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THE SAMURAI'S WIFE
by Rowland, Laura Joh
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- As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- 2nd Ed
- Published
- 2000
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- ISBN
- 9780312203252
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 13.14
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N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 2000. 2nd edition, with complete number line beginning with 2. Fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "With her fifth mystery set in 17th-century Japan, Rowland (The Concubine's Tattoo, Bundori, etc.) offers a rich historical that is equal parts police procedural and political thriller. The shogun sends his… Read more about this item Item Price
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Inspector Saito's Small Satori
by Van de Wetering, Janwillem
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1985
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780399130328
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 32.86
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N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1985. 1st edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Collection of eleven short-stories featuring Inspector Matsuo Saito, Kyoto HQ. Saito, the newest inspector in a small Japanese town, brings the logic of Zen to bear in his investigation… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE KINGDOM
by Nakamura, Fuminori
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2016
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9781616955922
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 13.14
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N.Y.: Soho Crime, 2016. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy of the Advance Uncopyedited edition due out July, 2016. 224 pages. Zen-Noir master Nakamura returns to the Tokyo of The Thief, where a young grifter named Yurika finds herself in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the shadowy crime lord Kizaki. Yurika is a freelancer… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE TATTOO MURDER CASE **AWARD WINNER**
by Takagi, Akimitsu Translated By Deborah Boliver Boehm
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1998
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781569471081
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 32.86
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NY: Soho, 1998. 1st US edition (orig pub in Japan in somewhat different form in1948), with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. WINNER OF THE MYSTERY WRITERS CLUB AWARD OF JAPAN in 1949. It remains to this day among the most read of Japanese… Read more about this item Item Price
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Japanese Game
by Hoyt, Richard
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1995
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780312855536
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 19.06
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Forge, 1995. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. James Burlane, an ex-CIA operative turned private investigator in the USA, is featured in the seventh title in the series. A thriller about baseball, sex slavery and trade agreements set in Japan.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Item Price
SGD 19.06
THE EARTHQUAKE BIRD **AWARD WINNER** SIGNED COPY**
by Jones, Susanna
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2001
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780330485012
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 46.01
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London, United Kingdom: Picador, 2001. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED, signature only, by the author on the title page. The authors debut mystery novel, WINNER OF THE CWA'S JOHN CREASY MEMORIAL AWARD for the best first crime… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 46.01
The Time of the Cricket: A Novel of Classic Mayhem in Modern Tokyo
by Blankenship, William D.
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1995
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781556114304
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 29.57
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NY,NY: Donald I Fine, 1995. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE The author's debut novel about an Art Dealer, Kay Williams, a rare sword and the Japanese Mob.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Item Price
SGD 29.57
To the White Sea
by Dickey, James
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1993
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780395475652
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 19.72
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NY. NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. First edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Tiny spot at inside front cover and front end paper else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. "Dickey doesn't write many novels--three in 23 years--but he makes every one count. And when he's in peak form, as he is here,… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 19.72
Old Soldiers Sometimes Lie
by Hoyt, Richard
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- As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2002
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780765303318
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 15.77
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Forge, 2002. 1ST. ED. AS NEW/AS NEW. A young woman tried to exonerate her grandfather of war crimes during the Second World War.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book. Item Price
SGD 15.77
THE TYPHOON LOVER
by Massey, Sujata
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2005
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780060765125
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 19.06
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N.Y.: HarperCollins, 2005. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A Rei Shimura mystery. After a party for her 30th birthday party, Rei answers a mysterious invitation to a job inteview. The task is to search for and authenticate an ancient Middle Eastern pitcher that disappeared from Iraq's national museum. The piece is believed to… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 19.06
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
by Lee, Don
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2005
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780393327069
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 19.72
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New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2005. 1st ed. A fine copy of this Trade Paperback. EDGAR AWARD WINNER for Best First Novel. Lisa Countryman is a woman of complex origins. Half Japenese, adopted by African American parents, she returns to Tokyo. When she vanishes in 1980 Tokyo's sexual underworld, a young U.S. Embassy official,… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 19.72
THE WAGES OF ZEN
by Melville, James
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1979
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780436276903
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 26.29
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London: Saint Martin's Press, 1979. 1st ed. Bright yellow boards show some soiling along edges else near fine in dj, small stain at inside flap, not clipped but no price on jacket. The 1st Spt. Otani. Author's first book In 1979 James Melville introduced a significant new figure in to British crime fiction the Japanese detective Superintendent… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 26.29
NIGHT BUTTERFLY
by McFall, Trisha
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1992
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780312077501
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 19.72
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N.Y.: St. Martins, 1992. 1st ed.with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Author's 1st book. Set in Japan. "Danger dogs every step of an ingenuous, uncommonly fortunate American student and her streetwise Japanese soon-to-be lover in McFall's promising mystery debut. Nora James, a tall blonde Californian fluent in Japanese,… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 19.72
THE BOGUS BUDDHA
by Melville, James
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1991
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780684192475
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 19.72
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N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991. 1st American edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. gift inscription at inside cover, else near fine in dust jacket, price clipped. Academia. Spt. Otani - JAPAN. Japanese police superintendent Tetsuo Otani is alerted by his sister-in-law, professor Michiko Yanagida, to the strange atmosphere at the… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 19.72
AUDREY HEPBURN'S NECK [Signed Copy]
by Brown, Alan
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1995
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780671526719
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 32.86
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1995. 1st ed. A fine copy of the Advance Reading copy. SIGNED & DATED, Sept. 30 '95. Author's 1st book. Winner of the inaugural Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. A novel which illuminates the clash between Japanese and American cultures. Brown who is also working on the screenplay for a movie… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 32.86
DRAGON DANCE **UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY**
by Tasker, Peter
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2003
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9784770029485
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 16.43
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NY: Kodansha International, 2003. 1st edition, A fine copy of the uncorrected proof in wraps. This is Tasker's 4th novel set in Tokyo. "this new thriller from Tasker... does boast a winning premise. Backed by a powerful Chinese general and capitalizing on Japan's economic malaise and discontent, terrorist Reiko Matsubara plots a political revolution that will make… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 16.43
A HAIKU FOR HANAE
by Melville, James
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1989
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780684191317
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 32.86
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N.Y.: Scribners, 1989. 1st American edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Spt. Otani , on the island of Awaji, JAPAN. "Among the strangest and most engaging in Melville's Japanese mystery series, the 10th recalls Inspector Otani's stay years earlier, on Awaji Island, far from… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 32.86
NIGHT BUTTERFLY **SIGNED COPY**
by McFall, Trisha
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1992
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780312077501
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 36.15
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N.Y.: St. Martins, 1992. 1st edition, August 1992, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Author's 1st book. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page.. "Danger dogs every step of an ingenuous, uncommonly fortunate American student and her streetwise Japanese soon-to-be lover in McFall's… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 36.15
