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Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1964. First Edition. Small octavo. Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 159pp. Fine and unmarked in Near Fine dustwrapper. More
Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1964. First Edition. Small octavo. Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 159pp. Fine and unmarked in Near Fine dustwrapper. More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1965. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Black cloth, blue topstain, original jacket; plain endpapers; [vi],245pp. Tight, fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.95), lightly rubbed on spine and rear panel, VG+. Smith's first novel, a suspense thriller set in northern Michigan and..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First Edition. Fictionalized account of the author's real-life experiences on San Quentin's Death Row following a wrongful murder conviction. Lamson also published a non-fiction account (We Who Are About To Die, 1935). Oddly, the setting is changed to Washington State Penitentiary for this fictional..... More
New York: Sears Publishing Company, 1932. First Edition. Humorous mock-juvenile Depression novel (somewhat in the vein of Ring Lardner's The Young Immigrunts) in which an orphan is raised by his uncle, a professional grifter. Played for humor, but a gritty work. Small octavo (19cm). Illustrated paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 118pp; illus..... More
New York: Dial Press, 1951. First Edition. Sprawling novel of the rise of three young Jewish gangsters in the world of Las Vegas organized crime. Less a crime novel than an occupational novel of the Jewish-American underworld - a subtle distinction, perhaps, but as with all of Shulman's early novels..... More
New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition. Attractive copy of the 16th Parker novel. Hubin, p.388. First Printing. Octavo; red and black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [viii],307pp. Shallow bump to lower rear board, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $4.95)..... More
New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition. The 13th Parker novel, and the first to be published in hardcover. First Printing. Octavo; black and green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [viii],214,[2]pp. Forward lean, light wear to spine ends and board edges; Very Good. Dustjacket is..... More
N.p., n.d. [Dallas, ca. 1926]: Privately published. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed pictorial wrappers; 133pp; 1 portrait. Covers slightly toned and soiled, with small chips at corners, else Very Good, with text clean, tight and unmarked. SIX-GUNS 2159: "The Author give quite an account of the outlaw career of one Joe..... More
Garden City: Doubleday / Crime Club, 1950. First Edition. The couple's second book, and the first to be adapted to film. Basis for the 1954 film noir directed by William A. Seiter, starring Dorothy McGuire, Stephen McNally, and Mary Murphy. THE DARK PAGE, Vol.2, p.80-81. First Printing. Octavo; black cloth..... More
New York: Popular Library, 1967. First Edition. Thompson's novelization of the Emmy Award-winning show, featuring a brilliant paraplegic detective. First Printing. Octavo; photo-illustrated wraps; blue edge-staining; 144pp. Touch of fading to the edge-staining, with a few pinpoint rubs to extremities; Near Fine and unread. More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications / Gold Medal Books, 1967. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [6],7-192pp. Modest external wear, mild tanning to text edges, a few faint creases, some faint spotting to upper rear wrapper, and a bookseller's rubber-stamp on preliminary..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications / Gold Medal Books, 1965. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [4],5-160pp. Slight forward lean, light wear to wrappers, some tanning to text edges, and a few faint vertical creases to spine; Very Good. HUBIN, p.402. More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1931. First Edition. "The final installment in what Tully considered his five-volume autobiographical cycle (following Beggars of Life, Circus Parade, Shanty Irish and Shadows of Men), this book essentially picked up where Shanty Irish had left off, following the passage of young Jim from a Cincinnati..... More
New York: Vanguard Press, 1940. First Edition. Novelist decides to try his hand at crime fiction. Befriends the leaders of two rival gangs, then invites them both to his country house for a weekend of "fact-finding." Hijinks ensue. Nice copy of a later work by our one of our favorite..... More
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original printed staplebound self-wrappers; iv,107pp.; illus. Slight creasing to text, still Near Fine. Report of investigations held in the states of California and Texas, complete with photographic evidence involving marijuana, cocaine, and automatic weapons used against Cuban drug lord..... More
Richmond, VA: Sunday World Company, 1935. Tabloid (46cm); 12pp; illus. On newsprint. Fragile, with splits at folds, costing a few characters but no loss of sense; complete and Good. Inaugural issue of an extremely scarce and short-lived Depression-era tabloid. The Sunday World appears to have set its fortunes on the..... More
London: Methuen Drama, 1999. First UK Edition. First Impression. Slim octavo; illustrated wrappers; 63pp, [6]. A Fine copy of Welsh's first original stage play, where two inner city thugs take the law into their own hands to satisfy their craving for fun, fear and a warped sense of justice... More
New York: Random House, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black and gray patterned paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver and yellow on spine; blue topstain; dustjacket; [vi],183,[3]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Crown slightly nudged, trivial wear to base of spine, with some gentle..... More
New York: Mysterious Press, 1990. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 100 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.26. Octavo; teal cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's matching slipcase; 422pp. Handful of scattered spots to text edges, else Fine in a Fine slipcase. More
New York: Mysterious Press, 1986. First Edition. Special edition of this novel, produced exclusively in a run of 1,000 copies for Neiman-Marcus stores. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies signed by the author, this being letter Z. Octavo; black cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in copper on..... More
New York: Mysterious Press, 1985. First Edition. Adventure novel set in the jungles of Belize. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies signed by the author, this being copy 'B'. Octavo; beige cloth and olive green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; publisher's beige cloth slipcase;..... More
New York: Mysterious Press, 1984. First, Limited Edition. An episodic series of six novellas featuring Westlake's middle-aged Brooklyn detective Abe Levine. A sharp copy, with interesting provenance. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies signed by the author, this being copy 'B.' Octavo; black cloth, with titles stamped in silver..... More
New York: Mysterious Press, 1984. First, Limited Edition. An episodic series of six novellas featuring Westlake's middle-aged Brooklyn detective Abe Levine. A sharp copy, with interesting provenance. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.2. Octavo; black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine;..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1913]. Small octavo (19.75cm.); original teal decorative boards, unadorned spine; [8],94pp. Spine ends chipped, corners slightly dinged, else Very Good and sound. First published in 1910 during the author's tenure as mayor of Toledo (1906-1914). More
Montclair: Pegasus Rex, 1980. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm.); white boards titled in black on cover and spine; dustjacket; 277pp.; minor corner bend on front board; faint finger soil to fore edge of textblock, still Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped with a short, closed tear to rear panel. Near Fine..... More