New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition in unclipped jacket, with foxing visible on the light-colored flaps and rear panel. Bumping to head of spine. Foxing to edges. Pronounced foxing to margins of a handful of interior pages (see photo) and final pages. iv, 220pp. A mystery-thriller.....
Doubleday, Doran, 1930. Hardcover. This set includes the complete works of the iconic crime fiction author, including of course the four novels and over fifty short stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, as well as all his non-Sherlock works such as his plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.....
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition in unclipped jacket. Wear and small losses to edges of jacket, tear along rear joint, loss to tail of spine. Blue boards with red lettering. Toning to pages, foxing to fore edge. 312pp. The fourth of Biggers' Charlie Chan novels.....
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Horace Hart Incorporated [Hart Book]. Soft cover. Undated paperback publication of the work serialized in 1942 in Argosy under the title "Blue, White and Perfect", adapted with that title as a film. Slight wear to soft covers, toning to pages. An early reader has left pen marks on the rear.....
New York: R. H. Russell, 1901. Pierce, Thomas Mitchell; Steele, F.D. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, with a letter from the author thanking the recipient for "your kindly notices of me in the Sunday papers of last week" affixed to the front free endpaper. A delightful early mystery, in which.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of Stanley Ellin's first novel, later adapted to film as "The Big Night". Some wear to the unclipped jacket, now in protective mylar, including loss to head and tail of the spine. Red cloth covers are bright, with minor.....
New York: Pocket Books, 1955. Erickson, George. Soft cover. Pocket Book edition, INSCRIBED by the author on the dedication page. Slight damp stain, most visible in the loss of red stain to the upper corner (see photo). Darkening to the pages throughout.
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New York: Crestwood Publishing Co., Inc., 1946. Soft cover. Digest-size abridged reprint. Spine creased, with wear to covers and slight bow to text. Faint pen marks in points of sunburst on rear cover. Pages toned but unmarked. 120pp. Advertisement for savings bonds inside rear cover. 7 x 5"
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Viking, 2016. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Advanced uncorrected proofs of le Carre's memoir. Slightest wear to the edges of the soft covers. Pages clean and unmarked, with the exception of a pencil notation on the half title page ("7/20"), presumably noting the date of receipt of the proofs. vii, [1].....
New York: G.W. Dillingham Co. Publishers, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A sensational novel set among the gambling tables of Monte Carlo, once owned by the noted magician C.A. Newmann. Newmann's bookplate is affixed to the front endpaper and his raised stamp to the title page, while a stamp on final.....
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated 4th impression of March 1932. The "First Cheap Edition" in jacket, with 2/6 price. Fading to spine of yellow jacket, prior owner's name in pencil near the price on the front panel. Fading to spine of red cloth boards. Map endpapers.....
The Dial Press, 1927. Hardcover. First American edition, identified as the "author's edition" on the copyright page, of the thrilling mystery. Lacking the dust jacket. Sunning of the spine and wear to the extremities, very minor darkening of the page edges. 320 pp. Label of the historic San Francisco Newbegins.....
Street and Smith, 1935. Soft cover. Clues Detective Stories, June 1935, with one novel, two novelletes, five short stories, a 'perfect crime' contest and delightful period advertisements. Chipping to the soft covers, with tears to the edges of the back panel (promoting Camels as the cigarette of choice for champion.....