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198221487New York: Charles Scribner 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine first edition in dustwrapper. The author's second crime novel featuring Anna Lee. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Charles Scribner hardcover books
198121489New York: Charles Scribner 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First edition first printing of the author's first crime novel. A near fine copy in dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the title page. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner hardcover books
199421385Boston: Little Brown 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition of this Harry Bosch crime novel. Connelly is one of the best writing today. Tiny blemish to leading edge of text block else a sharp and clean fine copy in fine price-intact dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author and dated in year of publication. Great read. <br/><br/> Little Brown hardcover books
197722793New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1977. First American edition. Hardcover. Good/good. First American edition of the author's first book a humorous crime novel. Taken by the publisher directly from the original British sheets. This sadly is an ex-libris copy with a "withdrawn" stamps on the endpapers evidence of pocket removal from rear endpaper etc. A fair to good copy in dustwrapper of an uncommon literary debut. Sold in as-is condition. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
198221283New York: St. Martin's Press 1982. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First US edition of this Lovejoy novel of suspense. Tint corner bump else a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Review Copy with publisher's promotional sheet laid in. This copy has been both SIGNED by Gash on the title page and INSCRIBED on the inside front pastedown. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
197115049New York: Harper & Row 1971. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good /very good . 8vo. First US edition of the author's first book and winner of the coveted Gold Dagger Award in Great Britain. Very good indeed in very good unclipped and unfaded dustwrapper. <br/><br/> Harper & Row hardcover books
196821757New York: Signet Books 1968. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Pocket paperbound book. Stated first printing. Contains two works: Killer Mine and Man Alone. 157 pp. Published as Signet P3483. A very good copy with some cover wear and faint spine crease. This copy SIGNED by Spillane and quite uncommon thus. <br/><br/> Signet Books paperback books
196921759New York: Signet Books 1969. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Pocket paperbound book. Stated first printing. Includes Kick It or Kill The Seven Year Kill and The Bastard Bannerman. 190 pp. Published as Signet T4141. A clean very good example. Square and tight. This copy SIGNED by Spillane and quite uncommon thus. <br/><br/> Signet Books paperback books
195514541Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall 1955. First Edition. Octavo. Gray cloth boards stamped in red and black; dustjacket; 309pp. Tight fine copy in lightly rubbed dustwrapper Very Good or better. Second of four memoirs by Chessman a San Quentin inmate whose first book - Cell 2455 Death Row - is one of the classic Death Row narratives. After publishing three books and exhausting a number of appeals Chessman was finally executed in 1960. Quite nice copy. SUVAK 58. Prentice-Hall unknown books
1997683New Haven and London: Yale University Press 1997. First Edition First Printing. 8vo pp. xxv 530 pages. An insiders' account of the espionage battle in Berlin between the CIA and the KGB from the end of World War II to the building of the Wall in 1961. These authors certainly know their stuff. David Murphy was chief of the CIA's Berlin station; Sergei Kondrashev was a lieutenant general in the KGB; and George Bailey was a director of Radio Liberty. <br/><br/>CONDITION: Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Small creases to spine ends and slight edge wear. Yale University Press unknown books
1967104New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1967. First American Edition 1st Printing.<br /><br />8vo 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 215 x 142 mm 252 pages in quarter cloth over boards gold titles to spine. With the dust jacket and the scarce "In Transit Docket."<br /><br />Strange things take place in a Paris brothel involving not only sex but also.nuclear weapons. The book includes the top secret "In Transit Docket" which lays out a U.S. plot against the Chinese. A typically fast-paced Deighton thriller. <br /><br />CONDITION: Small closed tear in pages 29-30 a couple of small stains on the fore edge some fading to the titles on the spine. Dust jacket unclipped with slight offsetting from the red end papers onto the front flap a bit of rubbing to the top of the front and rear panels. "Transit Docket" is Fine Overall a Very Good copy clean and unmarked. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1939WRCLIT73482Los Angeles: Republic Pictures 1939. Pictorial window card 22 x 14" printed in black and white with lurid green titling on recto only of stiff card stock. Uniform tanning along edges otherwise very good or better unused. A promotional window card for this low budget crime thriller based on an original story and screenplay by Robert A. Andrews with contributions by Ben Markson. Barton MacLane Beverley Roberts and Clarence Kolb starred. Aubrey Scotto directed. Andrews was a prolific screenwriter who in addition to potboilers such as this adapted to the screen works by Eugene O'Neill and A. Conan Doyle. Republic Pictures unknown books
196819276New York: Doubleday & Co 1968. 1st edition. Black cloth binding. White dust jacket. NF/VG light age toning. 656 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Doubleday & Co hardcover books
193128239New York: Knopf 1931. 1st US edition Hubin I p. 781; NCBEL IV 744. Blue green cloth binding designed by WAD. Red topstain. Green dust jacket. VG slight lean/VG spine panel sunned/pc. viii 257 1 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Knopf hardcover books
1952866New York: Ballantine Books 1952. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br /> Small Octavo 8 247 5 pages hardcover in dust jacket.<br /><br />Communist agent arrives in the U.S. to persuade a scientist to defect to the Soviet Union. He also gets involved with some American women who suspect he's up to no good. As far as Cold War fiction goes it's not bad at all. An attractive copy of a Ballantine hardcover. Unfortunately Ballantine didn't credit the artist who designed the striking photomontage dust jacket. <br /><br />Published during the McCarthy era this book actually goes easy on the lurid anti-Red hysteria of so much Cold War fiction.<br /><br />CONDITION: Near Fine in an unclipped bright Near Fine dust jacket that has a bit of rubbing and a couple of nicks.<br /> Ballantine Books hardcover books
194430660New York: Avon Books 1944. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good . Pocket paperbound book. First pocket paperbound edition of these five crime stories by Chadler. Published as Avon Books #63. Previously published the same year in an enlarged format by Avon as well. 286 pp. A crisp very good plus copy. Avon Books paperback books
198221656Boston and London: David R Godine 1982. Book Club. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine book club edition of this Mario Balzic murder mystery novel. SIGNED by the author and uncommon thus. Comes in a fine unclipped dustwrapper that clearly states Book Club Edition. <br/><br/> David R Godine hardcover books
196213645New York: Simon & Schuster 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First edition stated. A crime novel that won the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery of the Year. A very good copy in very good price intact dustwrapper with small chips to edges. Uncommon title in the first edition. <br/><br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover books
198028518New York: Bantam Books 1980. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Pocket paperbound original crime novel by Leonard. Published two years later in a British hardcover edition this pbo is the original edition. 218 pp plus a special preview section of The Elijah Conspiracy by Charles Robertson. Crease at spine. A very good well-bound and clean copy. With a SIGNED bookplate by Leonard laid in to this copy. Bantam Books paperback books
194622955New York: Simon & Schuster 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Classic crime omnibus collecting hard-boiled stories from issues of Black Mask magazine. 468 pp. Featuring work by George Harmon Coxe Norbert Deavis Raymond Chandler and others. Small prior owner name to front endpaper else a very good copy in green boards. The price-intact dustwrapper $3.00 is typically toned at spine colors and has a few chips and small tears to edges. A solid copy overall. <br/><br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover books
199325568New York: St. Martin's Press 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition of his uncommon third book featuring Neal Carey. NF in NF unclipped jacket. INSCRIBED by the author and dated in year of publication. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
191017715New York: Doubleday Page 1910. First Edition. Octavo 20cm. Blue ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 340pp. Photographic frontispiece portrait halftone showing the author with a group of his "boy friends." Mild rubbing to board edges; ownership signature to endpaper else a tight Near Fine copy. Autobiographical essays from the career of Judge Ben Lindsey a prominent child welfare advocate and long-time chief of the Denver juvenile court. With many anecdotes relating to child welfare gangs and juvenile delinquency in turn-of-the-century Denver. An uncommonly well-preserved copy. Doubleday, Page unknown books
191631420Boston: Small Maynard & Company 1916. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; olive green buckram with printed title labels at spine and front cover; dustjacket; 340 4pp. Mild sunning to spine with two faint stains to upper edge of textblock; contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket priced $1.50 at mid-spine; hint of sunning and faint vertical crease to spine light dustiness overall with a few small tears and nicks; Very Good. "Human documents from the experiences of a Massachusetts probation officer in the application of the probation system to the problems of men and women who without it would have been permanently lost to useful citizenship" from front panel. Small, Maynard & Company unknown books
190912868Cleveland: Wells Publishing Co 1909. First Edition. Octavo 20cm.; original red cloth boards; 204p; illus. Presumed remainder issue with "Wells Publishing Co." label applied over publisher's imprint at base of title page. A moderately worn copy with lettering mostly flaked away from spine and front cover; title page darkened from laid-in clipping; scattered thumb-soil to text but still a tight Good copy overall. Uncommon and somewhat cobbled-together account of this sensational turn-of-the-century kidnaping case one of several which propelled the phenomenon of ransom kidnaping into the national consciousness. Illustrated with photographs of the Whitla family the crime scenes the perpetrators and various other key figures in the case. Wells Publishing Co unknown books
1966492731966. President's Commission on Crime in the District of Columbia. Report of the President's Commission on Crime in The District of Columbia. Washington D.C.: United States Government Printing Office 1966. xxix 1041 pp. Ex-library with stamps. Cloth worn with gilt lettering. Internally clean. $75. unknown books
