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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
199221533New York: St Martin's 1992. Book Club. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine copy in dustwrapper of the author's first book. Although it looks tastes and smells like a first edition it is actually a book club edition due to the "HB5X" present on the last page of text. SIGNED by the author on the title page. St Martin's hardcover books
19529297NY: Roy 1952. First edn. 8vo Pp. 302. Pages little browned a good copy. OP Thompson and her supposed lover Frederick Bywaters were hung after being convicted of murdering her husband Percy Thompson. Roy unknown books
197913635New York: W. W. Norton and Company 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First edition of the author's first book a suspense novel that won the Edgar Award for best first novel of the year. This copy both SIGNED by the author and separately INSCRIBED by Patterson and dated in year of publication. A very good copy in very good price intact but bottom-corner clipped dustwrapper. <br/><br/> W. W. Norton and Company hardcover books
192825927New York: The Macaulay Company 1928. First edition. Cloth. Good . 8vo. Yellow cloth covers printed in red. A 315 pp novel. Circular stain to preliminary pages and front inside pastedown. Narrow boring hole affecting a few pages at top. Otherwise a solid very good copy. Lacks the uncommon dustwrapper. The Macaulay Company unknown books
195628497New York: E. P. Dutton & Co 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. Stated first edition. 191 pp. Exceptionally nice copy in dustwrapper of this crime and suspense novel by the author of The Screaming Mimi and Night of the Jabberwock. A handsome near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. E. P. Dutton & Co hardcover books
185257744New Orleans Charleston Baltimore and Philadelphia: A.R. Orton 1852. the original wrapper was dated 1853 apparently accounting for that date being used in each of the three OCLC listings. First edition of this rather primitively printed pamphlet. 8vo. 2 11-36 pp. Portrait frontispiece three wood-engraved plates. OCLC: "Sensational and presumably fictitious account of the criminal career of Margaret C. Waldegrave probably written by the publishers" the author of several similar lurid tales in the early 1850s. Contemporary pencil inscription on verso of frontispiece "Allow one vol. / plain binding / leather back." Not in Wright "American Fiction" McDade "Annals of Murder" or Jumonville "New Orleans Imprints." OCLC locates four copies American Antiquarian Soc. New York Historical Soc. Juniata British Library; AAS also holds a prospectus broadside for the work. Some interior foxing and soiling corner of one leaf renewed not affecting text. Recent plain gray wrappers. #4698. <br/><br/> A.R. Orton hardcover books
187832526Chicago: Donnelley Lloyd & Co 1878. First Edition. Small octavo 18.5cm.; publisher's brown decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt blue-grey glazed endpapers; 256pp.; frontispiece full-page illus. throughout. Some light wear to extremities spine gilt rather dulled else Very Good or better. Memoir of the professional gambler/drunk-turned-evangelist. See BANTA's Indiana Authors and Their Books p. 195. Donnelley, Lloyd & Co unknown books
19541559New York: Random House Inc. 1954. First Edition First Printing. 8vo 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm 248 pages in quarter cloth over paper boards titles to upper board and to spine. Very Good or better in a Very Good dust jacket. Some light toning to spine edges internally clean and bright. The unclipped dust jacket has some nicks and soiling.American journalists learn a secret about the head of the dreaded security police in a European people's democracy. They head for the border town of Skaro with the bad guys on their heels. A Cold War thriller. <br /><br /> Random House, Inc. hardcover books
200521391New York: Little Brown & Co 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine first edition in dustwrapper of this legal thriller by the author of The Concrete Blond and Blood Work. INITIALED by the author on the title page. Source for the film of the same name. <br/><br/> Little, Brown & Co hardcover books
197228912Philadelphia: Oswald Train 1972. Reprint. Cloth. Near Fine/very good. 12mo. 156 pp. Reprint edition of Bennett's only volume of detective stories. A handsome near fine copy in very good pictorial dustwrapper with design by William Dixon. Oswald Train unknown books
200221362Boston: Little Brown & Co 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First edition first printing of this breakout successful novel by the author of Lucky. A clean near fine example in near fine price intact dustwrapper. Price sticker afixed to rear panel. Source for the film of the same name. Little, Brown & Co hardcover books
192525721New York: George H. Doran Company 1925. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardbound octavo. 292 pp. Handsome very good copy in orange-red boards. Presumed second printing with a "B" on the copyright page. Lacking the uncommon dustwrapper. George H. Doran Company hardcover 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
199422588New York: St. Martin's Press 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Stated first edition of the author's second crime novel. A sharp clean near fine copy in dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the author on the title page and dated in year of publication. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
188741538Saint John N. B.: Printed by Geo. W. Day Corner Prince Wm. and Princess Sts 1887. "Fifth Edition" stated. The First Edition published in 1816 cf. Sabin 3947; Watters p. 462. Late 19th C. 3/4 blue sheep binding with marbled paper boards. Marbled eps. Original pale green printed wrappers retained. Rear wrapper an advert for Geo. Day. Binding shows some extremity wear. Original wrappers & text paper show age-toning with rear wrapper having a chip from the fore-edge. A VG copy. 82 pp. Wood engraved vignette to front wrapper. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/>"Henry More Smith also known as Henry Frederick Moon Henry J. Moon Henry Hopkins Henry Frederick More Smith and William Newman was a confidence man master puppeteer hypnotist seer liar and above all else a superlative escape artist who lived for a while in New Brunswick Canada. Chains handcuffs shackles even made-to-fit iron collars could not hold him." Wiki. The author Bates was the sheriff of Kings' County New Brunswick. Uncommon in the trade. Printed by Geo. W. Day, Corner Prince Wm. and Princess Sts hardcover books
192727223New York: Henry Holt and Company n.d. but 1927-28. First American Edition. Octavo 22.25cm; indigo cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 282 2pp; illus.frontispiece and seven plates of illustrations. Bound from British sheets with title page a cancel on a stub. Mild wear to extremities else Fine in a Very Good dustjacket lightly spine-sunned with some dustiness to panels and 1.5cm chip to crown. An accounting of "some of the most hazardous and thrilling escapes and attempts at escape" ever recorded with chapters devoted to John Nevinson Jack Sheppard David Haggart Louis Cartouche Louis Napoleon George Kelly and Frederick Trenck - the latter-named tagged by the author as "the arch-escaper of all history." Originally published by Philip Allan & Co. in London in 1927; the present edition undated but was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times in April 1928. Henry Holt and Company unknown books
199421294London: Macmillan 1994. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First UK and true first edition of the author's third crime novel. SIGNED on the title page. Fine in fine unclipped jacket. Beautiful copy. <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover books
194928569New York: E. P. Dutton & Co 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. Stated first edition. 248 pp. Hardbound copy in dustwrapper of this crime and suspense novel by the author of Death Has Many Doors and Night of the Jabberwock. Faint erasure marks to inside front pastedown else a sound very good and clean copy in a clipped but otherwise handsome near fine dustwrapper. E. P. Dutton & Co hardcover books
196328500New York: E. P. Dutton & Co 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. Stated first edition. 188 pp. Exceptionally nice copy in dustwrapper of this collection of crime and suspense stories by the author of The Screaming Mimi and Night of the Jabberwock. A handsome near fine copy in price-intact dustwrapper. One of the author's scarcest titles especially hard to find in this condition. E. P. Dutton & Co hardcover books
1988693New York: Random House 1988. Book club edition. A riveting look at the case of Edward Lee Howard who worked for the CIA and defected to the Soviet Union in 1985. Two years later Howard secretly met in Budapest with the author David Wise to tell his version of events. Octavo 288 pages. Good only with foxing of page edges bumped corners some rubbing to the boards and a previous owner's embossed seal on the front end paper. The dust jacket is rubbed on both panels and on the spine. <br/><br/>If anyone can unravel a spy case it's journalist David Wise who is one of the most authoritative writers about the world of espionage. As for Howard he died under mysterious circumstances at his Russian dacha in 2002. He was 50 years old. Random House 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
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
19372123456Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. First edition. Hinges starting split down fold of front jacket flap jacket spine faded Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover books
19559443NY: Scribner 1955. First edn. 8vo Pp. 218. Fine in dj. A discussion of four famous murder cases in which women are the central figures. Scribner unknown books
