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New York:: Norton,, 1990-92.. First Printings of the First US Edition. All three volumes are Fine tight copies in Fine unclipped dust jackets. Each volume is Signed by Mosley. Walter Mosley broke new ground as a mystery writer by incorporating issues of race into novels that stand on their own as gripping detective fiction. Critics have praised Mosley's writing for its realistic portrayal of street life in African-American neighborhoods of post-World War II Los Angeles. Mosley's success has been due to the powerful recurring character of Ezekiel ("Easy") Rawlins, one of the most innovative private investigators to appear in fiction. Unlike many detectives who populate the pages of hard-boiled prose, Rawlins is a multidimensional character who stumbled into his sleuthing career as a means to pay mounting debts. Mosley has used Rawlins to expose the problems of getting by in a world where only a thin line lies between crime and business as usual.

New York: Norton, 1990. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. New York: Norton, (1990). First Edition. Fine.<br/> <br/> Presentation copy of his first book with a long intimate inscription, signed "Walter".<br/> <br/>

W. W. Norton. DJ in archival cover. Stated first edition with a full number line starting with 1. Boldly signed by the author on the title page. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1990.

New York, Norton & Company, 1990. . First edition, first issue, signed by the author on title-page, publisher's quarter cloth over paper-covered boards, pictorial dust-jacket by John Jinks, a fine example. This title is from one of the acclaimed Easy Rawlins series of mysteries and formed the basis for the 1995 film starring Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore and Jennifer Beals.

New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1990 First printing of the stated first edition, in first state dust jacket, with the publisher's original price of $18.95 listed on the inside front flap, 219pp. Author's First Book, First Easy Rawlins' Mystery, Winner of the Shamus and Creasey Awards, nominated for the Edgar Award, and basis of the Denzel Washington film. Signed by Walter Mosley directly on the half-title page. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

NY: Norton, 1990. First printing. 8vo, pp. 219. Author's signature on half-title. Paper over boards with cloth spine. A nice copy; as new, except for bookseller's label on front of dj. The first Easy Rawlins novel, the author's first book.

New York: W. W. Norton, 1990. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Ornage cloth backed boards. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Review copy with loosely inserted publicity materials. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. First Novel.

New York: W. W. Norton, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Octavo, 219 pages; pictorial dust jacket with price of $18.95 on front flap. Inscribed on the title page to mystery collector Arthur Parson. Author's first mystery novel and his first Easy Rawlins title. Source of the 1995 movie starring Denzel Washington. First printing, with full number line. A fine copy.

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1990-06. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. Signed by Author. Signed by author on title page without inscription. First edition with full number line.

NY: NORTON. 1990. Fine. 1990. First Edition. Softcover. ADVANCE READING COPY. SIGNED by Walter Mosley. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. Author's FIRST book. Basis for a film.; Signed by Author(s) .

New York: Norton, 1990. As New/As New; 219 pages; First edition stated, first printing; As New in yellow cloth titled in blue foil, over orange-yellow boards; in an As New first-state dustjacket with $18.95 price. Signed by the author on the title page. First Easy Rawlins mystery, Mosley received an Edgar Award nomination for Best First Novel, and won both Shamus and Creasy Awards. Basis for the 1995 film with Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals and Don Cheadle.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Norton, 1990. First edition. Hardcover His first book, which introduces the reluctant private eye Easy Rawlins. Made into a movie with Denzel Washington. A fine copy in a fine first issue dust jacket. Signed by Mosley on the title page.

New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition; First Printing; Signed by Author. 1/4 Cloth. 0393028542 . An attractive first edition/first printing in about Fine condition with bumped lower corner and traces of foxing to top edge in alike dust-jacket. With two publisher's press releases laid in. SIGNED by author Walter Mosley directly on the title page; Walter Mosley's debut Easy Rawlins mystery. "The time is 1948; the town is Los Angeles; the hero is Easy Rawlins, a tough black war veteran just out of a job at a defense plant. The mortgage payment's coming due, so Easy takes on some detective work from a silkily menacing white gangster, Dewitt Albright. The assignment: find the whereabouts of blonde femme fatale Daphne Monet, a singer known to frequent black jazz joints not usually hospitable to white patrons." (from the dust-jacket) Basis for the 1995 film starring Denzel Washington; [9], 10-219, [5] pages .

NY: NORTON. 1990. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0393028542 . REVIEW COPY. (Publisher's printed publicity release laid-in) SIGNED by Walter Mosley on the title page. About fine in a fine DJ. (Couple tiny spots of foxing at top edge & single spot on front end paper. ) Author's FIRST Easy Rawlins mystery. Basis for a film. .

NY: NORTON.. Fine. 1990. First Edition. 0393028542 . SIGNED by Walter Mosley on the title page. Fine in a fine dj. FIRST Easy Rawlins novel. Made into a film. (G) .

New York / Boston: Norton / Putnam, 1990 - 2001. Five volumes. Each is a first edition in dust jacket SIGNED BY MOSLEY (one with a quote from the book). Includes his first book and first Easy Rawlins mystery, DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Norton, 1990); his standalone novel, RL's DREAM (Norton, 1995), "...about the blues--the blues as an expression of black poetry and black tragedy..." featuring aging bluesman Soupspoon Wise; ALWAYS OUTNUMBERED, ALWAYS OUTGUNNED (Norton, 1998), the first to featur Socrates Fortlow, "a tough, brooding ex-convict"; his first science-fiction novel, BLUE LIGHT (Little Brown, 1998), in which "an inscrutable blue light ...transforms those it strikes, causing them instantaneously to evolve...."; and FEARLESS JONES (Little Brown, 2001) the first in the series in which army veteran Fearless Jones helps his friend solve the mystery of his blown up used-book store. First four volumes SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE, and the last one is SIGNED WITH A QUOTE FROM THE BOOK, "love walked in the… Read more

New York London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED boldly by the Author at the top of the title page, tall 8vo, yellow quarter cloth with bold silver & blue lettering on spine over gold boards impressed with a blindstamped stylized geometrical figure [an image repeated on t.p.], archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped; price "$19.95 USA") with jazzy ~ Harlem-Cubistic painting of a blond with attitude in a sexy blue dress, 219 pages. Walter Ellis Mosley (born 1952) is an American novelist, most widely valued for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring Easy Rawlins, a black WW-II vet-turned-hard boiled P-I working LA in the late '40s. <br/> <br/> Devil in a Blue Dress is the Author's First Novel and First Easy Rawlins Novel. It won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1991; also the Shamus and CWA Dagger Award; nominated… Read more

Scranton, PA, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1990 Slightest of wear to book and dust jacket with $18.95 price intact; o/w NF/NF; signed by Mosley on title page. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition; First Printing; Signed by Author. 1/4 Cloth. 0393028542 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition with one minute spot on front board in Fine dust-jacket. Signed by author Walter Mosley directly on the title page; Walter Mosley's debut Easy Rawlins mystery. "The time is 1948; the town is Los Angeles; the hero is Easy Rawlins, a tough black war veteran just out of a job at a defense plant. The mortgage payment's coming due, so Easy takes on some detective work from a silkily menacing white gangster, Dewitt Albright. The assignment: find the whereabouts of blonde femme fatale Daphne Monet, a singer known to frequent black jazz joints not usually hospitable to white patrons." (from the dust-jacket) Basis for the 1995 film starring Denzel Washington; A Easy Rawlins Mystery; [9], 10-219, [5] pages .

New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition; First Printing; Signed by Author. 1/4 Cloth. 0393028542 . A Fine first printing of the first edition in alike dust-jacket, signed by author Walter Mosley on title page; Walter Mosley's debut Easy Rawlins mystery. "The time is 1948; the town is Los Angeles; the hero is Easy Rawlins, a tough black war veteran just out of a job at a defense plant. The mortgage payment's coming due, so Easy takes on some detective work from a silkily menacing white gangster, Dewitt Albright. The assignment: find the whereabouts of blonde femme fatale Daphne Monet, a singer known to frequent black jazz joints not usually hospitable to white patrons." (from the dust-jacket) Basis for the 1995 film starring Denzel Washington; [9], 10-219, [5] pages .