Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Hardcover, Black boards with green lettering, no dust jacket, 310 pages. Mild shelf wear, no markings. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Trixie Dolan, ex-movie star, is back in London sharing quarters with her actress friend Evangeline Sinclair. Evangeline is writing her memoirs and when she discovers that an old rival is writing hers as well, trouble begins. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket with fading to spine, 307 pages. Edited by Francis M. Nevins, Jr. and Martin H. Greenberg. Collects twenty-two stories. Introduction and checklist of Boucher's fiction by Nevins. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Author's fourth novel, set in the steamy bayou town of St. Bruno. Woodrell reunites the three Shade brothers with their dissolute father. Aged rake and reprobate John X. Shade returns to his native Louisiana bayous, where he reviews his checkered past. Vengeful sociopath Lunch Pumphrey is hot on his trail, bent on recovering $47,000 stored in John X.'s safe, but Shade's young wife has absconded with the money in order to launch her singing career, leaving their daughter, toughly precocious Etta, in her father's care. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY/Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sherlock Holmes comes to South Central Los Angeles. Only he's black, never finished high school, and can't seem to hold on to a regular job. Instead Isaiah Quintabe- or IQ, as he is known - spends his time and uses his formidable intelligence to help others. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless determination and a fierce intelligence. He charges his clients whatever they can afford, which might be a set of tires or a homemade casserole. To get by, he's forced to take on clients that can pay. This time, it's a rap mogul whose life is in danger. The first book by this Japanese-American writer who grew up in the same kind of neighborhood as IQ, this was nominated for the Edgar for best first novel, for the Anthony Award, selected as one of the best books of the year by the NY Times and more. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 263 pages. Larry Dolman is a rather literal minded ex-cop who now works private security. Eddie Miller is an airline pilot who's studying to get his real estate license. Don Luchessi is a silver salesman who's separated from his wife but too Catholic to get a divorce. Hank Norton is a drug company rep who gets four times as many dames as any of the other guys. They are all regular guys who like to drink, play cards, meet broads, and shoot a little pool. But when a friendly bet goes horribly awry, they find themselves with two dead bodies on their hands and a homicidal husband in the wings--and acting more like hardened criminals than upstanding citizens. Mild shelf wear, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in silver gilt, 289 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, March 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 244 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Light wear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy in clear mylar cover.
Hardcover. New York, Atlantic Monthly, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Beautiful copy in clear mylar sleeve.
Hardcover. St. Lucia, Qld ; New York, University of Queensland Pr, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 246 pages. Tan cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has light wear to edges. With an introduction by Bronwen Levy. A bright, clean copy.
hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A blood-encrusted ceramic figure is at the center of private investigator C. W. Sughrue's search through the American West for the missing mother of his Vietnam buddy. By the author of The Wrong Case.
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, 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 , 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. Salem, MA, Marine Research Society, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 399 pages. B&W portraits of sea captains and ships throughout. Tissue-covered frontispiece. Top edge colored blue. Green pictorial dust jacket with taping and edgewear. Blue boards with gilt title to spine and stain to front cover. Otherwise, a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.1st published in the UK 1994. Remainder line top edge.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace World, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 148 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. With minor wear to covers and dust jacket edges.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. SIGNED BY DOBYNS ON TITLE PAGE. Blue covers with black spine, color illustrated dust jacket with mylar-protective covering. Dust jacket lightly chipped, though still very neat and tight with mylar, unmarked boards, crisp pages; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, dj price clipped , small abrasion to front panel otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages. Slight wear to dust jacket, light foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Robert Hale, 1st UK, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st published as paperback in 1953; this is 1st hardcover edition; dust jacket price clipped. 160 pages.
Hardcover. NY, Soho, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Originally published in the UK in 1969.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When the nude, throttled corpse of a childhood friend is discovered shortly after a chance meeting, San Francisco homicide chief Frank Hastings is determined to catch the killer.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Remainder line bottom edge.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclpped dust jacket. Cassidy Sanderson is a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers--the only female scout in the major leagues. Hard-living and hard-drinking, a gifted athlete herself, she takes pride in successfully competing in a male world. But recently she has been losing prospects on the sign, and her job security is teetering on the edge. When she gets a tip from a close friend and fellow scout about Alberto Cruz, a young phenom in the Dominican Republic, she impulsively catches a flight to Santo Domingo--even though it is out of her territory and she will undoubtedly incur her boss's wrath. If Alberto Cruz is as good as she's been told, the trip will be worth the risk. The risk starts quickly. Not only has Cruz "got it all--the heart, the guts, the aptitude," he may also have "a bad spirit on him." And he's not the only man Cassidy meets on the island who might change her life for good or ill. The other is Joe Galinis, a powerful financier and real estate developer, "one of the most provocative men she has ever met." When Cassidy returns to Los Angeles, she finds herself entangled in a blackmail scheme laced with otherworldly vodou and real-life violence: a tightening triangle of suspicion and deception that leads her to the back rooms (and backstabbing) of high-stakes sports and finance--where she is about to discover that there is a thin line between a competitor and a killer.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, Black Lizard, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, tight and square, clean and bright. Unread mass market reprint of the Thompson classic.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BLOCK on the title page. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 2nd Ed., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages. Bright copy in an unclipped dust jacket. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. A stand alone novel from the author best known for his Maigret detective series.
Softcover. New York, Five-Star Mysteries, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 157 pages. Paperback. Five-Star Mystery # 45. Moderate wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages tanned. Staple binding visable on front and rear hinge. Spine faded and frayed. Scarce. Chipped at edges.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #249. Light soil to rear wrapper, spine creasing and fading. Gutter crack on first page.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 381. Moderate wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned. Hinge creases, minor soil to front cover. Stamp inside front cover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #25. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Map on back. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #A144. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. Cover art by Victor Kalin.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #111. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Map on rear cover. Small ink notation on first page. Cover art by Gerald Gregg.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #814. Cover art by Milton Charles. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #862. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1952, 224 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #593. Cover art by Robert Stanley. Light Pencil notation on first page. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Spine wrinkled.
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