New York: knopf, 1966. First Edition. [BRUCCOLI, A20] Private Detective Lew Archer explores the secret life of a rich southern California residential community. First Printing. Octavo (21cm.); brown spine cloth over blue embossed boards; stamped in gilt on spine; Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.95); closed tear to top front..... More

Gladestry: Scorpion Press, 2005. Limited Edition. One of 80 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.53. Octavo (24.25cm); marbled paper boards and brown leatherette backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; green topstain; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [xii],325,[3]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed..... More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1926. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket; [2],414pp.; pictorial endpapers, text illus. throughout. A few small chips along jacket extremities, most noticeably at spine crown, the whole rather uniformly dust-soiled including top textblock edge, else Very Good and sound..... More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1973]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original half cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, red topstain; [8],274pp. Jacket spine ends dampstained to verso, topstain unevenly faded, general light shelf-wear, else Near Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on title page: "For Beth, With Love..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First Edition. The last of Millar's 4 mystery novels written under his own name. Basis for the 1981 film Double Negative, directed by George Bloomfield and starring Michael Sarrazin, Susan Clark, and Anthony Perkins. First Printing. Octavo; brown cloth, with titling and decorations stamped..... More

New York: Mysterious Press, 2014. First Edition. Mystery novel surrounding the grisly murder of a skilled forger, set in the world of antiquarian books. Limited Issue, one of 60 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.47. Octavo (23.75cm); navy blue leather and marbled paper-covered boards, with titles..... More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First Edition. Collection of seven short stories, the detective story "In a Cellar" compared to Poe's works (Dorri Beam, "Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing" (2010), p. 222). HUBIN, p. 386; WRIGHT II 2338. Octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's green blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine..... More

New York: McClure Company, 1908. Second printing (per Blanck). 12mo. Publishers ribbed red cloth boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 243pp; [1]p ads. In publisher's first binding. Owner's pencil signature to front endpaper, dated Christmas 1908. A tight, straight, and unmarked copy, Near Fine. The author's fourth..... More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1921. First Edition. Third Printing. March 1921. (Octavo 19cm); brown cloth stamped in black on cover and spine; 303pp. dustjacket; former owner's name on ffep, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00); some mild rubbing; a few short closed tears near crown; offsetting to verso..... More

New York: George H. Doran Company, [1922]. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; vi,[7]-297pp. Jacket extremities rather rubbed and worn with a number of closed tears and shallow losses, a couple touching text without loss of meaning; corners gently bumped, some offsetting to endpapers..... More

London: William Heinemann Ltd, [1948]. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [6],324pp. Jacket rather chipped and worn with bottom half of upper spine fold split, additional some closed tears and tiny chips to extremities, spine a bit dampstained, cloth corners bumped else Very Good in..... More

Tuscon: Dennis McMillan, 2005. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.171. Octavo; black cloth; dustjacket and publisher's slipcase. Fine in a Fine jacket and slipcase, still housed in the publisher's original shrinkwrap. More

Tuscon: Dennis McMillan, 1999. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 400 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.166. Octavo; black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket and original publisher's slipcase; 346pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket and slipcase. More