Category: Mystery & Crime

Alfred Hitchcock's Tales To Take Your Breath Away.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Max Reindhart: London. : 1982.

Seller ID: 42196

ISBN-13: 9780370302973

Condition: Page edges a little browned, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a touch of edge wear.

Collects 29 stories first published in Alfed Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine: contains:''The Arrowmount Prison Riddle'' by Bill Pronzini, ''End of the Line'' by Edward D. Hoch, ''The Dettweiler Solution'' by Lawrence Block, ''The Whitechapel Wantons'' by Vincent McConnor, ''Cora's Raid'' by Isak Romun, '' A Cup of Herbal Tea'' by Robert S. Aldrich, ''Albion, Perfidious Albion'' by Everett Greenbaum, ''Life or Breath'' by Nelson DeMille, ''The Silver Lining'' by Mick Mahoney, ''A Private Little War'' by William Brittain, ''Superscam'' by Francis M. Nevins Jr, ''Have You Ever Seen This Woman'' by J...
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Our Land, Dark Land, Strange Land: Stories (signed & dated by the author)..

By: Suter, John F.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: University of Charleston: West Virginia. : 1996.

Seller ID: 45964

ISBN-13: 9780965110808

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a little spine edge wear.

Collection of 19 mystery stories, most of which (17) had first appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery magazine and two in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery magazine, all written between 1953-1992. Two page introduction by Shaeon McCrumb and two page preface by the author. SIGNED AND DATED WITH YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY THE AUTHOR.
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Run Jane Run.

By: Tan, Maureen

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Mysterious Press: NY. : 1999.

Seller ID: 18777

ISBN-13: 9780892966592

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for spotting along top page edges.;

Spy novel.
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The Unopened Casebook Of Sherlock Holmes: Six Extraordinary Adventures.

By: Taylor, John

Price: £50.00

Publisher: BBC Books: London. : 1993.

Seller ID: 28901

ISBN-13: 9780563364726

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Six new stories, written to accompany the Radio 5 series of the same name.
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Hitch: The Life And Work Of Alfred Hitchcock The Authorised Biography.

By: Taylor, John Russell (Alfred Hitchcock)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: London. : 1978.

Seller ID: 35628

ISBN-13: 9780571109500

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a VG+ dustjacket with one short (!cm) closed tear

320 pages.
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Saving Souls.

By: Taylor, Lucy

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Onyx: NY. : 2002.

Seller ID: 52212

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Thriller.
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Wicked Things (signed/limited)..

By: Tessier, Thomas

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Cemetery Dance (CD): Baltimore. : 2011.

Seller ID: 34872

ISBN-13: 9781587671746

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Thriller, first published as a paperback original in 2007. This first hardcover includes the ''bonus'' novella ''Scramburg, USA'', not found in any other edition of the book. LIMITED EDITION: 750 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author. This is no 366.''private investigator Jack Carlson is traveling to the small, remote upstate city of Winship to look into a rash of suspicious insurance claims. Like the farmer who accidentally blew himself up in a garnet mine, and the teenager who died in a peculiar car crash. The Winship police and Medical Examiner appear cooperative but offer no r...
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The Thriller no 341 no 13.

By: THE THRILLER, (UK magazine 1929-1940)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Amalgamated Press Ltd: London. : 1935.

Seller ID: 53085

Binding: Magazine.

Condition: VG+ copy.

August 17th, 1935 issue.Contains a ''book-length holiday mystery story'' THE GREAT SEASIDE CRIME by John Hunter, plus the short story ''Voodoo Gold'' by G. H. Teed. Cheap newspaper format. Price 2d. Cover by Ernest Hubbard.''A British story paper that ran for an amazing 589 issues between 1929-1940., Thriller contained a complete mystery story (25,000 words) each issue, plus supporting serials, short stories or features. It published masses of crime, mystery and thriller serials and stories, many adapted from US sources. The title changed to The thrille r Library in 1937 and then to War Th...
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Date With Danger (Sexton Blake Library #459).

By: Thomas, Martin

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Fleetway Publications: London. : 1960 (September).

Seller ID: 25909

Binding: Pictorial stapled wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy but for slight rusting to rear staple.

Sexton Blake Library no 459. Price 1/-.
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Dead Man's Destiny (Sexton Blake Library #466).

By: Thomas, Martin

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Fleetway Publications: London. : 1960 (December).

Seller ID: 25911

Binding: Pictorial stapled wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread copy but for a little rusting to rear staple.

Sexton Blake Library no 466. Price 1/-.
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Design For Vengeance (Sexton Blake Library #454).

By: Thomas, Martin

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Fleetway Publications: London. : 1960 (June).

Seller ID: 25923

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Sexton Blake Library no 454. Price 1/-.
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Homes And Watson.

By: Thomson, June

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Allison & Busby: London. : 2012.

Seller ID: 47874

ISBN-13: 9780749011383

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

First published in hardcover in 1995.
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The Secret Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes.

By: Thomson, June

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Constable: London. : 1992.

Seller ID: 28880

ISBN-13: 9780094711600

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges browning, else a fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

Collects seven 'cases', including a foreword and appendix from the author.
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The Secret Files Of Sherlock Holmes.

By: Thomson, June

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Allison & Busby: London. : 2014.

Seller ID: 28864

ISBN-13: 9780749016470

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

First published in hardcover in 1990.
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A Street That Rhymed At 3 am (signed by the author).

By: Timlin, Mark

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1997.

Seller ID: 05035

ISBN-13: 9780575064058

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

'A Nick Sharman Thriller'. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Find My Way Home (signed by the author).

By: Timlin, Mark

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1996.

Seller ID: 04037

ISBN-13: 9780575063006

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine price-dustjacket (as new, but price-clipped).

'A Nick Sharman Thriller'. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Quick Before They Catch Us (signed by the author).

By: Timlin, Mark

Price: £10.00

Publisher: No Exit Press: England. : 1999.

Seller ID: 08302

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Private eye Nick Sharman novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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The Designated Coconut: A Benji Spriteman Mystery.

By: Travis, John

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Atomic Fez Publishing: Canada. : 2012.

Seller ID: 33566

ISBN-13: 9780986642487

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in pictorial boards, as issued without dustjacket (as new)..

Animal fantasy/mystery novel, sequel to THE TERROR AND THE TORTOISESHELL (2010), set in a universe where, two years after an event known as The Terror, humans have been mostly wiped out.''British author Travis?s quirky second Benji Spriteman whodunit (after 2010?s The Terror and the Tortoiseshell) offers a welcome return to a universe where, two years after an event known as the Terror, humans have been mostly wiped out. Abhoring a vacuum, nature has replaced humanity with animals, who have changed form - many walking upright and talking in human language. The altered creatures have filled the...
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Lestrade and the Deadly Game: Volume V In The Lestrange Mystery Series.

By: Trow, M. J.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Regnery Publishing/Gateway Mystery: Washington DC. : 1999.

Seller ID: 36491

ISBN-13: 9780895263124

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Crime/thriller, part of a series featuring Conan Doyle's other Victorian detective.
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The Testimony Of Daniel Pagels.

By: Turner, Vickery

Price: £8.00

Publisher: MacDonald & Co.: London. : 1991.

Seller ID: 32836

ISBN-13: 9780356197661

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with publicity material laid in.

Crime novel with sf elements: ''a novel of quantum possibility''. This UK hardcover preceded the US Scribners edition (1992).
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Batman: The Ultimate Evil.

By: Vachss, Andrew

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Warner: NY. : 1995.

Seller ID: 04000

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in decorative boards as issued without dustjacket but with a printed paper band.

''If Batman were real this is exactly the sort of mission he would be undertaking. Hard-boiled and adventurous, as well as important fiction, it doesn't get any better than this. A perfect marriage of reality and myth'' (Joe R. Lansdale).
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The Fourth Bedside Book Of Great Detective Stories.

By: van Thal, Herbert (ed.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Arthur Barker: London. : 1979.

Seller ID: 42162

ISBN-13: 9780213167042

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

Anthology of nine stories, including one original story, ''The Case Of The Parr Children'' by Antonia Fraser.
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Bad Ronald (signed/limited).

By: Vance, Jack

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Underwood-Miller: USA. : 1982.

Seller ID: 10521

ISBN-13: 9780934438636

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Mystery novel. First published as a Ballantine paperback in 1973. LIMITED EDITION: 600 copies printed in total, of which this is one of 200 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author. This is no 40.
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Strange Notions (and) The Dark Ocean (signed/slipcased).

By: Vance, Jack

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Underwood-Miller: USA. : 1985.

Seller ID: 03667

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copies as issued without dustjacket in a fine slipcase (as new).

Two mystery novels (first publication of each). LIMITED EDITION: 500 numbered sets signed by the author and slipcased. This is no 26.
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The House On Lily Street: A Murder Mystery.

By: Vance, Jack

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Underwood-Miller: San Francisco, CA. : 1979.

Seller ID: 04713

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a touch of edge wear.

Mystery novel, set in Oakland, California in the 1960s. Cover art by Steve Fabian. 450 unnumbered/unsigned copies printed.

''Set in Oakland, California in the 1960s, where anything can happen when the sun goes down: late night parties, hot jazz, beat poetry, petty crime---a minor case of welfare fraud turns into homicide''.
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The Man In The Cage (signed/limited).

By: Vance, Jack

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Underwood/Miller: Columbia, PA. : 1983.

Seller ID: 10522

ISBN-13: 9780934438810

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Mystery novel. First published by Random House in 1960 (as by John Holbrook Vance) and winner of the 1960 Edgar Award for best first novel. LIMITED EDITION: 700 hardcover copies printed, of which this is one of 200 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author. This is no 47.
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A Room To Die In.

By: Vance, Jack (writing as "Ellery Queen")

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Kinnell: London. : 1987.

Seller ID: 00833

ISBN-13: 9781870532006

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Detective novel first published as a paperback original under the Ellery Queen pseudonym in 1965.
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The Madman Theory (+ 2 variant dustjackets).

By: Vance, Jack (writing as "Ellery Queen")

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Kinnell: London. : 1988.

Seller ID: 11492

ISBN: 0870532015

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (+ fine variant dj).

Detective novel first published as a paperback original under the Ellery Queen pseudonym in 1966. First hardcover edition. The dustjackets were initially printed up as 'The MAD MAN THEORY (four words) and although these were pulped and then reprinted with the correct title THE MADMAN THEORY three words), this copy has BOTH dustjackets.
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Deal With The Devil And 13 Short Stories.

By: Viets, Elaine

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Crippen & Landru: USA. : 2018.

Seller ID: 45959

ISBN-13: 9781936363278

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

LIMITED EDITION: 175 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author with a separately printed booklet containing the short story ''When A Man Loves A Woman''. However do note that this copy - though signed/limited, no ''32 EV'' - is lacking the booklet.
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Candleland.

By: Waites, Martyn

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Allison & Busby: London. : 2000.

Seller ID: 45862

ISBN-13: 9780749004644

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Urban thriller, third in the Stephen Larkin series.
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Little Triggers.

By: Waites, Martyn

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Piatkus: London. : 1998.

Seller ID: 45861

ISBN-13: 9780749904555

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges a little browned, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Urban thriller, second in the Stephen Larkin series.
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Mary's Prayer.

By: Waites, Martyn

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Piatkus: London. : 1997.

Seller ID: 45866

ISBN-13: 9780749903985

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

First in the Stephen Larkin series of thrillers.
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The Law Of The Four Just Men.

By: Wallace, Edgar

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: London. : 1952.

Seller ID: 46996

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine copy.

First published in 1921. ''This Edition Reset 1951'' on the copyright page.
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The Last Pin.

By: Wandrei, Howard

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Fedogan & Bremer: Minneapolis. : 1996.

Seller ID: 02849

ISBN-13: 9781878252258

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

356 pages: collects eleven pulp detective stories. Edited and with a 22-page introduction by Dwayne. H. Olson:
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Hilary Waugh's Guide To Mysteries & Mystery Writing.

By: Waugh, Hilary

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Writer's Digest Books: Ohio. : 1991.

Seller ID: 35591

ISBN-13: 9780898794441

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

198 pages.
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Madman At My Door.

By: Waugh, Hilary

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1978.

Seller ID: 35703

ISBN: 0057500000

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Neat inked name and date on front free endpaper, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Thriller. Uncommon UK hardcover.
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Dossier 1X.

By: Weil, Barry

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill: NY. : 1968.

Seller ID: 24016

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Sensational espionage thriller.
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The Hamlet Trap.

By: Wilhelm, Kate

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1988.

Seller ID: 14064

ISBN-13: 9780575042476

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Crime novel: the first book in the Constance and Charlie series.

''a beautiful set designer with a background of methodical madness is accused of murdering a member of an Oregon repertory theater company, and psychologist Constance Liedl and her husband, private detective Charlie Meiklejohn, investigate''.
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The Naked City: Urban Crime Fiction In The USA.

By: Willett, Ralph

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Manchester University Press. : 1996.

Seller ID: 35596

ISBN-13: 9780719043017

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

152 pages.
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Soldiers Of God.

By: Williams, Barnaby

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Severn House: London : 2000.

Seller ID: 15249

ISBN-13: 9780727855275

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Thriller: ''why - and how - did a laden African 747 belly-land on Harlem, massacring thousands and heightening racial tensions throughout America?''. The dustjacket artwork shows a plane on fire and about to crash, surrounded by New York skyscrapers. First published as a Sphere paperback original in 1991.''Why -- and how -- did a laden African 747 belly-land on Harlem, massacring thousands and heightening racial tensions throughout America?the Soldiers of God, a quartet of specially selected super-terrorists, their minds broken and hideously reprogrammed to one deadly end - the destruction ...
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Blonde on a Stick.

By: Williams, Conrad

Price: £8.00

Publisher: MayCrime/John Blake Publishing: London. : 2010.

Seller ID: 47771

ISBN-13: 9781844549863

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Thriller.''an extraordinary killer, the Four-Year-Old, has arrived in London, and is hell-bent on destruction. No sooner has PI Joel Sorrell been approached by the mysterious Kara Geenan, who is desperate to find her missing brother, than an attempt is made on his life. When Kara vanishes too, it becomes clear that this is no routine job. Something is casting a long, long shadow over the case, and Joel must travel north, to a past he was desperate to forget, in order to find out the truth. As those close to Joel are sucked into his nightmare, he knows he must track down the killer fast if he i...
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Silk Rope.

By: Williams, G. Mountford

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Gerald Duckworth: London. : 1947.

Seller ID: 42792

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Light part- brownining to free endpapers, a near fine copy in a G/VG dustjacket with moderate/heavy dust-soiling to rear (white) panel

Thriller.
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Mystery In Spiderville.

By: Williams, John Hartley

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London. : 2002.

Seller ID: 12462

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Hard-boiled thriller: ''the décor is by Dali, the plot is a mixture of Breton and Burroughs, and the main character - the protean and unkillable Spider Rembrandt - has six toes, sleeps in a grave and dreams of congress with the pert and playful Reedy Buttons''.
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Necessary Doubt.

By: Wilson, Colin

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Arthur Barker: London. : 1964.

Seller ID: 38970

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Occasional browning (and one light fingernail-sized stain) along page edges, else a fine copy in a VG+ dustjacket with pink splash stains (?) to the rear cover.

Metaphysical thriller.
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The Janus Murder Case (signed by the author).

By: Wilson, Colin

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Granada: London. : 1984.

Seller ID: 38971

ISBN-13: 9780246121820

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new)

Pyschological thriller. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Murderess Ink: The Better Half Of The Mystery.

By: Winn, Dilys

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Bell Publishing Co.: NY. : 1981.

Seller ID: 35614

ISBN-13: 9780517360576

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a near fine dustjacket with one short (1cm) closed tear.

304 pages: ''an illustrated tribute to women in the mystery and crime genres''.
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Run (inscribed by the author + uncorrected book proof)..

By: Winter, Douglas E.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: NY. : 2000.

Seller ID: 10801

ISBN-13: 9780375408380

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with publicity material laid in.

The author's first full-length book: a crime novel by a writer better known as an editor in the horror and dark fantasy genre. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Together with an uncorrected book proof (trade paperback) also signed by the author.
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