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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. All are US first editions. Near Fine/Near Fine. Leonard Cyril Deighton (b. 1929) is a British author who has written a wide variety of books, including cookery books, history and military history, but he is best known for his spy novels. These three volumes comprise the first trilogy of spy novels involving Bernard Samson, working class, cynical and streetwise, in contrast to his upper class and ineffective seniors. All volumes are near fine with just very slight edgewear.  No other marks or damage.  The unclipped DJ's are all excellent with slight edgewear.  The first and the third have tiny remainder marks on the top and bottom respectively..

London: Daily Mail. First. Newspaper. Very Good +. Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It starred Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, a middle-aged London barrister who defended a broad variety of clients, often underdogs. The popularity of the TV series led to the stories being presented in other media, including books and radio. The "Bailey" of the title is a reference to the Central Criminal Court, the "Old Bailey" This group consists of three issues (December 23, 26 & 27, 2006) of London's Daily Mail, which commissioned John Mortimer to write a Christmas themed story.  The result was "Rumpole and the Health Farm Murder". These newspapers represent the first publication of this particular Rumpole story, which did not get published in book form until 2009. These copies are in excellent condition, having been well-stored.  All are now in individual plastic pouches.  They all have been folded, but being thick… Read More

Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1993. First. Softcover. Very Good +. Victor Juhasz. From the publisher: "Modeled on the work of Victorian novelist Wilkie Collins, this serial cliffhanger follows Mason Devereaux, a once-great, hard-drinking British actor, who becomes involved in the case of an on-stage murder." Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Ebert was known for his intimate, Midwestern writing voice and critical views informed by values of populism and humanism.  Writing in a prose style intended to be entertaining and direct, he made sophisticated cinematic and analytical ideas more accessible to non-specialist audiences.  In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times said Ebert "was without question the nation's most prominent and influential film… Read More

London: Viking, 1987. First Edition. Fine/Fine. Great copy, fine in fine DJ Signed by author on title page Ruth Rendell first mystery under her pen name of Barbara Vine .

Privately Published, 2020. First thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adam Croft is an English writer of crime fiction. He is a self-published author and is an advocate of independent publishing. He has written more than twenty books, including the Knight & Culverhouse crime thrillers and Kempston Hardwick mysteries. He appeared on the USA Today bestseller list twice, with the Kempston Hardwick box set and his 2015 psychological thriller Her Last Tomorrow.  Although he had been writing and self-publishing professionally for five years when Her Last Tomorrow was released, it was this book that brought him international attention.   As an advocate of self-publishing, he has often spoken out about the negative sides of traditional publishing, and in 2012 he denounced Sue Grafton's comments that self-publishing was disrespectful and lazy. This copy is number 171 of a limited edition of 500, published on the 5th anniversary of the original publication of Her Last Tomorrow. It is fine in black cloth with gilt… Read More

London: Sphere, 2022. First UK (True 1st). Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A brand new, unread copy of the 6th and latest Cormoran Strike thriller A first UK edition, 1st printing with complete number line As new condition in as new unclipped DJ 1012 [4] pp. WA.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1975. First. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. From the publisher: "Collects over one hundred recipes from the fictional, but enviable notebooks of the wife of Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret, providing full instructions, methods, accompaniments, and alternatives" Jules Maigret, or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a commissaire of the Paris Brigade Criminelle, created by writer Georges Simenon.  Between 1931 and 1972, 75 novels and 28 short stories about Maigret were published, starting with Pietr-le-Letton ("The Strange Case of Peter the Lett") and concluding with Maigret et Monsieur Charles ("Maigret and Monsieur Charles"). With the creation of Maigret, Simenon renewed the detective novel genre. The novels and stories have been translated into more than 50 languages.  The Maigret stories have also received numerous film, television and radio adaptations.  Fine in white paper covered boards with gilt titles on the spine and a… Read More

Soundings, 2021. First Audiobook. Fine. From the publisher: In the blackout conditions of a wintry London night, amateur sleuth Agnes Kinghof and a young air-raid warden have stumbled upon a corpse stowed in the walls of their street's bomb shelter. As the police begin their investigation, the night is interrupted once again when Agnes' upstairs neighbour, Mrs. Sibley is terrorised by the sight of a grisly pig's head at her fourth-floor window. With the discovery of more sinister threats mysteriously signed "Pig-sticker," Agnes and her husband, Andrew-unable to resist a good mystery-begin their investigation to deduce the identity of a villain living amongst them in their block of flats. A witty and light-hearted mystery full of intriguing period detail, this rare gem of Golden Age crime returns to print for the first time since its publication in 1943. This edition includes an Introduction by award-winning author Martin Edwards. The unabridged audiobook of this story is in fine condition in a hard… Read More

New York: Henry Holt, 1999. First. Fine/Fine. From the Publisher: "Through fourteen books, fans have been fed short rations when it comes to Kinsey Millhone's past: a morsel here, a dollop there. We know of the aunt who raised her, the second husband who left her, the long-lost family up the California coast. But husband number one remained a blip on the screen until now. The call comes on a Monday morning from a guy who scavenges defaulted storage units at auction. Last week he bought a stack. They had stuff in them--Kinsey stuff. For thirty bucks, he'll sell her the lot. Kinsey's never been one for personal possessions, but curiosity wins out and she hands over a twenty (she may be curious but she loves a bargain). What she finds amid childhood memorabilia is an old undelivered letter. It will force her to reexamine her beliefs about the breakup of that first marriage, about the honor of that first husband, about an old unsolved murder. It will put her life in the gravest peril."O" Is for Outlaw:… Read More

London: Peter Davies, 1953. 2nd Printing. Very Good/Poor. 1953 Second Printing Book Very Good with poor DJ Lower half of DJ missing.

Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, 1985. First. Softcover. Fine. The War Powers Resolution of 1973 is a federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. The resolution was adopted in the form of a United States congressional joint resolution. It provides that the president can send the U.S. Armed Forces into action abroad only by declaration of war by Congress, "statutory authorization", or in case of "a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces". The War Powers Resolution requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action and forbids armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days, with a further 30-day withdrawal period, without congressional authorization for use of military force (AUMF) or a declaration of war by the United States. The resolution was… Read More

New York: Macmillan, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. New York: Macmillan, 1957. First edition. Very Good. Good Solid binding with only a slight tilt. No dj. Black cloth embossed in blue in very good state. Previous owner bookplate on inside of front cover, but otherwise, no marks or damage at all. Minor age toning on inside covers. .