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.....
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.
THE POET
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1996. First edition. Wraps. 8vo. Original color wraps. ADVANCE READER'S EDITION (stated). Near fine. Warmly INSCRIBED and SIGNED by author Connelly to title page. One of the Edgar-winning author's best. 434pp.
BODY OF EVIDENCE
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1991). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter cloth over boards. Near fine in like jacket. Faint toning to jacket flaps. Trace shelfwear overall. Else clean and sound. A handsome example. First edition / printing of the second Kay Scarpetta mystery. 387pp.
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.
THE CIRCULAR STUDY
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's decorative green cloth. Gilt lettering to front and spine. Corners and spine ends bumped and scuffed; mild soil and wear to boards. Ownership signature to ffep. Light foxing and occasional touches of soil throughout. Very good plus overall.....
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.
EPITAPH FOR A TRAMP
New York: Dell, 1959. First Edition. Wraps. 16mo. Mass market paperback. Moderate edgewear, with vertical creasing and heavier scuffing to spine. Early noirish detective pulp by the author of Wittgenstein's Mistress. Cover painting by Robert McGinnis.
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.
THE CROCODILE BIRD
New York: Crown Publishers / Harmony Books, (1993). First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Tape-bound; transparent plastic front cover and leatherette rear. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED GALLEY PROOF. Near fine. Clean, bright, and unmarred throughout. 506pp. An advance proof of this novel by the British mystery writer, with copyright page indicating it was printed.....
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.....