New York: Avon Book Division, 1959. First American Edition. Originally published in Paris in Gallimard's "Serie Noire," under the title Couché dans le pain (1959), part of Himes's series featuring Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. FABRE, SKINNER & SULLIVAN P8. First Printing. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; yellow..... More

New York: Avon, 1986. First Edition. First printing (paperback original). Inscribed "To Laurie" on title page; signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Mass market paperback; 276pp. Wrappers lightly creased and worn; small abrasion to rear wrapper; Very Good. More

New York: Belmont Books, 1961. First Edition. Biography detailing "the uncensored life, loves, and fabulous career of "The Sex Kitten of French Moviedom." A superb copy. First Printing, a paperback original. Octavo; photo-illustrated wraps; yellow edge-staining; 157pp, [3]; with 32pp of black & white photo-illustrated plates. A fresh, Fine copy..... More

New York: Ace Books, 1963. First Edition. "The human remnants of the intersystem wars play a territory-oriented game designed to maximize births in an almost sterile population." LEVACK 18a. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; yellow edge-staining; 191pp, [1] ad leaf. Light tanning to text edges, with..... More

New York: Fawcett Publications / Gold Medal Books, 1951. First Edition. The first of the author's 13 paperback original novels, telling the story of James Cassidy, war hero, former football star and airline pilot, who works as an alcoholic bus driver after being wrongly blamed for an airline crash. He's..... More

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1956. First Edition Thus. Movie tie-in edition for Goodis's 1956 novel Down There, in which an alcoholic former concert pianist plays piano in a sleazy bar, and becomes entangled with criminals who ultimately murder his girlfriend. Basis for François Truffaut's 1960 film noir Tirez sur..... More

New York: Dell, [1959]. First Edition. First Printing. 12mo (16.25cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers, all edges green; 160pp. Some light edge wear, hairline crack to hinge at pp. 4/5, else Very Good or better. "Novelization of the TV series based on Huggins' character [Stuart Bailey]" (HUBIN, p. 215). More

New York: Dell Publishing Company, [1951]. First Edition. A paperback original novel. Slim octavo (16.25cm); pictorial card wrappers, stapled; [64]pp. Trivial wear along spine-fold, subtle tanning to text edges, with faint previous owners name on upper margin of title page; Near Fine. First separate edition of this novella, originally published..... More

New York: Scholastic Book Services, [1962]. First Thus. 12mo (16cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers, all edges stained yellow; [6],218pp.; text illus. throughout. Wrappers quite worn and creased, upper cover starting to separate, cracks at spine ends, textblock slightly toned and chipped; a Good at best copy of the first paperback..... More

New York: Macfadden Books, 1968. First Paperback Edition. Simmons's first novel (published in 1957), chronicling the rise and fall of a 19 year-old Black dope hustler whose life begins to deteriorate when he is caught by police with a white woman and drugs in his car. Winner of the Houghton..... More

New York: Lion Book by arrangement with Prime Publications, [1953]. First Edition. First Printing. 12mo (16cm.); original pictorial card wrappers, all edges stained dark purple-black; 128pp. Upper wrapper with several faint crease marks, general shelf-wear, else About Very Good. Early Thompson novel about a newly-paroled man escaping assassination. Institutionally scarce..... 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: Popular Library, [1970]. First Edition. 12mo (17.25cm.); original black photo-illustrated card wrappers, all edges stained green; 128pp. Minor rubbing along spine edges, a few dampstains affecting edge stain, textblock uniformly toned as usual, else Very Good or better, apparently unread. Novelization of the 1964 film of the same..... More