Hardcover. Bos, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line bottom edge.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace and World, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 178 pages. The first biographical and critical study of the most prolific and widely read living author. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 254 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE-PAGE.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Michael Koelsch. To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...? Long before he became the award-winning creator of Matthew Scudder (A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES) and an MWA Grand Master, Lawrence Block penned this tough, unforgettable crime novel, his very first. But as he describes in a new afterword, the book wound up published only eight years later, under a different title and a fake name--and was then lost for half a century. Now appearing for the first time under Block's real name, with revisions by the author, SINNER MAN is revealed as a powerful work by a young novelist destined to become one of the giants of the mystery genre. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Michael Koelsch. To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...? Long before he became the award-winning creator of Matthew Scudder (A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES) and an MWA Grand Master, Lawrence Block penned this tough, unforgettable crime novel, his very first. But as he describes in a new afterword, the book wound up published only eight years later, under a different title and a fake name--and was then lost for half a century. Now appearing for the first time under Block's real name, with revisions by the author, SINNER MAN is revealed as a powerful work by a young novelist destined to become one of the giants of the mystery genre. Like new.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #96. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Map on rear.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 311 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor foxing on top and fore edge, light dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Mark Eastbrook. It's been 33 years since the world-class thief known only by his last name--Nolan--last appeared in a novel by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Max Allan Collins. Since then, the big man has gone straight and even proposed to his longtime lover, Sherry. But when their honeymoon plans take them to a Las Vegas casino with Mob connections, it's going to take all of Nolan's survival instincts--and the help of his old friend and frequent accomplice, Jon--to keep him from an unmarked grave in the unforgiving desert. Like new.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s817. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. David Cleveland, the official investigator for the English Jockey Club, is sent to Norway to help investiagte the disappearance of an English steeplchase jockey.
Softcover. New York, A Signet Book, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. Paperbook. Signet Book #821. Moderate wear on edges. Light creases on wrapper corners and spine. Reading crease to spine.
Hardcover. Alburquerque, University of New Mex, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Conversations w/ Walter Satterthwait & Ernie Bulow. Hardcover in a bright, unclpped dust jacket. In addition to the fun of eavesdropping on the unmistakable camaraderie of these two friends, readers will enjoy the several Satterthwait short stories included here--one of his African series, one featuring his latter-day version of Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op in a New Mexico setting, and one previously unpublished masterpiece of comic horror that, as Ernie Bulow points out, was influenced by nothing so much as E-C comics, the popular horror books of the early 1950s.
Hardcover. NY, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Francis X. Loughlin is an aging police detective haunted by a twenty-year-old homicide involving a young female doctor. A man named Julian Vega was put away for that crime, possibly without sufficient evidence, when he was seventeen. As Blauner's novel opens, Vega has just been released from prison, on a technicality, when Loughlin is called to investigate a crime that bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the earlier murder. Though the book sometimes takes the easy way out (the climactic twist feels both generic and arbitrary), it is elevated by Blauner's surefooted characterization of Julian. Newly free, struggling to find his way, dependent on the (somewhat tenuous) kindness of strangers, he is both sympathetic and tough; his portrait has a complexity that few authors could achieve. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TILE PAGE. Book and dust jacket show light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 213 pages. Orange cloth-covered boards, black cloth spine, black illustrated dust jacket. Clean covers, slight rubbing to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and yellowing dust jacket. Tromp Kramer, Africaner police detective, and Mickey Zondi, Bantu police sergeant, in Trekkersburg, South Africa, are featured in this fourth detective novel by McClure. Exotic dancer Eve?'s sensual act features a five-foot royal python. When she is discovered in her dressing room dead of strangulation, her dancing partner turns out to be the murder weapon.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Patrick Faricy. Whether it's a Middle East oil crisis in the 1970s or the London Blitz during WWII, world events have a way of breeding trouble on the home front, too. That's how Toby Rinaldi, son of a U.N. Ambassador, wound up kidnapped on his way to a California amusement park, and how Robby Burnes, orphaned son of British nobility, wound up snatched on the snowy streets of New York City. But as Robby's famous namesake taught us, the best laid plans don't always work out as intended. Especially not when you'e a kidnapper in the hands of Gregory Mcdonald. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 312 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Warner Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAYOR ON TITLE-PAGE. Minor wear to edges.
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