mystery and detective
THE SHUDDERS: A Thatcher Colt Police Mystery
New York and Toronto: Farrar and Rinehart, (1943). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket. Jacket mildly toned with some edgewear including some creasing around spine. Faint touches of dampstaining along bottom edge of rear panel. Price-clipped. Foxing and dampstaining to cloth. Interior generally bright and clean.....
TOLD IN THE MARKETPLACE
London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket. Substantial chipping and loss to corners of front and rear panels; spine sunned and jacket toned/soiled. Boards bumped and lightly scuffed at spine ends and corners. Pages toned. Small red and gold bookplate affixed.....
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THE CASE OF THE DEADLY TRIANGLE [A Leonard Robinson Mystery]
Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1975. First Edition. Wraps. 16mo. Mass market paperback. Moderate edgewear; spine ends scuffied; lower corner creased. Pages toned. INSCRIBED and dated on title page: "For Alice: Thank you for reading my book. Hope you enjoy it. / Ronald Ayers. 3-28-75." Very good. 224pp. Ayers'.....
THE BABY IN THE ICEBOX and Other Short Fiction
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1981. First edition. Leather Bound. 8vo. Full leather with three raised spine bands and titles and decorations gilt. AEG. Moire endpapers, ribbon marker. A very fine copy. Unread. Bright, tight and sharp. A lovely production. 305pp. True first edition, preceding trade. Part of the First.....
IN COLD BLOOD: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
New York: Random House, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt and silver gilt titles. A very good plus copy in a very good DJ (jacket in first state). Some moderate edgewear to jacket, small chips to corners, 2" closed tear to back panel, moderate toning, light.....
THE LONG GOODBYE
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original blue and green cloth in dust jacket (by Walter H. Lorraine). Jacket rubbed and edgeworn, with large chip to top of spine. Unclipped ($3.00). Cloth a little soiled with some rubbing at the extremities. Tape offsetting to front and rear.....
DEATH COMES AS THE END
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. Minor bumping to boards. Jacket scuffed, with several chips and tears to edges and jacket folds. Ownership signature to ffep. Very good plus in very good minus jacket. Christie's first and only historical.....
Just One Look
New York, NY: Penguin, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. AS NEW. Recent novel from bestselling author of Tell No One. SIGNED by Mr. Coben on a tipped-in sheet direct from publisher. 370pp. Signed by Author.
DEATH DANCE
New York: Scribners, (2006). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's boards in original dust jacket. Briefly inscribed at title page in the year of publication. Bright, clean and fresh. Fine. 402pp. A suspenseful mystery from the bestelling author, going behind the scenes of the New York theater world.
CHOURMO
New York: Europa Editions, 2006. First edition thus. Paperback. 8vo. Original red printed wraps. UNCORRECTED PROOF (stated) of the first US edition. Fine. Slightest lean. Else bright, sharp and tight. Unread. Second book of the Marseilles Trilogy from the author of Total Chaos. Translated from the French by Howard Curtis.....
THE MAN WHO FEARED
New York: Journal of Living and Publishing Corp. [ca. 1943-1946]. Reprint. Wraps. 12mo. Pictorial wraps. About very good. Mild edgewear, light crease to front cover. Hairline crack after copyright page. Else sound. Pages clean, unmarked. 119pp. Originally published in book form in 1942 by Gateway. Date of this reprint not.....
A PERFECT EVIL
(Don Mills, Ontario): Mira, (2000). First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Perfect-bound wraps. Very good plus. INSCRIBED by Kava to title page. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOFS. Very mild edgewear. Interior bright and tight. 377pp. Proof copy of this crime novel.
THE RUSSIA HOUSE
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1989). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's leather-backed boards in original cloth slipcase. Mild slipcase. cloth clean and fresh. Interior bright. Very near fine. From a limited edition of 500, with publisher's slip laid in. A handsome edition of this late cold-war era spy novel, in excellent.....
OUT OF SIGHT
New York: Delacorte Press, (1996). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's paper-covered boards in original dust jacket. Jacket slightly edges. Top corner of front board lightly bumped. Interior bright and clean. Tight. Near fine. 96 pp. An attractive copy of this crime novel, adapted by Steven Soderbergh into the film of.....
MURDER IN FALSE-FACE
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, (1968). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full turqoise cloth. Mild shelf wear to rear of unclipped jacket. Else clean, unmarked. Attractive first edition, first printing in jacket illustrated by Russ Hoover. 190pp.
KILLER'S PAYOFF
New York: Permabooks, 1958. First Edition. Wraps. 12mo. MMPB. Very good. Slight lean. Small bump/tear to top of spine. Mild edgewear. Else clean and sound. First printing of this early 87th Precinct novel, a paperback original. M-3113. Cover art by Robert Schulz.
CUT TO: MURDER
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1995). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter cloth. SIGNED and dated by the author to title page in year of publication. About fine in like jacket. Pristine first edition, first printing of the second installment in the Queenie Davilov mystery series. 252pp.
NEVER PICK UP HITCH-HIKERS!
London: Macmillan London Limited, 1976. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Wraps. 8vo. Green printed wraps. Spine sunned; edges moderately shelfworn. Very good plus. 256pp. Uncorrected proof copy of this stand-alone contemporary crime novel by Peters (Pargeter), best known for her Brother Cadfael historical mysteries.
THE GAY DETECTIVE
Fresno: Saber Books, 1961. First Edition. Wraps. 16mo. Mass market paperback. Light edgewear and spine creasing. Pages toned. Very good plus. Saber Books SA-18. Early and influential gay pulp, whose iconic cover shows detectives Francis Morley and Tiger Olsen on either side of a distressed blonde; their shared gaze goes.....
A FIELD OF DARKNESS
New York: Mysterious Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in fine jacket. Jacket bright, sharp, and unclipped. Book has very slight lean. Else fine. Dated and SIGNED by author Read to title page. Author's first novel. 308pp.
HARM DONE
[New York]: [Crown Publishers / Random House], [1999]. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Tape-bound self-wraps. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED GALLEY PROOF. Very good plus, with mild edgewear and curling; light dents to rear wrapper. Interior clean and unmarred. [244] pp. An advance proof of this novel from the Inspector Weford series by the.....
THE WINDOW AT THE WHITE CAT
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1910). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Green decorated cloth. No jacket. Four black and white illustrated plates, including frontispiece. About very good overall. Mild handling wear, spine faded, lettering worn. Area of discolor to rear board. Endpapers toned, first with lengthy ownership inscription. Binding a touch shaken.....
ODD MAN PAYS
Boston: Brown and Company, 1944. Hardcover. 8vo. Full brown cloth, red lettering to front, spine. In original illustrated dust jacket. Unclipped. Moderately edgeworn, chipped at spine. Dampstain to rear, upper corner. Upper cloth corners bumped, dust spotting to top page edge, private library stamp to first endpaper. Sound, unmarked, clean.....
SIBERIAN LIGHT
(New York): Delacorte, (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter imitation black cloth over blue boards, in pictorial dust jacket. Very good plus in like DJ. SIGNED by White to half title. Mild curling/edgewear to jacket; price sticker to rear. Touch of soil to boards. Interior bright, clean throughout. Good.....
UNDER THE BRIGHT LIGHTS
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's blue boards in original pictorial dust jacket. Very good plus in like DJ. Trivial touches of edgewear, light bump to spine, light age-toning. Bright, clean, and tight throughout. 182pp. A Rinehart suspense novel. First in Woodrell's Bayou Trilogy.....