and George Brounian were once co-CEOs of a NYC software company devoted to the creation of utopian virtual worlds. Now, as the fifth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, George is in a coma and the company has been wrenched away by a military contracting conglomerate. This examination of the way we live now, the role technology and spirituality play in shaping our reality, is getting some terrific reviews from Publishers Weekly "...this radiant work leads you from the unreal to the real so convincingly that you begin to let go of the distinction." to Dave Eggers "...This book is funny, and soulful, and very sad, but so intellectually invigorating that you’ll want to read it twice." An Unclassifiable Crime Club Main Selection. $25.00



Flash and Bones is the latest mystery from Kathy Reichs featuring Temperance Brennan. When a body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to the Charlotte Motor Speedway, a NASCAR crew member approaches the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner to tell of the disappearance, twelve years ago of his sister and her boyfriend. Could the body be either of them? $26.99



NOT SIGNED BUT...



In 1993 Austin Wright wrote Tony and Susan, a book that went nowhere at the time. The author has since died but the novel has been reissued in hardcover by Grand Central Publishing. I’m reading it now and wonder why this passed most of us by eighteen years ago. Susan, once married to Edward, receives her ex-husband’s manuscript. He always wanted to write and Susan was his harshest critic. But Edward thinks she was his best, so would like her to critique his story. The story, which we read along with Susan, features an academic, Tony, who goes through a horrendous experience driving to his summer home with his wife and child. Susan, the reader, becomes totally involved with Tony, the protagonist, and as I alternate between the manuscript and the story of Susan’s reaction to it, I am filled with dread (as Susan is). What a page turner! We will be ordering more copies of this one. $24.99



SIGNED FROM THE UK

We only have a couple of copies of The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes which tells the story of Tony Webster and Adrian Finn who met at school and swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He’s had a career and one marriage, a divorce, and he’s certainly never tried to hurt anybody. But memory can be imperfect. $33.00

The Night Stalker is the third book from Chris Carter after The Crucifix Killer and The Executioner. When an unidentified female body is discovered in an abandoned butcher’s shop, the cause of death is not immediately clear. But when the full autopsy gets underway at the Los Angeles county morgue, the pathologist will reveal the true horror of the situation - a discovery so devastating that Detective Robert Hunter of the LA Homicide Special Section has to be pulled off another case to take over the investigation. $33.00

Death on the Rive Nord by Adrian Magson is the second mystery to feature Inspector Lucas Rocco. In Picardie in 1963, a truck drops a group of illegal Algerian workers by a deserted stretch of canal in the dead of night near Poissons-les-Marais. Days later, one of them surfaces, stabbed to death. $50.00

The Vault by Ruth Rendell features Chief Inspector Reg Wexford, now retired, who divides his time between Kingsmarkham and a coachhouse in Hampstead belonging to his daughter. When he is asked to advise on a difficult case, three bodies have been found in the old coal hole of an old house in St. John’s Wood, he can’t resist. $48.00



FOR COLLECTORS

Three Black Bags by Marion Polk Angellotti, Century, NY. 1923. First Edition. $125.00

Romantic mystery set in France and Germany. Owner’s signature, else very

fine in pictorial dust jacket that is chipped at top front and back panels and spine, which has light spotting.

The Enchanted Isle by James M. Cain, Mysterious Press, NY. 1985. First Edition. $35.00

Very fine in dust jacket.

Career in C Major by James M. Cain, McGraw-Hill, NY. 1986. First Edition. $35.00

First edition of this collection. Very fine in dust jacket.

The Sirens Sang of Murder by Sarah Caudwell, Collins, London. 1989. First Edition. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED. $50.00

A Professor Hilary Tamar Narrative. Signed and dated and inscribed to previous owner. Fine in fine dust jacket.

All That Remains by Patricia D. Cornwell, Scribners, NY. 1992. First U.S. Edition. SIGNED. $40.00

Author’s third mystery featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Trace by Patricia Cornwell, Putnam, NY. 2004. First Edition. SIGNED. $30.00

A Scarpetta novel. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Predator by Patricia Cornwell, Putnam, NY. 2005. First Edition. SIGNED. $30.00

A Scarpetta novel. Fine in dine dust jacket.

The Hidden Hand by John Carroll Daly, Grosset & Dunlap, NY. 1929. Reprint. $35.00

A Race Williams novel. About fine in a very good dust jacket, which has a few creases and light wear. Daly’s books are uncommon in dust jacket.

Whiskey River by Loren D. Estleman, Scribner, London. 1990. First U.K. Edition. $25.00

Anthony Award winner. Fine in fine dust jacket.

The Memory Game by Nicci French, Heineman , London. 1997. First Edition. SIGNED. $45.00

Authors’ first book. Signed by both authors. Fine in fine dust jacket.



The Blonde in Lower Six by Erle Stanley Gardner, Carroll & Graf, NY. 1990. First Edition. $25.00

A novel and three novellas, first published in Black Mask about Ed Jenkins, "The Phantom Crook." In dust jacket with trace of rubbing at spine tips.

"B" is for Burglar by Sue Grafton, Holt, NY. 1985. First Edition. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED. $1,500.00

Fine in dust jacket. A stunning copy of an increasingly scarce book.

"E" is for Evidence by Sue Grafton, Holt, 1988. Second Printing. $20.00

Identical format to the first edition. Very fine in dust jacket.

"F" is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton, Holt, NY. 1989. Second Printing. SIGNED. $20.00

Identical format to the first edition. Very fine in dust jacket.

"G" is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton, Holt, 1990. First Edition. SIGNED. $35.00

Fine in dust jacket.

"H" is for Homicide by Sue Grafton, Holt, 1991. First Edition. SIGNED. $20.00

Fine in dust jacket which has a sunned spine.

Marked for Murder by Brett Halliday, Dodd, NY. 1945. First Edition. $100.00

Top of spine crushed, otherwise fine in a very good jacket. Small chips to corners and spine ends, and some light spotting to front panel.

This is Michael Shane by Brett Halliday, Dodd, NY. 1950. First Edition. $75.00

Top of spine bumped, else fine in a near fine dust jacket. Wear to spine ends and front corners. Front and rear panels clean and bright.

Yu’an Hee See Laughs by Sax Rohmer, Doubleday Crime Club, NY. 1933. First U.S. Edition. $20.00

Bookplate inside front cover, else very good.

Re-Enter Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer, Gold Medal, CT. 1957. First Edition. $12.50

Paperback original. Near fine.

The Wrath of Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer, DAW, NY. 1973. First Edition. $15.00

Paperback original. About fine.

Not Quite Dead Enough by Rex Stout, Farrar & Rinehart, NY. 1944. First Edition. SIGNED. $200.00

Spine is a bit sunned, else a very good copy of a scarce wartime title. Signed and dated October 7, 1944, by Stout.



The Casino Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine, Scribner, NY. 1934. First Edition. $30.00

A very good copy.



Sally

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Rare Sale Catalog

We have just purchased a new collection and, in order to make room for it, we are offering some excellent books at great savings.

Here is a link to the list on our website


Sally
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Paul Malmont reads from THE ASTOUNDING, THE AMAZING AND THE UNKNOWN

At a recent event at The Mysterious Bookshop in New York, author Paul Malmont read from his new novel THE ASTOUNDING, THE AMAZING AND THE UNKNOWN.

Part One



Part Two

Sally's Weekly Update for 08/19/11!

Here is our Weekly Update.

Under separate cover I will be sending you a link to our Fall 2011 Rare Sale Catalog which is posted on our website.

Have a very bookish weekend.

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



Weekly Update 8/19/11



THE MYSTERIOUS BOOKSHOP BIBLIOMYSTERY SERIES

Last week we announced our new Bibliomystery series which we will begin publishing in the Fall with Ken Bruen’s story.

Each story has been commissioned by the bookshop as an original mystery and will not be available in any other store or in any other form until some time after publication.

Many of you have signed on for the complete series, but we want to remind those of you who have not yet contacted us that each story is a limited edition hardcover in an illustrated dust jacket. The hardcover editions are limited to only 100 copies, numbered and are signed by the author. $50.00

There also will be 26 lettered copies, also signed by the author, at $100.00

The stories will be available in paperback for $4.95 each.

Some of you have indicated that you want only stories by specific authors (so far we have stories from Ken Bruen, Anne Perry, Reed Farrel Coleman, C.J. Box, Nelson DeMille, and William Link). This is perfectly fine, except in the scenario where we get 100 subscribers to the whole series (we are certainly hoping for that). Subscribers will of course get preference.



SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE



Loren D. Estleman has signed copies of Infernal Angels featuring Motor City investigator Amos Walker who reluctantly has to embrace the twenty-first century when he is asked to recover HDTV converter boxes which have been stolen. In the course of his investigation Walker stumbles onto a dead body. Some things never change. $24.99



We have signed copies of The Twelfth Enchantment by David Liss. This historical features Lucy Derrick who, after the death of her father, is forced to be an unwanted boarder of her tyrannical uncle. But when a handsome stranger, the notorious rake Lord Byron, enters her life, Lucy discovers that her unfortunate circumstances are going to be transformed in ways at once astonishing and seemingly impossible. Liss has fashioned here a tale of romance with a dash of the supernatural. $26.00



NOT SIGNED, BUT...



The latest sensation from Scandinavia is The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen. This bestseller from Denmark, which won the Glass Key Award, introduces the flawed detective Carl Morck who works in Department Q, created to investigate cold cases. I’m reading this one now and highly recommend this to those of you who like your detectives quirky and smart. We are carrying the First U.S. Edition. $25.95



DC Comics has published an anthology of the Doc Savage comics magazine published between 1975 and 1977. For the first time, all eight issues of this hard-to-find series are collected here. $19.99



White Heat by M.J. McGrath looks like a very promising first mystery. It introduces Edie Kiglatuk, half Inuit, half outsider, who happens to be the best guide in her corner of the Arctic. While leading two adventurers on an alleged duck hunting expedition, one man is shot and killed. When the surviving adventurer returns - this time on an expedition to uncover the remains of Victorian explorer Sir James Fairfax - and mysteriously disappears, Edie sets out to discover what the two men were really after and who wanted to stop them. $25.95

The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler is getting terrific reviews. Set in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940, it tells the story of murder. A young boy goes missing and his body is discovered tangled in the barbed wire surrounding the ghetto. And then another body turns up, this time a young girl. Evidence begins to point to the unthinkable, a Jewish traitor luring children to their deaths. Zimler, the acclaimed author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, takes us into the most forbidden corners of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. $25.95





FOR COLLECTORS

Revenge Can Wait by Irene Alexander, Putnam, NY. 1941. First Edition. $75.00

Murder strikes an artistically pre-eminent family in California. A first novel in the style of Mary Roberts Rinehart and Mignon Eberhart. Fine in a near-fine dust jacket that has some fading on spine.

Punish Me With Kisses by William Bayer, Congdon & Lattes, NY. 1980. First Edition. SIGNED. $45.00

Fine in fine dust jacket.

A Fifth of Bruen by Ken Bruen, Busted Flush, TX. 2006. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. $25.00

The early fiction of Bruen. Trade Paperback. Fine.



The Kristiana Killers by Donald Q. Burleigh, Dutton, NY. 1937. First Edition. $75.00

Murders in Maine. A fine copy in yellow cloth; the dust jacket is a bit rubbed and has some fraying at top and bottom of spine.

Veiled Murder by Alice Campbell, Random House, NY. 1949. First U.S. Edition. $35.00

Set on England’s Devonshire coast. Inscription, else fine in dust jacket.

Lucky Dip and Other Stories by Liza Cody, Crippen & Landru, VA. 2003. Limited Edition. SIGNED. $42.00

Collection of Cody’s short stories limited to 250 signed copies. Includes separate pamphlet, White Knights & Giggling Bimbos, an original short story. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Ashes by Charles Frances Coe, Random House, NY. 1952. First Edition. $50.00

A novel of organized crime and political corruption by the noted hard-boiled pulp writer. Very fine with only a trace of wear along top edge.

Leave the Grave Green by Deborah Crombie, Scribners, NY. 1995. First Edition. SIGNED. $30.00

Third Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James mystery. Fine in dine dust jacket.

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury, London. 2004. First Edition. SIGNED. $75.00

Fine in white dust jacket with black endpapers. Signed by both the author and the illustrator, Portia Rosenberg. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Crime Beat: Selected Journalism 1984-1992 by Michael Connelly, Steven C. Vascik Publ., LA. SIGNED. $200.00

Limited to 150 numbered copies signed by Connelly. Fine in marbled boards and slipcased.

Mr. Strang by John Carroll Daly, Stokes, NY. 1936. First Edition. $37.50

Tiny snag at top of front cover, a small scuff on spine, else a very nice, bright copy.

The Cavalier’s Cup by Carter Dickson, Morrow, NY. 1953. First Edition. $75.00

A Sir Henry Merrivale mystery. A fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket, which is lightly chipped at spine ends.

Blood of Victory by Alan Furst, Random House, NY. 2002. First Edition. SIGNED. $25.00

Fine in fine dust jacket.

Dark Voyage by Alan Furst, Random House, NY. 2004. First Edition. SIGNED. $25.00

Fine in fine dust jacket.

The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst, Random House, NY. 2006. First Edition. SIGNED. $25.00

Fine in fine dust jacket.

The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst, Random House, NY. 2008. First Edition. SIGNED. $25.00

Fine in fine dust jacket.

Lew Archer, Private Investigator by Ross Macdonald, Mysterious Press, 1977. First Edition. $100.00

The introductory essay written especially for this book and handsomely produced as an eight-page promotional pamphlet. An important scarce Macdonald item. Fine in gray wrappers with deckled edges.

Shadows from the Thames by Edward Noble, Pearson, London. 1900. First Edition. $150.00

A very scarce Victorian short story collection. Orange-yellow spine sunned, small stains on front and back covers, hinges cracked; overall about very good in a handsome pictorial binding.

The Twisted Thing by Mickey Spillane, Dutton, NY. 1966. First Edition. $50.00

Previous owner’s name, else fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket.

A Hair’s Breadth by Lee Thayer, Dodd, Mead, NY. 1940. First Edition. $40.00

A Peter Clancy novel. Bookplate, else fine in dust jacket.

The Dragon Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine, Otto Penzler Books NY. 1996. $39.95

Facsimile edition - a perfect replica of the first printing of 1933. Very fine in dust jacket.



Sally

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Party for HARD CASE CRIME and GETTING OFF by Lawrence Block and CHOKE HOLD by Christa Faust 09/21/11

The Mysterious Bookshop
celebrates the return of
Hard Case Crime



Lawrence Block
discusses his never before released novel
Getting Off











and
Christa Faust
discusses her new novel
Choke Hold







Wednesday, September 21st
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

Sally's Weekly Update for 08/12/11

Sorry some of you were confused when you received the Sale Book list earlier this week.

Yes, like Dorothy Parker's assessment of Katharine Hepburn's emotional range, A to B was the extent of it.
If we receive a good response, and we seem to be, we'll continue with the alphabet.

Just for the record - I don't agree with Dorothy Parker. But she was a very funny woman.

On to the 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

Weekly Update 8/12/11



ANNOUNCING A NEW SERIES OF MYSTERIOUS BOOKSHOP PUBLICATIONS

For many bibliophiles, especially aficionados of mystery fiction, some of the most beloved books and stories feature a background of bookstores, libraries, rare books, manuscripts, priceless volumes and eccentric book collectors. John Dunning’s Booked to Die, Lawrence Block’s Bernie Rhodenbarr series, Carolyn G. Hart’s Murder on Demand novels, and Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose all were enhanced by their many references to books and those who care about them.

We will publish a new bibliomystery every month. Each story will feature books and/or those who write them, buy them, read them, collect them, sell them or are in some way involved with them.

Each story has been commissioned by the bookshop as an original mystery story and will not be available in any other store or in any other form until some time after publication.

Among the authors who have written stories for us are Ken Bruen, Anne Perry, Reed Farrel Coleman, C.J. Box, Nelson DeMille, and William Link (a Columbo story).

Each story will be available as a limited edition hardcover volume in an illustrated dust jacket. The hardcover editions are limited to only 100 copies, numbered and signed by the author. $50.00

There also will be 26 lettered copies, also signed by the author, at $100.00

The stories will also be available in paperback for $4.95 each.

If you subscribe to the entire series of hardcover editions, we will also send a free paperback edition.

If you subscribe to the entire series of paperbacks, we will ship it for free with any other books you purchase.

As a special offer to all members of our books clubs, as a thank you for being a member, if you order a copy of the paperback edition we will send it with your monthly selection for only $1.00.

The standard discount is offered to booksellers; please inquire.



PRE-ORDER TWO TITLES.

We will be hosting two events during the Fall and anticipate a higher than usual demand for signed books:



Lawrence Block will be here helping us celebrate the re-launch of Hard Case Crime. He has written a new mystery under his old pseudonym, Jill Emerson. Getting Off follows a young woman who robs and kills her one-night stands. But over the years a few have gotten away. She decides to track them down... $25.99



New Jersey Noir, the latest anthology from Akashic Books, will be released in November and contributors will be attending the release party here. Akashic will print 1,000 hardcover editions, all signed by the editor, Joyce Carol Oates. $24.95

However, we expect the following contributors here and will be asking them to sign copies:

Jonathan Santlofer, S.J. Rozan, Bradford Morrow, Edmund White, Sheila Kohler, Lou Manfredo, S.A. Solomon, Jeffrey Ford, Hirsh Sawhney, C.K. Williams, Gerald Stern, and Michael Carroll have already indicated that they will be here, but we expect additions to that list.

If you’d like a copy signed by all attending contributors, please let us know.

We will also be carrying the trade paperback edition. $15.95. If you would like a signed copy of that edition, please let us know.



SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE



Thirteen Million Dollar Pop by David Levien sees the return of Frank Behr who is on protection duty for a business mogul-turned-politician. When he foils an attack on his charge and the Indianopolis cops turn a blind eye, Behr sets out to find those responsible. A Hard Boiled Club Main Selection. $24.95



Lisa Unger is here, even as I type, signing copies of Darkness, My Old Friend. The latest picks up the story of Jones Cooper, now adrift from the local police department, as well as newcomers Michael Holt and Willow Graves. Something is still off in the small town of Hollows, but the answers to a decades-old mystery will not be easy to solve. $24.00

SIGNED FROM THE U.K.

Before the Poison is Peter Robinson’s first departure from his Banks series in more than twenty years. After success in Hollywood, Chris Lowndes has returned to the Yorkshire Dales to make a life for himself after the death of his wife. But the isolated house he buys, sight unseen, has an unsettling history of murder. $48.00







PAPERBACK ORIGINALS OF NOTE (UNSIGNED)

Emily Arsenault follows up her first novel, The Broken Teaglass, with In Search of the Rose Notes, the story of Nora and Charlotte who, as children, tried to find their missing babysitter, Rose. When, as adults, they hear that the remains of Rose have been found, Charlotte is adamant that they try again to solve the mystery, but Nora is not ready to visit her troubled adolescence. $14.99

Machine Man, by Max Barry, tells the story of Charles Neumann who loses a leg in an industrial accident. Prosthetis Lola Shanks loves a good artificial limb and in Charlie, who has always thought his body could be better, she sees a man on his way to becoming an artificial everything. This story of one man’s quest for ultimate self-improvement is by the acclaimed author of Jennifer Government. $14.95

Paul Cleave’s thriller, Collecting Cooper, is the harrowing tale of a series of disappearances in Christchurch, New Zealand. What ex-cop, Theodore Tate, doesn’t know is that a former mental patient is holding people prisoner as part of his growing collection of serial killer souvenirs. Or that he’s acquired the ultimate collector’s item - an actual killer. $15.00

The Glitter Scene by Monika Fagerholm is set in a remote coastal town in Finland where Johanna sets out to uncover her family history , the identity of her mother, and the puzzling circumstances involving her father. By the author of The American Girl. $17.95

Love Lies Bleeding by Jess McConkey finds Samantha Moore, who was the golden girl with the perfect life, in constant pain after a random act of violence. But are the medications making her paranoid? Strange things are happening in the small community where Samantha is recuperating, and either she is losing her mind or her friendly neighbors are far more dangerous than they appear to be. $14.99

The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Potzsch is set in 1659 and witchcraft mania has returned to Bavaria. Jacob Kusl, the local hangman, is charged with torturing the local midwife who is accused of witchcraft after a boy, tattooed with the mark of a witch, is pulled from the river. But Jacob is convinced she’s innocent and must race against the clock to find the true killer. $18.00





FOR COLLECTORS

The China Governess by Margery Allingham, Chatto & Windus, London. 1963. First Edition. $20.00

Very good in dust jacket.

Night Dogs by Kent Anderson, Macmillan, AZ. 1996. First Edition. SIGNED. $50.00

Limited to 1900 copies. Fine in fine dust jacket.

(Anonymous) The Thrilling Adventures of a New York Detective, Lupton, NY. 1893. First Edition. $100.00

Slim, cheaply produced paperback original short story collection. Very light staining to fore-edge and the bottom corner edges curled on the front cover and a few pages, but still a better than very good copy of this fragile and rare short story collection.

Last Car to Elysian Fields by James Lee Burke, Simon & Schuster, NY. 2003. First Edition. SIGNED. $35.00

Dave Robicheaux mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Pegasus Descending by James Lee Burke, Simon & Schuster, NY. 2006. First Edition SIGNED. $35.00

Dave Robicheaux mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket

Jesus Out to Sea by James Lee Burke, Simon & Schuster, NY. 2007. First Edition. SIGNED. $35.00

Trade paperback original. True first edition. Fine in pictorial wraps

Flying Blood by Thomson Burtis, Fiction League, NY. 1932. First Edition. $150.00

A horse racing mystery. Owner’s name, else very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket with minuscule wear along edges and small chip at edge of front flap.

The Stained Web by Brainard T. Campbell, House of Field, NY. 1942. First Edition. $65.00

An FBI agent battles crime and sabotage in Chicago and Pennsylvania’s coal mining region. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with one small corner chip. Inscribed by the author and by a previous owner. Very uncommon title.

The Problem of the Green Capsule by John Dickson Carr, Harper, NY. 1939. First Edition. $35.00

Good-very good.

The Crimson Goddess by Elaine Sterne Carrington, Appleton-Century, NY. 1936. First Edition. $150.00

Although set on Long Island, India’s most dangerous goddess, Kali, prominently figures in a series of murders. A small ink mark inside front cover, else a fine, fresh copy in a beautiful bright pictorial dust jacket with some fraying to top and spine and one corner.

The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler, Otto Penzler Books, NY. 1996. $40.00

An exact facsimile of the first edition. Very fine, as new copy in pristine dust jacket.

The Fantastic Saint by Leslie Charteris, Doubleday, NY. 1982. First Edition. $75.00

Very fine in dust jacket, which has a trace of darkening to its white spine. Very scarce in this condition.



Murder Day By Day by Irvin S. Cobb, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis. 1933. First Edition. $75.00

Cobb’s first full-length murder mystery after numerous short story collections. Gold partially rubbed off spine, else fine in pictorial dust wrapper that has spine chips and closed tears and a rubbed spot on front panel.

Watching Eagles Soar: Stories from the Wind River and Beyond by Margaret Coel, A.S,A,P., SIGNED. $45.00

Limited edition of twenty stories. Signed by Margaret Coel, Phil Parks, Illustrator, Craig Johnson, who wrote the Introduction, and William Kent Krueger who wrote the Afterword. As new.

The Collection by James Crumley, Pan Books, London. 1993. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. $50.00

Large format paperback containing The Wrong Case, The Last Good Kiss, and Dancing Bear. Signed by Crumley. Fine.

Man Alone by William Campbell Gault, Gryphon, NY. 1995. First Edition. SIGNED. $75.00

Limited to only 100 numbered copies. A novel of 1950s Hollywood. Signed by Gault, Bill Pronzini, who wrote the introduction, and Bruce Timm, the dust jacket artist. As new in original plastic wrapping.

The Windblow Mystery by Edward Gellibrand, Hamilton, London. 1926. First Edition. $150.00

Windblow is a mansion in which it is claimed no one can sleep without meeting a tragic end unless he is of unblemished chracter. The occupier is found hanged the next morning, but the new tenants do not believe it was a supernatural occurrence. A remarkably fine and fresh copy in dust jacket with light chipping at lower edge of front panel, a couple of small closed tears, else clean and bright.

Dashiell Hammett Letter $1,150.00

A long, typed letter signed "SDH" dated November 19, 1944 and written to Prudence Whitfield, the wife of the famous pulp writer Raoul Whitfield and, by all accounts, Hammett’s lover. Hammett, based in Alaska, discusses life in the army, his travels, and other subjects. He complains about being unable to identify people he’s met, "But I can identify you and I guess that ought to be enough for any one man. Much love, dear, and many kisses and things..." A full page, neatly typed with one holograph correction. As on other letters addressed to Mrs. Whitfield, she has marked the terms of endearment. Fine condition.

There Came Both Mist and Snow by Michael Innes, Gollancz, London. 1940. First Edition. $75.00

A scrape on front cover, else very good or better. Very scarce.



Anonymous Footsteps by John M. O’Connor, Cheshire House, NY. 1932. First Edition. $250.00

A criminal genius attempts to wipe out an entire family on a snowbound island in the Adirondacks. Fine copy in dust jacket with light chipping on rear panel and red lettering on spine faded. Still a crisp, clean copy of this rare book.

Cast a Yellow Shadow by Ross Thomas, Morrow, NY. 1967. First Edition. $150.00

The author’s third book. Fine in dust jacket with light wear at spine ends.



Sally

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Sally's Weekly Update for 08/05/11

This is update # 276. But who's counting?

Sally Owen
The Mysterious Bookshop
sally@mysteriousbookshop.com


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Ph: 212-587-1011

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Weekly Update 8/5/11



SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE



Kiss Her Goodbye is the new Mike Hammer novel from Max Allan Collins. Mickey Spillane’s character lives on and, when an old friend in the New York Police Department commits suicide, he heads to his old stomping ground for the funeral. But Hammer is sure his pal would never have killed himself and when a woman is murdered practically on the funeral home’s doorstep, Hammer is drawn into a hunt for a cache of Nazi diamonds that makes the Maltese Falcon look like a knickknack. $25.00



The Magician King by Lev Grossman picks up where his first novel in the series, The Magicians, left off. Quentin Coldwater, having found out that Fillory, the utopia described in his favorite children’s fantasy novels is real, is now ready to set out on an epic quest, along with his band of young magicians. If this reminds you of the novels of C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling, that may be the point. Getting great reviews. $26.95



Quiver is the first novel of Holly Luhning. In the sixteenth century, Countess Elizabeth Bathory began to torture and kill servant girls in order to bathe in their blood and keep herself young. Now Danica Winston, a young forensic psychologist has a patient who, she suspects, may have belonged to a cabal idolizing Bathory and re-enacting her savage murders. (The Countess by Rebecca Johns, published recently, told the story of Elizabeth Bathory). A First Mystery Main Selection. $25.00

The Gentlemen’s Hour by Don Winslow features former cop, now PI, Boone Daniels. Daniels loves to surf and he and his best friends, surfers all, are a tightly knit group, so when one of their number is murdered and another stands accused, the small world of Pacific Beach is rocked to its core. $25.00



Ringer by Brian M. Wiprud features Morty Martinez who is charged by his La Paz diocese with recovering a gold ring missing from a conquistador’s mummified finger. The missing ring turns up on the hand of New York City billionaire Robert Tyson Grant and the story of how it got there and what happens subsequently is told by Morty - the night before his execution. $26.99





FOR COLLECTORS

The Care of Time by Eric Ambler, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981. First Edition. $35.00

Fine in dust jacket.

Madball by Fredric Brown, Dell, NY. 1953. First Edition. $20.00

Paperback original. Covers rubbed; very good.

The Bloomsbury Wonder by Thomas Burke, Mandrake, London. 1929. First Edition. $100.00

Very fine in a dust jacket with a slightly darkened spine but otherwise fine.

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, Otto Penzler & First Edition Library, 1994. $150.00

A facsimile of the 1939 first edition. As new in dust jacket and slipcase.

Three Thousand Dollars by Anna Katharine Green, Badger, Boston. 1910. First Edition. SIGNED. $450.00

Spine lettering rubbed off, else very good or better copy of an uncommon title. Signed and inscribed by the author: "For my cousin/Elizabeth D. Shephard/With the constant/affection of the author/Anna Katharine Green Rohlfs/December 1909."

The Gift Horse by Frank Gruber, Farrar & Rinehart, 1924. First Edition. $125.00

Very good-near fine in like dust jacket. Gift inscription on front pastedown, jacket has small chips along edges and spine extremities.

The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg, Pegasus, NY. 2010. First U.S. Edition. $60.00

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

The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg, Pegasus, NY. 2011. First U.S. Edition. $30.00

Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed.

(Mystery Writers of America) The Annual given out at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner. 1965. $25.00

With original articles by Kenneth Millar (Ross Macdonald), Robert Bloch, Vincent Starrett (a short Sherlock Holmes parody titled "The Adventure of the Acephalous Agronomist") and others. A crease in the rear cover, else fine.

(Mystery Writers of America) The Annual given out at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner. 1970. $50.00

With original articles by Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, Robert L. Fish and others. SIGNED by the grand master, James M. Cain, Ellery Queen (both Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee), Robert Block, Stanley Ellin, Robert L. Fish, Chris Steinbrenner, Luther Davis, Joe Gores, Dick Francis. Fine.

(Mystery Writers of America) The Annual given out at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner. 1970. $25.00

With original articles by Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, Robert L. Fish and others. SIGNED and Inscribed by the Grand Master, James M. Cain. Fine.

(Mystery Writers of America) The Annual given out at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner. 1971. $10.00

With original articles by John Dickson Carr, Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin and others. SIGNED by the Grand Master, Mignon G. Eberhart. Fine.

This Strange Adventure by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Doubleday Doran, NY. 1929. First Edition. $300.00

A remarkably fine copy in a bright, fresh dust jacket with a couple of tiny nicks at top of folds. The best jacket for this vintage mystery one could hope to find.

Black Aura by John Sladek, Walker, N.Y. 1974. First U.S. Edition. $30.00

Impossible crime novel. About fine in dust jacket.

Too Many Cooks by Rex Stout, Farrar & Rinehart, NY. 1938. First Edition. $1,250.00

A long inscription is on the last page (not in Stout’s hand), else a fine, bright copy in the original dust jacket, which is sunned on the spine, price-clipped, a dime-sized chip at the bottom of the corner of front panel, some closed tears and lightly frayed at spine ends. Overall, a very nice copy of a very scarce book in collectors’ condition.

Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout, Otto Penzler & First Edition Library, NY. 1996. $175.00

A facsimile of the 1934 first edition. As new in dust jacket and slipcase.

If You Can’t Be Good by Ross Thomas, Morrow, NY. 1973. First Edition. $150.00

Fine in dust jacket.

Spies, Thumbsuckers, etc. by Ross Thomas, Lord John Press, CA. 1989. First Edition. SIGNED. $75.00

Collection of essays and the author’s only short story. Limited to 300 copies; there was a also a deluxe edition of 50 copies. Very fine with dust jacket, as issued.

Black Angus by Newton Thornburg, Little Brown, Boston. 1978. First Edition. $25.00

Very fine in dust jacket, which remarkably shows no rubbing, as it usually does.



Sally

sally@mysteriousbookshop.com

Party for DEATH AND THE MAIDEN by Gerald Elias 08/31/11

The Mysterious Bookshop
will host a party
celebrating the release of

Death and
the Maiden
by Gerald Elias

Join us in celebrating the new crime novel
Death and the Maiden ($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.

Wednesday, August 31st
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