Godwulf Manuscript by Parker Robert, Signed (10 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition/1st Printing Thus. (complete numberline). SIGNED by Parker on a bookplate affixed to front end Page (siganature only). 530 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

1st edition SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR Fine/fine.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fine in Fine dj, US First Edition, First Printing Hardcover Signed on the Title Page- A TINY BIT OF WEAR ON THE TOP TWO TIPS OF THE DUST JACKET SIGNED Protected in clear Mylar cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped in a box. We do not stock or sell ex-library or Book Club editions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The author's first book. Stated first printing. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Very good in a very good (tiny chip at the crown of the spine, some age toning along the spine) dust jacket with the original $5.95 price on the front flap. Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon. ; 186 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. NF/VG. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by author on fep. Tape repair discoloration top front jacket. 186 pp. Inscribed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. Parker's first novel. Signed by author on title page, no inscription. Nice copy. Former owners signature neatly crossed out in blue ink on flyleaf. Price intact jacket has very small and extremely faint water stain near head of binding. Small crease at corner of front panel at top. Tight, square copy. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE BY ROBERT B. PARKER. A near fine copy with armorial bookplate ffep in a near fine dust jacket. Author's first book. 186 pp. A very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company., Boston, 1974. Splendidly bound in finely woven sturdy brown cloth with the darker brown "G" on the front boards and bright gilt lettering on the spine. With reddish topstaining. In a superb, complete white dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon. With the original price of $5.95 at the top of the inside front flap and the date code "0174" at the bottom left-hand corner. The illuminated letter "G" on the white front panel is jewel-like and stiking; a photo of a youthful Parker by Gary Goshgarian fills the rear panel. There are some closed tears at top of spine. This copy is signed on the Title page: Parker's first Spenser novel, The Godwulf Manuscript, introduces the most attractive and resourceful private investigator since Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe and proves that crime in Boston can be quite as lively and sinister as crime in Los Angeles. When Spenser is hired to recover a fourteenth-century manuscript stolen from the university library, his investigations lead him to the Student Committee Against Capitalist Exploitation and to its secretary, Terry Orchard.In the face of two more murders and attempts, first to frighten and then to kill him, Spenser persists, until all the truths are told. First Edition with "First Printing" and "C" on the copyright page. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition, First Issue, Inscribed and signed in full as Robert B. Parker. Full signatures on the early Spenser novels are scarce. 8vo, publisher's original tan cloth stamped in gold on the spine in brown on the upper cover and in the fully decorated and designed dustjacket with the original price and date code still present. 186 pp. An excellent copy, both jacket and book in very fine condition. FIRST EDITION OF ROBERT PARKER'S FIRST BOOK AND HIS FIRST SPENSER NOVEL IN VERY FINE CONDITION. "The Godwulf Manuscript introduces the most attractive and resourceful private investigator since Raymond Chandler's Phliip Marlowe and proves that crime in Boston can be quite as lively and sinister as crime in Los Angeles.".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First editions. Mostly fine in fine dustwrappers (see below for details). The first twelve of the approximately forty Spenser novels, one of the premiere detective series of the last quarter of the 20th Century. The series was extremely influential in the detective fiction world, incorporating an idealistic and indefatigable detective hero with an unbreakable personal code descending in a direct line from the hardboiled protagonists of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chander, and Ross Macdonald. After the first dozen Spenser novels the series, although entertaining and engaging, became increasingly formulaic. However, reading the first dozen novels in real time was a revelation. Spenser's tense interactions with his sometimes rival and sometimes friend Hawk practically crackled off the page. Condition details as follows: 1. *The Godwulf Manuscript* 1974. Fine in fine price-clipped dustwrapper. Inscribed to "a collector of the rare avis Spenser." 2. *God Save the Child* 1974. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with nominal lightening at the spine. The only unsigned copy in the lot, and possibly the scarcest title in the series. 3. *Mortal Stakes* 1975. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing and a tiny tear. Signed. 4. *Promised Land* 1976. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed. 5. *The Judas Goat* 1978. Fine in fine price-clipped dustwrapper. Signed. 6. *Looking for Rachel Wallace* 1980. Fine in fine dustwrapper but for two creases on front flap. Signed. 7. *Early Autumn* 1981. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Briefly Inscribed. 8. *A Savage Place* 1981. Remainder spray on bottom edge else fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed ".a savage place is hidden without a trace." 9. *Ceremony* 1982. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed. 10. *The Widening Gyre* 1983. Remainder spray on bottom edge else fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed. 11. *Valediction* 1984. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Briefly Inscribed. 12. *A Catskill Eagle* 1985. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Briefly Inscribed to "a youthful private eye.".