Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Brown cloth cover with gilt title. 318 pages. Previous owner inscription in front endpapers. Otherwise clean. B&w line plates by Frank Merrill.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover First Edition. 4 black & white illustrations, 1 diagram. Previous owner's name stamp on front fly leaf, blank prelim page otherwise clean. Brown cloth, black decoration on front, spine with gilt lettering. Publisher's ad. in rear for the "Leavenworth Case" by the same author. Set in Upstate New York, we follow a team of detectives and attorneys as they try to solve a murder. In the period preceding the advent of advanced forensics, the process is totally dependent on the skills and logic of the men tasked with bringing justice. Known as the "Mother of the Detective Novel," Green shaped the structure of the modern detective novel and gave it a distinctive American style. Light shelfwear, edgewear to cover edges. Opened roughly at page 433, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Three mystery novels in one volume. Detective Book Club Series. Clean, bright copy. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY SHIELDS on the title page. A fresh, crisp copy of his third book.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY SHIELDS on the title page. A fresh, crisp copy of his third book.
Softcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, uncorrected proof in mauve wrappers. SIGNED BY SHIELDS on the title page. A fresh, crisp copy of his third book.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's first book and SIGNED BY KRAMER on title page.
Hardcover. London, Whitefriars Press, 1st fascimile, circa late 1800, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 volumes of Surtees' novels, with illustrations by John Leech in all except Hawbuck Grange, which is illustrated by H. K. Browne & W. T. Maud (aka "Phiz"). Subscription edition of original first editions published by Bradbury, Agnew & Co., Gilt decorated covers on red cloth board with uncut pages. Light corner and edge wear on all volumes, minor stains on some volumes. Overall, clean and tight copies. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 667 pages. Red cloth, gilt titled spine. Limited to 1000 copies. Good slipcase. Top edge gilt. Illustrated in color by John Leech. Spine faded, slipcase shows edgewear, some fraying.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an rubbed, edgeworn and chipped jacket. The third novel in Kane's hardboiled mystery series featuring sophisticated, smart-mouthed NYC private eye, Peter Chambers, this time running an errand for a friend and finding a blonde with a bullet in her head. Paper tanning. Author hams it up on photo on rear panel of dust jacket.
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.
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. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, 1st illust. thus, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth pictorially stamped in color and gilt, top edge gilt. Juvenile classic illustrated with 8 color plates and endpapers drawing by George Wharton Edwards. 380 pages, clean copy.
New York, McLoughlin Brothers, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 186 pages. Beige cloth boards, with color illustration of two children on front. Gold lettering front, black on spine. Color and b&w illustrations by May Audubon Post. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Philadelphia PA, John C. Winston, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, in a bright dust jacket with chipping, top of spine with 1" gone. 325 pages. 4 color and 8 b&w illustrations by Clara Burd. Edited by Ruth Ewing Hilpert.Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 111 pages. Minor edgewear to book bottom edges. Bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 202 pages. Previous owner's small embossed stamp on title page, dust jacket price clipped, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 54 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Shows some wear and age.
Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton & Co., 1st Illustrated, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 248 pages. Illustrated with dootone drawings by Norman Price. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Red cloth binding with gold lettering, illustration on front cover and spine. Light edgewear to bottom edges.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st , 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 211 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Deckled edges. Blue cloth cover boards, white title on spine and design on front cover. Dust jacket has extensive agewear, wrapped in clear plastic mylar for protection. Tanning from age to pages and edges, doesn't affect text or illustrations.
Hardcover. London, Readers International, 1st UK, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, INSCRIBED BY DORFMAN on title page, 1st pub in 1973 in Argentina, translated by George Shivers.
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.