Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 150 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #1109. Cover art by James Meese. Crease along spine.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #193. Chipping to spine edges. Moderate creasing to 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. New York, Perma Books, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 pages. Paperback. Perma Books #M3091. Cover art by Robert Schulz. Light creasing to covers.
Softcover. New York, Popular LIbrary, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Paperback. Popular Library Eagle Book #EB96. Spine edge tanned. Ink notation on first page. Creasing to cover wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Avon Books Comapany, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 193 pages. Paperback. Avon Book #112. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Rubbing to spine.
Softcover. New York, Green Publishing, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 123 pages. Paperback. Cover has light soil and creasing. Tanned pages throughout.
Softcover. Chicago, IL, Century Publications, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Paperback. Century Mystery #27. Light soil and mild wrinkling to front cover.
Softcover. New York, Green Dragon Books, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Paperback. Cover art by Hoffman. Light soil, wear and corner crease. First few pages separated from glued binding. Fragile.
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.
Softcover. New York, Dagger House, 1st, 1946, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Paperback. Red Dagger Mystery #23. Crease to front cover. Light wear to wrappers.
Softcover. NY, Pocket Books, 1st pbk, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, #69. Stated first printing, July 1940. VG to VG+ in black pictorial wraps with orange & white lettering & cover art picturing a suit with a knife in his chest. World War II spy story featuring Richard Hannay, basis for the film starring Robert Donat. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st pbk, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, 248 pages. Bantam #76. Stated 1st, January 1947. VG in orange pictorial wraps with yellow & white lettering & cover art picturing a montage of scenes from the spy novel. Clean copy.
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. Los Angeles, Sherbourne Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. An exotic dancer gets murdered and hard-boiled P.I. Bart Challis is on the case. Very good in a lightly soiled dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 161 pages. Exposing the humor in violence and the seamy side of riches, Canning follows the maneuvers of Sir Anthony Swale, an aristocrat who has spent his privileged life in quest of rare art treasures, many of them from behind the Iron Curtain. Small inials on front pastedown otherwise clean in a bright unclipped dust jscket.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Thriller, featuring 'Limpie' and a wealthy Emir.
Hardcover. NY, William Sloane Associates, 2nd pr., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Bright, clean copy in a lightly soiled dust jacket. A man crossing a London street is killed. He is carrying four blackmail letters. Mostly set in France, the basis for the 1968 MGM film directed by Richard Thorpe.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 236 pages. When Richard inherits the family estate in Herefordshire, he finds it has been leased to a charitable organization which is not as it seems. Attempting to break the lease, he is endangered by a sinister intelligence organization. Clean, very good in a lightly rubbed dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 282 pages. A fast-paced thriller about a psychopath stalking Brooklyn. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. This is Volumn Three of a Trilogy including: Only the Dead Know Brooklyn and Post-Mortem Effects and Brooklyn Three. With frontispiece map of Brooklyn. Remainder line on bottom edge otherwise clean in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Walker & Co., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In this tenth novel of the Gabe Wager, Denver PD Homicide series, he confronts the gang violence that takes his nephew's life and threatens to ignite the city.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stalking a serial killer in Miami. Remainder line to top edge.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 210 pages. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Shamus Award-winning Estleman's eighth mystery featuring Detroit private detective Amos Walker.
Hardcover. NY, Clarkson N. Potter, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket with art by Edward Gorey.
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, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Six novellas, one written for this edition, about Brooklyn cop Abe Levine.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in an orange cloth binding. Light shelf wear, soil. By the author of the Fu Manchu stories, this novel is a mixture of romance & secret-service intrigue set amidst the milieu of a vaudeville troupe of the East.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The sixth Joe Gunther mystery.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. McBain's first book to feature Benjamin Smoke, a retired Police Officer now Private Detective.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Straight Arrow,, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Private detective Moses Wine becomes involved with author John Hecht in an attempt to clear him of the murder of a TV anchorwoman.
Hardcover. NY, Armchair Detective Library, reprint , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Pseudonym of Gore Vidal. 1st published in 1954. with a new introduction by him.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
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