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Things That Fall from the Sky

By: Brockmeier, Kevin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books: 2002

Seller ID: 05676

ISBN: 0375421343

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Boards slightly bowed. Head of the spine bumped. Acetate jacket also bumped at the head of the spine and the flaps have a tiny crease at the upper corners. No tears, marks, or stains. The author's debut book, a collection of short stories.
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Simon the Pointer: A Story

By: Brown, Joan Winer; Jared T. Williams

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1996

Seller ID: 05831

ISBN: 0670866628

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Couple of timy spots to the bottom edge. Corners slightly bumped.
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Dirty Work

By: Brown, Larry

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 1989

Seller ID: 01139

ISBN: 0945575203

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine+

Small, light smudge on top-edge of pages near fore-edge. Jacket shows a trace of rubbing. A nice copy of the Mississippi author's first novel.
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Yellowfin: A Ben McMillen Hawaiian Mystery

By: Brown, Mark

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Woodbridge, Connecticut, U.S.A., Ox Bow Press: 1992

Seller ID: 02081

ISBN: 0918024935

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine+

Bump to tail of spine. Jacket has a tiny tear and scratch on the rear panel and a trace of edge wear.
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Image for Short Story International - SSI 106: Tales by the World's Great Contemporary Writers Presented Unabridged, Signed by Contributor Robert H. Brown (Liberia)

Short Story International - SSI 106: Tales by the World's Great Contemporary Writers Presented Unabridged, Signed by Contributor Robert H. Brown (Liberia)

By: Brown, Robert H (SIGNED); Edited By Sylvia Tankel

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Great Neck, New York, International Cultural Exchange: 1994

Seller ID: 04871

ISBN: 1555731155

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light edge wear, a few tiny scuff marks on the cover. Waviness to the text block. Reading crease to the spine and a partially loose page as the book opens near the middle where some cracking is starting. Gift inscription by one of the authors, Robert H. Brown of Liberia to fellow Liberian and literary giant of that country, Wilton Sankawulo. A nice association copy, thus. Brown contributed the story, "The Libation" to this anthology volume of thirteen stories from around the world.
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Conglomeros

By: Browner, Jesse

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1992

Seller ID: 03276

ISBN: 0679408797

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Light rub to jacket's rear panel.
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Dreaming Southern

By: Bruckheimer, Linda

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Dutton: 1999

Seller ID: 01546

ISBN: 0525944532

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine+

Tiny corner crease to rear endpaper. Author's first novel.
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The Guards

By: Bruen, Ken

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Minotaur: 2003

Seller ID: 11279

ISBN: 0312303556

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Just a touch of wear to the jacket. Signed by the author (name only) on the title page. 281 pages. From the publisher: "It's almost impossible to be thrown out of the Garda, but former police detective Jack Taylor has managed it. Following the death of his father, Jack finds himself disgraced, unemployed, and drinking himself into oblivion when he is asked to privately investigate a teenage suicide. The case is one of several successive suicides from the same bridge in Galway, and all the victims are teenage females. The Irish police, the Guards, are quick to dismiss the deaths as coincide...
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The Magdalen Martyrs

By: Bruen, Ken

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Minotaur: 2005

Seller ID: 11317

ISBN: 0312316453

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Couple of slight bumps keeps this copy from being graded Fine. Signed on the title page (name only) by the author. A title in the Jack Taylor Series. From the dust jacket: "Jack Taylor is walking the delicate edge of a sobriety he doesn't trust when his phone rings. He's in debt to a Galway tough named Bill Cassell, what the locals call a "hard man." Bill did Jack a big favor a while back; the trouble is, he never lets a favor go unreturned. Jack is amazed when Cassell simply asks him to track down a woman, now either dead or very old, who long ago helped his mother escape from the notorious M...
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Six Days to Sunday

By: Brunner, Bernard

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill: 1975

Seller ID: 06757

ISBN: 007008579X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Page edges are lightly soiled and foxed. Jacket is price-clipped and has a bit of wear at the head of the spine. Signed Limited Edition statement pasted on front free endpaper: No. 46 of 60 copies authorized for distribution by Signed Limited Editions.
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The Dark Backward

By: Buchanan, Marie

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc.: 1975

Seller ID: 01888

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Bumping, scuff marks to front boards. Jacket how light shelf wear. box 18
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Wild Embers

By: Bunkley, Anita Richmond (SIGNED)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, E P Dutton: 1995

Seller ID: 03083

ISBN: 0525937536

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Light edge wear to top-edge of boards and bottom-edge of jacket. Protected in a new mylar cover. Inscribed and signed by the author on the half-title page: "To Laurie, Best Wishes, Anita R. Bunkley 1/22/1995." During World War II, an African-American nurse goes to Tuskegee, Alabama where black fighter pilots are training. Romance with a pilot and dangerous feelings for a white civil rights lawyer who has helps her in legal battles, create more tension and drama in this historical novel.
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Ghost Quartet

By: Burgin, Richard (SIGNED)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Evanston, IL, U.S.A., Northwestern University Press: 1999

Seller ID: 00928

ISBN: 0810150956

Condition: Fine

Gutter after first page has some dark residue (printer/binder?), which has also left some faint smudges on the blank page. Jacket has a light crease on the inside front flap. Dated inscription (1999) by the author on the title page.
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Sunset Limited

By: Burke, James Lee

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1998

Seller ID: 03659

ISBN: 0385488424

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Stain to a portion of the bottom-edge, carrying over to the inside bottom-edge of the jacket's front and rear panel (not visible from the outside of the jacket). Inscribed by th author on the title page "For Susan, All the best."
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Delta Blues

By: Burke, James Lee; John Grisham; Charlaine Harris; David Sheffield; Alice Jackson; Ace Atkins; and More; Carolyn Haines, Editor; SIGNED by Contributors

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Madison, Wisconsin, Tyrus Books: 2010

Seller ID: 09161

ISBN: 193556207X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Signed by 10 of the anthology's contributors: Carolyn Haines, Charlaine Harris, Suzanne Ellingsworth, Toni L.P. Kelner, Lynne Barrett, Alice Jackson, Nathan Singer, Dean James, David Sheffield, and Mary Saums. This collection was dedicated to McKenna Jordan and David Thompson, Houston booksellers and co-owners of the book shop Murder by the Book. They both signed the dedication page next to their names. This collection was published in 2010 and Thompson died unexpectedly later that same year.
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Bones: An Irene Kelly Mystery

By: Burke, Jan

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1999

Seller ID: 11267

ISBN: 0684855518

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Signed by the author (name only) on the title page. 378 pages.
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Hocus

By: Burke, Jan

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1997

Seller ID: 11234

ISBN: 0684803445

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

"In California, a police officer is abducted by two men for publicity purposes. The pair want police to reopen the case of their murdered father, claiming a policeman was a party to the killing. Newspaper reporter Irene Kelly, the wife of the abducted policeman, tries to obtain his release."
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Sometimes Magic: A Collection of Outstanding Stories for the Teenage Girl

By: Burnett, Hallie (Editor); Stories by Dorothy Parker, Jane Austen, Carson McCullers, et al

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New Orleans, Platt & Munk: 1966

Seller ID: 10652

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Light wear to book and jacket. Very faint foxing to the edges of the page block. Foxing to the endpapers. No writing or marks. Price-clipped dust jacket. An impressive lineup of women authors with short stories aimed at teenage girls age 14 and up. Some of the more recognizable authors in this collection include Dorothy Parker, Kay Boyle, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Katherine Mansfield, Carson McCullers, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Willa Cather, and Charlotte Bronte. Edited and with a Foreword by Hallie Burnett. Afterword by Jean E. Crabtree.
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