Grafton Signed First Printing (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dust jacket. Jaramillo, Raquel (jacket design) (illustrator). First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994. SIGNED directly on the title page by Sue Grafton with her characteristic black sharpie (her signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). A handsome copy of the first printing. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NOT price clipped ($22.95). NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are creamy white, clean, crisp and unmarked. 1994. First printing, with "First Edition" so stated, and complete number row (13579 10 8642) on the copyright page. Because this is signed DIRECTLY on the title page it means that Sue Grafton personally handled the book (unlike copies with only a signed bookplate). Bound in the original black boards with a black cloth spine stamped in metallic red. From the dust jacket: "Lorna Kepler was beautiful and willful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. Maybe that's what killed her. Her death had raised a host of tough questions. The cops suspected homicide, but they could find neither motive nor suspect. Even the means were mysterious: Lorna's body was so badly decomposed when it was discovered that they couldn't be certain she hadn't died of natural causes. In the way of overworked cops everywhere, the case was gradually shifted to the back burner and became another unsolved file. Only Lorna's mother kept it alive, consumed by the certainty that somebody out there had gotten away with murder. In the ten months since her daughter's death, Janice Kepler had joined a support group, trying to come to terms with her loss and her anger. It wasn't helping. And so, leaving a session one evening and noticing a light on in the offices of Millhone Investigations, she knocked on the door. In answering that knock, Kinsey Millhone is pulled into the netherworld of unavenged murder, where only a pact with the devil will satisfy the restless ghosts of the victims and give release to the living they have left behind. Eleven books into the series that has won her readers around the world, Sue Grafton takes a darkside turn, pitching us into a shadow land of pain and grief where killers still walk free, unaccused, unpunished, unrepentant. With "K" IS FOR KILLER she offers a tale that is dark, complex, and deeply disturbing.". Signed by the Author (her signature only). First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Jaramillo, Raquel (jacket design). 8vo. (xiv), 285pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.