Hardcover. NY, Library of America , 4th pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 990 pages. James M. Cain's pioneering novel of murder and adultery along the California highway, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), shocked contemporaries with its laconic toughness and fierce sexuality. Horace McCoy's They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935) uses truncated rhythms and a unique narrative structure to turn its account of a Hollywood dance marathon into an unforgettable evocation of social chaos and personal desperation. In Thieves Like Us (1937), Edward Anderson vividly brings to life the dusty roads and back-country hideouts where a fugitive band of Oklahoma outlaws plays out its destiny. The Big Clock (1946), an ingenious novel of pursuit and evasion by the poet Kenneth Fearing, is set by contrast in the dense and neurotic inner world of a giant publishing corporation under the thumb of a warped and ultimately murderous chief executive. William Lindsay Gresham's controversial Nightmare Alley (1946), a ferocious psychological portrait of a charismatic carnival hustler, creates an unforgettable atmosphere of duplicity, corruption, and self-destruction. I Married a Dead Man (1948), a tale of switched identity set in the anxious suburbs, is perhaps the most striking novel of Cornell Woolrich, who found in the techniques of the gothic thriller the means to express an overpowering sense of personal doom. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages, hardcover. Black cloth covers with red decoration. Small library stamp on title page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 281 pages. Ruth Rendell writes as Barbara Vine.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 349 pages. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 299 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR with his typical abbreviated signature on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 293 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Author's 2nd book. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with minor sun-fade to spine. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Cleveland OH, Arthur Westbrook Co., 1st US, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback pulp detective mystery from about 1920. A sequel to the author's "The Coral Pin". Yellowing paper and a poor printing job, typical of these dime novels. An attractive color cover with light creasing, edgewear. Back cover missing.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 294 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. A clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 185 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (JOHN BANVILLE AS BENJAMIN BLACK) ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. New York, Norton, uncorrected proof, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. SIGNED BY DOBYNS ON TITLE PAGE. Manilla covers, perfect binding. Extremely slight rubbing to covers, binding stiff and tight, crisp and unmarked pages.
Hardcover. NY, Otto Penzler, 1st hardcover, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st hardcover edition of book, first published as paperback in 1966. Black boards with gilt titles to spine, color illustrated dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Review copy w/slip laid-in. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 440 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY SAYLOR on title page. Tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf, small ink checks on rear dust jacket flap. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Light stain or browning to pages 70-130 in bottom margin. Not affecting text. Otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket. Previous owner's ink numbers on front fly leaf otherwise VG.
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third Easy Rawlins mystery.
Hardcover. Woodstock, VT, Countryman Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY JACKSON ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. Black boards with cloth spine, color illustrated dust jacket. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, crisp pages; a very clean, tight copy in great condition. Grootka, retired from the Detroit Police Department, returns as a mentor to Fang Mulheisen, and the two lives become dangerously entwined in a thirty-year-old unsolved case of rape and murder.
Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 222 pages. Dust jacket edge wear and tear. Price clipped. Minor spotting on front flyleaf, title page and dedication page. Clear protective cover and in overall clean condition.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BLOCK on title page.
Softcover. NY, Ace Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Two mystery novels bound back-to-back. D-373, 127, 129 pages. Small ink notation to first leaf on both titles. Excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black, 290 pages. Hubin mystery set on the front lines during the First World War. Previous owner's signature otherwise a clean, bright copy.0
Softcover. New York, Ace Books, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Double Novel. 149/107 pages. Ace Double Novel #D-415. Previous owner's markings on first page of each novel. Light to moderate wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages lightly tanned. Creasing and wear to spine.
Softcover. New York, Avon Book, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Paperback. Avon Book #T-491. Previous owner's ink notation on first page. Light wear to paper wrappers. Spins cocked lightly.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, rep, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Paperback. Pocket Book #71. Laminate starting to peel on wrappers, gutter cracked, and moderate edgewear. Ink "X" on spine.
Softcover. New York, Avon Book, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Paperback. Avon Book #479. Light wear to paper wrappers. Spine creased lightly.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #184. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light paper chipping to spine edge. Map on rear cover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #743. Minor wear to paper wrappers. 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 #190. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. Map on rear cover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #A146. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Ink notation on first page.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #693. Cover art by Gerry Powell. Light creasing to paper wrappers, gutters fragile. Cover has embossed markings from pencil markings on front cover.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #805. Cover art by Milton Charles.Small ink notation on 1st page.Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1948, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #207. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Hinge glue undone in front. Map on rear wrapper.
Softcover. New York, New American Library of World Literature, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 154 pages. Paperback. Signet Book #G5794. Water stain to page block, moderate creasing along spine. Edge wear to paper wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Avon Books Comapany, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 193 pages. Paperback. Avon Book #112. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Rubbing to spine.
Hardcover. NY, William Sloane Associates, 2nd pr., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Bright, clean copy in a lightly soiled dust jacket. A man crossing a London street is killed. He is carrying four blackmail letters. Mostly set in France, the basis for the 1968 MGM film directed by Richard Thorpe.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in an orange cloth binding. Light shelf wear, soil. By the author of the Fu Manchu stories, this novel is a mixture of romance & secret-service intrigue set amidst the milieu of a vaudeville troupe of the East.
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