Perfect Death, Signed (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Blue-boards hardback with a dust jacket now protected in a new archival-quality, removable Mylar plastic cover. Signed on the title page with a short inscription to previous owner, by the author. Ever-so-slight "cock" to the book's binding, probably due to 'stacking' books atop each other. John Sims Jeter is a wonderful, thought-provoking Alabama storyteller. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy Jiffy Rigi Bag envelope. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999. 183-stated pages. Signed & inscribed by the Aut.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible - Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Inscribed to previous owner and signed by the author in pen on title page. First edition by number code. Boards have shelf wear. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering. Signed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible - Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering. Inscribed to previous owner and signed by the author in pen inside cover. Signed By Author.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed. Inscribed by the author.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First U.S. edition. Published in Britain as 'Mother's Boys.' Lightly bumped, page tops show a bit of foxing. DJ flaps and back tanned, in mylar. Signed by Barnard on the front free end paper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Cash. No Jacket. First Edition. Very little wear to cover, corners, and edges. Binding is tight, pages are unmarked and crisp. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book. Signed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 298 Pages, Text Clean, Book Tight, Author Signed The Front End Sheet, Condition of Book & Dust Jacket Fine+/Fine+. Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition/1st Printing thus Omnibus Edition of four complete novels. SIGNED by author on a bookplate affixed to front end page (signature only). some page age-toning. 695 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Cash. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. Secure pages, solid binding. DJ has surface rubbing, edgewear. There's tape on the top edge of the spine. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book. Inscribed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition 1st printing, Near Fine book and jacket, book has light shelf wear and a slight yellowing of top and front page edges, tiny bit of slant top of spine, jacket has light edge wear, light yellowing top edges of white flaps and back panel with dog ear crease bottom back flap. An unread copy signed by Barnard on the FFEP. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. Inscribed by author on front endpage. In protective mylar cover. (Murder, Mystery, Family Life, England).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Tan paper-covered boards with orange spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on front flap ($9.95). A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 188 pages. SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper (name only). Published in the U.K. under the title "Mother's Boys," this novel follows a murder investigation involving an unlikable matriarch and her troubled adult sons. Robert Barnard was a prolific British crime writer and recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement. This was Barnard's seventh novel; he later also published several novels under the pseudonym Bernard Bastable. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by Author(s).

Mass market paperback. Condition: Very good. 222, [2] pages. Cover has some wear. Signed by the author on the title page. Robert Barnard (23 November 1936 - 19 September 2013) was an English crime writer, critic and lecturer. His first crime novel, A Little Local Murder, was published in 1976. The novel was written while he was a lecturer at University of Tromsø in Norway. He went on to write more than 40 other books and numerous short stories. Barnard said that his favorite crime writer was Agatha Christie. In 1980 he published a critique of her work titled A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie. Barnard was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2003 by the Crime Writers Association for a lifetime of achievement. Under the pseudonym Bernard Bastable, Robert Barnard published two standalone novels and two alternate history books starring Wolfgang Mozart as a detective, he having survived to old age. Derived from a Kirkus review: A working-class family in a small English town is the latest focus for Barnard's all-seeing eye and finely-honed scalpel. Lillian Hodsden is a harridan of a mother who's secretly hated by sons Gordon and Brian. And their father Fred is no help. So ex-Army son Gordon hatches a plot with Brian to murder Lill. But before the plan can go into action, the boys are in for quite a shock they learn that Lill's strangled body has been found. . . exactly where they planned it should be! Enter, then, Chief Inspector Dominic McHale, on his first murder case--a conceited snob eager to clutch greedily at the first obvious suspect, ignoring his fellow officers' observations in his haste to return to the bosom of his social and intellectual equals. But, of course, justice will finally have its ironic innings, Barnard-style. Literate, absorbing, funny, and wise--another character-rich gem from a remarkably consistent master of quiet, convincing suspense in sharply-drawn social milieus. Two previous Dell editions [stated], First Dell printing [stated] thus.

First edition. Tall 8vo. [xvi], 301 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations. No. 47 of 50 signed copies. Cloth binding in very good dustwrapper, very good copy. (88284). Foreword by Charles Sanford Terry.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Small 4to. 220mms by 245 [xvi], 301 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations. No. 43 of 50 signed by Katherine Parker. Original publishers purple cloth ovr cream buckram lettered gilt at the spine and cover Foreword by Charles Sanford Terry. Bookplate of writer E V Knox, very good indeed in faded and tanned else near vg purple d/w. Signedes.