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![Image for Too Busy to Die [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/9746.jpg "Too Busy to Die [*SIGNED*]")
By: Roden, H.W.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Co.: 1944
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 9746
(no dust jacket) [mild exterior wear, slight darkening & waviness to top page edges, spine cloth a bit faded but lettering still strong]. SIGNED by the author on a large printed label affixed to the ffep, proclaiming this to be the "Autographed Edition / To / W.D. Rorrex / with the kindest personal regards / of the author:". Signed by Author View more info
By: Rohmer, Sax
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, A.L. Burt Company: 1918 (c.1916)
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 19566
[solid clean book with light bumping to base of spine, vintage bookseller's label (Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket shows quite a bit of wear at edges and corners, a bit of paper loss at spine extremities, numerous tiny nicks and tears, etc.]. The second Fu-Manchu book, originally published in 1916; the copyright page of this book states "Third Printing, November, 1918," but in fact it dates from roughly the mid-1920s. (One could fix t... View more info
By: Rosenkrantz, [Baron] Palle [Adam Vilhelm] (translated by M. Guiterman)
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Page & Company: 1926
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 23582
[light wear to book at spine ends, vintage price sticket (J.W. Robinson Co.) on rear pastedown; jacket a little faded at edges and spine, tiny chip at bottom of front panel, about 1/2" paper loss at top of spine, a couple of other small nicks and tears]. One of several of this Danish attorney-writer's novels (many of them mysteries) to be published in the United States, this is the tale of a young man who discovers after the death of his father that "his only in... View more info
By: Roueche, Berton
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: (c.1977)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15205
[sharp-looking book, only the tiniest bit of shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket very clean, no significant wear but with some very minor wrinkling]. Suspense novel about a retired middle-class Long Island couple who plot a murder in order to improve their lot in life. View more info
By: Sale, Richard
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1942
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 7574
[solid, square copy, a couple of mildly bumped corners, very faint beverage ring stain on front cover; jacket heavily worn at extremities (a bit of paper loss at all corners), a few small edge-tears, wrinkling]. Excellent Hollywood mystery novel with elements of the fantastic, revolving around a quack doctor's experimental raising of dogs from the dead. The author was a pulp writer turned novelist/screenwriter, who later turned to directing as well. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: (c.1987)
Edition: 2nd printing
Seller ID: 21491
[nice tight clean copy (NO remainder mark), appears unread; no significant wear to either book; jacket has tiny abrasion at top front hinge, otherwise flawless]. The author's first novel, set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, introduced the character of P.I. Jonathan Croft, who featured in five subsequent books. View more info
![Image for No Human Involved [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/14409.jpg "No Human Involved [*SIGNED*]")
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 14409
[spine turned, but only significant wear is minor bumping at base of spine; jacket shows a little handling wear]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author's debut novel, set in Venice Beach, California, in the 1970s, and involving "a cast of delightfully unique characters whose lives intertwine during one of America's most colorful decades." Signed by Author View more info
By: Sevilla, Charles
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 13056
[nice tight copy, no discernible shelfwear, just a faint bit of spotting on top edge; jacket shows the teensiest bit of surface rubbing, if you squint]. The author's second novel about the "hotheaded, brash, merciless, sharp John Wilkes, a legendary defense attorney with a notorious reputation for unconventional tactics in the courtroom." View more info
By: Shagan, Steve
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1975)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 9150
[mild shelfwear, spine slightly turned, small smudge on rear cover; jacket has small tears at all top corners, other quite decent]. Detective novel set in Los Angeles, by the producer/screenwriter best known for the 1973 film SAVE THE TIGER; apparently the source for the 1975 film HUSTLE with Burt Reynolds and Catherine Deneuve (screenplay by Shagan), although not credited as such in the reference source I checked. View more info
By: Shasha, Dennis
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, W. H. Freeman and Company: (c.1988)
Edition: 2nd printing?
Seller ID: 12853
[nice tight clean copy, no discernible wear; jacket shows minor wrinkling at top/bottom edges of front panel]. "A book about puzzles and problem solving, entertainingly disguised as the fictional tale of Dr. Jacob Ecco. We first meet Dr. Ecco at home in Greenwich Village, New York, where he is visited by his diverse clientele: government leaders and shadowy double agents, corporate giants and eccentric millionaires. Each client presents Dr. Ecco with an intriguing ... View more info
By: Slesar, Henry
Price: $8.00
Publisher: London, Souvenir Press Ltd.: 1993
Edition: 1st ed. thus
Seller ID: 4102
[nice tight copy, minimal handling wear]. Murder mystery set behind the scenes of a TV soap opera. View more info
![Image for North of Montana [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/8919.jpg "North of Montana [*SIGNED*]")
By: Smith, April
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 8919
(price-clipped) [nice tight copy, no discernible wear; jacket shows very slight surface wear on front panel]. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Signed by Author View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company: (c.1937)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21157
[well-worn ex-rental library book with the usual depredations (multiple stamps on endpapers, additional stamps on top and bottom edges, etc.), front hinge cracked with webbing fully exposed; jacket is similarly well-worn and (surprise!) firmly glued down at the flaps in that typical 1930s-era rental-library manner)]. "A fast-moving detective story in which Earl Standish, who has an international reputation in police circles for ferreting out secrets, devotes some si... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co. , for the Crime Club: 1929
Edition: Later Printing
Seller ID: 4610
(no dust jacket) [solid copy, spine slightly turned, mild soiling/browning to page edges, light staining to covers]. Fictional account -- presented as a "compilation" of contemporary newspaper stories (all phoney, but very believable) -- of a sensation murder in New York's Bowery in April 1928. Quite clever, and darn near post-modern: the Foreword is dated 1938, and is described as a "new foreword," although it's an integral part of the work, which is bo... View more info
By: Stark, Richard (pseud. for Donald E. Westlake)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Greenwich CT, Fawcett Publications, Inc. (Gold Medal d1803): (c.1967)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22403
[slight spine roll, light edgewear to covers, a touch of browning to page edges]. Mass Market PB The ninth entry in the "Parker" series, in which he gets embroiled in the world of high-end numismatics. View more info
![Image for An Eye for an Eye [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/15317.jpg "An Eye for an Eye [*SIGNED*]")
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 15317
[very faint soiling to page edges, otherwise a solid clean copy; jacket lightly rubbed/scuffed]. INSCRIBED ("For _____, / With best wishes") and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page; also dated in the year of publication, in his hand. The author's third book featuring Rabbi Daniel Winter, in which the rabbi goes to court to defend a father who is on trial for killing his daughter's murderer, after the latter had received the lightest possible sentence du... View more info
![Image for Dead Above Ground [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/17569.jpg "Dead Above Ground [*SIGNED*]")
By: Tervalon, Jervey
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Pocket Books: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 17569
[nice tight clean copy, just a trace of wear at spine ends; jacket shows some light surface scratching only]. INSCRIBED ("____ - I hope you enjoyed this New Orlean's [sic] novel!") and SIGNED by the author on the title page, additionally dated in his hand 11-17-2000. "A mesmerizing tale that shimmers with secrets of passion, muder, and vengeance, and with a family's veiled knowledge of the ties that can strengthen -- and destroy." The protagonist is &#... View more info
By: Thompson, Vance
Price: $200.00
Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: (c.1923, 1922)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 19353
[tight clean book with just the teensiest trace of shelfwear, remnants of old price sticker on rear pastedown; jacket lightly soiled, with a handful of tiny edge-tears, no paper loss]. (B&W frontispiece, 3 B&W plates) Monsieur Guelpa, in solving "the most baffling murder mystery Paris had ever known ... goes deeply into the lives of the great French family involved, lays bare their romances, their relations with one another and with the public, the sources of their ... View more info
By: Thompson, Vance
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: (c.1925)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20338
[moderately shelfworn, dust-soiling to page edges, spine slightly turned, one-time owner's signature on ffep; jacket edgeworn, with various tiny tears and nicks, minor paper loss at top of spine, one-inch tear and associated creasing along rear hinge (but folded back into place with no paper loss)]. The second (and final) "Mr. Guelpa" mystery, published a few months after the author's death in June of 1925. In this one, the brilliant French detective comes to A... View more info
By: Trask, Keith
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart: (c.1931)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20653
(in Grosset & Dunlap dj) [covers are worn and faded (due to dampness) along bottom edge and at top of rear cover, but the inside of the book is not affected; jacket internally dampstained (bleed-off from covers) and with some internal tape repair, but externally attractive with just a bit of wear at edges and spine ends, one small closed tear and associated creasing at bottom of front panel]. "A triple murder story in which the small world of a ship, the S.S. El Di... View more info
