Signed titles
WITCH'S MONEY.
New York: The Viking Press Publishers, 1940. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-6] 7-30 [31-32: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], title page printed in red and black, original decorated red cloth, front panel stamped in white and gold. First edition. Limited to 350 copies signed by Collier. Privately distributed to friends of the author and the publisher. The story was first published in The New Yorker magazine in 1939, later collected in PRESENTING MOONSHINE (1941). Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 234.
WITCH'S MONEY.
New York: The Viking Press Publishers, 1940. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-6] 7-30 [31-32: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], title page printed in red and black, original decorated red cloth, front panel stamped in white and gold. First edition. Limited to 350 copies signed by Collier. Short story. Privately distributed to friends of the author and the publisher. Later collected in PRESENTING MOONSHINE (1941). Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 234.
KILL YOUR DARLINGS.
New York: Walker and Company, [1984]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. The third Mallory novel, set at a Bouchercon.
NICE WEEKEND FOR A MURDER.
New York: Walker and Company, [1986]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page. A Mallory novel, set at a murder mystery game weekend.
NO CURE FOR DEATH.
New York: Walker and Company, [1983]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Author's second hardcover mystery. Signed by the author on the title page. A Mallory novel, chronologically a "prequel" to THE BABY BLUE RIP-OFF.
SUNGLASSES AFTER DARK.
London: Kinnell, 1990. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Signed by Collins. The author's first book and first Sonja Blue vampire novel. Winner 1990 Bram Stoker award for best first novel. "Sonja Blue is one of the more interesting series of characters in modern horror fiction: a strong female whose cool and compassionate human side is in perpetual conflict with the brutal vampire nature..." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-97.
SUNGLASSES AFTER DARK.
London: Kinnell, 1990. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed and dated by Collins on the title page. The author's first book and first Sonja Blue vampire novel. Winner 1990 Bram Stoker award for best first novel. "Sonja Blue is one of the more interesting series of characters in modern horror fiction: a strong female whose cool and compassionate human side is in perpetual conflict with the brutal vampire nature..." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-97.
TEMPTER.
Springfield, PA: Gauntlet Publications, 2001. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition and first revised edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Collins and the artist Alan M. Clark. Published as a paperback by Onyx in 1990. This edition has been revised by the author and is her preferred text. A novel of voodoo and dark magic set in New Orleans, this new edition has favorable reviews.
WALKING WOLF: A WEIRD WESTERN.
Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1995. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Collins on the title page. Werewolf novel set in the old west.
A USUAL LUNACY.
San Bernadino: The Borgo Press, 1978. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. One of 50 signed copies done in hardcover produced by Barry Levin and the Borgo Press.
A USUAL LUNACY.
San Bernardino, California: The Borgo Press, 1978. Octavo, black buckram, spine stamped in gold. First edition. The hardbound issue, limited to 61 copies signed by Compton, of which this is letter "I" of eleven lettered copies "reserved for distribution to the author and his friends ..."
ANGELS FLIGHT.
Boston... Little, Brown and Company, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. A Harry Bosch novel.
TRUNK MUSIC.
Boston... Little, Brown and Company, [1997]. Wrappers. First U.S. edition. Advance reader's copy/uncorrected proof. Signed by the Connelly on the title page. A Harry Bosch mystery.
TAILSPIN: THE STRANGE CASE OF MAJOR CALL.
Latham, New York: British American Publishing Ltd., 2002. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed by the Conners. Introductory letter laid in. Non fiction book about concerning Major James A. Call and his role in the Sam Sheppard murder case.
THE BLACK ANGEL.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Atria Books, [2005]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the author on the publisher's inserted limitation page. This edition also includes the CD, "Voices of the Dark" a soundtrack of the novels of John Connolly. A Charlie Parker novel.
A CRUEL WIND: A CHRONICLE OF THE DREAD EMPIRE.
San Francisco & Portland: Night Shade Books, [2006]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Inscribed by Cook to "Bob" [Weinberg] on the title page. Collects the first three volumes in the "Dread Empire" series; A SHADOW OF ALL NIGHT FALLING, OCTOBER'S BABY and ALL DARKNESS MET. New introduction by Jeff Vandermeer.
SUNG IN BLOOD.
Cambridge, MA: The NESFA Press, 1990. Octavo, boards. First edition. Of a limitation of 800 copies this is one of 210 numbered copies signed by Cook and artist David Cherry. Book produced for Boskone 27. Short fantasy novel involving a murder with pulp adventure and suspense.
RETRIBUTION, INC.: A BRACKARD'S POINT NOVELLA.
Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2005. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 750 numbered copies signed by Cooper. Horror novella.
OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed. The third Milt Kovak mystery.
CHASING AWAY THE DEVIL.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed. A Milt Kovak mystery.
DEAD MOON ON THE RISE.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed. A Milt Kovak mystery.
FUNNY AS A DEAD COMIC.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed. A Kimmey Kruse mystery.
FUNNY AS A DEAD RELATIVE.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed. Promotional sheet with Me-Maw's Cajun recipes laid in. The second Kimmey Kruse mystery.
HOUSTON IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed. The second Milt Kovak mystery.
THE MAN IN THE GREEN CHEVY.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed, review slip laid in. Author's first book. A Milt Kovak mystery.