Postmortem, Signed (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Ediiton. 287pp. Dust jacket has 3 repaired tears along back top edge, using archival tape. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed and inscribed by the author.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 178 pages, minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright copy. Record # 457809.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. PO Bookplate on verso of front cover, has a sticker to the base of the spine, Signed on ffep by author with personal inscription. Signed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED WITH PERSONAL MESSAGE BY AUTHOR. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Near Fine hardcover in a Good dust jacket. Inscribed and Signed by Cornwell on the half-title page in blue Sharpie. Book Club Edition. The book is clean and bright with no markings. Shelf wear to the dust jacket with shallow tears along the edges. 293 pp. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Printing. Third printing (1990.) Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 293 pages. Signed and Inscribed on title page, " To Patricia - This isn't Jane Austen, but hope you enjoy! Best Wishes Patricia D. Cornwell Feb. 13, 1991 Los Angeles." The book and dust jacket are in very good condition with very slight shelf wear. Interior is clean and tight. First in the series of medical-examiner mysteries; recipient of the 1991 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Blue spine/Red-White text. #031835 Size: 8vo. Signed. Murder Mystery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed and dated with an original sketch by RK Post on the front free endpaper. Cartouche Press, 2001. Hardcover. 8 ½ x 11". 64 pp. Very good. Pictorial hardcover without a dust jacket. The interior is clean and solid. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Debut novel. Inscribed and signed by Ms. Cornwell. Early signature with her full name. Date 1989. Lacks the dust jacket. See photos. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. A square solid tight clean unread unopened copy. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. This copy has just a hint of cover rubbing wear else fine. Reissue of the this title originally released in 1989, her first book. This copy includes a picture that I snapped of Patricia at the signing event. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Printing. Signed and briefly inscribed by author upon first blank leaf. xiv, 203 pages. Index. "From the vantage point of a European observer who has experienced the pathology of liberalism and communism on both sides of the Iron Curtain, Dr. Sunic offers incisive insights into Western and post-communist societies and culture. Always erudite and at times humorous, this highly readable postmortem report on the death of the West offers a refreshing, alternative perspective to what is usually found in the cadaverous Freudo-Marxian scholasticism that rots in the dank catacombs of postmodern academia." - back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. Book Club. Hardcover. SIGNED BY PATRICIA CORNWELL ON THE TITLE PAGE. Book club edition. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket with modest wear at the spine extremities. Cornwell's first novel and second book (after a biography of Mrs. Billy Graham). Introducing Virginia medical examiner/sleuth Kay Scarpatta. In this entry, Dr. Scarpatta pursues a serial killer. An attractive, affordable alternative to an thousand dollar-plus first edition of one of the mystery hight spots of the last quarter century.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author: "To Frances / it was great seeing you in London / hope to see you in San Francisco someday / Best wishes / Patricia Daniels Cornwell / 9-23-90 / London." Light offsetting to the endpapers, overall Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket lightly toned. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. FIRST. A FINE FIRST EDITION IN DJ. Author's first mystery. SIGNED ON BOOKPLATE. Signed by Author(s).

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First UK Edition. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author: "To Frances / So nice to meet you in London! / Best wishes / Patricia Daniels Cornwell / 9-23-90 / London." Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Signed.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First. 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. N.Y.: Scribner, (1990). First Edition. Fine. Award winning novel introducing Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta. Signed "Patricia D. Cornwell" on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine+. First Edition; First Printing. SIGNED without inscription by author on title page, her debut mystery and the first Kay Scarpetta thriller; very gentle shelfwear to boards, a few tiny faint foxing spots to pageblock edges else a tight crisp unmarked copy in bright clean unclipped dust jacket covered in archival sleeve; first printing with full number line; basis for the Prime Video series 'Scarpetta' starring Nicole Kidman; signed simply 'Patricia Cornwell' on title page; photos available ; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing hardback in unclipped jacket. Book and jacket in fine condition. SIGNED without dedication by the author on the title page, with no other inscriptions. Book has full number line. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Scans available on request. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Uncorrected Advance Proof. Octavo, 293 pages; VG; bound in yellow/orange paper wraps, black lettering to spine; inscribed on title page by Patricia Cornwell; includes letter from Scribner's to reviewer; shelved case 6. Postmortem is a crime fiction novel by author Patricia Cornwell and is her debut novel. The first book of the Dr. Kay Scarpetta series, it received the 1991 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. [wikipedia]. 1309306. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. SIGNED/INSCRIBED. NF/NF. Pre-publication, association copy inscribed by Patricia Daniels Cornwell (full name) on the half title page to a former co-worker at the Virginia State Laboratory in Richmond Virginia. "To Mary Lea, Best Wishes, Patricia Daniels Cornwell 1989." The book has a mild slant from reading, otherwise it is tight with good corners and clean boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or marks and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Very faint foxing to side fore-edges. A bend on page 214 where the page was dog-eared. The dust jacket is unclipped ($16.95) with mild toning to the upper flaps. The original seller provided a 1991 VDGS (Virginia Department of General Services) newsletter about their now-famous employee. Protected in a Brodart cover. 293 pages. 6¾ x 8½" tall. Winner of the 1991 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. The first book in the Kay Scarpetta Series. The provenance of this copy of POSTMORTEM: I contacted the seller to ask about the circumstances of the signing and have added her scanned email reply, with the email address and last name protected. (see Photos). Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A paper board hardcover. With an original illustration by RK Post. The drawing is at the front free endpaper in black marker. With reproductions of Post's illustrations throughout. Most in color, a few in black and white. Signed by Author(s).

293, [3 (blank)] pp. 8vo. Cornwell graduated from Davidson in 1979 with a B.A. in English. In 1979, Cornwell began working as a reporter for The Charlotte Observer. Cornwell began work on her first novel in 1984, and wrote 3 novels that were rejected before the publication in 1990, of the first installment of her Scarpetta series, Postmortem, based on real-life stranglings in Richmond in the summer of 1987. This novel won her various awards including the British John Creasey Award, the French Prix du Roman d'Adventure and the American Edgar Award. [Wiki] Nr Fine (board upper tips slightly bumped) / Nr Fine Black cloth spine over red paper-wrapped boards. Dust jacket 1st edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, SIGNED by the Author on the t.p.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine binding. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dust jacket. Signed. 8vo; in quarter black cloth over red boards; with titling on the spine in silver; 293 pages; a near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket protected by mylar; signed Patricia Daniels Cornwall on the title page.~~A beautiful copy of Patricia Daniels Cornwall's first mystery novel introducing Dr.Kay Scarpetta. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "Postmortem" by Patricia Daniels Cornwell. Macdonald, London. 1990 first UK edition first printing. Signed by author on title page. Book in very good condition, with very good first issue dust jacket. Rare signed British first edition of Cornwell's debut novel (released in a very small printing, smaller than US first printing). Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. NY, Scribner's. POSTMORTEM. 296pp. Yellow wrappers. Uncorrected, advance proof of Cornwell's first book. Signed on the title page. Soiling and wear. Three lines are underlined in ink. The text block is cocked about 10%. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition 1st printing. A Mystery Introducing Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Fine minus, unread book with just a touch of shelf wear bottom edges and a small, light spot of binding glue near spine top edges; in a Near Fine jacket that has light rubbing, and a very slight scratch on front panel that can just be seen from certain angles. Beautiful copy of Cornwell s first mystery that has been fully and legibly signed, with middle initial, on the title page. A multiple prize winner, including the Edgar Award, for Cornwell. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., 293pp. Beautiful First Edition, First Printing, with full number sequence, of the author's first novel (and second book after an earlier biography of Mrs. Billy Graham). First in the tremendously popular series featuring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Bound in 1/4 black cloth over red paper-covered boards. Lettering in gilt on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with no discernible wear save perhaps a touch of toning to the cloth at the heel but barely. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($16.95), is fresh and bright with no creases, chipping, toning or tears. Pretty much As New. Flat-signed by the author on the title page. An exemplary copy indeed on one of the high spots of the modern mystery genre and at a great price. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition. Yellow printed wraps with publisher's letter laid in. Signed by Patricia Cornewell in black marker on the title page. Very Good. Light wear to wraps, light reading crease to front joint, horizontal crease at bottom of spine above publisher's imprint. Printed with low-quality ink, giving adjacent pages a slight tendency to transfer ink to one another, or stick together. A very scarce format of the author's first mystery novel, in which she introduces the character Kay Scarpetta.

Hard Cover. Condition: BOOK NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: JACKET NEAR FINE. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special decorative bookplate. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT, BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. 1ST PRINTING. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. HANDSOME, COLLECTIBLE COPY OF AUTHOR'S POPULAR FIRST NOVEL. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, her first mystery and first in her Kay Scarpetta series.

First editions, first printings. Each copy signed on the title page by the author. The Cornwell/Scarpetta bookplate is loosely inserted into the first title. Also included with this set is a 14 karat gold Scarpetta lapel pin. This set includes the cook book and all 18 Scarpetta novels published up to 2010. 19 vols, octavo and quarto. Original cloth backed boards. With dust jackets. One title a trifle shaken, a few corners lightly bumped, some minuscule rubbing to one or two dust jackets but an absolutely exceptional set in the jackets - all entirely unread and remarkably fresh.