Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Yellow cloth covering with black lettering on front cover and spine. Top edge of papers stained blue. Previous owners' names written in red pen on top of front end paper. Related ephemera laid in. B&W photos from Fox Movietone movie. Cover corners bumped, front and back covers slightly marked. A couple spots of discoloration on page edges.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #343. Map on back cover. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers. Moderate wear on spine.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #61. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Edgewar creasing to map on back cover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #133. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. Map on rear cover. Cover art by Otto Storch.
Softcover. New York, Bantam Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 141 page. Paperback. Bantam Mystery #1927/5. Corner creasing and moderate wear to pictorial wrappers. Previous owner's notation on first page.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #168. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover. Map on back.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 2nd, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #590. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Stanley. Light spine cock with warping.
Hardcover. NY, Library of America , 4th pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 990 pages. James M. Cain's pioneering novel of murder and adultery along the California highway, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), shocked contemporaries with its laconic toughness and fierce sexuality. Horace McCoy's They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935) uses truncated rhythms and a unique narrative structure to turn its account of a Hollywood dance marathon into an unforgettable evocation of social chaos and personal desperation. In Thieves Like Us (1937), Edward Anderson vividly brings to life the dusty roads and back-country hideouts where a fugitive band of Oklahoma outlaws plays out its destiny. The Big Clock (1946), an ingenious novel of pursuit and evasion by the poet Kenneth Fearing, is set by contrast in the dense and neurotic inner world of a giant publishing corporation under the thumb of a warped and ultimately murderous chief executive. William Lindsay Gresham's controversial Nightmare Alley (1946), a ferocious psychological portrait of a charismatic carnival hustler, creates an unforgettable atmosphere of duplicity, corruption, and self-destruction. I Married a Dead Man (1948), a tale of switched identity set in the anxious suburbs, is perhaps the most striking novel of Cornell Woolrich, who found in the techniques of the gothic thriller the means to express an overpowering sense of personal doom. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 2nd, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #137. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. Map on rear cover. Front hinge/gutter cracked. Rubbing to laminate on top front.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #753. Light soil to rear wrapper, spine creasing and fading. Embosssed abrasios to cover and first 6 pages.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #104. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Frot wrapper is separated from spine. Pencil notation to first page.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 6th, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #263. Light soil to rear wrapper, spine creasing and fading. Rear wrapper abrasion to first layer of paper wrapper.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D374. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #190. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. Map on rear cover.
Hardcover. NY, Penzler Publishers, reprint, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 266 pages. When Quinn first meets Bricky, she's working as a partner-for-hire at a dance hall and he's struggling to shake the anxiety of his guilty conscience. Earlier that day, the young man took advantage of a found key and used it to rob a stranger's home. Now, with the purloined money in his pocket, Quinn is unable to escape the memory of his wrongdoing-and not even a night spent dancing is enough to silence his nagging thoughts. When the dance hall closes, he and Bricky-linked, after many intimate hours, by a budding romance-return to the scene of the crime intending to restore the stolen fortune and begin a new life together, only to discover, upon arrival, that the owner of the property has been murdered. There's evidence present that easily links Quinn to the crime, and he expects that, as soon as day breaks and the authorities learn of the gruesome scene, he will be arrested straight away. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Ballantine Books, 1st pbk, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 210 pages. A young man desperately tries to prove himself innocent of a charge of murder and searches through New York City for the real killer. Bookstore stamp to inside front cover, light wear to covers.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #B191. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover and corner. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Ink notation on first page.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #A144. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. Cover art by Victor Kalin.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #122. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Hinge cracked in front.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #411. Light soil to rear wrapper, spine creasing and fading. Laminate starting to peel.
Softcover. New York, Ace Books, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Double Novel. 107/149 pages. Ace Double Novel #F-125. Previous owner's markings on first pages of each side. Light wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages lightly tanned.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #A146. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Ink notation on first page.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D391. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Minor reading crease to spine.
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