Hardcover. London, Orion, 1st UK, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. New York, A Signet Book, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Paperbook. Signet Book #787. Light wear on edges. Light creases on wrapper corners and spine. Notation on first page.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclpped dust jacket. 306 pages. Summoned to the scene of a ghastly crime in her remote Appalachian village, Laura Bruce, the new minister's wife, realizes that Sunday school teacher Nora Crumb's dark visions have come true.
Hardcover. New York, Little Brown, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 376 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to mylar-protected dust jacket.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 187 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #73. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sent by the CIA to 1950s Cuba to eliminate young revolutionary Fidel Castro, ex-Marine hero Earl Swagger finds himself confronting outdated ideals about honor and duty as the world around him erupts into early Cold War violence. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Pocket Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY SHANKMAN on title page.Distraught over her ex-boyfriend, Harry's new girlfriend, Samantha Adams, is eager to forget her troubles at a friend's blowout engagement party but finds them multiplying when the prospective groom is kidnapped and held for ransom. Sixth novel in the Samantha Adams series - this one is set in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Clean, like new.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 381. Moderate wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned. Hinge creases, minor soil to front cover. Stamp inside front cover.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 145 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #1259. Cover art by James Meese. Ink notationon first pge. Light creasing to spine and covers.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY COCKEY title page.
Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 332 pages. Fargo has spent his life engaging in almost every vice imaginable--and his only regret is that he once stole a horse. His son Grant, a shiftless dandy with a resemblance to Edgar Allan Poe, is conducting an affair with his voluptuous and volatile cousin. And behind everyone's back, Grandmother Pearl has just signed the family property over to the Almighty. In the literature of the American prairie, few families are as brawling, as benighted, or as outrageously vital as the Fargos of Verdon, Nebraska. And when Jim Thompson chronicles their life and times, the result suggest Willa Cather steeped in rotguut--and armed with a .45. Clean, unread copy.
Hardcover. New York , Armchair Detective Library, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 297 pages. Introduction by James Ellroy. Blue cloth covers with silver lettering and design with author cameo on front cover. Spots on back of cover otherwise very clean. Originally published in 1946 and unavailable in any edition for over 50 yrs.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, Black Lizard, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, tight and square, clean and bright. Unread mass market reprint of the Thompson classic.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Paul Mann. It isn't easy going to jail for a practical joke. Of course, this particular joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careers in tatters--so jail is where Harold Kunt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low profile in the Big House. He wants no part of his fellow inmates' plan to use an escape tunnel to rob two banks. But it's too late; he's in it up to his neck. And that neck may just wind up in a noose. HELP I AM BEING HELD PRISONER is Donald E. Westlake at his funniest and his most ingenious, a rediscovered crime classic from the MWA Grand Master returning to stores for the first time in three decades. Like new.
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.
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, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BLOCK on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BLOCK on title page.