MYSTERY from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

Huntington Beach, CA: James Cahill Publishing, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. A collection of short stories signed by all of the writers at their contributions. The authors are Neal Barrett Jr.; Andre Dubus; John Dunning; Harlan Ellison; Wendy Hornsby; Joe R. Lansdale; Richard Laymon; Lucius Shepard; Andrew Vachss; and Roger Zelazny. With a foreword by Lawrence Block and… Read more about this item

New York: Harper Collins, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Book 11 in the Leaphorn and Chee series. Limited to 500 signed and numbered copies in a decorative slipcase. First edition (first printing). A spine-fade, thus very good copy, in a fine slipcase. This is no. 278, signed by Hillerman.

London: Head of Zeus, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A debut thriller about missing girls. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed and dated by Blok on the title page.

London: Head of Zeus, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A murder mystery. The author's second book. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed and dated by Blok on the title page.

New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A detective novel set in Vancouver, British Columbia's Chinatown. The main character, Donegal Dawn, is a mysterious amateur detective and master of disguise called in by the police to solve particularly perplexing cases. Dawn is particularly adept at passing unnoticed in the Asian quarter of… Read more about this item

London: Bantam, 2000. Advance Reading Copy. Trade paperback. Near fine. The UK advance copy, preceding the first edtion, of the fourth Jack Reacher novel. Labled "book proof" on the front cover. Minor wear to the corners, thus near fine.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Constable Evans mystery. Set in Wales. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine hardcover in fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to Otto Penzler, the founder of the Mysterious Press and the editor of the Kwik Krimes anthology that included a… Read more about this item

New York: St Martin's, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The first Constable Evans mystery. Set in Wales. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine hardcover in fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to Otto Penzler, the founder of the Mysterious Press and the editor of the Kwik Krimes anthology that included a… Read more about this item

New York: New York University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A nicely incribed copy of the author's first book, a sort of road/crime novel. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed by the author to the founder of the Mysterious Press, Otto… Read more about this item

New York: Crown Publishers, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. A Gerry Barnes, private detective novel, featuring his girlfriend Paula Grant. Bowen was a prolific writer in many genres; he is probably best remembered for his Dave Dawson boys series. First edition (no indication of later printings). A fine copy in a very good to near fine… Read more about this item

New York: Mysterious Bookshop, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. In the 2000s, New York City's Mysterious Bookshop, owned by Otto Penzler, published a series of stand-alone pamphlets with short essays by noted crime writers about the origin stories of their best-known characters. This set includes both the lettered (26 copies) and numbered (250 copies) issues of this collected… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A mystery novel featuring the private detective Castagnetti. Set in Italy. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author and dated on the title page.

London: Orbit, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A thriller. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Child on the title page.

London: Bantam Press, 2019. First British edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First book in the Black Sun trilogy, and the author's, a war correspondent, first book. First UK edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.

London: Sphere, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A book in the Mitford Murders series. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.

London: Sphere, 2017. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The first book in the Mitford Murders series. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed and dated in the year of publication by the author on the title page, with a quote from the book (signed and lined).

London: Sphere, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The third book in the Mitford Murders series. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.

London: Quercus (Six Four) and Riverrun (other two) in Association with Goldsboro Books, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. The first three crime novels by an acclaimed Japanese writer. There are signed and numbered copies in illustrated boards with a wrap-around label on the front board. The first book was 500 copies; the other two are 250 copies. … Read more about this item

London: Little, Brown in Association with Goldsboro Books, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A thriller, translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim. This is her first book published in English. Published in an edition of 250 copies signed and numbered on a tipped-in limitation sheet. Jeong signs in both Korean and the Latin alphabet. First edition (first… Read more about this item

London: Century, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The author's second book, a thriller. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket signed by the author on the title page.