Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #745. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Chipping to top corner. Light wave to pages.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #554. Cover art by Lou Kimmel. Small ink notation on 1st page. Hinge tender. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The wise-cracking private eye with a tough exterior and a soft heart returns in a mystery involving a crazed housewife, Cajun thug, and menacing, hundred-year-old river turtle named Luther. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Three complete unabridged mysteries in one volume. Detective Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BLOCK on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Penzler Publishers, reprint, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 342 pages. When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long courtship by mail, he's shocked that she doesn't match the photographs sent with her correspondence. But Durand has told his own fibs, concealing from her the details of his wealth, and so he mostly feels fortunate to find her so much more beautiful than expected. Soon after they marry, however, he becomes increasingly convinced that the woman in his life is not the same woman with whom he exchanged letters, a fact that becomes unavoidable when she suddenly disappears with his fortune.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 121 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #740. Small ink notation on 1st page.Light creasing to paper wrappers.
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, 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, Graphic Books, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 156 pages. Paperback. A Graphic Mystery # 145. Moderate wear to photographic wrappers. Pages tanned. Light chipping to spine and edges.
Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The first novel in the 'Detroit Crime Series' in which the city is treated as an organic entity through various decades of the 20th century, "WHISKEY RIVER" spans from the Prohibition Era to the late 1930s. Constantine ("Connie") Minor is a Detroit-based journalist who has made a name for himself covering the crime beat in the late 1920s/early 1930s. This was a time in which bootleggers and mobsters carved out Detroit into spheres of influence over which they exerted and established firm control over, not only, the illegal importation of alcohol, but also the numbers rackets, and prostitution. Many of the city's cops often looked the other way, picking and choosing what crimes to solve or ignore (courtesy of a bribe). All the while, Detroit's industrial might (as evidenced by the auto industry) continued to grow, giving the city a dazzling prosperity soon to be tempered by the ravages of the 1929 stock market crash and resulting Depression. Clean copy.
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. New York, Norton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third Easy Rawlins mystery.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 349 pages. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, George Doran, reprint, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. No colophon on (C) page. Spine cocked.
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.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Three complete unabridged mysteries in one volume. Detective Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.