[nice-looking copy, slight curling to covers, a couple of small areas of laminate lifting on rear cover, one tiny tear at top of last page of index]. Mass Market PB The title kinda says it all, doesn't it? Notable as one of the few books in Dell's famous "mapback" series that doesn't have a map on the back cover -- which suggests to me that when it came to figuring out how to achieve happiness in marriage, the publishers were as lost as the rest of us. View More...
[moderately edgeworn, light browning to page edges, hinges tender but intact]. Mass Market PB Uncommon paperback original, a collection of short pieces apparently hustled into print to capitalize on the success of Appel's previous Lion paperback, "Hell's Kitchen," which according to the possibly-hyperbolic back-cover blurb on this book had "sold nearly a million copies." This volume contains ten stories: two excerpts from the novels "Brain Guy" and "The Dark Stain"; seven reprinted from various magazines, 1933-1941; and the title story, especially written for ... View More...
[moderately worn copy, slght fading along spine, short diagonal crease at bottom corner of front cover; internally quite clean, with typical signs of aging to cheap paper]. An outstanding association copy of Cain's most famous novel, INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page -- an amusing inscription to film producer and fellow screenwriter Carey Wilson which reads: "To Cary [sic] Wilson / The best edition / of all / Jim." Wilson was the producer of the long-delayed MGM film version of the book, released in 1946, and in fact had been the first writer assigned to the property when M... View More...
[nice tight copy, minor edgewear, tiny nick in binding at base of spine]. Mass Market PB "Of all the hotshot promoters going, Ed Jason was the sneakiest. First he got caught with his pinkies in the till, working for Jump-Jive Records, and then they slapped him with a payola rap, and the next thing he knew he was in the quaint village of West Valve, lost in the Ozarks, hungry for a woman -- any woman! And he found her, but quick like. The next time Ed Jason looked around he was ending a fiery session in the weeds with a little doll named Fran, and buzzing with the hottest singing idea si... View More...
[minor wear to book at extremities; jacket shows a little scuffing at spine ends, tiny scrape near bottom of spine, very slight paper loss at top of spine]. SIGNED by the author (signature only with no inscription) on the half-title page. Suspense novel about an American journalist in Berlin, following a tip that he thinks might lead him to a surviving son of Adolf Hitler -- but he's not the only one on Junior's trail: "'Good' Germans want to kill the boy, and neo-Nazis want to find him, to deify him, use him as their symbol." Signed by Author View More...
[light edgewear only, tiny split in binding at top front hinge]. (Bestseller Mystery, No. B143) Series About as nice a copy of this title (or any in the cheaply-produced and very wear-prone "Bestseller Mystery" series, for that matter) as you're likely to find. Contemporaneous digest-size reprint of Fuller's breakthrough novel, a slam-bang mystery set in the New York tabloid milieu where the screenwriter/director had cut his pulp-narrative teeth. The book was filmed as SCANDAL SHEET by Phil Karlson in 1952, while Fuller himself was simultaneously at work on his own personal paean to the news... View More...
[moderate wear to all corners and along spine, short diagonal crease at bottom right corner of front cover, other miscellaneous wrinkling and soft creasing in front cover, faint beverage ring on front cover, some scrunching near spine to the bottom edges of a group of pages, light stain on top right of text block (no bleed onto pages)]. This pocket-size printing of Fuller's newspaper/mystery yarn has its own special place in his personal mythology: by the author's own account, he first encountered his book in published form in this very edition -- in France, shortly after D-Day, when he observ... View More...
[nice tight copy, age-toning to edges of text block, a little wear along top edge of front cover, a few soft crease marks in front cover]. Mass Market PB A "Johnny Fletcher" mystery by this prolific detective and Western novelist, who also had a significant career writing for movies and TV. View More...
[slight dog-earing at several corners and base of spine, reading creases in spine, light edgewear to covers]. (Panorama de narrativas, no. 27) Series Trade PB Spanish-language edition of this modern suspense classic, the author's first novel and the basis for the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name (which, however, diverges from and simplifies the novel, as film adaptations usually do). This particular printing is of some Hitchcock-completist interest, as the front cover design is a montage of images from the film. View More...
[soft 2-inch vertical crease at top of front cover, very slight bumping to corners of front cover, vertical crease in spine with binding starting to crack between pp. 150/151]. Mass Market PB Uncommon "nonfiction novel" about an 18-year-old transgender wannabe who went to Tijuana in the early 1970s for a sex-change operation but wound up sentenced to six months in the La Mesa Penitentiary instead, where s/he endured all manner of brutalization, sexual and otherwise. The author, who met Zulma (née Miguel) while visiting a friend who was incarcerated in the same prison, tells her story... View More...
[binding tight, moderately edgeworn, some scuffing to covers, slight browning to page edges]. Mass Market PB INSCRIBED (to "a good friend, writer and teacher") and SIGNED by the author on the inside front cover. Paperback original, a novel set in Post-WWII occupied Germany, "the sometimes shocking, always tender story of Anita Graf, an aspiring actress, and the young Army captain who shows her the way." Signed by Author View More...
[very nice copy, tight uncreased spine, minor surface wear only]. Mass Market PB "Hoodlums. They came out of nowhere. Small time punks on their first big job. This was their golden opportunity. Two hundred thousand dollars in crisp, new bills. Theirs for the taking. No one knew the South American diplomat was carrying the money. No one, except them. They could have taken it with a gun. But they used acid -- for kicks." A paperback original. (Note: "Acid," in this context, means acid -- not LSD.) View More...
[nice tight copy, light horizontal crease near top of front cover]. Mass Market PB INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the inside front cover. A novel about a Governor whose re-election campaign is imperiled when he's involved in an accident that results in the death of a young woman, and has to cover it up; the similarities to Teddy Kennedy's 1969 Chappaquiddick plunge are probably not coincidental. The bio material on Slatzer touts "his friendship and acquaintance with every President since Harry Truman," and his purportedly extensive credits in the movie and TV biz (which in the end did... View More...
[nice tight copy, browning to inside of covers but exterior still bright and attractive; minor soiling to rear cover]. Mass Market PB "Their Love was wrong....but it was a business. They learned all the tricks that fan lust in men -- the moist pink lips, the teasing caress that lingers, the voluptuous thrust of hips, they knew all this and more....". Exciting Reading for Men (it sez here). View More...
[worn copy, considerable edgewear, slight spine roll, some diagonal creasing in front cover, previous owner's stamp on inside front cover, another (different) name in pencil on title page, which also has an old inked price]. Mass Market PB "What terrible demon possessed Neysa Bancroft that she must offer her full red lips so willingly to any man who sought their sweet, evil secret? -- How could such evil lurk behind such wide, innocent eyes? How could such shameless passion seethe in a creature so delicate, so lovely?" It's a puzzlement, all right. View More...
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