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Archives for September 2022

Crime Collectibles.

In 1841 Edgar Allan Poe wrote The Murders in Rue Morgue” creating the detective novel and a sleuth extraordinaire. Could he have imagined the barrage of mysteries would follow? Here’s a sampling of our mystery collectibles.
Robert Littell
The Stalin Epigram

Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 290 pages. A novel based in Stalinist Russia around an historical episode involving the poet, Osip Mandelstam.


$1500.00

Horning, E. W.
A Thief in the Night

Hardcover, black cloth with 3-color decoration of horseman’s carriage on front cover, red lettering on spine, 372 pages plus publisher’s ads in rear. (MORE)


$80.00

Donna Leon
Death in a Strange Country

268 pages, a bright, clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket. The second Guido Brunetti mystery. (MORE)


$100.00

Jim Thompson
The Getaway

Paperback, tight and square, clean and bright. Unread mass market copy of the 1959 Thompson classic. A nice copy of the stated first printing, January 1959.


$50.00

Myster by Wallace Irwin.
Julius Caesar Murder Case.

306 pages. Tan cloth covers with maroon titles and illustrations on cover and spine. (MORE)


$200.00

Signed mystery by Elmore Leonard.
Be Cool (SIGNED COPY)

292 pages. SIGNED BY LEONARD ON TITLE PAGE. Black covers with silver titles to spine, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering.(MORE)


$40.00

Ian Rankin
Hide & Seek: A John Rebus Novel

Hardcover, 210 pages, bright, clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket. The second Inspector Rebus novel.


$170.00

Donna Leon
Death at La Fenice

263 pages, bright, clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket. The author’s first mystery. Guido Brunetti investigates the death of a world famous conductor in Venice.


$300.00

Architecture Highlights:

Per Olaf Fjeld Houses, old english towns., world renown museums, restrooms, urban housing, cityscapes, vernacular buildings, light, color, spatial components, landscapes and more fall into the category of architecture. We have hundreds of architecture books that cover different aspects of this broad field. Here are a few highlights:
Hadzi's works in bronze and stone are powerfully abstract and expressionist, yet involved with the past as a literary and aesthetic source.
Dimitri Hadzi

Hardcover, 175 pages, 247 plates, 37 in color. In publisher’s shrinkwrap. Volume richly reflects every aspect of Hadzi’s career.(MORE)


$80.00

Jefferson's Shadow is a unique document of the relationship between an unknown but highly skilled country builder and the American statesman widely considered this nation's first gentleman architect.
In Jefferson’s Shadow…

272 pages, illustrated with 125 color and 40 b&w plates. In publisher’s shrinkwrap.(MORE)


$80.00

"The Radiant City is a blueprint for the present and for the future. This edition, as nearly as possible a facsimile of the 1933 original edition which was supervised by LeCorbusier, but with English text.
The Radiant City…

Hardcover, First Am. edition, 1967. Oblong format, black cloth, illustrated dust jacket, 345 pages.(MORE)


$80.00

lavishly illustrated book, with architectural drawings, attempts to define the specific identity of Indo-Portuguese architecture.
Palaces of Goa…

Hardcover, 224 pages. Photography by Nicholas Sapieha. Nearly four centuries of houses throughout Goa.(MORE)


$70.00

Per Olaf Fjeld
Sverre Fehn: The Thought of Construction

Softcover, 192 pages illustrated in b&w. Fjeld lectures at Oslo School of Architecture Writes on Scandinavian design. (MORE)


$200.00

showcases works by some of the most visionary designers and architects, from chairs and tables to jewelry and entire buildings.
Aluminum By Design

Hardcover, 300 pages. This book accompanies a major traveling exhibition that showcases works by some of the most visionary designers and architects. (MORE)


$75.00

A Small House. French Text
Le Corbusier – Une Petite Maison – 1923

90 pages. Softcover. Light toning throughout. 60 photographs, illustrations and colored designs. (MORE)


$80.00

At Home signed by author Bill Bryson
At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 497 pages. First printing with all numbers present. SIGNED BY BRYSON on title page.


$80.00

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