First Edition Printing by John Grisham (41 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. STATED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING hardcover book & DJ in NEAR FINE excellent condition.We ship within one business day of receiving your order.Book & DJ are bright clean tight square. Shelf 95. Boards and spine are straight // Binding is tight.//Pages are clean, legible, and bright // Dust Jacket Not Clipped Or Crinkled// No previous owner names//No writing in the book margins or blank spaces // No underlining. No highlighting// No foxing// Not remainder marked // Not Ex Library// Not a Book Club.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. STATED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING hardcover book & DJ in NEAR FINE excellent condition.We ship within one business day of receiving your order.Book & DJ are bright clean tight square. Shelf 95. Boards and spine are straight // Binding is tight.//Pages are clean, legible, and bright // Dust Jacket Not Clipped Or Crinkled// No previous owner names//No writing in the book margins or blank spaces // No underlining. No highlighting// No foxing// Not remainder marked // Not Ex Library// Not a Book Club.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good Condition. Has some wear. Five star seller - Ships Quickly - Buy with confidence!

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed First Edition, First Printing of this John Grisham legal thriller in which a young lawyer named Kyle McAvoy really needs to find the number for the Mitch McDeere Hot Line For Talented Young Lawyers Indentured By Dirty Law. Spoiler alert: Kyle is going to have to figure it out himself -- and he better watch his back. Inscribed by John Grisham to previous owners on the half-title page. 373 pages. Has a bit of edge wear. Otherwise, no sign of previous use. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed First Edition, First Printing of this John Grisham baseball novel set in the 1970s. Hey, Cubs fans -- Grisham consulted college buddy Don Kessinger in the course of the writing. Who was Don Kessinger? Ask a Cubs fan! Inscribed by John Grisham to a previous owner on the half title page. 194 pages. No sign of previous use. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed First Edition, First Printing of this legal thriller in which a promising young big-firm lawyer becomes a scrappy individualist at big-time odds with the big firm. No way! Inscribed by John Grisham to a previous owner on the half title page. 348 pages. Minimal sign of previous use. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A notable departure from John Grisham's legal-thriller formula, A Painted House is a coming-of-age Southern literary novel set in rural Arkansas during the cotton harvest of 1952. Narrated through the eyes of seven-year-old Luke Chandler, the novel draws heavily from Grisham's own childhood experiences and focuses on family, poverty, labor, violence, and secrets in the Mississippi Delta. The book was widely praised upon publication for its atmospheric storytelling and marked one of Grisham's earliest successful ventures outside courtroom fiction. This Doubleday first printing retains the attractive original jacket artwork and tan paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Book is clean and square with tight binding and crisp pages; no ownership marks, bookplates, or writing observed. Boards show only faint shelf wear. Interior appears lightly read. Dust jacket remains bright and unclipped with minimal edge wear and a few mild handling impressions visible on the rear panel and flap folds; no major tears or chips. An attractive collectible example of the true first edition. John Grisham (born 1955) is one of the most commercially successful American novelists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. A former attorney and member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, Grisham became internationally known through bestselling legal thrillers including The Firm, A Time to Kill, The Pelican Brief, and The Client. A Painted House is often regarded as one of his most personal and literary works.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed First Edition, First Printing of this novel in which three-sport high school athlete John Grisham, having already applied his literary talents to baseball and football, goes for the hat trick (wait they don't play hockey in Mississippi) or rather the trifecta (is horse racing a high school anywhere?) or, of course, the trey. Samuel Sooleymon is a Sudanese cager with a big heart and a great nickname. Spolier alert: he's hardworking and scrappy. Signed by John Grisham on the half-title page. 355 pages. No sign of previous use. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed First Edition, First Printing of this collection of short stories set in mythical Ford County Mississippi, locale of a "A Time to Kill." Inscribed by John Grisham to a previous owner on the half title page. 308 pages. Has a light bump on the spine, otherwise minimal sign of previous use. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed First Edition, First Printing of this legal thriller in which a promising young big firm lawyer becomes a scrappy individualist at big-time odds with the big firm. No way! Inscribed by John Grisham to a previous owner on the half title page. 348 pages. Minimal sign of previous use. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed First Edition, First Printing of this legal thriller by John Grisham. Inscribed by John Grisham to a previous owner on the half title page. 357 pages. Minimal sign of previous use. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Fontana, John (jacket design); Lill, Debra (jacket illustration) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition blue boards, black spine and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by John Grisham. "John Grisham invites you back to Camino Island. This time, the perfect storm could provide the ideal cover for a perfect murder." - from the rear outer jacket. "A fresh, fun departure.Readers who don't usually gravitate to Grisham will get a kick out of Camino Island, which takes us inside the world of rare-book collecting." - USA Today. "Fast-moving.Entertaining.A delightfully lighthearted caper novel." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "Grisham weaves an engaging story, with enough plot twists and hints of danger and past secrets to keep the reader involved. And for aspiring writers, he includes tidbits about publishing and book selling the provide the kind of insider's feel that only an established author might know." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "Grisham twists the expected into a set of cascading surprises that fooled and entertained this reader just as he does in his legal thrillers." - Winston-Salem Journal. "When a hurricane and a contract killer both make landfall on Camino Island, there's plenty of trouble in paradise. Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce decides to stay and ride out the storm. The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are leveled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people lose their lives. One of the apparent victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce's and an author of thrillers. But the nature of Nelson's injuries suggests that the storm wasn't the cause of his death: He has suffered several suspicious blows to the head. Who would want Nelson dead? The local police are overwhelmed in the aftermath of the storm and ill-equipped to handle the case. Bruce begins to wonder if the shady characters in Nelson's novels might be more real than fictional. And somewhere on Nelson's computer is the manuscript of his new novel. Could the key to the case be right there - in black and white? As Bruce starts to investigate, what he discovers between the lines is more shocking than any of Nelson's plot twists - and far more dangerous. Camino Winds is an irresistible romp and a perfectly thrilling beach read - #1 bestselling author John Grisham at his beguiling best." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Carella, Maria (book design); Robinson, Steve (jacket photograph); Fontana, John (jacket design); Graham, Charlotte (author photograph) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition black boards, red spine and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by John Grisham and Author's Note. "The best thriller writer alive." - Ken Follet. "John Grisham is about as good a storyteller as we've got in the United States these days." - The New York Times Book Review. "With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his feisty critiques of the legal system, his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions." - Entertainment Weekly. "The law, by its nature, creates drama, and a new Grisham promises us an inside look at the dirty machineries of process and power, with plenty of entertainment." - Los Angeles Times. "John Grisham's The Reckoning is the master storyteller's most powerful, surprising, and accomplished novel yet. October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi. Peter Banning was Clanton, Mississippi's favorite son - a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed his pastor and friend, the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder weren't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his lawyers, to the judge, to the jury, and to his family - was: "I have nothing to say." He was not afraid of death ans was willing to take his motive to the grave. In a major novel unlike anything he has written before, John Grisham takes us on an incredible journey, from the Jim Crow South to the jungles of the Philippines during World War II; from an insane asylum filled with secrets to the Clanton courtroom where Pete's defense attorney tries desperately to save him. Reminiscent of the finest tradition of Southern Gothic storytelling, The Reckoning would not be complete without Grisham's signature layers of of legal suspense, and he delivers on every page." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Gould, Philip (jacket photograph); Fontana, John (jacket design); Carella, Maria (book design); Jones, Louis (title page illustration) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition beige boards, brown spine and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by John Grisham and Author Dedication. "In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill. Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond, who's been locked away on death row for eleven years. It could well be their last visit. Mack Stafford, a hard-drinking and low-grossing run-of-the-mill divorce lawyer, gets a miracle phone call with a completely unexpected offer to settle some old, forgotten cases for more money than he has ever seen. Mack is suddenly bored with the law, fed up with his wife and his life, and makes drastic plans to finally escape. Quiet, dull Sidney, a data collector for an insurance company, perfects his blackjack skills in hopes of bringing down the casino empire of Clanton's most ambitious hustler, Bobby Carl Leach, who, among other crimes, has stolen Sidney's wife. Three good ol' boys from rural Ford County begin a journey to the big city of Memphis to give blood to a grievously injured friend. However, they are unable to drive past a beer store as the trip takes longer and longer. The journey comes to an abrupt end when they make a fateful stop at a Memphis strip club. The Quiet Haven Retirement Home is the final stop for the elderly of Clanton. It's a sad, languid place with little controversy, until Gilbert arrives. Posing as a low-paid bedpan boy , he is in reality a brilliant stalker with an uncanny ability to sniff out the assets of those "seniors" he professes to love. One of the hazards of litigating against people in a small town is that one day, long after the trial, you will probably come face-to-face with someone you've beaten in a lawsuit. Lawyer Stanley Wade bumps into an old adversary, a man with a long memory, and the encounter becomes a violent ordeal. Clanton is rocked with the rumor that the gay son of a prominent family has finally come home, to die. Of AIDS. Fear permeates the town as gossip runs unabated. But in Lowtown, the colored section of Clanton, the young man finds a soul mate in his final days. Featuring a cast of characters you'll never forget, these stories bring Ford County to vivid and colorful life. Often hilarious, frequently moving, and always entertaining, this collection makes it abundantly clear why John Grisham is our most popular storyteller." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Windsor, Michael J. (jacket design); Penttinen Miemo (jacket photograph); Carella, Maria (book design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition olive boards, forest green spine, and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by John Grisham; Author Dedication and Author's Note. "In the samll Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo's. Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he has languished in prison, maintaining his innocence. But no one was listening. He had no lawyer, no advocate on the outside. In desperation, he writes a letter to Guardian Ministries, a small nonprofit run by Cullen Post, a lawyer who is also an Episcopal minister. Guardian accepts only a few innocence cases at a time. Cullen Post travels the country fighting wrongful convictions and taking on clients forgotten by the system. With Quincy Miller, though, he gets far more than he's bargained for. Powerful, ruthless people murdered Keith Russo, and they do not want Quincy Miller exonerated. They killed one lawyer twenty-two years ago, and they will kill another without a second thought." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition black boards with a cinnamon spine and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by John Grisham and Author's Note. "#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham's newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that's on shaky ground. Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specializing in student loans, the three know they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam. But maybe there's a way out. Maybe their's a way to escape their crushing debt, expose the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process. But to do so, they would first have to quit school. And leaving law school a few short months before graduation would be completely crazy, right? Well, yes and no . Pull up a stool, grab a cold one, and get ready to spend some time at The Rooster Bar." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed First Edition, First Printing of this John Grisham novel in which Mitch McDeere, the wily workhorse who launched his creator onto the mega bestseller list, returns for a long overdue sequel. Mitch and Abby have long since come in from the cold -- comfortably perched in fabulous Manhattan real estate with Mitch now a partner at the world's biggest law firm. Not on retainer, he takes on a project in which he needs to dust off the skills that assured his survival during his stint with Bendini, Lambert & Locke. Inscribed by John Grisham (with a Christmas 2023 theme) to a previous owner on the half title page. 338 pages. Has a closed tear at the spine edge at the top of the back cover of the dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed First Edition, First Printing of John Grisham's first true crime book in which he explores the case of a former top major league baseball prospect dubiously convicted of capital crimes in small-town Oklahoma. Inscribed by John Grisham to a previous owner on the half-title page. 360 pages, illustrated. Minimal sign of previous use. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed First Edition, First Printing of this John Grisham novel in which Jake Brigance is back in the courtroom in Clanton, Mississippi, and unearthing unpleasant facts. Spoiler alert: some residents of Ford County aren't thrilled. Inscribed by John Grisham to a previous owner on the half title page. 447 pages. Has some rubbing on the covers of the dust jacket. There's a removable "autographed copy" sticker on the front cover of the jacket. Also has a bit of foxing on the page edges. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed First Edition, First Printing of this John Grisham legal-thriller in which Judicial Conduct investigator and repeat law-breaking judge nemesis Lucy Stoltz tangles with the ultimate bad apple in black robes. Signed by John Grisham on the half title page. 357 pages. No sign of previous use. has a removable signed by author sticker on the front flap of the dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed First Edition, First Printing of this John Grisham thriller in which a killer wants to confess to his crime but the authorities don't to hear it because there's a falsely convicted non-killer nearing his end on death row. Signed by John Grisham on the half title page. No sign of previous use. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed First Edition, First Printing of this John Grisham thriller centered on the exploits of a high-powered team of jailhouse lawyers. Spoiler alert: pre-conviction they were judges. Inscribed by John Grisham to a previous owner on the half-title page. 366 pages. Light edge wear on the dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition forest green boards/beige spine/gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by John Grisham and Author Dedication. "High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty. Now, as Coach Rake's "boys" sit in the bleachers waiting for the dimming field lights to signal his passing, they replay the old games, relive the old glories, and try to decide once and for all whether they love Eddie Rake - or hate him. For Neely Crenshaw, a man who must finally forgive his coach - and himself - before he can get on with his life, the stakes are especially high." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed First Edition, First Printing of this John Grisham novel that's more character study than legal thriller. That said, there is a scrappy lawyer mounting a long-shot defense of a tight-lipped killer with a complicated back story. Signed by John Grisham on the half title page. 420 pages. One internal page is dogeared and there's some rubbing on the back cover of the dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed First Edition, First Printing of this later John Grisham in which a young lawyer gets bumped from the Wall Street fast track and finds herself doing legal aid work in rural Appalachia. Local bully? Big Coal. Oh, oh. Is the city slicker going to turn tail and rush back to New York? Or will a scrappy, hardworking, young lawyer stand her ground? Spoiler alert: it's a John Grisham novel. Signed by John Grisham. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed First Edition, First Printing of this early John Grisham legal thriller in which a Big Tobacco case leads to question about what the jury has been smoking. Inscribed by John Grisham to a previous owner on the half title page. 301 pages. Has a bit of rubbing on the cover of the dust jacket, otherwise no sign of previous use. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed First Edition, First Printing of this John Grisham thriller in which a murder case in Mississippi goes badly -- for the jury. Signed by John Grisham on the half title page. 355 pages. No sign of previous use. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Attractive matching set of three John Grisham limited editions from Doubleday, issued in quarter-cloth and paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering. Included are The Client (March 1993), The Runaway Jury (June 1996), and The Summons (February 2002). Each title is a stated First Edition with complete number lines beginning with '1.' The volumes represent three of Grisham's most successful legal thrillers, spanning nearly a decade of his bestselling career. All three volumes are Near Fine. Bindings remain square and tight with bright gilt lettering and clean interiors. No dust jackets were issued or present with these limited editions. Minor shelf handling and light rubbing at extremities are visible, most notably slight edge wear and mild toning to the cloth of The Client, but no significant defects, markings, or structural issues. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. John Grisham (b. 1955) is one of the most commercially successful American novelists of the modern era. A former attorney and member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, he transformed the legal thriller genre with bestsellers such as The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, and A Time to Kill. His novels have sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide and many have been adapted into major motion pictures.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Larkin, Bob (jacket illustration); Cookman, Whitney G. (jacket design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition maroon boards, black spine, and copper front cover and spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by John Grisham; Author Dedication; Acknowledgments and About the Author. "In his first courtroom thriller since A Time to Kill, John Grisham tells the story of a young man barely out of law school who finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America - and exposing a complex, multi-billion dollar insurance scam. In his final semester of law school Rudy Baylor is required to provide free legal advice to a group of senior citizens, and it is there that he meets his first "clients," Dot and Buddy Black. Their son, Donny Ray, is dying of leukemia, and their insurance company has flatly refused to pay for his medical treatments. While Rudy is at first skeptical, he soon realizes that the Blacks really have been shockingly mistreated by the huge company, and that he just may have stumbled upon one of the largest insurance frauds anyone's ever seen - and one of the most lucrative and important cases in the history of civil litigation. The problem is, Rudy's flat broke, has no job, hasn't even passed the bar, and is about to go head-to-head with one of the best defense attorneys - and powerful industries - in America." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.