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
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, black cloth boards with orange lettering on spine. In a worn dust jacket with light soil and chipping. No markings.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages. The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine - as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave. LATER is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King's classic novel It, LATER is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears. Remaider line on bottom edge.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Arthur Suydam. THE FINAL CRIME NOVEL FROM THE KING OF PULP FICTION. For 20 years, former NYPD cop Jack Stang has lived with the memory of his girlfriend's death in an attempted abduction. But what if she weren't actually dead? What if she somehow secretly survived--but lost her sight, and her memory, and everything else she had...except her enemies? Now Jack has a second chance to save the only woman he ever loved--or to lose her for good. Like new.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 500 pages. Beige cloth spine with red-colored lettering. Dust jacket with clear plastic cover. Binding slightly wrinkled at top. First edition of this large adventure novel by the author of the Dortmunder series of humorous crime stories.
Hardcover. NY/London, Overlook Duckworth, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sven Norberg searches for his mezzo-soprano wife in the midwestern town of Trude. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 294 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, World Publishing, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 358 pages. Ink stain (printers flaw?) at edge of text on page 215. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Clear acetate cover has very minor chips missing at top of spine. Author's first book.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 298 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Silver gilt lettering on spine. Some edge wear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 1199 pages, ribbon marker. In Raymond Chandler's hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. Now Chandler joins the authoritative Library of America series in a comprehensive two-volume set displaying all the facets of his brilliant talent. In his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), the classic private eye finds his full-fledged form as Philip Marlowe: at once tough, independent, brash, disillusioned, and sensitive--and man of weary honor threading his way (in Chandler's phrase) "down these mean streets" among blackmailers, pornographers, and murderers for hire. In Farewell, My Lovely (1940), Chandler's personal favorite among his novels, Marlowe's search for a missing woman leads him from shanties and honky-tonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering an array of richly drawn characters. The High Window (1942), about a rare coin that becomes a catalyst by which a hushed-up crime comes back to haunt a wealthy family, is partly a humorous burlesque of pulp fiction. All three novels show Chandler at a peak of verbal inventiveness and storytelling drive. Stories and Early Novels also includes every classic noir story from the 1930s that Chandler did not later incorporate into a novel--thirteen in all, among them such classics as "Red Wind," "Finger Man," The King in Yellow," and "Trouble Is My Business." Drawn from the pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective, these stories show how Chandler adapted the violent conventions of the pulp magazine--with their brisk exposition and rapid-fire dialogue--to his own emerging vision of twentieth-century America. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. The assignment was simple: stake out the man's home and kill him. Easy work for a professional like Quarry. But when things go horribly wrong, Quarry finds himself with a new mission: learn who hired him, and make the bastard pay. The longest-running series from Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition, and the first ever to feature a hitman as the main character, the Quarry novels tell the story of a paid assassin with a rebellious streak and an unlikely taste for justice. Once a Marine sniper, Quarry found a new home stateside with a group of contract killers. But some men aren't made for taking orders--and when Quarry strikes off on his own, god help the man on the other side of his nine-millimeter. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket that's been price-clipped. The author's first novel and first in the Joe Gunther mystery series. Joe drives to New York State to confirm the identity of a man who?s been stalking the Brattleboro area in a murderous rampage, and who up to this moment has been known only as Ski Mask. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BECK on title page. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 311 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Rose color cloth with blue design. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Tight copy. Soil on rear cover.
Hardcover. New York, Otto Penzler, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 202 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 282 pages. A fast-paced thriller about a psychopath stalking Brooklyn. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Dust jacket worn, chipped. Sizeable chunk out of front top corner. Book is clean, very good.
Hardcover. Lodon, Gollancz , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Jane Langton's Homer Kelly mysteries have been delighting readers for over a decade. The bumbling Harvard professor and ex-Boston detective is back, but this time he's venturing far from his usual New England stomping grounds--all the way to Florence, Italy. Sprinkled with brain-teasing clues from Dante's masterpiece, The Dante Game is a suspenseful romp in one of the world's most divine settings.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Gregory Manchess. Decades before Robert Brown Parker began writing his books about Spenser, a man named Robert Bogardus Parker (1905-1955) penned this extraordinary novel of post-war intrigue. From the corridors and compartments of the Orient Express to the shadowy, ruined streets of Budapest--which he saw firsthand as a foreign correspondent during World War II--Parker takes you on a nightmare tour of a land where life is cheap, old hatreds run strong, and a couple of Americans can find themselves in more danger than they ever imagined. With all the immediacy of the wartime dispatches Parker filed from Turkey, Danzig, Warsaw, and Bucharest and all the authority of a man who himself spent three years crossing borders without a passport and narrowly avoiding arrest by the Gestapo, PASSPORT TO PERIL paints a heart-stopping picture of desperate men in a desperate time. Like new.
Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 351 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy. Dust jacket price clipped.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. First publication ever! By the Edgar award-winning author of SONGS OF INNOCENCE and LITTLE GIRL LOST (written as "Richard Aleas")Told in 50 chapters, each chapter named after one of the first 50 books in the series. Featuring a full-color insert section containing images of the first 50 Hard Case Crime covers! Publishers Weekly on FIFTY-TO-ONE: "High-speed action and nonstop thrills highlight the 50th novel from Hard Case Crime...Ardai sets an impressive standard for the new wave of pulp crime fiction...Breathless action and entertaining characters make this a page-turner from start to finish. " Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Richard B. Farrell. WINNER OF THE EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD FOR BEST PAPERBACK NOVEL OF THE YEAR! Jake Danser has it all: a beautiful wife, a house in the California hills, a high-profile job as a forensic psychologist. But he's also got a mistress. And when Jake's mistress is found strangled to death with his necktie, it's up to him to prove he didn't do it. But how can he, when all the evidence says he did? Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BLOCK on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, gray cloth with orange stamping on spine. Tommy Hambledon, a British secret agent, investigates a case that includes stolen jewels, secret airplane plans, gangsters, and international assassins. Cheap paper tanned, dust jacket worn with chipping but no markings. Despite dj, a sound copy. One of the scarcer title by this author (actually a married couple).
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. NY, MacMillan, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Red boards, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering. Spine very faded, edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, price-clipped, slight foxing to inside of dust jacket and endpapers, pages clean, crisp and marked; overall a neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Photo of author laid-in, translated from Japanese by Simon Grove.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in dark blue cloth with light blue lettering. No dust jacket. A young English scholar is driven by recurring dreams to become a classical scholar, which later enables him to save a woman in Greece who, during a revival of ancient pagan rites and beliefs, is falsely accused of witchcraft. Mild shelf wear, spine shows fading, clean.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclpped dust jacket. Author is Joyce Carol Oates. A cultured, upper-class man finds himself drawn to the beautiful, helpless plaintiff in an assault case for which he is juror, only to be lured into a world in which nothing is what it seems.
Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. SIGNED BY LEONARD ON TITLE PAGE. Black covers with silver titles to spine, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering. No wear to dust jacket or covers, spine stiff and tight, pages crisp and unmarked; a beautiful copy in great condition.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill , 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Otherwise clean.
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. NY, GP Putman, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 374 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. A bright copy. When a man dies on live television, everyone believes it is a tragic accident. Kathy Mallory does not. The death was simply a performance planned for pagentry and spectacle. Mallory is on the trail of a killer whose mind makes the same dark twists as her own. The suspense builds steadily throughout the story until the compelling denoeument.
Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. Previous price sticker on front flap of price-clipped dust jacket, small cut on front cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.
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