NEW YORK: McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie, 1927. HARDCOVER. 8vos. (5" x 7 1/2") Brick-red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Private library stamp (1 " x 1 1/4") to front pastedown. Spine lettering faded on some volumes. Clean and tight copies, with just the rare bump or nudge to..... More
Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First American edition in first state binding. Orange boards with blue graphic to front board, blue . lettering to spine. Slight rubbing to extremities. One small corner nudge to bottom rear corner. Bright and bold Dustjacket design by Boris..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1986. Hardcover. Faux leather with gold lettering to spine and front board. Part of the collection of mystery classics. VERY minor wear to corners. 175 pp. From The Collection of Mystery Classics. More
Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, [1922] 1978. First Thus. Paperback. Mass Market paperback. A bit of corner creasing and bumping, but appears unread -- no read crease to spine. Penguin Crime Fiction about a man motorcycling across the French countryside who is passed by a truck and notices on it a...... More
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London: George Newnes, Ltd, 1893. Hardcover. Bound issues, January to June. 652 pages. Profusely llustrated throughout. Original blue bevelled boards, large octavo. Corners bumped, staining along front edge of cover, frays to top of spine. Spine titles faded. Front hinge starting but binding tight, dampstain to prelims, otherwise clean. Doyle..... More
NEW YORK: H.C. Kinsey & Company, 1938. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Hardcover. The real mystery, of course, being just WHO was Dorothy Feilding, who wrote as A. (or as in the case of Murder in Suffolk, A.E.) Fielding. Spine-lean, color fading to spine, closed tear to cloth at top of spine..... More
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New York: Delacorte, 1990. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Black cloth over white boards. Touch of soiling to rear board, interior bright and clean. Dust jacket is complete, has a small scratch to front and some very slight edgewear at bottom. More
New York: Avenel Books, 1988. Hardcover. Very light shelfwear to DJ. Silver lettering debossed to black spine, black boards. Clean, unmarked text. Tight. 514 pp. A collection of 23 stories by masterful women such as Marie Belloc Lowndes, Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield, Edna St.Vincent Millay, Dorothy L. Sayers, P.D. James..... More
Boston, Mass: Little, Brown & Co., 1912. Dalton Stevens. First Edition. Hardcover. 21 short stories. Peter Ruff is a criminal who for the sake of love of a woman, tries to go straight; this is his journey. More
New York: Reader's digest, 1977. Stated First Edition. Softcover. Custom cloth hard case. Minor staining to case, and edgewear to book itself. A compilation of short mystery stories. 48 pp. More
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New York: Delacorte, 1978. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. 3rd printing of Wambaugh's fifth novel. Inscribed, signed and dated October 4, 1979 by Joseph Wambaugh. Black cloth, a near fine copy in dust jacket which is complete with original price on inside flap. Some light soiling to jacket and crease to inside..... More
