Hardcover. NY, Books, Inc,, reprint, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. A mid 1940s reprint of an early 1930s Sir Henry Merrivale locked room mystery. John Dickson Carr writing as Carter Dickson. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Burke pits a land-hungry oil company against a Blackfeet Indian reservation in a stunning novel that takes detective fiction into new imaginative realms. His Cajun sleuth, Dave Robicheaux, an ex-New Orleans cop featured in two previous novels, attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, has recurrent nightmares about his murdered wife, and cares for an adopted El Salvadoran refugee girl. When two American Indian activists disappear, Robicheaux's dogged investigation not only sets him on a collision course with Mafia thugs and oil interests, but also leads him into a romance with Darlene American Horse, his ex-partner's girlfriend. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 271 pages. San Diego in the years before World War II. James Dillon is barely scraping by working a menial job in manufacturing, trying to raise a family and support his elderly mother and sister Frankie at the same time. He drinks too hard -- just like his father and nearly everyone in his extended family. With so many people crammed into one home, sometimes there's so much fighting he can barely stand it. But if James can survive the chaos of everyday life long enough, maybe -- just maybe -- there's a chance it'll all get better. Now and on Earth, Jim Thompson's first novel, draws on personal experience to depict a hardscrabble life in the sun-soaked streets of mid-20th century California. Chronicling the birth of a writer and the plight of the working man, it prefigures the American classics that followed, in a deeply-felt, autobiographical tale that shows a writer just coming into his own. Clean, unread copy.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Shuggie Akins is a lonely fat boy of thirteen. His mother, Glenda, teases him with her sexual provocations. His father, Red, is a brutal man with a short fuse who mocks and despises his son. Into this mix comes Jimmy Vin Pearce with his shiny green T-bird and his smart city clothes. It isn't long before he and Glenda begin a torrid affair. What follows is violent, shocking, and totally unpredictable - except that it is totally foreordained. Author's seventh novel. Slight slant to spine.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The 3rd of his tough gritty mysteries featuring private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angelo Gennaro - in a search that takes them from Boston to Florida's Gulf Coast. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 284 pages. The fifth novel in the "Madoc Rhys and Janet Rhys" series. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 311 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Rose color cloth with blue design. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Tight copy. Soil on rear cover.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stroughton, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 312 pages, light blue cloth covers with dark blue lettering. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Eleven stories featuring detective Baroness Clara Linz.
Hardcover. New York, Van Nostrand, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages, illustrated throughout with numerous charts, illustrations and photos in b&w. Cream cloth, pictorial dust jacket. A very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. "Signed copy"-sticker on front cover. Beautiful copy in clear mylar sleeve.
Hardcover. New York, Putnam , 1st, May 31, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Hardcover, 286 pages. Small stain on top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.
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, Five-Star Mysteries, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Paperback. Five-Star Mystery # 41. Moderate wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages tanned. Staple binding visable on front and rear hinge. Spine faded and frayed.
Softcover. New York, Avon Book, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages. Paperback. Avon Book #106. Light wear to paper wrappers. Spine faded and has ink 'x" over "the" on spine.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #485. Moderate edgewear on paper wrappers. Gutter cracked on first page. Light creasing to wrappers.
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.
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