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1952142455Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Company 1952. Octavo pp. 198 cloth. First edition. Particularly useful for unraveling the pseudonyms of this famously prolific pulp author. A very good copy. #142455 Fantasy Publishing Company unknown books
1986Embry 171049Harper & Row 1986. First edition first printing. Fine in fine faintly rubbed dust jacket in mylar cover. Harper & Row, 1986. First edition, first printing. unknown books
198618314ENew York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1986. First Edition Paperback Original. With the barest hint of edge wear else a fine bright copy in printed wrappers. A collection of short stories from the best of the modern masters of detective and suspense fiction presented in the style of the famous detective pulp magazine ‘Black Mask’. With ‘After the Thin Man: Part 1’ by Dashiell Hammett an original story discovered in the M-G-M film studio archive ‘Timeo Danaos’ by British espionage author William Haggard and with an interview of Haggard by the editors ‘Action at Vicksburg’ by Irvin Faust ‘Rain in Pinton County’ by Robert Sampson ‘High Darktown’ by James Ellroy and more. The front cover is illustrated with a full color painting of Hammett’s characters the elegant and witty husband and wife detective team Nick and Nora Charles with the dead body of a man in a blue suit in the foreground. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich paperback books
19702336New York Random House 1970. 1970. First edition so stated. 8vo. Dust jacket unclipped. Fine. 274 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. New York, Random House [1970]. hardcover books
19571312340New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1957. 390/750. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 138; G/no-DJ; sunned dark blue spine with gilt text; number 390 of 750 limited edition copies; blue slipcase with sunned spine and edges; minor chips to head and tail edges; cloth shows some shelf wear; minor wear to edges; strong boards; text blocks show light wear to exterior edges; interiors clean; yellow endpapers; frontispiece; deckled fore edge. 1312340. FP New Rockville Stock. Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover books
19642523NY: Random House 1964. First Edition. 8vo pp. 213. Author's first book. Near fine in dj. Random House unknown books
1994159116Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press 1994. Octavo boards. First edition. A collection of eighteen stories most first published in the 1930s selected from the nine hundred he wrote prior to his death in 1944; he was killed in action in World War II. This retrospective is Faust's 221st book. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #159116 University of Nebraska Press unknown books
193221435New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1932. First Edition. 12mo 19cm.; original yellow cloth upper cover and decorative spine printed in black; 6285pp.; title page vignette. A Fine vibrant copy. Western novel originally serialized in four parts as "The Giraldi Trail" in Western Story Magazine 1932. A later edition 1942 once again renamed the novel The Outlaw Trail. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
19321313637Dallas: Self-Publisher 1932. Hardcover. Octavo; VG; hardcover no dust jacket; black spine with images and gold text; boards have minor stains but are in tact; front free end-paper has foxing; the gutter in between pp 242-243 is broken; fore edges are moderately tanned otherwise text block is clean; 310p. 1313637. FP New Rockville Stock. Self-Publisher hardcover books
193419264New York: The Macmillan Company 1934. Boards. Very Good . A solid copy of the 1934 1st American edition. Tight and VG in its wine-red cloth with bright gilt-titling to the front panel and lightly-faded titling along the spine. Octavo 244 pgs. plus Appendix Bibliography and Index. <br/><br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover books
197932679Milano: Cisalpino-Goliardica 1979. First edition 8vo pp. 139; fine copy in original black pictorial wrappers. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the flyleaf. <br/><br/> Cisalpino-Goliardica unknown books
192815653New York: The Macaulay Company. Very Good. c.1931 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket moderate shelfwear some browning/spotting to page edges light bumps and slight fraying to cloth at bottom corners one-time owner's signature in pencil on ffep tiny tear at fore-edge of title page. Crime novel that segues to a Western setting about halfway through hence the Western-motif front-cover decoration of a man on horseback waving a large hat by this prolific pulp novelist one of eleven books he wrote under the Baxter pseudonym between 1923 and 1935. This tells the exploits of "Geraldi dashing knight errant who is a modern Robin Hood who preys only upon those who have preyed upon others." Originally serialized in Western Story Magazine in 1928; later published as by Max Brand as "Three on the Trail" and subsequently in paperback as "Gunman's Goal." The original serial title was probably "Tragedy Trail" although I've not verified this directly; another seller claims it was "Three on the Trail" but that title does not appear among the list of serials credited to Baxter during 1928. . The Macaulay Company hardcover books
19439021853Chicago: University of Chicago 1943. Hardcover. Very good/good. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth over boards spine stamped in gilt. Lightly rubbed at edges and extremities. Dust jacket is rubbed at the edges and extremities and sunned at the spine. All pages tight and bright. From the library of R.S. Crane. <br/><br/> University of Chicago hardcover books
192681346New York: Chelsea House 1926. Octavo cloth. First edition. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners a few rub spots to front cover an about very good copy. Uncommon. #81346 Chelsea House unknown books
1950329201New York: Harper & Brothers 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition copyright date is stated as 1928 the date of the serial publication but this book published in 1950. General wear to the boards about very good in good dustwrapper with several shallow chips. Ex-circus star goes west and uses his riding and knife-throwing skills to good effect. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
195286085Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Company 1952. Octavo pp. 1-8 9 10 11-198 199-200: blank note: last leaf is a blank inserted frontispiece cloth. First edition. 900 copies printed. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with tiny chip and some edge wear at crown of spine panel. #86085 Fantasy Publishing Company unknown books
1985163027Bowling Green Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press 1985. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-175 176: blank cloth. First edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Nolan to "Bob" on the title page. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #163027 Bowling Green State University Popular Press unknown books
1957Embry 41886Dodd Mead & Co. 1957. First edition number 613 of 750 copies. Fine in fine publisher's slipcase with a slightly sunned spine. Cloth-backed boards in slipcase. Dodd, Mead & Co., 1957. First edition, number 613 of 750 copies. hardcover books
1975002977Garden City / New York: Doubleday & Company 1975. Very good. Uncorrected proof; 11 3/4 x 5 3/4; pp. 376 text to recto only; textured plain light-blue wraps; title and publication in manuscript in red ink to front wrap and a name to back wrap; working title - "the Great Goldwine" - corrected in manuscript; a bit of fading to margins and slight dust-dulling to spine cover; minor creasing to fore-edge; in very good condition. Irvin Faust 1924 - 2012 was a Jewish-American novelist short story writer and educator his current book being one of his later works. "A Star in the Family" chronicled the rise and fall of comedian Bart Goldwine who was the subject of a biography-in-progress. Doubleday & Company paperback books
192021457ENew York: Chelsea House 1920. First Edition. From the library of author William F. Nolan with his signed bookplate on which is printed “The Works of Frederick Faust Bill Nolan†above Nolan’s signature “William F. Nolanâ€. Written in pencil on the front free endpaper above the bookplate in Nolan’s hand is “Faust’s first serial for Western Story Mag.†David Manning is one of the pseudonyms of Frederick Schiller Faust 1892 - 1944 best known for his westerns written under another pseudonym Max Brand. A lightly handled copy with some rubbing and light wear to the cloth the lower right corner of the front board slightly bumped and with some slight spotting to the fore-edge. in a lightly dust soiled and spotted dust jacket with some small chips and tears. Chelsea House hardcover books
194021931New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1940. First Edition. Octavo 20cm.; original orange cloth lettered in black orange topstain; 6227pp. A hint of shelf-wear else a Fine copy lacking the scarce dust jacket topstain still brilliant. Features the popular fictional character Dr. Kildare who would inspire a number of television series and films. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
1964WRCLIT32426New York: Random House 1964. Cloth and boards. First edition of the author's first book. Top corners bumped a couple of tiny nicks to top edge of boards but a near fine copy in a dust jacket with a trace of edge wear to the top. Random House hardcover books
1957143302Paris: Cinedis 1957. Three original black-and-white photographs of a televised outdoor interview featuring cast members from the film here under the original French title "Une manche et la bell." Starring actress Demongeot is seen having fun off-camera and in one photo with Henri Vidal director Verneuil Isa Miranda in white and an unidentified blonde male presumably hosting the promotional. On the versos are film title Demongeot's and Vidal's names in holograph ink numerical annotations in holograph pencil and rubber stamps for photographer Fausto Picedi notable for his images of Grace Kelley in Monte Carlo. <br/><br/>Noirish murder drama loosely based on Chase's novel "The Sucker Punch" 1954. Betty Farnwell Miranda is a rich widow living in Nice with a bewitching daughter Eva Demongeot. Betty marries Philippe Vidal a good-looking but self-interested man. Cue Eva. Philippe falls for the calculating femme fatale who has plans to marry someone else. Betty's life is in danger as Philippe struggles with his transgressions. <br/><br/>Photographs 5 x 7 inches. Slight curling and a few tiny creases else Near Fine. Cinedis unknown books
1924228088Wilhelmshaven & Bremen: Self-published by the author at Ad. Heine & K. Jager 1924. Hardcover. 30p. 15p. appendix 5.75x6.5 inches text in German fraktur type illustrated with cartoons and caricatures rubricated drop-cap initials worn limited first edition #86/150 copies bookplate on front pastedown endpaper personal inscription in German signed by Roselius hinge cracked at first blank sewn textblock in original green boards with gilt title on cover sunned at edges and spine. Ludwig Roselius was a coffee merchant and promoter of art and politics in Bremen. He developed commercial decaffeination and supported artists including Paula Modersohn-Becker. He created Böttcherstrasse a street designed in the German Expressionist style which was destroyed by Hitler as degenerate art. Roselius had met with Hitler in 1922 and supported him and the Nazi Party in the early years but was denied membership in the Party due to his support of degenerate art. The book was produced in-house by company members the artist was an employee and the Appendix is a commemoration of Roselius' 50th birthday. Rickmers was a Munich mountaineer and art collector. Four holdings located in OCLC as of 8/2018. Self-published by the author at Ad. Heine & K. Jager hardcover books
194323987New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1943. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's cloth in yellow-green pictorial dust jacket; 6216pp. General wear to jacket extremities including closed tears and chipping some light dust-soil spine a bit cocked else Near Very Good and sound. The last of the Dr. Kildare books comprised of two novellas. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books