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, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Yellow cloth covering with black lettering on front cover and spine. Top edge of papers stained blue. Previous owners' names written in red pen on top of front end paper. Related ephemera laid in. B&W photos from Fox Movietone movie. Cover corners bumped, front and back covers slightly marked. A couple spots of discoloration on page edges.
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. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 406 pages. Clean copy. The second novel in the L.A. Quartet from this master of noir that began with The Black Dahlia, followed by this second novel, then L.A. Confidential, and finally White Jazz. The Red Scare is in full bloom in the Los Angeles of 1950 in this dark tale of three men caught up in a massive web of ambition and deceit.
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. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with red stamping. 373 pages plus ads. Light foxing to some pages. Minor cloth wrinkle to front cover.
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, Harper & Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 247 pages. Clean, tight copy in a very nice dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 370 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket. 342 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy. A Kat Colorado mystery.
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. New York, Crown, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 340 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, New Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 383 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER AND TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
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, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TILE PAGE. Book and dust jacket show light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Walker, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 260 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 229 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 196 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.
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. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 296 pages. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Bantam, 1st UK, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket. Wraparound band with blurb by Ian Rankin present, 367 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 414 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 372 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martins, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 423 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
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.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st Thus, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 326 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth covers. Previously published in 1921 as a magazine serial by The Curtis Publishing Company under the title: "Two and Two". Previous owners name on front endpaper. Light rubbing to cloth at top of spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Chelsea House, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 254 pages. Hardcover. Maroon cloth covers with gilt titles. Pages are clean, unmarked. Dust jacket missing 2.25" of paper from bottom portion of spine, chipping and pieces missing along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight 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, Covici, Friede, 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth covers with title in silver on spine, minor rubbing to edges. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text. A nice copy of this scarce title. There's a distinct lack of glamour to this first Maigret mystery. In itself that's interesting as this is a story centered on an international con-man and an American investor in one of the finest hotels in Paris.
Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 261 pages. Ivory covers with green band on spine. Minor flaw on front of cover. Dust jacket pristine. Comes with an acrylic cover for jacket. Very good condition.
Hardcover. New York , Delacorte Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 386 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. White covers with grey band and silver lettering on spine. Dust jacket pristine. Comes with an acrylic cover for jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1935, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacker. Red cloth covers with black lettering on front and spine. Spine is worn and faded. End papers have green and white map design. Very good condition overall.
Hardcover. New York , Armchair Detective Library, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 297 pages. Introduction by James Ellroy. Blue cloth covers with silver lettering and design with author cameo on front cover. Spots on back of cover otherwise very clean. Originally published in 1946 and unavailable in any edition for over 50 yrs.
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. Huntington Beach CA, Cahill Publishing, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 343 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Limited edition #114of 150 copies. Pink marbled covers with leather band on spine. Acetate dust jacket.
Hardcover. Secaucus, New Jersey, Lyle Stuart Inc., 1st, 1988, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Bright yellow boards with red spine, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering. A very neat, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. London, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 298 pages. Black cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, color illustrated dust jacket with silver and blue metallic titles, acetate protective covering to dust jacket. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked, spine stiff and tight; clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1980, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Tan boards, black cloth spine with silver titles, red dust jacket with color illustration and acetate protective covering. Extremely slight wear to dust jacket, spine very stiff and tight, covers and pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black boards, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate-protection. Mild edgewear to dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.
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.
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. New York, Little, Brown and Co, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. SIGNED BY MOSLEY ON TITLE PAGE. Black covers, red spine with silver titles, illustrated dust jacket. Covers unmarked, very slight rubbing to dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, pages crisp and unmarked; a beautiful copy in great condition.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 354 pages. SIGNED BY GORES ON TITLE PAGE. Brown boards, illustrated dust jacket with mylar protective covering. Extremely slight rubbing to boards, beautiful dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, crisp pages.
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. New York, Harper & Row , 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 213 pages. Orange cloth-covered boards, black cloth spine, black illustrated dust jacket. Clean covers, slight rubbing to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
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Used & Collectible Mystery & Crime Fiction
The mystery section collects used, rare and out-of-print crime, detective and suspense fiction. Golden-age puzzles, hardboiled thrillers, and modern police procedurals all get shelf space. You'll find Elmore Leonard's Touch, Joseph Wambaugh's The Black Marble, Michael Dibdin's The Dying of the Light and Ross Thomas's Out on the Rim.
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