Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 325 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Allison & Busby Limited, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MARSTON on the title page. Yorkshire 1855. Colonel Aubrey Tarleton is a man respected by his neighbors in the small Yorkshire village of South Otterington - as much for his heroic feats in the army as for his social position. So the community is left stunned when Tarleton, deliberately, walks into the path of a speeding train. He is crushed to death on the track, but it is not his broken limbs that attract the attention of the train driver; rather, it is the note pinned to his chest, fluttering in the breeze: 'Whoever finds me, notify Superintendent Tallis of the Detective Department at Scotland Yard'. The famous Railway Detective, Inspector Robert Colbeck, finds his superior officer in great distress when he arrives at the Yard the following morning. Tallis is clutching a letter from his now-deceased friend. In it, Tarleton makes it clear that he no longer wishes to live if he has to do so without his beloved wife, who has disappeared. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, Counterpoint, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Dr. Crandall Taylor--or rather the actor who plays him--is enjoying a cushy new life in the City of the Lights where his now-cancelled American soap opera has become a prime time retro cult hit. This newfound stardom isn't wasted on him. Anxious to keep his brutal past a secret from fans, he's enjoying all the fruits that fame has to offer: adulation, entree into the trendiest clubs, and sex. What he really wants is to fund a feature film. Crandall uses his charm and intellect to draw into his narcissistic web four women: a horny network executive; an internet porn star; a bookish university student with a nasty bent; and the fetching starlet wife of an arms dealer. Crandall accepts both the crime lord's cash and his beautiful wife's advances. Big mistake. Now Crandall must channel his violent, megalomaniacal dark side just to stay alive--and on the run.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row., 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY VAN GIESON on title page.
hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Roughly opened at pg.120, otherwise VG.
Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 1199 pages, ribbon marker. In Raymond Chandler's hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. Now Chandler joins the authoritative Library of America series in a comprehensive two-volume set displaying all the facets of his brilliant talent. In his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), the classic private eye finds his full-fledged form as Philip Marlowe: at once tough, independent, brash, disillusioned, and sensitive--and man of weary honor threading his way (in Chandler's phrase) "down these mean streets" among blackmailers, pornographers, and murderers for hire. In Farewell, My Lovely (1940), Chandler's personal favorite among his novels, Marlowe's search for a missing woman leads him from shanties and honky-tonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering an array of richly drawn characters. The High Window (1942), about a rare coin that becomes a catalyst by which a hushed-up crime comes back to haunt a wealthy family, is partly a humorous burlesque of pulp fiction. All three novels show Chandler at a peak of verbal inventiveness and storytelling drive. Stories and Early Novels also includes every classic noir story from the 1930s that Chandler did not later incorporate into a novel--thirteen in all, among them such classics as "Red Wind," "Finger Man," The King in Yellow," and "Trouble Is My Business." Drawn from the pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective, these stories show how Chandler adapted the violent conventions of the pulp magazine--with their brisk exposition and rapid-fire dialogue--to his own emerging vision of twentieth-century America. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Franklin Watts, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Bright dust jacket with only minor wear. Light spots to top edge otherwise clean & unmarked. A nice 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.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #833. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. First page partially separated.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott , BC Ed., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. A Book Club printing of the first (and only) Dr. Coffee full length mystery. Doctor Daniel Webster Coffee, pathologist demonstrates that scientific knowledge is deadly to crime. 222 pages, no marking.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #241. Light soil to rear wrapper, spine creasing and fading. Cover Art by Hoffman. Light cocking to spine.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #901. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease and fade to spine. Cover art by Victor Kalin.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket. Previous owner's ink numbers on front fly leaf otherwise VG.
Hardcover. London, Bantam, 1st UK, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket. Wraparound band with blurb by Ian Rankin present, 367 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press., 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust wrapper. Translated by Laura Dail, first published in Mexico in 1989.
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.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 332 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #173. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. Laminate starting to peel. Map on rear cover. Cover art by Gerald Gregg.
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