Search Results: LIMITED EDITION from Murder By The Book

New Orleans: B.E. Trice, 1995. 1st ed. LIMITED EDITION, one of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Burke. very fine in slipcase w/o dust jacket as issued. Still sealed in shrink-wrap from publisher.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Limited/ Numbered Edition.

New Orleans: B.E. Trice, 1995. First edition.A fine, unread copy. Printed from the sheets of the trade edition. 340 pgs. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION., this being LETTER 'K' of 26 copies. Quarterbound in leather, marbled boards in Slipcase. The 8th Dave Robicheaux mystery. Dave Robicheaux of the Iberia Parish sheriff's office finds himself entangled with the affairs of the Fontenot family, descendants of sharecroppers who are in danger of losing the land they've lived on for more than 100 years. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Limited / Lettered Edition.

Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, 2004. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Out-of-Print. LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 copies SIGNED by SPILLANE and by editors MAX ALLAN COLLINS and LYNN F. MEYERS, JR.. Cover Illustration by Gail Cross. A treasury of riches for Spillane fans. It includes in short-story form two Mike Hammer cases which later appeared as novels; a long lost Hammer story; the transcript of a Mike Hammer playlet; three reproductions of rare comic books featuring Mike's predecessors-- Mike Lance and Mike Danger-- who were also created by Spillane; as well as fourteen articles by Spillane when he himself lived a life of adventure --- diving for sunken treasure, racing sports cars, working in a circus, and chasing hot rod moonshiners. Edited and with an introduction by Spillane experts Max Allan Collins and Lynn F. Meyers Jr. Each copy of the Limited Edition contains an audio CD of three Mike Hammer radio adventures.. Signed by All Contributors. First Edition. Hard Cover.… Read More

Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.: Santa Teresa Press, 1984. As New Pamphlet - in wraps - Limited # 153 - SIGNED BY PARKER.. Signed by Author. Limited/Numbered. Pamphlet. As New.

Los Gatos: CA: Deadline Press , 1995. First edition, April 1995, so stated. Fine, unread copy in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. LIMITED EDITION, 1 of 500 numbered copies ( this being #214). SIGNED by both Gorman & F. Paul Wilson who wrote introduction. Afterword by Marcia Muller. Dust Wrapper illustration by Carlos Batts. 21 stories; including 5 previously unpublished stories. Signed. Limited/Numbered. Hard Cover. New/Fine. Illus. by Batts, Carlos. Limited Edition.

Arlington Heights: IL: Dark Harvest, 1992. 1st ed. LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Pronzini. Intro by Pronzini, 3 stories & a novel. Fine in dj & slipcase as issued.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine/Fine. Limited/ Numbered Edition.

Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.: Mystery Scene Eugene: OR 1991, 1991. 1st ed. Fine, unread copy without dust jacket as issued. LIMITED EDITION, #85 of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Pronzini. Brown imitation leather with gold stamping, Mystery Scene Short Story Hardback #4.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Limited/ Numbered Edition.

Norfolk: VA: Crippen & Landru, 2001. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Out-of-print. One of 250 clothbound copies SIGNED and NUMBERED by the author [this being #120]. Cover illustration by Carol Heyer. The first collection of short mystery stories by the Anthony Award winning author of the Jill Smith and Kiernan O'Shaughnessy detective novels. This anthology also collects two of the most imaginative detective stories ever written -- tales of "The Celestial Detective" who investigates crime in the Afterlife -- or, perhaps more accurately, crimes that sent someone to the Afterlife. Seventeen stories broken up into four sections with each having its own introduction by Dunlap. Includes a Dunlap checklist. Accompanying each copy is a seperately printed pamphlet, "A Tale of Two Cities: A Jill Smith Story".. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Heyer, Carol. Book.

Norfolk: VA: Crippen & Landru, 2000. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. LIMITED EDITION, one of 225 NUMBERED COPIES, this being #125, SIGNED by Howard. Accompanying each copy is a seperately printed pamphlet, "The Killing Floor". An Edgar Award Winner in the past, Howard recently set a record by winning his 5th Ellery Queen Readers Award. 12 stories and a chronology of Howard's work. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Russell, Victoria. Limited Edition.

Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: Dennis McMillan, 2002. 1st edition in fine unread dust jacket, still in pubisher's shrinkwrap and in matching black slipcase. LIMITED EDITION. One of 400 copies SIGNED and numbered by Michael Connelly, this being #303. Features original wrap-around dustjacket art by Michael Kellner. This true first edition is already sold out from the publisher. "...Connelly's new stand-alone is a bit of a departure--more concept thriller than noir mood piece--but it's a grabber from the beginning, and the subject matter is utterly compelling. Henry Pierce is a high-tech entrepreneur on the verge of a breakthrough in an experimental field called molecular computing. More powerful and much smaller than the silicon version, molecular computer chips will make possible such marvels as diagnostic computers that can be dropped into the bloodstream. But what will power the molecular computers on their journey through the body? That's where Pierce's soon-to-be-patented invention… Read More

Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.: Blood & Guts Press, 1990. 1st ed. Unexpurgated text set directly from Jim Thompson's original manuscript which differs so significantly from the initial 1972 paperback version as to constitute a new and distinct edition. One of 500 copies, (This being #282) -- LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY GERALD PETIEVICH who wrote the Introduction. As new in dustjacket, in publisher's black cloth covered slipcase.. Signed. 1st Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine/Fine. Limited/ Numbered Edition.

New Orleans: B.E. Trice, Ltd., 1997. 1st ed. 1 of 150 deluxe LIMITED EDITION, numbered [this being #118] and SIGNED in slipcase w/o dust jacket as issued. Red cloth , with lettering stamped in gilt on spine and on front of publisher's matching cloth slipcase. Fine and unread, still in the original publisher's shrinkwrap. EDGAR AWARD WINNER for Best Novel.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine. Limited Edition.

Tucson: AZ: Dennis McMillan, 2001. First Edition. The true first edition in a small print run, 1,000 copies. SIGNED COPY. This is a gem of black humor and intrigue about a paperback crime novelist less politely known as "slasher trash" who takes over the English department of La Siberia Tech, a marginal school at best on the Rio Grande River. He teaches a new course centering on The Wild Bunch of Modern Literature -- a course he concots to feature crime novelists who are personal friends of his--which causes consternation among the older faculty and then a seemingly inexplicable murder.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Small Press.

Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: Dennis McMillan, 2005. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. In custom slipcase and still in originial shrinkwrap as issued. True 1st printing of Connelly's first Bosch cold case mystery. LIMIITED EDITION, one of 300 copies, [this being #234], bound in Brillanta cloth NUMBERED and SIGNED on the limitation page by Connelly. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine/Fine. Limited/ Numbered Edition.

Shingletown: CA : Mark Ziesing , 1991. First edition, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine, unread copy in dust jacket and slipcase. . 25 stories, all new. 1 of 500 copies [this being #194] SIGNED BY ALL 26 CONTRIBUTORS on a special limitation page where each author has signed next to his printed name along with editor Chizmar. Original anthology collecting twenty-five stories by F. Paul Wilson, Chet Williamson, Joe R. Lansdale, Rex Miller, Nancy A. Collins, William F. Nolan, Richard Laymon, Ramsey Campbell, Andrew Vachss, Ed Gorman, Rex Miller et al...401 pages. Signed by All Contributors. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine/Fine. Limited/ Numbered Edition.

Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, Publishers, 2003. 1st ed. Fine, unread copy in dust jacket. Outof-print. Published in honor of Cave's 92nd birthday. LIMITED EDITION. One of 250 clothbound copies [this being #174]; SIGNED and numbered by the author. Accompanying each copy is a seperately printed pamphlet, "Desperate Character" by Cave. Eleven stories with a new introduction by Cave. "Hugh B. Cave was one of the most popular and prolific writers during the Golden Age of the Pulp Magazines between the late 1920's and the early 1940's. His name on the cover of Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, Weird Tales, Short Stories, Clues, Argosy, Horror Story, Black Mask, Adventure, Astounding, and countless other all-fiction magazines guaranteed a story with vivid characters and crackling pace. In his new introduction, Cave writes, "What I had, in many of my tales for Detective Fiction Weekly, were folks like you and you and you, who never wore a… Read More

Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, 2005. First edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. LIMITED EDITION, one of only 200 copies (this being #88), bound in cloth and SIGNED and numbered by Faherty. Accompanying each copy is a seperately printed pamphlet, "Goodnight, Dr. Kobel" by Faherty. "Confessions" is the first short fiction collection by the Edgar-nominated and Shamus-winning author and brings together six short stories and a novella from the casebook of Owen Keane, failed seminarian turned investigator. Called a "metaphysical detective" by the New York Times and "the ultimate amateur sleuth" by the Drood Review, Keane is a compulsive solver of mysteries. These mysteries can be as public as gang murder and gun running or as private as the loss of faith. But whether the stakes involved are large or small, these tales all feature the hallmarks of Faherty's novels: meticulous plotting,… Read More

Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: Dennis McMillan, 2004. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket and slipcased. LIMITED EDITION, One of 300 copies SIGNED and numbered by Scott Phillips. Dustjacket design by Michael Kellner. McMillian calls it "..a wonderful 'Willefordian' novel of the Kansas frontier, in which he incidentally solves the Bloody Bender mystery. It's a truly fine noir 'Western'".. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Kellner, Michael. Limited/ Numbered Edition.

Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: Dennis McMillan, 2004. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. LIMITED EDITION, One of 104 copies SIGNED and lettered by Scott Phillips. Bound in goatskin morocco and handmade paper, with slipcase. Dustjacket design by Michael Kellner. McMillian calls it "..a wonderful 'Willefordian' novel of the Kansas frontier, in which he incidentally solves the Bloody Bender mystery. It's a truly fine noir 'Western'".. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Kellner, Michael. Limited / Lettered Edition.

Mysterious Press, 1989. 1st ed. Very fine in slipcase w/o dust jacket as issued. One of 26 Lettered copies SIGNED by Amis. Serial killer is loose in England. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine. Limited/ Numbered Edition.