Softcover. New York, Perma Books, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 pages. Paperback. Perma Books #M3091. Cover art by Robert Schulz. Light creasing to covers.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance or simply to survive; they fight against odds, against enemies, even against themselves. In this, his first collection of stories, the acclaimed novelist introduces readers to a vivid and eclectic cast of combatants. A seasoned claims investigator tracks a supposedly dead man from Miami to Brazil, only to be thrown off his game by a kid from the local slum. An aging loser takes a last stab at respectability by becoming a police informant. A Greek-American couple adopts an interracial trio of sons and then struggles to keep their family together, giving us a stirring bit of background on one of Pelecanos' most beloved protagonists, Spero Lucas. In the title novella - which takes its name from Hollywood slang for the last shot of the day, the one that comes before the liquor shots begin - we go behind the scenes of a television cop show, where a writer gets caught up in a drama more real than anything he could have conjured for a script.
Softcover. New York, Graphic Books, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Paperback. A Graphic Mystery # 125. Moderate wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages tanned. Previous owner's ink notation on first page. Cover art by Saul Levine.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #753. Light soil to rear wrapper, spine creasing and fading. Embosssed abrasios to cover and first 6 pages.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Bo0k #768. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Stanley.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D374. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #160. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Map on rear.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #A133. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by Victor Kalin. Ink notation on first page.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #122. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Hinge cracked in front.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with orange stamping on spine, 284 pages. Clean, tight copy. A captivating mystery novel featuring the brilliant detective Sir Henry Merrivale. Set in a remote English village, the story revolves around the mysterious death of a man found burned to death in a locked room, with gold paint covering his body. Merrivale is called to unravel the perplexing puzzle, delving into the lives of the villagers and their secrets.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The wise-cracking private eye with a tough exterior and a soft heart returns in a mystery involving a crazed housewife, Cajun thug, and menacing, hundred-year-old river turtle named Luther. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 271 pages. San Diego in the years before World War II. James Dillon is barely scraping by working a menial job in manufacturing, trying to raise a family and support his elderly mother and sister Frankie at the same time. He drinks too hard -- just like his father and nearly everyone in his extended family. With so many people crammed into one home, sometimes there's so much fighting he can barely stand it. But if James can survive the chaos of everyday life long enough, maybe -- just maybe -- there's a chance it'll all get better. Now and on Earth, Jim Thompson's first novel, draws on personal experience to depict a hardscrabble life in the sun-soaked streets of mid-20th century California. Chronicling the birth of a writer and the plight of the working man, it prefigures the American classics that followed, in a deeply-felt, autobiographical tale that shows a writer just coming into his own. Clean, unread copy.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 157 pages. The classic novel of sexual obsession and murder amid the star-making machinery of Hollywood in the 1950s. "She was as white as marble, but she looked lovely.Her hair was splayed out in fine strands of gold, and her lips were bright, rich red, and there was a green eye shadow on her eyelids You could see that because her eyes were closed and she was lying very still. She was lying still and she wasn't breathing." With its portraits of washed-up directors, jaded leading men, and a ruthless cop whose one-track mind leads straight to a cyanide pellet, I Wake Up Screaming is a magnificent thriller by a Hollywood insider whose screenplays included Lady in the Lake. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Who died at High Beck Cottage? Two old ladies had lived there for so long that friends foundit difficult to tell them apart. One was murdered- the other one vanished. A young girl comes from America to unravel the plot. One of the ladies may be her aunt. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A homicide detective investigates the murder of an old friend's daughter, and when a third friend is suspected all must confront their haunting past. Stated first edition. First printing with correct full number line sequence. Basis for the 2003 Academy Award winning film starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Pan Books, 1st pbk, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Pan # X154. Clean, paper tanning. First published as a hardcover in 1933.
Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 372 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Pizzolatto, author of the short story collection Between Here and the Yellow Sea (2006), delivers a taut first novel suffused with a strong noir sensibility. Roy Cady is working as a strong-arm man for a low-level New Orleans gangster when two events change his life: he's diagnosed with terminal cancer, and his boss puts out a hit on him. Soon enough, Roy and a young prostitute, Rocky--thrown together after a blood-spattered encounter with the would-be hit men--are on the run, traveling from New Orleans to Galveston. "Nothing ends well," Roy muses at one point, and, of course, we know from the start that this road trip is on a collision course with disaster.
Hardcover. New York, Otto Penzler Books, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover reprint of author's first book originally in paperback. 256 pages. Black cloth cover, minor wear to edges. Dust jacket has wear and some fraying to top edges. Remainder line on bottom edge. Inside is nice and clean. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TILE PAGE. Book and dust jacket show light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Michael Joseph, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, SIGNED BY FRANCIS on half-title page. Clean copy. Peter Darwin, a young First Secretary in the Foreign Office, returns from Tokyo for some quiet leave before taking up a new post. On the way he stops briefly in Miami, and there becomes entangled in a fracas which involves his going back not just to England but to Gloucestershire, scene of the long-buried memories of his childhood.
Hardcover. Huntington Beach CA, Cahill Publishing, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 343 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Limited edition #114of 150 copies. Pink marbled covers with leather band on spine. Acetate dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Covici, Friede, 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth covers with title in silver on spine, minor rubbing to edges. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text. A nice copy of this scarce title. There's a distinct lack of glamour to this first Maigret mystery. In itself that's interesting as this is a story centered on an international con-man and an American investor in one of the finest hotels in Paris.
Hardcover. New York, Pocket Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "A tour de force of black humor, Easeful Death pits a "dead" man against his double-dealing, back-stabbing family and fans in an offbeat, ironic game of subterfuge." Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Paul Mann. What will a group of monks do when their century-old monastery in New York City is threatened with demolition to make room for a new high-rise? Anything they have to. "Though Shalt Not Steal" is only the first of the Commandments to be broken as the saintly face off against the unscrupulous over that most sacred of relics, a Park Avenue address. Returning to bookstores for the first time in three decades, BROTHERS KEEPERS offers not only a master class in comedy from one of the most beloved mystery writers of all time but also a surprisingly heartfelt meditation on loss, temptation, and how we treat our fellow man. Like new.
Softcover. Ashland OR, Blackstone Publishing, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps. Fletch, as unbridled as ever and still living the good life in Italy on his ill-gotten fortune, gets a surprising visit from two surly FBI agents. The pair offers him a deal: either he attend the American Journalism Alliance convention and work as an undercover spy for them, or be shipped back to headquarters and face jail time for tax evasion. Reluctantly agreeing to the scheme, he catches a red-eye flight back to the States. But just as rubber hits tarmac in Virginia, news breaks on a murder at the convention. The victim -- a newspaper tycoon and former employer of I. M. Fletch -- was no stranger to enemies. And at a hotel full of reporters who'd all had their dealings with the tyrannical leader, everyone's a suspect.
Hardcover. New York , Harper & Row, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 277 pages, blue boards and turquoise cloth spine, bright unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Michael Joseph, 1st UK, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED & DATED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Quinn Fawcett is the name used by Bill Fawcett and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Their first novel, featuring Sherlock Holmes's older brother Mycroft. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 261 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY WINSPEAR on tipped in prelim page. Clean, like new. Maisie Dobbs returns in a powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy: a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gilbraltar leads the investigator into a web of lies, deceit and danger.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, gray cloth covers in a worn, chipped dust jacket. A Hollywood blonde is murdered and Doug Selby investigates. Local politics in a city that resembles Ventura; one of the characters is a shady lawyer from LA who has moved to Ventura to retire, but can't stay out of the game.
Hardcover. New York , Morrow, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY SANTLOFER on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Bill Nelson. When the beautiful girlfriend of a notorious gangster vanishes, it's up to P.I. Donald Lam to get to the bottom of her disappearance -- and of a mining scam, an illegal casino operation, a double homicide, and an opportunity for an enterprising private eye to make a small fortune...if he can just stay alive long enough to cash in! Like new.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 356 pages, unclipped dust jacket with protective Mylar cover. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Hardcover. London, Robert Hale, 1st UK, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st published as paperback in 1953; this is 1st hardcover edition; dust jacket price clipped. 160 pages.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by William George. When a handsome swindler working the French Riviera meets a beautiful heiress on the beach at Cannes, sparks fly. But so do bullets--and soon he's forced to flee the country with both the police and the heiress on his trail. From the casinos of Monaco to the jungles of Brazil, from Tangier to Marrakech to Peru, the chase is on. And not even a veteran of Monte Carlo's baccarat tables would dare to place odds on where it will end. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From the author of the best seller Bangkok 8, a head-spinning new novel that puts us back in the company of the inimitable Royal Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep. We return to District 8--the underbelly of Bangkok's underworld--where a dramatically mutilated dead body is found. It's bad: he was CIA. It gets worse: the murderer appears to be Chanya--a tough, sweet working girl who's the highest earner at The Old Man's Club, jointly owned by Sonchai's mother and his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn. Alerted by Sonchai, Vikorn quickly concocts a cover-up that involves Al Qaeda and Thailand's porous southern border where, since 9/11, the CIA has been an obviously covert presence. But the truth will be harder to come by, and it will require Sonchai to find an ever-more-delicate balance between his ambition and his Buddhism, while running the gamut of Bangkok's drug dealers, prostitutes, bad cops, worse military, and the pitfalls of his own melting heart (Chanya!)--most of which he can handle. But even Sonchai is not prepared for what he discovers at the end of his investigation.
Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1879, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title and decoration on spine. Decorated endpapers. Former library book with residual labels, seals and markings. Covers bound in navy blue, some age wear: fraying to top and bottom of spine, corners of covers, yellowing to pages and edges, spine broken at front and back endpapers, but still intact. In very good condition for its age.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages, hardcover with gray cloth covers with black lettering, decoration. Light spotting to covers otherwise very good, clean.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Minotaur, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean, like new. While most travel to Concord, Massachusetts to relive America's Revolutionary past, Harvard professor Sweeney St. George has come looking for a different sort of history. An expert on funerary art, she roams the local cemeteries, fascinated by the macabre carvings of a celebrated stonecutter and hero of the Revolution--a project that takes a strange turn when a man dressed in a uniform of 1775 is found.
Hardcover. New York , Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1935, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacker. Red cloth covers with black lettering on front and spine. Spine is worn and faded. End papers have green and white map design. Very good condition overall.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 1st book by author, remainder mark bottom edge.
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