Hardcover. New York, Otto Penzler Books, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover reprint of author's first book originally in paperback. 256 pages. Black cloth cover, minor wear to edges. Dust jacket has wear and some fraying to top edges. Remainder line on bottom edge. Inside is nice and clean. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 245 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Izzi's first book, a mystery set in Chicago.
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, 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 , 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 , Random House , 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 277 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to bright dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. Slight creases to pages 239-241. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 230 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY HIGGINS on title pg. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third novel in Israel's mystery series featuring private detective B.F. Cage, this time investigating French professional basketball, drugs and the Paris underworld.
Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st UK, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Small red ink heart top front end paper, otherwise VG. Dust jacket w/edgewear, chips.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead , 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 353 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B&W illust by John T. McCutcheon. Previous owner's bookplate front end paper.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 279 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Lending library stamp, lettering on front and rear end papers. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Putnam's, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Seasoned Detective Sergeant Stanley Moodrow of Manhatten faces off with a deranged enemy, Johny Katanos, whose sick acts of violence push Moodrow into a relentless manhunt that may boast no survivors.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket flaps have glue residue where once pasted to end papers otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Dunne/St. Martin's, 1st , 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In High Lonesome Road, the third in the Chloe Newcombe series set in the high Arizona desert, the Cochise County Library bookmobile driver is found murdered at one of her stops. When Chloe is called out to assist the woman who discovered the body, she learns that the driver is Erica Hill, an old friend of her brother's from long ago in Venice, California. Erica was beautiful and flamboyant, a former heartbreaker who has changed her life to be a good mother to her sixteen year old son Troy. When Troy is accused of his mother's murder Chloe is convinced he is innocent and sets out to find the real killer , in the process revealing a shocking secret from Erica's past.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Some very minor wear to dust jacket, otherwise like new.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, Black Lizard, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Mass market sized paperback, originally published in 1954. Clean, bright copy in color wraps.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BLOCK on title page.
Softcover. NY, Ace Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Two mystery novels bound back-to-back. D-373, 127, 129 pages. Small ink notation to first leaf on both titles. Excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Grosse & Dunlap, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 213 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows moderate wear and light small tearing. Covered in plastic bro-dart. Clean, tight copy with light foxing to fore edge text block.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #753. Light soil to rear wrapper, spine creasing and fading. Embosssed abrasios to cover and first 6 pages.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Bo0k #768. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Stanley.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library, rep., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #SP407. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover. Markings on top page block.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #B191. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover and corner. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Ink notation on first page.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D338.Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Ink notation on first page.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #813. Cover art by Jerry Powell. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 3rd, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #963. Cover art by Barye Phillips. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1946, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #106. Light peeling to laminate. Map on rear cover. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
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, 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. Woodstock VT, Foul Play Press, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First published in the UK in 1972.
Hardcover. NY, World, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. A man moves to a village after being acquitted of murdering his wife and child. When girls from the neighboring school are killed or go missing, the town is ready to explode and Superintendent Folly arrives to sort things out. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Armchair Detective Library], 1st thus, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Originally published in 1968 as a paperback.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, remainder stamp on bottom edge, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Leipzig, BernhardTauchnitz, 1866, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcovers, 3 volumes bound in 2), green cloth with black calf spines, raised bands, gilt lettering. 341, 350, 346 pages. Minor scuff to raised bands on second volume. otherwise clean copies.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A former Las Vegas showgirl names Stacey Wilson is jailed for the murder of her husband, Marvin, a rich playboy whose marriage to the showgirl was a local scandal. Stacey staunchly claims innocence; despite a life sentence, she refuses to disclose her whereabouts on the murder day. When the police see the case as closed, Father Dowling, uncomfortable with the verdict, privately seeks the truth. Clean copy.