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Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: (c.1926)
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 19418
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
[nice clean copy, bottom corners a bit bumped but no other discernible wear, vintage price sticker from the noted San Francisco department store The White House on rear pastedown; jacket shows a bit of dog-earing and minor creasing along top edge, light soiling to rear panel The first of the author's thirteen mystery novels featuring the duo of Detective-Inspector Sims, a Scotland Yard man, and Professor Wells, "a scientist of international celebrity, with half an alphabet of letters after his name." In a 1935 essay, Grierson stated that the Professor was "founded on a very disti... View more info
![Image for The Silver Tombstone [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/7432.jpg)
By: Gruber, Frank
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart: (c.1945)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 7432
Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj
[good solid copy, a bit of wear to bottom edge; jacket missing one approx. 1"x1" irregular chunk at top left front panel, another shallow piece there, some paper loss at both ends of spine, various other small tears, edgewear]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. A Johnny Fletcher mystery. Signed by Author View more info
![Image for The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/17172.jpg)
By: Hansen, Joseph
Price: $35.00
Publisher: London/Boston, Faber & Faber: 1978
Edition: 1st U.K. edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 17172
ISBN: 0-571-11247-1
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[slight bump to base of spine, otherwise a nice clean copy; jacket shows just a trace of handling wear]. INSCRIBED ("To _______ / good wishes") and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The four Dave Brandstetter novel, in which the gay insurance investigator is called in after the police chief of a little California beach town is murdered, and a hot-tempered gay-activist nursery owner is accused of the crime. Signed by Author View more info
![Image for Nightwork [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/17171.jpg)
By: Hansen, Joseph
Price: $30.00
Publisher: London, Peter Owen: 1984
Edition: 1st U.K. edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 17171
ISBN: 0-7206-0622-5
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
[very nice copy, clean and tight with no discernible wear to book; jacket shows just faint surface handling wear]. SIGNED boldly by the author on the title page (signature only; no inscription). Nice copy of the seventh Dave Brandstetter mystery, in which the gay insurance investigator looks into the suspicious death of a moonlighting truck driver. Signed by Author View more info
![Image for Gravedigger [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/17182.jpg)
By: Hansen, Joseph
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, Peter Owen: 1982
Edition: 1st U.K. edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 17182
ISBN: 0-7206-0591-1
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
[a very nice tight clean copy, no discernible wear to book; jacket shows the slightest bit of surface rubbing, plenty of others would call it Fine without blinking, but I'm a blinker]. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signature only, no inscription). Another in the Dave Brandstetter series, "set against vivid Southern California backgrounds of expensive seaside suburbs and snowy mountain camps, shacky desert towns and wilderness canyons," as the gay insurance investigator looks into the case of a disbarred lawyer who files a claim on the alleged death of his runaway daughter (... View more info
![Image for Fadeout [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/18913.jpg)
By: Hansen, Joseph
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: (c.1970)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 18913
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[light shelfwear to bottom edge, bumping and very slight cracks to bottom corners, small bookseller's label on rear pastedown (Charlotte Newbegin/Tillman Place Bookshop, San Francisco); jacket lightly age-toned, spine slightly faded, minor wrinkling at top of spine, ]. SIGNED by the author (no inscription) at top of title page. Hansen's first novel under his own name, and also the first Dave Brandstetter book. Signed by Author View more info
By: Hansen, Joseph
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: (c.1970)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20108
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj
[a bit of wear at spine ends, very tiny tear in cloth at base of spine, light foxing to top edge and fore-edge; jacket shows light soiling to front panel, slight fading to spine]. Hansen's first novel under his own name, and also the first Dave Brandstetter book. View more info
By: Harstad, Donald
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 17854
ISBN: 0-385-49569-2
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[spine slightly turned, base of spine bumped, very minor handling wear; jacket shows just a faint trace of wrinkling at top of rear panel]. Third novel by "Iowa's own answer to Michael Connelly," a writer who "writes the way Iowans live, with no-nonsense direction, an innate sense of right and wrong, and a dry Midwestern brand of humor. In today's urban-dominated thriller landscape, Harstad is working the rural crime beat to perfection." The plot here has to do with a mysterious rash of rural burglaries that leads a deputy sheriff to uncover a plot to knock over a floating ca... View more info
![Image for Bad News Travels Fast [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/18340.jpg)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1995)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 18340
ISBN: 0-399-14017-4
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice tight copy, no significant wear but light tanning to page edges due to cheap paper; jacket has faint dampstain at top of rear panel, otherwise bright and clean]. INSCRIBED ("For ______ -- You are my hero! God bless you and keep you always! Love -- ") and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author's second mystery to feature Joe and Dottie Loudermilk, a retired police detective and his wife, who in this book set off in their "beloved Airstream trailer" for Washington, D.C., "where their errant son involves them in all manner of political skulduggery." Sig... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Harmondsworth, England, Penguin Books: 1980 (c.1964)
Seller ID: 10175
Condition: Very Good
[moderate edgewear, otherwise tight and clean]. Mass Market PB Novel about a man released after serving six years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Basis for a German film version (1978) directed by Hans W. Geissendorfer. [This series of evocative Penguin photo-covers are my favorite editions by far of Highsmith's books.] View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: (c.1958)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21957
Condition: Very Good+
(no dust jacket) [solid copy, a bit of shelfwear to bottom edges of boards, very light soiling to top of text block]. Psychological suspense novel about the unlikely friendship between a Mexican furniture repairman and a German atheist, who both fall under suspicion when a woman they had each slept with is brutally raped and murdered. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Vintage Books: 1993
Edition: 6th printing
Seller ID: 23070
ISBN: 0-679-74567-X
Condition: Near Fine
[tiny bit of wear to bottom right corner of front cover, otherwise a tight clean copy that appears unread]. (Vintage Crime / Black Lizard) Series Trade PB "In this quietly terrifying exploration of trust and friendship, a troubled young runaway arrives in Villeperce. And when, on the boy's behalf, Tom Ripley is drawn from his lovely estate in the French countryside to Berlin's seamy underworld and into a kidnapping plot that rerquires the most bizarre methods -- and sinister acumen -- for intervention, the icily amoral Ripley is transformed into a generous and compassionate protector. W... View more info
By: Holden, Genevieve (pseud. for Genevieve Long Pou)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday/The Crime Club: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 13013
ISBN: 0-385-11188-6
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj
[solid clean copy, mild wear to top/bottom edges, light remainder spray on bottom edge; mostly-white jacket shows some light soiling, no tears or chips]. "It all began on a peaceful Saturday morning on Atlanta's Mimosa Way -- as peaceful as could be expected in that colorfully run-down neighborhood where a cross section of society, including bankers, professors, a colony of winos, a rock group, and an unsavory motorcycle gang, the Desperadoes, coexisted in relative harmony. Life on Mimosa Way was always a little unpredictable, but this was to be a weekend of unprecedented violence and al... View more info
By: Holland, Marty (pseud. for Mary Holland)
Price: $300.00
Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.: 1945
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14897
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[lightly worn copy, with some faint staining to the front cover, short closed tear at bottom of title page; jacket edgeworn, a few small tears, some minor paper loss at both ends of spine (all text on spine still present), internally tape-repaired (with modern tape, at least) at front foldover]. Very scarce novel which served as the basis for one of the best of Otto Preminger's early films (and a worthy follow-up to his classic LAURA). The first of five novels by this author, who apparently also dabbled in screenwriting without any notable success. (The only other film credit I've been able... View more info
By: Holland, Marty (pseud. for Mary Holland)
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Cleveland/New York, The World Publishing Company: 1945
Edition: Forum Books Motion Picture Edition
Seller ID: 21103
ISBN: NO
Condition: Fair in Good dj
[beware: the book's covers are extensively dampstained, although there appears to have been no associated damage done to the inside; as usual, however, with these cheap wartime editions the paper is quite browned; the jacket is heavily edgeworn, with numerous nicks and tiny tears but very little actual paper loss; in summary, keep the jacket on and this will serve as a reasonably presentable copy of a scarce edition]. (B&W photographs) Murder mystery which served as the basis for one of the best of Otto Preminger's early films (and a worthy follow-up to his classic LAURA). The first of five ... View more info
By: Hopley, George (pseud. for Cornell Woolrich)
Price: $65.00
Publisher: New York, Rinehart and Company, Inc.: (c.1950)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16835
Condition: Very Good in Good dj
(price-clipped) [bottom of book shelfworn (thin paper covering of boards worn through at numerous points), bottom front corner lightly bumped; jacket edgeworn, some shallow chipping along top edge (no loss of text or graphics), various other small tears, etc. The second (and last) novel published by Woolrich under the "George Hopley" pseudonym, which actually derived from his full name, Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich. The action is set, rather unusually for Woolrich, in 1915. View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce: (c.1940)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15879
Condition: Very Good in Good dj
(price-clipped) [spine turned, dampstain and minor surface scraping to rear cover, light dust-soiling to top edge, internally quite clean; jacket is decent-looking, but with two strange problems: #1, it seems to have been deliberately clipped just a tiny bit at all corners, and #2, there is a single strip of old clear tape (now somewhat yellowed) running horizontally from one flap all the way across both panels to the other flap; I guess this was intended as some weird form of reinforcement but in any case it probably can't be removed without doing serious damage to the jacket, so there it sta... View more info
By: Irish, William (pseud. for Cornell Woolrich)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Walter J. Black: (c.1951)
Edition: Book Club Edition
Seller ID: 14245
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[light bumping to spine ends, otherwise a nice clean copy; jacket shows moderate wear at edges and extremities, slight paper loss at top of spine (just nicking the first "S" in the title a bit), split along top rear foldover, front panel a little rubbed]. A New York detective who's supposed to be taking it easy, on vacation at "Joseph's Vineyard," runs into a murder case, in that way that vacationing detectives invariably do. "What could be the connection between an quiet, elderly male boarder, an indolent, middle-aged toper, a dim-witted youth who lived on the beach and w... View more info
By: Irish, William (pseud. of Cornell Woolrich)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Philadelphia/New York, J. B. Lippincott Company: (c.1942)
Edition: 3rd printing
Seller ID: 6144
ISBN: NO
Condition: Very Good
(no dust jacket) [solid copy with moderate overall wear, some fading to spine cloth; ffep torn out, which has left the front hinge exposed but not separated]. Irish/Woolrich classic, which starts out with both a great dedication ("To Apartment 605, Hotel M----- / in unmitigated thankfulness (at not being in it any more") and a terrific first chapter title ("The Hundred and Fiftieth Day Before the Execution"). A terrific yarn, and the basis for the highly-regarded 1944 movie of the same name, directed by Robert Siodmak and produced by Joan Harrison, who cut her teeth as an assi... View more info
By: Izzi, Eugene
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: (c.1987)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 17030
ISBN: 0-312-01038-9
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
[solid copy, very slight wear to heel of spine, top rear corner bumped; jacket shows a little wear along top and bottom edges, a couple of tiny scrape marks on front panel, surface-scratching & rubbing to rear panel, spine a bit faded]. The Chicago author's first novel, which established him immediately as a modern master of the hard-boiled idiom. View more info
