London: Orion, 1993. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. An early Rebus, the fifth, and in fine condition. The book is very clean and appears very lightly read, if at all. The like jacket has the most minor amount of shelf wear to the spine bottom. A handsome.....
Orion, 1999. Edition: Uncorrected proof. Book Condition: Near mint. Signed and doodled by the author in trademark X/O style. Early Rebus novel. A rich mix of characters again serve to tease and tantalise Rebus, as he finds himself in the centre of another complicated web of dark deeds and doings.
Orion, 2004. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression, signed. Book Condition: Near fine. Signed by the author as number 10 in a limited edition of 1000, housed in publisher's slipcase. Rebus in his prime (such as that is), this became Fleshmarket Alley in the USA because of concern people wouldn't know what.....
Orion, 2004. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Near mint. Flat-signed by author to title page. Rebus in his prime (as much as that is), this became Fleshmarket Alley in the USA because they were frightened people wouldn't know what a Scottish 'close' was. .
Orion, 1998. Edition: Uncorrected proof, signed and doodled. Book Condition: Near mint. Uncorrected proof, signed and doodled in author's trademark X/O. Publisher's error dating book at 1988, corrected in trade edition. This is a relatively early (9th) Rebus novel with a fine picture of a youthful Rankin recto.
Orion, 1998. Edition: Uncorrected proof. Book Condition: Near mint. Uncorrected proof. Publisher's error dating book at 1988. This is a relatively early (9th) Rebus novel with a picture of a youthful Rankin to the cover.
Abacus, 2022. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Usual class Rankin with Rebus still (just about) alive. Lovely clean and tight copy with signing stated as in St. Andrews in the year of publication, and with one of the author's trademark doodles, in this case X/O.
Orion, 2018. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Near mint. Signed by author to tip-in page. "Exclusive" Waterstones stickers. Rebus' protegé Siobhan Clarke takes up more of the cudgels this time when a well-known PI is found dead in his car. Where will the trail lead? This is a very.....
Orion, 2004. Edition: 1st UK/1st US, first impressions. Book Condition: Fine. Package of UK and US first editions, both signed by author to title pages. This is a special package for the Rankin collector, showing Rebus in his prime (such as that is) in an early outing, grappling with the.....
London: Orion, 1994. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Rebus was not yet a household name, in this early outing for him in 1994 - franchise building still needed the subtitle "An Inspector Rebus Novel". This book is a very nice package, fresh and clean, with only.....
Orion, 2003. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Flat-signed by the author to title page. A school shooting starts off the latest Rebus investigation and inevitably throws up more questions than can be answered. There is a hint of tanning to the top edge.
Orion, 2020. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. A change of focus for Rebus - this time it's personal and the action switches to the windswept and barren north coast of Scotland.
Orion, 2012. Edition: 1st UK. Book Condition: Fine. Rebus dances between his friends and enemies - he has both, inside and outside of the police force he is supposed to be retired from. But he can't resist meddling in a recently-revived cold case.
Orion, 2012. Edition: Uncorrected manuscript proof. Book Condition: Near mint. Proof edition signed by Rankin to the front free endpaper. With a glossy map of the crime locus, reproduced in trade edition (unusual thus).
London: Orion, 1992. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Near fine. An early Rebus, fifth in the series, focussing again on the author's imagined intersections between higher and lower strata of Edinburgh society. This book is fine in all respects apart from an owner's mark to the front pastedown.....
Orion, 2003. Edition: 1st UK thus. Book Condition: Fine. This is a first reprint of the original 1988 edition - and a non Rebus Rankin. The setting is London and Belfast and the subject espionage and undercover police work. A fascinating example of the author's early work. There is some.....
London: Orion, 2019. Edition: 1st UK thus, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Signed by the author to a special, dated Waterstones exclusive title page, in the black edge-splayed edition and in fine, close to pristine unread condition. With the very clean publisher's clean white boards. Jacket very fine protected in.....
Canongate, 2021. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Near mint. Flat-signed to title page. Ian Rankin continues older Scottish crime brother McIlvanney's unfinished Laidlaw work - to great effect. And Rankin has to switch to the west coast of Scotland, to Glasgow.