Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #6052. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #184. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light paper chipping to spine edge. Map on rear cover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D298. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by Victor Kalin. Ink notation on first page.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 146 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #737. Minor wear to wrappers. Light chipping.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #6300. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 362. Art by Rudolph Belarski. Light wear to paper wrappers. Pencil markings on rear wrapper.
Softcover. NY, Pegasus Books, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 344 pages. A new Pegasus Crime edition of the landmark noir novel by "the supreme master of suspense." (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review) In Woolrich's iconic tale, Detective Tom Shawn saves a lovely young woman from a suicide attempt one night, and later hears her story. She is in despair because the death of her wealthy father has been predicted by a confidence man seemingly gifted with the power of clairvoyance; a man whose predictions have unerringly aided her father in his business many times before. Shawn and a squad of detectives investigate this dire prediction and try to avert the millionaire businessman from meeting his ordained end at the stroke of midnight. Clean, bright copy.
Woodstock VT, Countryman Press/Foul Play, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 220 pages. He is Jimmie John Hall, "free and white and 22". Her name is Betty Dienhardt, plain, friendless, and oppressed by a bleak home life. In each other, they find a chance for love and fulfillment. But they are doomed. For Jimmie John has already embarked on a killing spree on the backroads of the Southwest that will leave 14 innocent people dead. Clean, bright copy. First published in 1974 under the pseudonym Paul Kavanagh.
Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 271 pages. San Diego in the years before World War II. James Dillon is barely scraping by working a menial job in manufacturing, trying to raise a family and support his elderly mother and sister Frankie at the same time. He drinks too hard -- just like his father and nearly everyone in his extended family. With so many people crammed into one home, sometimes there's so much fighting he can barely stand it. But if James can survive the chaos of everyday life long enough, maybe -- just maybe -- there's a chance it'll all get better. Now and on Earth, Jim Thompson's first novel, draws on personal experience to depict a hardscrabble life in the sun-soaked streets of mid-20th century California. Chronicling the birth of a writer and the plight of the working man, it prefigures the American classics that followed, in a deeply-felt, autobiographical tale that shows a writer just coming into his own. Clean, unread copy.
Softcover. New York, A Signet Book, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 123 pages. Paperbook. Signet Book #G2312. Moderate wear on edges. Light creases on wrapper corners and spine. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.
Softcover. New York, Ace Books, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Double Novel. 143/177 pages. Ace Double Novel #D-285. Previous owner's markings on first page of each novel. Light wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages lightly tanned. Creasing and wear to spine.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #249. Light soil to rear wrapper, spine creasing and fading. Gutter crack on first page.
Hardcover. New York, Brentano's, 1st, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 377 pages, decorated yellow cloth cover. Gutter cracked at title page, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 103. Moderate wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned. Moderate soil on rear.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 166 pages. Pick-Up is really two different books contained within a single cover. The first half describes in raw, realistic detail the hopeless, despairing and desperate, lives of a man and a woman, both alcoholics, barely surviving in post World War II San Francisco. The second half of the book consists of one man's account of his first hand experience with the criminal justice system. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Ace Books, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Double Novel. 132/124 pages. Ace Double Novel #D-347. Previous owner's markings on first pages of each side. Light wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages lightly tanned. Creasing and wear to spine.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 217 pages. A chilling and brutally funny romp through the American South. As high sheriff of Potts County, Nick Corey spends most of his time eating, sleeping and avoiding trouble. If only people--especially some troublesome pimps, his foul-tempered wife, and his half-witted brother-in-law--would stop pushing him around. Because when Nick is pushed, he begins to kill . . . or to make others do his killing for him!The basis for an aclaimed French film noir, Coup de Torchon. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #833. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. First page partially separated.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #241. Light soil to rear wrapper, spine creasing and fading. Cover Art by Hoffman. Light cocking to spine.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #901. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease and fade to spine. Cover art by Victor Kalin.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 2nd, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 186 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #385. Moderate edgewear on paper wrappers. Small notation on first page. Light creasing to wrappers.
Softcover. New York, A Signet Book, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Paperbook. Signet Book #833. Light wear on edges. Light creases on wrapper corners and spine. Reading crease to spine.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #173. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. Laminate starting to peel. Map on rear cover. Cover art by Gerald Gregg.
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. 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.
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.
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. 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.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #683. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to corners. Light soil to front cover. Cover art by Mike Ludlow.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #412.Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover wrinkled. Cover by Paul Burns.
Softcover. New York, Avon Book, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Paperback. Avon Book #T-491. Previous owner's ink notation on first page. Light wear to paper wrappers. Spins cocked lightly.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 245 pages. Eight months after being horribly disfigured in a car accident, Dan Marriott has his face rebuilt by plastic surgery, but he must still struggle with an amnesia that could mean his death as he is stalked by an unknown killer. Originally titled "The Plastic Nightmare". Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D446. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 3rd, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #867. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Schulz. Ink notation on first page.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages. Once upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people walk into Eddie's life--the first promising Eddie a future, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past.Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #988. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Stanley. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #351. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to corners of front cover. Map on rear.
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.
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.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 554. Moderate wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned. Moderate soil on rear. Front hinge cracked.
Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 235 pages. Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and fellow nomad Four Trey Whitey get jobs working with dynamite, making way for a new pipeline across the deserted plains of Far West Texas, disaster ensues. In a matter of days, Tommy is brutally beaten and witness to an act of cold-blooded murder the law can't be bothered to investigate. When Carol, a knockout beauty, shows up looking to follow the caravan of workers, Tommy falls for her almost immediately. There aren't any jobs for women on the pipeline, but Carol knows a few things she could do for the workers to keep afloat -- an arrangement that Tommy can't bear for long. As Tommy's about to find out, when you're South of Heaven, you're far from grace - -and sometimes the only way out is down. Clean, unread copy.
Hardcover. New York , Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1935, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacker. Red cloth covers with black lettering on front and spine. Spine is worn and faded. End papers have green and white map design. Very good condition overall.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #25. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Map on back. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #B191. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by robert McGinnis.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #914. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Stanley. Light spine cock. Notation on first page.
Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 237 pages. Clean, unread copy. Originally published in paperback by Fawcett Gold Medal Books, February 1965. To everyone he's every played dice with, Mitch Corley seems like the luckiest guy around. But in truth, Corley's fast hands are the only gift fate's ever given him. He's never held down a steady job, and when it comes to women, his luck might just be the worst of all -- his girlfriend and partner-in-crime Red would double-cross him in a heartbeat if she knew just how short on cash they really were. And if Red ever finds out about the wife Corley neglected to mention, there's a good chance that Corley might not survive the night. At first, Mitch was sure Texas would be the perfect place for him and Red to run their game -- there are players in nearly every back room and side-street across the state and here, the pockets run just a little deeper. But Corley forgot about one thing: Texans don't forgive easily. And there's nothing they hate more than a cheater. Texas by the Tail is a high-spirited, sexy, and ingeniously plotted novel of the grifting life, by a writer who is a virtual encyclopedia of the con, the scam, and the double cross.
Softcover. NY, Pegasus Books, 2nd pr., 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 300 pages. In this classic crime novel, a panic-stricken young wife races against time to prove that her convicted husband did not murder his mistress. Writing in first person from the wife?s viewpoint, Woolrich evokes her love and anguish and, finally, desperation as she becomes an avenging angel in her attempt to rescue her husband from execution. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Ballantine Books, reprint, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 238 pages. When her husband is arrested for the murder of his supposed girl friend, a young woman struggles to prove him innocent and bring the true killer to justice. Name inside front cover, light wear to covers.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, Black Lizard Books, reprint, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 171 pages. "No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford" Elmore Leonard THE BLACK MASS OF BROTHER SPRINGER tells the story of Sam Springer, a drifter novelist who meets Jack Dover, the retiring Abbot of the Church of God's Flock. Dover's final official act is to ordain Springer and send him off to serve as pastor of an all-Black church in Jacksonville, Florida. Springer soon becomes entangled in the city's growing civil rights movement . . . and with the church deacon's earthy young wife, Merita. The Washington post calls this darkly humorous novel by Charles Willeford, one of the great crime writers of the 20th century, "his masterpiece." Light wear, book store stamp, price on first page, crease to rear cover. Otherwise clean.
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