NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A young New York illustrator leaves behind a promising career and returns to her hometown in the Florida panhandle to help the great-aunt who raised her resolve a puzzling series of events suddenly plaguing their decaying family home. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with purple WRB and decorative design on cover, purple/red lettering on spine with green filigree. Suspense noirish novel. Night club singer marries man with a past and secrets. Back cover with faint staining otherwise clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Berkley Prime Crime, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Driving out to Rosemary's house on an errand, China discovers her accountant has been murdered. With one abusive ex-husband and plenty of former clients in the picture, there's no shortage of suspects. And with a vengeful ex-convict on the loose, there's plenty for China to worry about. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Mysterious Press, reprint, 1989, Softcover, mass market paperback, 163 pages. By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was eighteen, he was driving across America in a broken-down Ford without a penny to his name and his mother and his kid sister Freddie in tow, looking for just one more paycheck to keep them all alive. A bittersweet comedy of a hard-won American life, ROUGHNECK chronicles the many jobs, near-criminal escapades, and downright unlawful grifts of the man who would become one of crime fiction's most enduring writers, in a larger-than-life literary memoir--or wildly entertaining tall tale--as only Thompson could tell it. Hard times have never sounded so good. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 204 pages. Originally published by Lion Books as a paperback in 1954. By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was eighteen, he was driving across America in a broken-down Ford without a penny to his name and his mother and his kid sister Freddie in tow, looking for just one more paycheck to keep them all alive. A bittersweet comedy of a hard-won American life, ROUGHNECK chronicles the many jobs, near-criminal escapades, and downright unlawful grifts of the man who would become one of crime fiction's most enduring writers, in a larger-than-life literary memoir--or wildly entertaining tall tale--as only Thompson could tell it. Hard times have never sounded so good. Clean, unread copy.
Softcover. New York, Bantam Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 151 pages. Paperback. Bantam Mystery #1910. Cover art by Bayre Phillips. Light creasing to cover wrappers.
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. New York, Otto Penzler, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 202 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Norton, uncorrected proof, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. SIGNED BY DOBYNS ON TITLE PAGE. Manilla covers, perfect binding. Extremely slight rubbing to covers, binding stiff and tight, crisp and unmarked pages.
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 220 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Beautiful copy in clear mylar sleeve. The 9th Charlie Bradshaw mystery. Action at the Saratoga horse auctions featuring Charlie's pal Victor Plotz.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. SIGNED BY DOBYNS ON TITLE PAGE. Blue covers with black spine, color illustrated dust jacket with mylar-protective covering. Dust jacket lightly chipped, though still very neat and tight with mylar, unmarked boards, crisp pages; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 198 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Beautiful copy in clear mylar sleeve. Mystery novel featuring Victor Platz, sidekick of series character Charlie Bradshaw, who agrees to collect a suspicious suitcase in Montreal & winds up in a mess of trouble.
Softcover. New York, Berkley Diamond Book, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Paperback. Berkley Diamond Book #D2041. Pages tanned. Light wear to paper wrappers.
Hardcover. New York, World Publishing, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 358 pages. Ink stain (printers flaw?) at edge of text on page 215. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Clear acetate cover has very minor chips missing at top of spine. Author's first book.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill , 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third outing for Vermont cop Joe Gunther. A murdered stockbroker sets a sticky case into motion for Lt. Gunther. Three bodies later, Gunther must unravel a sinister puzzle involving drugs, a naive young police officer, and someone bent on revenge.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.1st published in the UK 1994. Remainder line top edge.
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