Graphic Novels, Literature, Mystery, Science Fiction, etc.
London: Magnum Books, 1977. Paperback. Professor Lloyd Palmer loves a good biography. His fantasy is to start an institute to teach young scholars the biographical arts, and it will take old money to make his dreams come true. Around Washington, the oldest money is found not in the District, but..... More
New York: Vintage Crime, 1989. Reprint. Paperback. In Mildred Pierce, noir master James M. Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devasting emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable. Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and..... More
London: Phoenix, 2005. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Serenade is the story of the eternal triangle - with a difference. John Howard Sharp is an American opera singer down on his luck, having just bombed in Rigoletto in Mexico City when he first encounters the beautiful Mexican-Indian prostitute called Juana... More
New York: Graphic Publishing Company, Inc, 1957. Roy Lance (cover). First Edition. Paperback. Graphic Mystery No. 147. More
New York: Soho Press Inc, 2006. First Edition. Paperback. What’s a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who’s never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, he’d barely made detective when..... More
New York: Pyramid Publications, 1973. Paperback. Signed by artist. More
Nottingham: Black Library, 2012. Paperback. More
London: Penguin Books, 2016. Marc Simont (illustrations). Fifth Printing. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Neil Gaiman A giant of American humor makes his Penguin Classics debut with “probably the best book in the world” (Neil Gaiman, from the Introduction), in a stunning Deluxe Edition featuring the original, full-color..... More
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 2004. Paperback. More
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1984. Trade paperback. More
Fawcett Columbine, 1993. Paperback. A woman's increasing dedication to the rearing and showing of horses - to the virtual exclusion of her own family's needs - is, ultimately, deeply destructive. Set in rural Illinois, this is a quietly written yet deceptively powerful family saga. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2003. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. More
New York: Trumpet Club, 1992. Reprint. Paperback. More
London: Minerva, 1990. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Nothing Natural centres with illuminating precision on a sado-masochistic relationship. Rachel is in her thirties, a single parent admired by her friends for her self-sufficiency … But when she meets the compelling, sinister Joshua she discovers another side to herself … In a sense..... More
London: Walker Books, 2001. Michael Foreman. First Edition. Paperback. More
New York: Avon Books, 1989. Mass Market Paperback. An Ohio accountant who quits to become a bartender in New York sees the murder of his boss by local mobsters in Cirni's debut. More
New York: Penguin Books, 1991. Paperback. Her marriage over and career gone bust, Arly Hanks flees Manhattan for her hometown: Maggody, Arkansas. In a town this size, nothing much ever happens, so Arly figures she's safe as the town's first female chief of police--until the husband of one of the..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1991. Paperback. When Claire Malloy's best friend Luanne Bradshaw goes down with a badly sprained ankle, someone must fill in her shoes as Thurberfest beauty Pageant coordinator and usher a bevy of aspiring beauty queen through the two-day event. Enter Claire Malloy to the rescue. But..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929. Kurt Wiese. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. c/r page states: "FIRST PRINTING MARCH 1929 75,000 COPIES" More
New York: Atria Books, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. More
Gollancz, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. In this book you will be led to a place you haven't been, from where few stories come. You will be led by King, a dog--or is he a dog?--to a wasteland beside the highway called Saint Valéry. Here, at the end of..... More
Bantam Press, 2007. Trade paperback. More
New York: Dell Publishing, 1947. Gerald Gregg (cover). First Edition. Paperback. Dell Mapback No. 272. More
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