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, Morrow, 1st, 1994, 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-367, 120, 136 pages. Small ink notation to first leaf on both titles. Excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 213 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows moderate wear and light small tearing. Covered in plastic bro-dart. Clean, tight copy with light foxing to fore edge text block.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 2nd, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #237. Light soil to rear wrapper, spine creasing and fading. Tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 2nd, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 1478. Moderate wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned. Moderate soil on rear. Cover Art by Walter Popp. Tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 2nd, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #590. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Stanley. Light spine cock with warping.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #901. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease and fade to spine. Cover art by Victor Kalin.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 2nd, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #137. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. Map on rear cover. Front hinge/gutter cracked. Rubbing to laminate on top front.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D298. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by Victor Kalin. Ink notation on first page.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 205 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #m2889-95c. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Spine lightly cocked.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1170. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Hinge cracked.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages. Paperback. Popular Library Mystery #763. Mild soil. Ink notation on front page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 197 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #1063. Photographic cover art. Light creasing to spine and covers.
Softcover. New York, Dagger House, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Paperback. Red Dagger Mystery #25. Crease to front cover. Light wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. NY, Mystery House, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages. Turquoise cloth binding with titling in red on the spine and front cover. Author's first book, A Jigger Moran mystery.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 295 pages, blue cloth with green design featuring greyhound racer. Novel about a compulsive gambler trying to quit with little assistance or understanding from his wife, was made into a movie in 1934 starring Edward G. Robinson and Genevieve Tobin, remade as "Wine, Women and Horses" in 1937. Spine has major fading, otherwise a clean, square copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light fading along spine edge. Clean. The eighth literate mystery featuring English professor/sleuth Kate Fansler.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated by William I. Neuman. Novel set in 1922 in post-revolutionary Mexico, described as "a blending of roman noir with magic realism, a cross between Raymond Chandler and Gabriel Garcia Marquez."
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover First Edition. 4 black & white illustrations, 1 diagram. Previous owner's name stamp on front fly leaf, blank prelim page otherwise clean. Brown cloth, black decoration on front, spine with gilt lettering. Publisher's ad. in rear for the "Leavenworth Case" by the same author. Set in Upstate New York, we follow a team of detectives and attorneys as they try to solve a murder. In the period preceding the advent of advanced forensics, the process is totally dependent on the skills and logic of the men tasked with bringing justice. Known as the "Mother of the Detective Novel," Green shaped the structure of the modern detective novel and gave it a distinctive American style. Light shelfwear, edgewear to cover edges. Opened roughly at page 433, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket, 245 pages. The second mystery featuring Lieutenant Kramer and his Bantu assistant Sergeant Zondi.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. It begins on Death Row, with a condemned man refusing the services of the lawyer assigned to defend him. It begins with a beautiful woman dead, murdered--Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all simply as V. That's where this extraordinary novel begins. But the story it tells begins years earlier, on a struggling farm in the shadow of the Great Depression and among the brawling "cat skinners" of Southern California, driving graders and bulldozers to tame the American West. And the story that unfolds, in the masterful hands of acclaimed author Oakley Hall, is a lyrical outpouring of hunger and grief, of jealousy and corruption, of raw sexual yearning and the tragedy of the destroyed lives it leaves in its wake. Unpublished for more than half a century, SO MANY DOORS is Hall's masterpiece, an excoriating vision of human nature at its most brutal, and one of the most powerful books you will ever read. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Richard B. Farrell, Gregory Manchess. After years at sea, Swede Nelson just wanted to find a nice girl and settle down. What he found was Corliss Mason: sensual, irresistible--and deadly. Soon Swede's helping Corliss cover up a killing, but how long can they get away with murder? And why can't he shake the terrible suspicion that he's being set up? Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. Three years ago, detective John Blake solved a mystery that changed his life forever--and left a woman he loved dead. Now Blake is back, to investigate the apparent suicide of Dorothy Louise Burke, a beautiful college student with a double life. The secrets Blake uncovers could blow the lid off New York City's sex trade...if they don't kill him first. Richard Aleas' first novel, LITTLE GIRL LOST, was among the most celebrated crime novels of the year, receiving nominations for both the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Shamus Award. But nothing in John Blake's first case could prepare you for the shocking conclusion of his second. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Gregory Manchess. He'd been a promising piano prodigy, once. Now he was just an addict, barely scraping by, letting his hunger for drugs consume him. But a man's life can always get worse--as Ray Stone discovers when he wakes up beside a beautiful nightclub singer only to find her dead...and 16 ounces of pure heroin missing. On the run from the law, desperate to prove his innocence, Ray also faces another foe, merciless and unforgiving: his fierce and growing craving for a fix. Ed McBain was one of the most popular mystery writers of all time, creator of the 87th Precinct series and recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award. SO NUDE, SO DEAD was his very first crime novel--and this is its first appearance in print in more than half a century. Remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise very good.
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