Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 69. Notation in pencil on front cover and first page. Spine lightly cocked. Light wear to paper wrappers.
Hardcover. Scottsdale AZ, Poisoned Pen Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Features author Edna Ferber on the set of Giant in 1955 trying to clear James Dean of a murder charge.
Softcover. New York, Ace Books, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Double Novel. 164/156 pages. Ace Double Novel #D-225. Previous owner's markings on first pages of each side. Light wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages lightly tanned. Creasing and wear to spine.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BLOCK on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BLOCK on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with fading to spine. Racetrack announcer/amateur sleuth Jerry Brogan tries to find the killer of the horseracing world's most hated man.
Softcover. London, The Hogarth Press Ltd, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. A mystery featuring Sir Henry Merrivale and a pricless bronze lamp from Egypt. First published in 1949. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. Secaucus, New Jersey, Lyle Stuart Inc., 1st, 1988, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Bright yellow boards with red spine, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering. A very neat, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Berkley Prime Crime, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. The 6th mystery set in the small town of Pecan Springs, Texas, featuring former attorney and now herbalist, China Bayles. Bayles investigates the murder of retired Texas Ranger Roy Adcock which hits surprisingly close to home. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, New American Library of World Literature, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Paperback. Signet Book #1654. Cover art by Bayre Phillips. Light crease to covers. A Carter Borwn Mystery Series.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Chuck Pyle. On the mend after getting run out of Chicago, professional cardsharp Bill Maynard is hungry for some action--but not nearly as hungry as Joyce Rogers, the tantalizing wife of Bill's latest mark. Together they hatch an ingenious scheme to get rid of her husband. But in life as in poker, the other player sometimes has an ace up his sleeve.LUCKY AT CARDS is a major discovery: This is the book's first publication in 37 years, and first publication ever under Lawrence Block's real name! Lawrence Block has won more awards for mystery writing than almost any other living author: 4 Edgar Awards, 4 Shamus Awards, 2 Maltese Falcon Awards, the Nero Wolfe Award, and more. Like new.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #901. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 142 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #750. Spine fragile. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, minor edgewear to dust jacket. Madame Aubry is a lovely seventeenth-century sleuth who does much of her best thinking while in bed with her lover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1946, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #106. Light peeling to laminate. Map on rear cover. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in silver gilt, 289 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket flaps have glue residue where once pasted to end papers otherwise very good.
Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st UK, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black cloth covers with silver titles, silver metallic dust jacket with black graphic illustration and black titles, acetate protective covering to dust jacket. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, covers and pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy. Adopted off the streets as a child by a policeman's family, NYC policewoman Kathleen Mallory had never shaken the wild nature of her youth, and when her adoptive father is murdered during a series of stabbings, she is driven to find the truth. A first novel.