Search Results: Titles starting with W from Blackbird Bookshop

New York: Viking. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on the title page. . Remainder stripe bottom edge.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Four African-American women console and support one another in a complex friendship that helps each of them face the middle of her life as a single woman. ; 1.4 x 8.8 x 6.1 Inches; 409 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: William Morrow & Co. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket with crinkles; light soil top . edge book.. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. "One million dollars cash, or we kill your wife". High-volume dope dealers make an easy mark for kidnappers. After all, what are they going to do, call the cops? But Kenan Khoury, heroin wholesaler to the five boroughs, haggled over price and his wife came back in pieces. The only person he trusts to avenge her is Matt Scudder, ex-cop, sober alcoholic, who wields his own brand of guerrilla justice. ; 9.2 X 6.4 X 1.3 inches; 318 pages .

New York: Forge. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Boldly inscribed by the author (as is usual . with Jon Land) on the front endpaper. Abrasion to blindside of jacket at . spine, presumably where the anti-theft device was inexpertly removed.. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. What if the greatest event in history never happened? In 1948, an archeological team in Turkey is slaughtered after making an earth-shattering discovery. More than fifty years later, a group of American archeologists is murdered in the Judean desert. Chief Inspector Danielle Barnea of Israel's National Police is called in to investigate, accompanied by Palestinian detective Ben Kamal, whose nephew is among the victims. ; Ben Kamal And Danielle Barnea Novels; 9.3 X 6.3 X 1.2 inches; 352 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Mysterious Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. San Francisco private detective Sharon McCone must uncover a serpent in paradise - and untangle complexities of motive, justice, and the heart. ; 8.2 X 5.8 X 1.0 inches; 293 pages .

Minneapolis: Bascom Hill Publishing Group. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Inscribed by the author on half-title . page. Tiny dig at spine edge front panel of jacket. This is most likely a . first ediiton, but I can find no information as to how Bascom Hill . Publishing designates their first editions. To my knowledge, there never . was a second printing.. 2013. First Edition (?). Hardcover. On a dark Mississippi night in 1960, a young black Civil Rights leader is murdered, ripped apart by a shotgun blast and left to die in a ditch beside a lonely country road. No arrest is ever made and the murder is never solved. Decades later, the nearly forgotten slaying is resurrected, with deadly consequences. Jefferson Trannon, an Ole Miss law professor, and Ella Garrity, a New York Times reporter, stumble upon long-hidden documents and a shocking witness that, together, could unlock the explosive secrets of the brutal killing. ; 9.1 X 6.4 X 1.4 inches; 314 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: William Sloane Associates. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Prior owner name to front endpaper, . light fading to top edges. Jacket has scattered spots of wear, spine . darkening, and back cover soiling.. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Flap blurb is interesting: A novel for the delight of the sophisticated adult...not recommended for children of any age. ; 8.25 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 248 pages .

London: Michael Joseph. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; First UK edition of Monkeewrench that . follows the US edition by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. The 2004 Anthony . Award winner for Best Novel. Pages browned.. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Haunted by a series of horrifying and violent episodes in the past, Grace McBride and the oddball crew of her software company, Monkeewrench, create a computer game where the killer is always caught. But their game becomes a nightmare when someone starts duplicating the fictional murders in real life, down to the last detail. ; 9.2 X 6.3 X 1.5 inches; 416 pages .

Fairfield: Fairfield Historical Society. Very Good; Blue stapled wraps have faded along edges; stain across title . page and inside cover from a long-gone newspaper clipping. Also with the . playbill from the December 16, 1932 production at Roger Ludlowe High . School, as part of Fairfield, Connecticut's celebration of the Washington . bicentennial.. 1932. Stapled wraps.

New York: W. W. Norton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on front . endpaper. Author's first work of fiction. Book is straight and tight with . tiny dents to jacket front panel.. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. A group of 10 stories all involving people beset by time. Some are running from it, others trying to stay ahead, and still others racing to recapture its passed-by sweetness, ; 8.3 X 5.8 X 0.9 inches; 190 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Pantheon. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Book is clean, straight and tight. . Jacket has minor shelf wear and front flap crease.. 1983. First American Edition. Hardcover. Commissioner Jan Argand of Brabt, head of the internal investigations unit of the police, uncovers a series of disturbing cases of police corruption unexpectedly interwoven with political dissent. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 232 pages .

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. At a fundraising dinner, a wealthy patroness asks Brunetti to investigate the circumstances surrounding her granddaughter's accident. Fifteen years ago, the girl fell into the canal and, being unable to swim, began to drown. She was pulled out of the water but suffered irreparable brain damage. The girl's grandmother is convinced she was delibertely pushed. ; 9.1 X 6.2 X 1.3 inches; 256 pages .

New York: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on title page. . This is the First Trade Edition; a signed first edition was previously . published by The Franklin Library. Some rubbing to the foil lettering . front panel.. 1994. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. In post-Civil War New York City, a young pedestrian recognizes his supposedly dead father riding in a passing horse-drawn omnibus. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 253 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Crown. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. When a young woman mysteriously vanishes in North Oxford, Chief Inspector Morse unsuccessfully sets out to prove that it is a case of murder, until the arrival of an anonymous letter containing a cryptic poem provides a bizarre clue. ; 1.3 x 9 x 6.1 Inches; 296 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown. Near Fine in Good dust jacket; Review copy of the First American Edition, . with publisher's card laid in. Translated from the French by Len Ortzen. . Publishing date 1/11/72 written on the front endpaper. Jacket has edge . wear and small chips; spine faded from brown to light blue, but titles . only slightly faded.. 1972. Review Copy. Hardcover. It is 1941, and across the baking sand of the war-torn North African desert two men and a woman run westward from the Italian lines. Nothing binds them together but their common fear and new common need. ; 8.25 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 255 pages .

New York: Ballantine Books. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket; Inscribed by the author on title page. . Page 279 detached. Initials "BF" top corner of front endpaper.. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. The final book in the World War I series, featuring the Reavley family. ; 9.4 X 6.4 X 1.2 inches; 292 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Kensington Books. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Light crinkling to jacket.. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. With their "decidedly homey characters, country charm, and upbeat tone", the Laura Fleming mysteries are as refreshing as mint iced tea served on a hot June day. Now the reluctant sleuth - and brand-new mom - is heading back to her hometown of Byerly, North Carolona for a case of marital mayhem and dangerous liaisons, Southern style. ; 8.1 X 5.7 X 1.0 inches; 204 pages .

New York: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Has been gently read.. 2003. First American Edition. Hardcover. Exhausted by her stint as Miss Havisham's apprentice at Jurisfiction, Thursday Next is delighted by a respite in the Character Exchange Program in the Well of Lost Plots, a place filled with linguistic chaos, lousy books, and a murderer. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.25 inches; 375 pages .

New York: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Slight lean; page 66 corner crease. . Wrinkle front panel jacket.. 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Walt Longmire hurtles into a head-on collision of past and present, placing those he loves most squarely on the tracks of runaway revenge. ; 6.38 X 1.06 X 9.31 inches; 304 pages .

New York: Knopf. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Light edge soil; edge wrinkling to . jacket with small abrasion at bar code.. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. A departure from other Christopher Buckley novels, this one is a full-scale thriller with high suspense, international intrigue, and the wit we have come to expect from him. Charley Becker controls one of America's biggest conglomerates but the one thing that really matters to him is Tasha, his granddaughter. When she dies of a drug overdose, Charley's life becomes ruled by an overwhelming purpose: to hunt down everyone responsible for her death. ; 9.3 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches; 271 pages .

Boston: Houghton and Mifflin. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Inscribed by the author on the title . page. Jacket protected in mylar.. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. When Doc and Mary's son Jack brings his friend Andrew Cunningham to Woods Hole and the guest is found dead the next morning, Jack is blamed, and Doc Adams becomes Cape Cod's temporary medical examiner to learn the truth. ; 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 276 pages; Signed by Author .