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New York: Mulholland Books, 2011. Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. Fine. Signed by Block on the title page. Near Fine. Wraps creased near the spine, bumped at the corners, protected in plastic. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A later Matthew Scudder novel.

Knopf Canada, 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/Fair. In Fair Condition. Welll Used. Signed By Authur "To Bill". Hard To Find. With Wear To Edges And/Or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. A Bestselling Investigative Journalist Takes A Tour Of The Alberta Oil And Gas Industry, Revealing How Canada'S Richest Province Is Squandering Our Chance For A Sustainable Future. In Its Desperate Search For Oil And Gas Riches, Alberta Is Destroying Itself. As The World Teeters On The Edge Of Catastrophic Climate Change, Alberta Plunges Ahead With Uncontrolled Development Of Its Fossil Fuels, Levelling Its Northern Boreal Forest To Get At The Oil Sands, And Carpet-Bombing Its Southern Half With Tens Of Thousands Of Gas Wells. In So Doing, It Is Running Out Of Water, Destroying Its Range Land, Wiping Out Its Forests And Wildlife And Spewing Huge Amounts Of Greenhouse Gases Into The Atmosphere, Adding To Global Warming At A Rate That Is Unrivalled In Canada Or Almost Anywhere Else In The World. It'S Digging, Drilling And Blasting Its Way To Oblivion, Becoming The Ultimate Symbol Of Canada'S - And The World'S - Pathological Will To Self-Destruct. Nowhere Has The World Seen Such Colossal Environmental Destruction As Is Being Wreaked On Alberta. At One Point The Province Even Went So Far As To Consider A Scientist'S Idea Of Nuking Its Underbelly To Get At The Tar Sands. Stupid To The Last Drop Looks At The Increasingly Violent Geopolitical Forces That Are Gathering As The World'S Gas And Oil Dwindle And The Age Of Oil Begins Its Inevitable Slide Towards Oblivion. As Canadians Deplete Their Energy Reserves, Selling Them Off To Americans At Bargain-Basement Prices, No Thought Is Given To Conservation Or The Long-Term Needs Of The Nation. In This Powerful Polemic, William Marsden Journeys Across The Heart Of A Province Seized By The Destructive Forces Of Greed, Power And The Energy Business, And Envisions A Very Bleak Future.

Orion Books, London. 2011. First Edition, UK. DW. SIGNED by the author to title page. 388pp. Lovely copy. Nr Fine in wrapper.

London, UK: Orion, 2011. First UK Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 388 pages. In Near Fine condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is purple and black with gilt and white lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, has a white circular "Signed by author" sticker adhesively attached to the front cover and a price sticker from The Poisoned Pen adhesively attached to the back cover over the original ISBN. Signed flat by Michael Connelly on the title page. Shelved . 1385796. Special Collections.

Houghton Mifflin, 1971. HBDJ,1971, 1st edition, 5th printing, embossed red Cloth Cover with Gold Gilt & design on Spine, minor rub & wear DJ, Tiny chips tears Creases extremites DJ, small corner piece from DJ, NF/VG, AS-IS, Interior Nice tight Clean Minor Wear & some creases wear to about 5 pgs corner & along edge in back of bk , 275 pgs. Signed by Author. Hard Cover.

[London]: Orion Books. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1409134288 . An attractive first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with cocked spine and soiled page edges in Fine dust-jacket. SIGNED by author Michael Connelly directly on the title page; Detective Harry Bosch is back in a new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.The Drop is the story of a missing girl and the LAPD detective who is obsessed with finding her.The case draws Bosch into a complex web of sex trafficking, Hollywood power, and government corruption. As he digs deeper, Bosch discovers that the girl is not the only one in danger. Someone wants him gone.; A Harry Bosch Novel; 8vo; 388 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Howard-McCann, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Cloth, gently bumped at spine tips and corners; in VG dust jacket with some light creasing and chipping along the edges. From the library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and inscribed to him: "For Douglas Fairbanks -- who played a part in this decision -- Fred Freed." Fairbanks (1909-2000) was an iconic American actor from Hollywood’s Golden Era (his credits include “Gunga Din”), and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II. He is mentioned on page 92 of this political history, where it is revealed that a paper he wrote while a lieutenant attached to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, on the problem of defeating Japan, was influential to Eugene Dooman, and that it became the preface to the Potsdam Declaration.

Signed Typescript from the Japanese Home Service KON 630 KCS at 6:00 AM Tuesday 8/7 which reads, in part: “A small number of B-twenty-nines penetrated into Hiroshima city a little after eight AM yesterday morning and dropped a small number of bombs. As a result a considerable number of homes were reduced to ashes and fires broke out in various parts of the city...The enemy has exposed his cold bloodeness and atrocious nature more and more in killing innocent people by the use of this new-type bomb. ... The enemy has been carrying out large-scale propaganda on the effectiveness of this new-type bomb since using these bombs, but as long as we formulate strong steel-like measures to cope with this bomb, it will be possible to keep damage to a minimum...” Signed at bottom "Thomas W. Ferebee," the bombardier who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II. Comes with a japanese paper money also signed by ferebee In excellent condition.

New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, 2011-2021. First Edition, First Printing, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 4 Volumes. In Near Fine condition, all Volumes wrapped in publisher's paper covering. Navy blue spines with gilted lettering and designs, all spines covered in paper coverings. All Volumes are signed flat by Michael Connelly on publisher's tipped in limitation page. Limited editions, Volumes 1 and 2 #10/100, Volume 3 #10/200, and Volume 4 #10/60. CONTENTS: Vol. 1, "The Drop", published 2011, limited edition #10/100 - Vol. 2, "The Late Show", published 2017, limited edition #10/100 - Vol. 3, "The Burning Room", published 2014, limited edition #10/200 - Vol. 4, "The Dark Hours", published 2021, limited edition #10/60. JW consignment. Shelved []. 1384787. Special Collections.

Navigator on the "Enola Gay", the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. Signed book, hard back with dust jacket, 256 page, titled Seven Hours to Zero by Joseph L. Marx. The book is a detailed account of the events relating to the bombing of Hiroshima. Van Kirk who was a big player in those events writes in his hand on title page. "A generally good account of our mission to drop the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima. There are a few historical discrepancies as memories fade after the fact -Theodore J "Dutch" Van Kirk Navigator- Enola Gay, August 6, 1945." In excellent condition.