Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #218. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. Laminate starting to peel. Map on rear cover.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 185 pages. Young, beautiful, and fearfully abused, Mona was the kind of girl even a hard man like Dillon couldn't bring himself to use. But when Mona told him about the vicious aunt who had turned her into something little better than a prostitute--and about the money the old lady has stashed away--Dillon found it surprisingly easy to kill for her.
Softcover. New York, Ace Books, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Double Novel. 107/149 pages. Ace Double Novel #D-451. Previous owner's markings on first pages of each side. Light wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages lightly tanned. Creasing and wear to spine.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 353 pages. A lonely veteran's gruesome discovery throws him right into the face of danger as a twisted investigation unravels the secrets of his dark past. One early morning on a Norfolk beach in Virginia, a dead body is discovered by a man taking his daily swim--Arman Bajalan, formerly an interpreter in Iraq. After narrowly surviving an assassination attempt that killed his wife and child, Arman has been given lonely sanctuary in the US as a maintenance worker at the Sea Breeze Motel. Now, convinced that the body is connected to his past, he knows he is still not safe.Seasoned detective Catherine Wheel and her newly minted partner have little to go on beyond a bus ticket in the dead man's pocket. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #B150. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover. Small notation on first page.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Caught up in the family drama involving his childhood friends, the Sonniers, Cajun sleuth Dave Robicheaux discovers that the family may be involved with the powerful Bobby Earl, a Klansman-turned-politician.
Softcover. NY, Mulholland Books, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. It was supposed to be only a temporary job -- something to pay the bills until Dusty could get his feet back on the ground and raise enough money for medical school. After all, there's nothing wrong with being a bellboy at a respectable hotel like the Manton -- that is, until she came along. Marcia Hillis. The perfect woman. Beautiful. Experienced. Older and wiser. The only woman to ever measure up to that other her -- the one whose painful rejection Dusty can't quite put from his mind. A richly-imagined crime narrative of the Oedipal and betrayal, A Swell-Looking Babe is Thompson at his very best -- a cornerstone in Thompson's enduring legacy as the Dimestore Dostoyevsky of American fiction. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1945, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #75. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover.Spine heavily faded, chipped and worn. Cover art by Gerald Gregg.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 133 pages. William Collins is very handsome, very polite, and very friendly. He is also dangerous when aroused. Now Collins, a one-time boxer with a lethal "accident" in his past, has broken out of his fourth mental institution and met up with an affable con man and a highly arousing woman, whose plans for him include kidnapping, murder, and much, much worse. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 142 pages. Popular Library Mystery # G269. Moderate wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned. Moderate soil on rear.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D304. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Small ink notation on first page. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.
Softcover. New York, A Signet Book, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Paperbook. Signet Book #663. Light wear on edges. Light creases on wrapper corners. Laminate starting to peel. Spine faded.
Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 207 pages. Orinally published as a paperback by Lion Books in 1953. From the beginning, Jim Thompson knew he was going to catch hell no matter what he did. And during a childhood spent at the mercy of a father whose schemes put him on the wrong side of the law as often as the right, and a grandfather who knew the bad parts of town like the back of his hand, young Jim learned sin better than any writer had before. From his rabble-rousing adolescencein the American Midwest, to wasted teenage years in the seedy underbelly of the hotel industry, to Thompson's chilling encounter with the real-life inspiration of THE KILLER INSIDE ME, BAD BOY offers a fascinating glimpse at the formative years of the man who would become one of the most famous authors of modern American Noir, in the autobiography-as-novel that follows the birth of the legend himself in the signature style Thompson made famous. Clean, unread copy.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #829. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Schulz. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. U. S. O. stamp inside front and back covers. Remnants of label on back end papers. Black cloth covers with green lettering on front and spine. Some white spots on covers. Clean. Scarce. No dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 131 pages. The story is set in Philadelphia in a 1950's winter. The protagonist, Al Hart, wanders the city streets and steals an overcoat from a clothing store. He is running away from New Orleans where he is wanted for the murder of his older brother. The motive of the murder, it appears, is to inherit the large wealth his brother had earned. As the story unfolds, it develops that Hart was well educated and had gifts as an artist. Goodis' words "He had no idea of where he was going and he didn't care" describe Hart's life.Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Avon Book, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages. Paperback. Avon Book #106. Light wear to paper wrappers. Spine faded and has ink 'x" over "the" on spine.
Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 237 pages. SIGNED BY FURST on title-page. Beautiful copy in clear mylar sleeve.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 3rd, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #891. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Stanley. Light spine cock. Notation on first page.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, rep, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D327. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Minor reading crease to spine. Notation on first page.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "In transposing to an Iranian setting the conventions of the thriller--the hard-drinking detective, the threatened heroine, the frantic escape from a brutal adversary--Koenig invests his story with unusual resonance. Here the familiar figure of the honest cop plays his role in the unfamiliar milieu of Teheran's fundamentalist Islamic society, as he becomes a threat to the government itself. Conducting a routine murder investigation to solve the death of a sexually mutilated young woman, chief homicide detective Darius Bakhtiar discovers the existence of a state-sponsored terrorist group, the Brides of Blood. This secret sorority of virgins, fanatical in their religious devotion, are trained to martyr themselves in terrorist aggression. After Bakhtiar uncovers evidence of sanctioned efforts to arm Iran with biological weapons, he and Maryam Lejavardi, the beautiful former Bride he has begun to protect and love, are tortured in Iran's feared Evin prison. The unimaginable horrors of Iran's torture factory might have overwhelmed a lesser novelist, but Koenig artfully blends assiduous research and superbly maintained suspense as he builds to the thrilling, unrelenting--and very cinematic--final pages."
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 2nd, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #0972. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Minor reading crease to spine.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 68. Moderate wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned. Moderate soil on rear. Cover art by Hoffman. Slight wrinkle to pages. Front hinge cracked.
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.
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.
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.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #360. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Map on rear.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 2nd, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 1478. Moderate wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned. Moderate soil on rear. Cover Art by Walter Popp. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Pocket Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Nominated for the Edgar award, and basis of the Michael Douglas film. New York City psychiatrist Nathan Conrad possesses everything required for a good, normal life--a successful practice on Central Park West, an adoring wife and a lovely daughter. He also has a reputation for dealing with the hard cases that most of his uptown colleagues prefer to pass on: catatonics, schizophrenics, the criminally insane. In this taut, superbly plotted thriller, Klavan, an Edgar-winner also writing as Keith Peterson, interweaves Dr. Conrad's disparate worlds to riveting effect. Soon after he begins treating a young woman accused of a particularly brutal murder, Conrad receives a chilling phone call at home. Suddenly his safe private life becomes a nightmarish game board, with Sport and Maxwell, two vividly drawn psychopaths, key players in his terrifying ordeal. Maxwell smiles and hums when he hurts people; Sport finds this a handy behavior in an accomplice. And the reader, meanwhile, roots for Dr. Conrad all the way to this brisk novel's heart-stopping conclusion. SIGNED BY KLAVAN on the half-title page. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, A Signet Book, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 140 pages. Paperbook. Signet Book #784. Light wear on edges. Light creases on wrapper corners.
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