Mission Viejo: ASAP, 2009. First, Limited Edition. A pair of short stories: "And All the Swans are Dying" featuring Jack Taylor and "Brant's High Tide" featuring Inspector Brant. Handwritten translation of "Uisce" from Gaelic opposite the limitation page. First Printing. Signed, Limited #40 of 50; Octavo (23.5cm.); green boards with illustrated..... More

New York: Hyperion, 1994. First Edition. The Edgar Award-winning author's seventh Dave Robicheax novel. Limited Issue, one of 1,525 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.113. Octavo; black cloth, with titles and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; publisher's black, gilt-stamped slipcase;..... More

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1917. First American Edition. Best-known book by Burke (1886-1945), a collection of 14 short stories set in the Limehouse borough of London's poverty-stricken East End, featuring the the Chinese character Quong Lee as narrator. "The Chink and the Child," the first story in..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition. A hard-boiled novel set in a Mid-Western town which is taken over by "native terrorists who make the gangsters look like boyscouts;" the men are opposed by a contingent of brave men who eventually regain control of the town. Though the novel..... More

Tarzana, CA: Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1940. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial laminated dust jacket, red topstain; 312pp. Bookplate to front pastedown, wear to cloth at crown and upper board edge, spine a bit foxed, else Very Good in a bright, Fine dustjacket (supplied, priced $2.00). Last of..... More

London: Robert Hale, 1949. First U.K. Edition. Collects three of Cain's novels: Love's Lovely Counterfeit, The Butterfly, and Past All Dishonour. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); red-orange cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 405, [3]pp. Spine-sunned, lightly shelfworn, with offsetting from dustjacket lettering onto front cover; Very Good..... More

Cleveland: World Syndicate Publishing Company, [1928]. Octavo (19.5cm.); original blue cloth in bright pink pictorial dust jacket; 312pp. General wear to jacket extremities, including a few tiny chips and tears, spine sunned to white, some foxing to rear panel flap fold, textblock uniformly toned due to poor paper stock, else..... More

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First Edition. First Impression, preceding the American edition published by Houghton Mifflin (1954). Octavo (19.5cm); maroon cloth with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 320pp. Near Fine copy, with faint offestting to endpapers, small vintage bookstore ticket inside front cover, and spine ends slightly nudged..... More

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1937]. First Edition. Fantastical adventure novel set in the Himalayas and featuring Secret Service agent Colin Gray. BLEILER (1972), p. 75. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket illustrated by "Lieberman," black topstain; 299pp. Some general shelf wear to jacket extremities, including a few..... More

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1949. First Edition. Precedes the UK edition. The film version, directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner and starring Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson, Max Irons, Glenn Close, Julian Sands, Terence Stamp, Stefanie Martini and Christian McKay, was released digitally and received a modest (16 theatres) theatrical release in the U.S...... More

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1957. First Edition. 18 short stories. First Thus. Octavo (21.5cm); dark pink cloth spine over pink paper covered boards; pink topstain; stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 250pp. Gently nudged spine ends, still a Fine copy; dustjacket is un-clipped (priced $6.95); light rubbing to spine ends..... More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1934. First American Edition. Collection of twelve short stories featuring Parker Pyne, retired civil servant. "Parker Pyne, whose secretary Felicity Lemon is later to assist Hercule Poirot, is possessed of an unshakeable belief that there are only five kinds of unhappiness in the world..... More

London: Collins / The Crime Club, 1958. First Edition. "One of Christie's favorites, this story concerns belated justice. Arthur Calgary returns from an expedition to the Antarctic to discover that the man who was found guilty of the murder of his mother has died in prison. Had he been available..... More