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This is a special rebinding , being 1/13 lettered issued by the Scorpion Press in 2022 with a new introduction for the "Books into Film" series. The introduction states: Recently, critics and social commentators have revived an interest in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. They point to his place as a unique instigator of the wealth of 'true-to-life' crime books, films and TV shows that now dominate our reading and viewing habits. The almost- documentary style that Capote employed in his seminal work has become a standard by which so many other works of this genre are measured. It was not only Capote's ability to piece together details and his clever narrative construct ion that established this benchmark, but also his profound understanding of the potential for good and evil in humanity. It is perhaps true to say that this 'perfect literary storm' set a standard by which all future works of this nature would be judged. Capote's ability to grip the reader and thus evoke deep and haunting emotions… Read More

An extensive study of the history and development of the British Army. Carver is no apologist in that he voices the important point that the diehards at the top refused to accept change - especially the developments in technology and weaponry. Lavishly illustrated with photographs. Published at £30.00 GBP. As new.

Ragtime in Simla takes place in 1920s India and has Joe Sandllands of Scotland as the detective. A satisfying historical crime novel. As new from stock. It is one of 80 numbered and signed copies.

This is the Scorpion signed limited, one of 90 numbered copies with an appreciation by Robert Crais.Just One Look tells the story of Grace Lawson, a wife and mother who discovers an old photo of her husband with some college friends tucked into her just-developed set of pictures. After she shows it to her husband, he denies it's him and promptly disappears. The story is somehow intertwined with a rock concert stampede years earlier that left Grace seriously injured and fuzzy on the details, and which made a lifelong friend out of a Mafia don whose son was killed in the melee.The book is new. We shipped Fed Ex express to the USA.

Jonathan Coe is an English novelist in the tradition of satire. This novel, What a Carve Up! sends up the butchers of Britain - the bankers, industrialists, politicians, arms dealers etc. It is widely regarded as perhaps the finest satire of the state of Britain politically to have appeared for twenty years or more.This an advance proof and signed by the author on the title page without dedication at the Hay Festival. Condition is VG+, with no creasing on the spine, no marks, only slight production fault to the spine. Nice copy.

This is the first hardcover appearance of the Birmingham novelist Jim Crace. It is a beautiful copy and signed on the title page.

This is the London advance proof of the award winning novel set 2000 years ago in the desert near Jericho. It has the stamp of the agent March on the ffep and the signature of the author is loosely laid in.

It has glossy black card covers and isNear fine with slight (faint) creases to corners.

The only Scorpion Press signed limited of a Robert Crais book. This being a stand-alone thriller; subsequently made into a movie. Fellow California mystery writer, Michael Connelly provided an Appreciation. As new from stock.