Search Results: Titles starting with M from Blackbird Bookshop

New York: Henry Holt. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on title page.. 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. The ties that bind. The rivalries of brotherhood. The fall of an empire. As Kinsey tries to unravel the mystery of the missing Malek brother she finds herself in a heart-stopping race against time in which loyalties are tested, greed is rampant, and no one - including Kinsey herself - is safe. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 300 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Linden Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Slight lean to book. Jacket lightly . browned along top edge of back panel.. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Bobbo Druff, the fifty-eight-year-old commissioner of streets, finds his ordinary life turned upside down by a series of bizarre events and by the people in his life including his wife, his son, his new lover, and his chauffeur. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 283 pages .

Boston: Little Brown & Co. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Book with faint foxing to edges. . Jacket a bit age-toned with small hole to spine edge affecting the first . "G" in Maggot.. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. The mysterious events surrounding a journey undertaken by five unrelated but interconnected individuals are investigated when one of the travellers is found hanging from a tree and another vanishes. What arises out of the inquiry are different versions of truth and lies, doubt and disbelief, the conflict of reason and superstition, and the birth of a new faith. ; 6.5 X 1.25 X 9.5 inches; 455 pages .

Franklin Center: Franklin Library. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued; Franklin Library edition in brown . leatherette with gilt decorations and spine titles. Some wear to boards . with loss of gilt to front board. , however, appears unread.. 1981. Reprint. Hardcover. The story of a young engineer, Hans Castorp, who travels to Davos to visit his sick cousin at a luxurious tuberculosis sanatorium, and, instead of three weeks, ends up staying for seven years. ; 9.2 X 5.7 X 1.7 inches; 724 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Book is canted with vertical crease to . spine and light edge soil. Jacket with small dents to front panel and . light rubbing.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. After Tim Lovsey, a handsome male prostitute, is found brutally killed and police choose not to pursue the matter, Kay Farrow decides to look into the case herself, and her own life is at risk as she becomes more deeply involved in the underground world of San Francisco's illicit sex trade. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 406 pages .

New York: Dutton. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket is rubbed, with light wrinkles . and flap crease.. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Simon Young, an important English businessman living in Hong Kong, finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly struggle between the KGB and the Chinese Secret Service, and learns that his wife, Jinny, is not what she seems. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches; 434 pages .

Chicago: Academy Chicago Pub. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Signed presentation copy of author's first . novel. Jacket protected in mylar.. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 x 6 x 1 inches; 240 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: St Martins Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Fine book in jacket with light back panel . corner wear.. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Having spent a year in Windsor working on a diploma, Chief Superintendent Charmian Daniels decides to put down roots and buy a house in the affluent town. But before she can settle in, the quiet atmosphere of the community is disturbed when someone tries to attack her as she walks home one night. ; 8.3 X 5.7 X 0.9 inches; 222 pages .

New York: Harpercollins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book leans a bit.. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. The Ankh-Morpork Post Office is running like a well-oiled machine and Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig, former arch-swindler and confidence man, has exceeded all expectations. So it's somewhat disconcerting when Lord Vetinari summons Moist to the palace and asks, "Tell me, Mr. Lipwig. Would you like to mmake some real money? "; 9.0 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches; 400 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on title page. . Author's first novel, and Edward and Dilys Award nominee. Foxing to all . edges, heaviest at top.. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. A stunning debut novel about a web of unsolved murders in New York's Grammercy Park, and Kathleen Mallory, an extraordinary wild child turned New York City sergeant. ; 9.1 X 6.3 X 1.1 inches; 286 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine; Uncorrected Proof of author's debut novel in glossy pictorial cover. . Received multiple nominations: Dilys Award nominee, Edgar nominee for Best . First Novel, Anthony Award for Best First Mystery. Appears unread.. 1994. Advance Reader's Copy. Softcover. Adopted off the streets as a child by a policeman's family, NYC policewoman Kathleen Mallory had never shaken the wild nature of her youth, and when her adoptive father is murdered during a series of stabbings, she is driven to find the truth. ; Trade PB .

New York: Welcome Rain Publishers. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on title page. . Back board slightly bowed.. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Dr. David Brooks is pulled into another dangerous case when the Associate Director of the Brent Institute of Biotechnology is found shotgunned to death in the institute parking lot. ; 6.74 X 1.03 X 9.2 inches; 288 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Pocket Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light shelf rubbing to jacket.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. While the Harrow family of Skokie, Illinois, were all down on the floor in front of the linen closet, whooping and laughing, the man who had come to kill them was getting off a plane at O'Hare. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.25 inches; 378 pages .

London: Century. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; First UK edition. Tiny dig/tear to . back edge of book. Jacket has light shelf wear and wrinkling to back top . edge.. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. The Berlin Wall is demolished. Marx is dead. Try telling that to Ramon and his desperate men hiding in the jungle, cradling their guns, and dreaming of world revolution. ; 9.5 x 6.25 x 2 inches; 360 pages; 0712649638 .

New York: TOR. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book is clean, straight and tight. . Jacket lightly rubbed.. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Elderly private eye Zeke Gahagar, who learned the business from Dashiell Hammett, investigates the death of a leading lady more than thirty years before. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 313 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Light rubbing to foil jacket.. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. NYPD Detective Sergeant Kathleen Mallory is drawn into a baffling world of peril and illusion when she investigates the brutal murder of a young woman, whose body is found wearing a jacket labeled 'Kathleen Mallory'. ; 9.25 x 6 x 1 inches; 278 pages .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Jacket with minor wear and small tear . top edge front panel.. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. On a Sunday night in 1942, private eye Toby Peters wakes up in a Los Angeles hotel room with a headache, a corpse on the bed, and John Wayne pointing a pistol between his eyes. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 194 pages .

New York: Harper. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on title page. . Lightly toned edges; minor edge and corner wear jacket.. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces. In these interlocked essays, the author presents his autobiography and his vision of life in a way so many of us experience in our own lives. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 306 pages; Signed by Author .

Aurora, CO: Write Way Publishing Inc.. Very Good; Advance Reader's Copy in tan paper covers, of author's first . book. Included is the publisher's letter and marketing materials. Book hs . an aged look with tiny tear top spine corner.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. Trade PB; 5.75 X 1 X 9 inches; 304 pages .

New York: Penguin. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued; Author's first book. 2009 Hammett . Award winner. No dust jacket, as issued. Light rubbing to boards.. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. In this tightly plotted yet mind-expanding debut novel, an unlikely detective, armed with only an umbrella and a singular handbook, must untangle a string of crimes committed in and through people's dreams. ; 9.10 X 6.20 X 1 inches; 288 pages .