Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 403 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket and light foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 279 pages. Black cloth with green lettering and design. Light rubbing to front cover, spine and back cover. Light tanning to front end papers and slight foxing to back endpapers. light musty odor.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 180 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd issue, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 388 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name in pencil on front endpaper and dedication in ink on inside front cover. The second issue or state of the first edition with "Copyright, 1927, 1928, by Charles Scribner's Sons" on the copyright page. Dust jacket with chipping and wear along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 294 pages. Advertisement and biographical brochure from publishers laid-in. Light blue boards, illustrated dust jacket with mylar protective covering. Clean boards and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line to bottom edge.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclpped dust jacket. The hideously disfigured body was found in the atrium. The only clues are a blood-soaked cloak, and, carved into the stone at the corpse's feet, the word Sparta. The murdered man was the overseer of Marcus Crassus's estate, apparently killed by two runaway slaves bent on joining Spartacus's revolt. In response to the murder, the wealthy, powerful Crassus vows to honor an ancient law and kill his ninety-nine remaining slaves in three days. Now Gordianus the Finder has been summoned from Rome by a mysterious client to find out the truth about the murder before the three days are up.
Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust wrapper. Previous owner's initials front end paper.
Hardcover. Baltimore, Black Classic Press, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to cover boards.
Softcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly, Uncorr. Proof wraps, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Uncorrected proof. Like new.The book opens with the disappearance of a man named Franko Bradovich in Kosovo. Franko, a native Montanan posing as a local, was a spy of sorts, an operative who was helping the Lucani (a loose affiliation of DEA, FBI, CIA, etc. agents operating outside the law) bust a drug trafficking scheme from Bulgaria through Kosovo and Serbia to Europe. Franko was living with the family of a farmer named Daliljaj (and was in love with the farmer's daughter Fedima) and an apparently helpful American-raised Slav (Bozi Bazok), who's become part of the Serb army's shock troops, has warned Franko that the army was headed toward them with bloodshed in mind. Later, though, Franko, who's been posing as a drug trafficker, is brought in by local police for questioning and is beaten--making Bazok's helpfulness questionable at best. Either way, Franko can't really afford to stick around. Bazok agrees to help him and, reluctantly, Daliljaj, Fedima, and their relatives, escape the sweep, in exchange for the massive quantities of drugs he believes Franko is hiding. But Bazok betrays him and slaughters Daliljaj and all of Fedima's other family while they wait for Franko to return with transport. When Franko returns, Bazok has disappeared, taking Fedima with him.
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. New York , Mysterious Press, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, tight and square, clean and bright. Unread mass market reprint of the 1953 Thompson classic. A nice copy.
Softcover. New York, Ace Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Double Novel. 120/136 pages. Ace Double Novel #D-379. Previous owner's markings on first pages of each side. Light wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages lightly tanned. Creasing and wear to spine.
Softcover. New York, Bantam Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 141 page. Paperback. Bantam Mystery #1927/5. Corner creasing and moderate wear to pictorial wrappers. Previous owner's notation on first page.
Softcover. New York, A Signet Book, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Paperbook. Signet Book #833. Light wear on edges. Light creases on wrapper corners and spine. Notation on front page.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 72. Light wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #978. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Photographic cover art. Light crease to spine and front cover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D280. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover. Small notation on first page.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #351. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to corners of front cover. Map on rear.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, rep, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 174 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1029. Cover art by Bayre Phillips. Light creasing to paper wrappers, gutters fragile. Light wrinkle to spine.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 157 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #834. Cover art by Barye Phillips. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s817. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #934. Cover art by James Meese. Creasing to cover wrappers and reading crease on spine.
Softcover. NY, Bantam Books, 3rd pr., 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Bantam #1333, 156 pages. Bound in color pictorial wrappers with art by George Gross. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press., 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust wrapper. Translated by Laura Dail, first published in Mexico in 1989.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. David Cleveland, the official investigator for the English Jockey Club, is sent to Norway to help investiagte the disappearance of an English steeplchase jockey.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Murder amidst the members of the ultra-exclusive Palm Isle Golf Club lures San Francisco dick Amos McGuffin to the spectacular duffer's paradise where his suspects run the gamut from predatory yacht-owning widows to sinister voodoo priests. Remainder mark bottom edge.
Hardcover. NY, Mystery League, 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in green, 286 pages. Shelf-worn copy, spine faded, but otherwise a clean, sound copy. A man carrying diamonds in his pocket that are worth a fortune, is traveling in a train with only five others in the compartment. The train enters a tunnel and after a few seconds of darkness, emerges into the light. The man has a small red hole in his forehead and the diamonds are gone.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Laurel Blechman. From the world-famous creator of PERRY MASON, Erle Stanley Gardner--at his death the best-selling American author of all time--comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency. Return to the 1960s as a simple insurance investigation into a car accident puts Bertha Cool and Donald Lam on the trail of murder--and Donald hip-deep in danger when he poses as an ex-con to infiltrate a criminal gang. It's Gardner's twistiest caper ever, and a fitting conclusion to Hard Case Crime's revival of this classic (and long-unavailable) detective series. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Laurel Blechman, Glen Orbik. With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is hired to carry out a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate Civil Rights crusader and campaigner for the underdog candidate. But when a hate group out of Ferguson, Missouri, turns out to be gunning for the same target, Quarry starts to wonder just who it is he's working for. Like new.
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