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![Image for Shear the Black Sheep [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/19928.jpg "Shear the Black Sheep [*SIGNED*]")
By: Dodge, David
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1942
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 19928
[ex-rental library book (with large informational stamp of Guild Libraries, Hollywood CA, on ffep), well worn, front hinge starting, etc.; jacket trimmed slightly along top and bottom edges (making it a little bit shorter than the book itself), plus it has a weird horizontal wrinkle/crease all the way across the middle]. Rather weirdly (since it's a rental library book) SIGNED by the author on the ffep. His second novel, also the second to feature his detective creatio... View more info
![Image for The House with the Green Shutters [SIGNED and annotated by novelist Reginald Wright Kauffman]](/assets/images/product/20882.jpg "The House with the Green Shutters [SIGNED and annotated by novelist Reginald Wright Kauffman]")
By: Douglas, George [pseud. for George Douglas Brown]
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Thomas Seltzer: 1924 (c.1901)
Edition: Later Printing
Seller ID: 20882
(no dust jacket) [a worn but fundamentally sound book; bookplate on front pastedown, biography of author (probably from the jacket flaps) affixed to rear pastedown along with a small vintage bookseller's label (Brentano's, New York); see notes regarding annotations]. The Scottish author's first and only novel, a mystery (listed in Hubin) originally published in 1901, a year before his death at age 33. An influential realist work, it has remained in print for most of the... View more info
![Image for The Gambler, the Minstrel, and the Dance Hall Queen [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/9093.jpg "The Gambler, the Minstrel, and the Dance Hall Queen [*SIGNED*]")
By: Downing, Warwick
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.: (c.1976)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 9093
[nice tight clean copy, just the faintest trace of wear to bottom edge; jacket shows mild surface wear, one tiny tear at bottom front corner]. SIGNED by the author (signature only) on the title page. His second novel to feature Joe Reddman, a Denver-based private investigator. Signed by Author View more info
By: Dunning, John
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, Scribner: (c.1995)
Edition: 4th printing
Seller ID: 13008
(NOT a book club edition) [mild shelfwear, spine slightly turned, light soiling to page edges; jacket shows a little edgewear, minor rubbing, slight wrinkling at spine ends]. "The rare-book angle gets to Janeway every time." Nuff said. View more info
![Image for American Tabloid [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/15801.jpg "American Tabloid [*SIGNED*]")
By: Ellroy, James
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 15801
[good solid copy, light soiling to page edges, one turned-down top page corner (short diagonal crease); jacket shows only some insignificant handling wear]. INSCRIBED with a typical scrawled Ellroyan epithet ("Blood Blast!" or, possibly, "Blood B lust!") and SIGNED by the author, on the second half-title page, additionally dated in the year of publication. Ellroy broadens his canvas, getting outside of L.A. to write a novel set "behind, and below, the... View more info
By: Endore, Guy
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1959
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 19019
[pages browned as typical with S&S books of this era, otherwise just minimally shelfworn, with very slight bumping to top corners; jacket shows just a trace of soiling to the rear panel, very shallow chipping at top of spine]. Mystery/suspense novel about a hitchhiking former linguistics professor (now an accused murderer on the lam) who finds himself back in the very town -- Devon, Indiana (not its real name) -- where his troubles began. The novel is written in the fi... View more info
By: Endore, Guy
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce: (c.1945)
Edition: 3rd printing
Seller ID: 18794
(price-clipped) [light shelfwear, very slight bumping to a couple of corners; jacket slightly faded at spine, light wear to extremities]. Psychological mystery/suspense novel about "a lost soul, a woman bedevilled by her other, evil, self" (i.e. a distaff Jekyll & Hyde yarn). Basis for the 1949 Otto Preminger film noir WHIRLPOOL, starring Gene Tierney and Richard Conte. View more info
By: Fisher, Steve
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1946
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8270
[a reading copy only: ex-rental library, typical marks, heavy shelfwear; jacket heavily worn/rubbed, trimmed by about 1/4" at both top and bottom edges, flaps glued down, all in all pretty rough]. View more info
By: Fisher, Steve
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York, Hillman-Curl, Inc.: 1939
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18514
[solid book with not much actual wear, BUT: (a) its one-time owner went absolutely bonkers with his ownership rubber-stamp, using it on all endpapers, the bottom edge, and a couple of other places; and (b) the dust jacket, heavily worn, is firmly glued down at the flaps]. Early mystery novel by Fisher, as he was still clawing his way up out of the pulps (his breakthrough novel, "I Wake Up Screaming," was just two years in the future), about a washed-up actress wh... View more info
By: Fisher, Steve
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1946
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15213
(no dust jacket) [solid clean copy, moderate shelfwear, a couple of pages roughly opened]. The author's eighth novel under his name (his 11th if you count those done under pseudonyms). [If you are of a mind, a very nice facsimile of the original H. Lawrence Hoffman-designed dust jacket can be had for this book (not from us, but will supply details upon request), which will help it look very handsome on your shelves.] View more info
By: Fowler, Keith
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: (c.1934)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21148
[light wear to binding at ends of spine, otherwise a clean and solid book; jacket edgeworn, with some chipping and minor paper loss in the vicinity of the spine ends, wrinkling and a bit of shallow chipping along top edge, ditto wrinkling at bottom of front panel]. Mystery novel centered around "New York's swankiest and most murderous scandal sheet" -- a magazine called "The Social Arbiter," essentially a not-too-subtle blackmail operation dedicated to f... View more info
By: Franklin, Max (pseud. for Richard Deming)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Rinehart & Company Inc.: (c.1954)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 6212
[solid, clean book, with minimal shelfwear, slight browning at page edges, small and very faint dampstain on top edge; jacket shows virtually no wear, with just a little browning around the edges of both flaps, and a tiny bit of what might be insect-chewing at the top corner of each flap]. A tale of an honest cop framed by organized crime, in order to protect the city's vice district. Supposedly set in a recognizable American city - - the jacket copy says that the author... View more info
By: Frome, David (pseud. for Zenith Jones Brown, aka "Leslie Ford")
Price: $300.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, for the Crime Club: 1930
Edition: Later Printing
Seller ID: 20963
[good solid book, some light foxing/staining to bottom edge and fore-edge of text block; jacket soiled along edges of flaps, slight dog-earing at spine ends]. Brown's third novel under her "David Frome" pseudonym, the introductory mystery featuring "Mr. Pinkerton," and a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. The book itself bears the Crime Club imprint and endpaper logos, but no edition statement (hence a later printing), and the dust jacket is Grosset & Dunlap; ... View more info
Price: $400.00
Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce: (c.1944)
Edition: 2nd printing
Seller ID: 16826
[solid copy, very slight fraying to one top corner, small embossed previous owner's stamp on ffep and half-title page, fading to cloth at very top of spine, a handful of "puncture wounds" (small indentations) in spine; jacket shows general wear, and has been tape-repaired and -reinforced at several points, including a brown-paper-tape patching of half-inch paper loss at top of spine (partially affecting title)]. What might be called Fuller's "breakthrough... View more info
By: Galloway, David
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London/Dallas, John Calder/Riverrun Press: 1979
Edition: 1st (unstated)
Seller ID: 15883
[a very nice copy, tight and clean with no discernible wear; jacket shows just a tiny bit of surface wear]. Chandler-esque detective yarn with a gender-twist: the title character is a lesbian, who "runs her detective agency -- an agency with a difference -- from a run-down office in the Cahuenga Building of Los Angeles, keeping the wolf from the door with $25 expenses and a sharp line in wisecracks." According to the jacket blurb, the book "has more tantalis... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.: 1953
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 12513
[ex-lending library book, stamped on endpapers but no other markings; book is mildly shelfworn but still a solid copy; jacket is attractive but with two problems: one, the flaps have been firmly glued down; two, the jacket was trimmed by about 1/8" at the top and 3/16" at the bottom, to fit inside one of those old-style jacket protectors; that jacket cover has now been removed and replaced with a mylar wrap-around, which makes the volume quite presentable, since ... View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: (c.1938)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 12624
(no dust jacket) [decent copy, front hinge cracked but not separated, light dampstaining and a few small white marks at bottom of front cover (interior of book not affected), slight fraying at bottom front corner]. Very scarce first novel by the author of "Detour," exploring the question of whether "it is possible in this day of enlightened justice for a man to be punished twice for the same crime." (A very nice facsimile dust jacket can be had for this ... View more info
Price: $600.00
Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: (c.1938)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18873
[nice square copy, a few tiny nicks to cloth at edges, a little wear at spine ends, long-ago seller's price lightly rubber-stamped on rear endpaper; jacket shows a bit of edgewear, teensy paper loss at a couple of bottom corners, one-inch closed tear at top front hinge]. Very scarce first novel by the author of "Detour," exploring the question of whether "it is possible in this day of enlightened justice for a man to be punished twice for the same crime.... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1972)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 6988
[spine turned, some spotting to page edges, mild wear to bottom edge and spine extremities; jacket faintly soiled, one tiny closed tear at top of front panel]. A mystery "in which seventy-two-year-old Max Guttman, a Lower East Side Jew, finds a body." This was the first of several Max Guttman mysteries. View more info
![Image for The Thirteenth Apostle [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/16065.jpg "The Thirteenth Apostle [*SIGNED*]")
By: Gonzalez, Gloria
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 16065
[nice tight copy, faint dust-soiling to top edge, no significant wear; jacket shows some rubbing/scuffing, mostly to rear panel]. INSCRIBED humorously and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author's first adult novel, a mystery, centering around "newpaper reporter and Susan Hayward lookalike" Geraldine St. Claire, who's attempting to finish an investigative story about random Tylenol poisonings that her best friend and sometime lover was working on whe... View more info
