Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 292 pages, SIGNED BY DONALD WESTLAKE(STARK) on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 266 pages, extremely clean, dust jacket unclipped in protective mylar cover. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 295 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket spine.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 295 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy. John Keller is everyone's favorite hit man: a new kind of hero for a new, uncertain age. He's cool. Reliable. A real pro: the hit man's hit man. The inconvenient wife, the aging sports star, the business partner, the retiree with a substantial legacy. He's taken care of them all, quietly and efficiently. Keller's got a code of honor, though he'd never call it that. And he keeps the job strictly business. "What happens is you wind up thinking of each subject not as a person to be killed but as a problem to be solved. Now there are guys doing this who cope with it by making it personal. They find a reason to hate the guy they have to kill. I don't know what's a sin and what isn't, or if one person deserves to go on living and another deserves to have his life ended. Sometimes I think about stuff like that, but as far as working it all out in my mind, well, I never seem to get anywhere." But while Keller might be a pragmatic and crack assassin, he's also prone to doubts and loneliness just like everybody else. There was a psychotherapist once. A dog. Even a woman. And though he's got Dot, his wisecracking contact and sometimes confidante, and his precious stamp collection, these days, it doesn't seem to be enough.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Canada / Fiction, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamping on front-fly leaf. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, unmarked 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. New York, Arbor House, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy. A novel of terror set during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. U. S. O. stamp inside front and back covers. Remnants of label on back end papers. Black cloth covers with green lettering on front and spine. Some white spots on covers. Clean. Scarce. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Crime Club, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red stamping. 40 pages have 1/2" worm hole in margin bottom - not affecting text. Otherwise clean, very good.
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. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Detective Dave Robicheaux re-turns to center stage in an incendiary new novel by James Lee Burke. A gripping tale of racial violence, class warfare, and the sometimes cruel legacy of Southern history, Sunset Limited is a stunning achievement, confirming Burke's place as one of America's premier stylists as well as master storytellers. "Not since Raymond Chandler has anyone so thoroughly reinvented the crime and mystery genre," said novelist Jim Harrison, and in Sunset Limited Burke continues to carve out new territory.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. A novel based upon the author's medical research and imagination. Minor tape repair to dj. Previous owner's bookplate front end paper.
Hardcover. Woodstock, VT , Countryman Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A darkly comic mystery in which Chief Supt. Colin Harper hopes to find the missing brains of a bank robbing gang who has gone missing with more than his share of the loot, before the vengeful members of the gang go beyond simply kidnapping their leader's daughter.
Softcover. Berkeley, Black Lizard, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, tight and square, clean and bright. Unread mass market reprint of the 1954 Goodis classic. A nice copy of this Black Lizard reprint.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BURKE. Like new condition.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BURKE on title-page.
Softcover. New York, Ace Books, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Double Novel. 164/156 pages. Ace Double Novel #D-225. Previous owner's markings on first pages of each side. Light wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages lightly tanned. Creasing and wear to spine.
Softcover. Greenwich, Gold Metal Book/Fawcett Publications, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book # s825. Moderate wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages tanned. Light chipping to spine and edges.
Softcover. New York, A Signet Book, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Paperbook. Signet Book #663. Light wear on edges. Light creases on wrapper corners. Laminate starting to peel. Spine faded.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #241. Light soil to rear wrapper, spine creasing and fading. Cover Art by Hoffman. Light cocking to spine.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 3rd, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #867. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Schulz. Ink notation on first page.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #5386. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Stanley. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #683. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to corners. Light soil to front cover. Cover art by Mike Ludlow.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #96. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Map on rear.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #899. Cover art by Bayre Phillips. Light creasing to paper wrappers, gutters fragile. Spine cocked lightly.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1064. Cover art by Mitchell Hooks. Small ink notation on 1st page.Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #909. Cover art by Arthur Sussman. Light warping and creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. New York, New American Library of World Literature, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 228 pages. Paperback. Signet Book #G2500. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Crease to rear cover.A Carter Borwn Mystery Series.
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. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 161 pages. Exposing the humor in violence and the seamy side of riches, Canning follows the maneuvers of Sir Anthony Swale, an aristocrat who has spent his privileged life in quest of rare art treasures, many of them from behind the Iron Curtain. Small inials on front pastedown otherwise clean in a bright unclipped dust jscket.
 "Hit, The by: Hoar, Jere")
 "Hit Parade (SIGNED COPY)by: Block, Lawrence")
 "Murder by Reflectionby: Heard, H. F.")
 "Face Valueby: Matera, Ross")
 "Shadow Counterby: Kakonis, Tom")
 "Nowhere Manby: Oster, Jerry")
 "Angle of Attackby: Burns, Rex")
 "Midnight Mail, Theby: Holt, Henry")
 "Kiss of Fire, Aby: Togawa, Masako")
 "Sunset Limitedby: Burke, James Lee")
 "Taste for Burning, Aby: Bannister, Jo")
 "Jack the Ripperby: Gordon, Richard")
 "Warm On a Cold Nightby: Lapington, G.E.")
 "Corkscrew - A Reid Bennett Mysteryby: Wood, Ted")
 "Jolie Blon's Bounceby: Burke, James Lee")
 "Death of a Dentistby: Beaton, M.C.")
 "Lestrade and the Magpieby: Trow, M.J.")
 "Polferry Riddle, Theby: MacDonald, Ross")
 "Mexican Slay Rideby: Weintraub, Sidney")
 "Bribery, Corruption Alsoby: Keating, H.R.F.")
 "Killing The Lawyersby: Hill, Reginhald")
 "Astride a Graveby: James, Bill")
 "Last Car to Elysian Fields (SIGNED COPY)by: Burke, James Lee")
 "Dixie City Jam (SIGNED COPY)by: Burke, James Lee")
 "Lonely Walk, A and Loser by a Headby: Chaber, M.E.; Giddings, Harry")
 "Birds of a Feather by: Canning, Victor")
 "The Bird Cageby: O")
 "Kennedy for the Defenseby: Higgins, George V.")
 "A Stained White Radianceby: Burke, James Lee")