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First printing of the second Easy Rawlins mystery. Upper edge of the text block faintly foxed. First state jacket ($18.95) in mylar. Signed, without inscription, by Mosley on the title page. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.

New York: Norton, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. The second book in the popular Easy Rawlins series. A fine copy in a fine first issue dust jacket with the correct price of $18.95 on the front flap. Signed by Mosley on the title page.

New York. 1991. July 1991. Norton. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0393029980. 284 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Hugh O'Neill, Jacket illustration by John Jinks. keywords: Mystery African American America. DESCRIPTION - A RED DEATH plunges Easy deep into the political, legal, and moral tar pits of Los Angeles in the early fifties, when Red-baiting and blacklisting were official policy and racial tensions boiled. Easy is now out of �the hurting business,' and into the housing (and the favor) business, on the strength of funds dating from his earlier advent ures. He's a little older, a little wiser - and in a lot more trouble. He suddenly finds a corrupt, racist IRS agent breathing down his neck (and reaching for his wallet) about some unpaid taxes. His only out: cut a deal with the FBI to infiltrate the First African Baptist Church and spy on a former Polish resistance fighter suspected of stealing defense plans. Meanwhile, Easy's romantic life becomes equally complicated and dangerous when he takes in his old flame Etta Mae Harris. Hard on her heels is Raymond �Mouse' Alexander, her ex-husband, Easy's best friend, a dark, gleefully homicidal angel. Then the murders begin and the LAPD decides that Easy is a convenient suspect. His search for the actual murderer must be conducted in an ethical mine field, where the stark choice is between betrayal and survival. A RED DEATH again displays Walter Mosley's wonderful strengths: a hypnotic narrative voice, crackling dialogue, wonderful subsidiary chara cters, the vivid sense of an almost mythical Los Angeles - and a hero with a winning combination of hard-boiled attitude and hard-earned compassion. It is clearly the work of an emerging master of American crime writing. inventory #21311

First Edition. Second appearance of Easy Rawlins. In the second state dustjacket with $19.95 price. Fine in fine dustjacket.

1991. Cloth, dj, octavo, 284 pp. Light shelf wear to dj. Tight binding and clean, bright pages. Very Good. (Subject: Literature. )

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1991 WW Norton FIRST edition FIRST printing of Mosley's 2nd Easy Rawlins mystery. This book is in FINE/FINE unread condition & is **SIGNED** It is not price clipped and a stunning copy! **Brenbooks carries many of Mosley's Easy Rawlins mysteries, SIGNED! ***NOTE: Special Discounts for Multi-Volume Walter Mosley Purchases***

New York: W. W. Norton, 1991 First printing of the stated first edition, in first state dust jacket with publisher's original price of $18.95 listed on inside front flap. Signed by Walter Mosley directly on the title page. Tiny crimp to crown of jacket's spine, else the book and dust jacket in fine, as new condition.

A beautiful, unread copy opened once by the author to sign on the title page.

Size: 92x17x137; In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!