New York: Chelsea House, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in royal blue cloth lettered in gilt. 244 pp. plus publisher's catalog at rear. Very good, spine lettering rubbed, single name signature front free endpaper. Vintage mystery.
New York: D. Appleton, 1896. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Hardcover in publisher trade binding of blue linen cloth lettered and decorated in red and black and spine lettered and decorated in gilt and black. 267 pp. + 14 pp. publisher's catalog at rear. A tight, fine example.....
New York: P.F. Collier, (1910). reissue. Hardcover. No date (circa 1910). "Harper & Brothers Edition' imprint above Collier & Son imprint on title page. Hardcover in brown cloth. Fronispiece illustration of Hweitt by Sidney Paget. 216 pp. Seven cases investigated by Holmes-like detective Martin Hewitt. Morrison created Hewitt partially to.....
New York: Morrow, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Firts ediiton. Hardcover in yellow cloth decorated with black silhouette of the Manhattan skyline. 276 pp. Very good, descriptive piece of the jacket summarizing the plot affixed to the front free enpaper; old retail store stamp on the top edge of the front.....
NY: Macaulay, 1937. First. Hard Cover. First edition. Black cloth stamped in red. Vintage mystery which opens on the terrace of nightclub "Chez Nitto" where a glamorous, exceptional woman waits with an automatic in her lap... A tight, generally fine copy, in the vintage dust jacket, with moderate wear at.....
New York: Alliance Book Corporation, 1941. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Black cloth stamped in white. 306 pp. A "Fingerprint Mystery" , part of the publisher's "...thrilling series of fast-action murder stories...". A tale of WWII secret service, narrow escapes, and great rescues. Fine in the original, vintage.....
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1969. First. Hard Cover. First printing. Mystery novel revolving around the murder od a New York Giants football head coach. Fine in dust jacket with some soiling.
Pinnacle, 1975. First printing. Paperback. Firts poaprback edition. Fine. 211 pp. Foreword by Anthony Boucher. The collection of detective short stories featuring Solar Pons and his companion Dr. Lydon Parker. An eminent Sherlockian, Derleth created the character of Pons as an homage to and in imitation of the Great Detective.....
Garden City: Crime Club/ Doubleday, Doran, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. First edition stated. Hardcover in black cloth lettered in red. 312 pp. Very good, slightly cocked and with the pot description blurb from the jacket panel affixed to the front free endpaper. No dust jacket. Vintage mystery novel involving Scotlad.....
London: Headline, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page (no personalization or inscription). Hardcover. 278 pp. with glossary. It is October, 1940 and undertaker Francis Hancock, a veteran of WWI, nightly relives that trauma during the air raids. When he.....
NY: Walker, 1978. First. Hard Cover. First American edition of Barnard's fourt and reportedly scarcest book, a novel of suspense set in Yorkshire, England. A fine, fesh example in a bright, crisp dust jacket with a mere trace of waer at the very top edge of the spine. A very.....
New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1909. Early Reissue. Hardcover. Early Reissue. Hardcover. About very good condition, spine darkened on the top edge of front board. No dust jacket. With four plates featuring line drawings by H.M. Brock. Original British title was "The Old Man in The Corner" and featured.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in bright yellow cloth. First edition (no statement as is correct). xx+ 232 pp. An anthology of tales showing imaginative ways to commit murder--whether the killer in each story depends on psychology or violence, he goes about his job with flair.....
New York: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1996. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. AS NEW IN DUST JACKET. Hardcover. Whimsical alternative history in the form of a murder mystery. Its Germany, 1830, and an aging Mozart is asked to give piano lessions to a young Princess Victoria. He soon.....
NY: St Martins Pr, 1979. First. Hard Cover. First edition. A novel of murder and suspense set in Hollywood. Fine in crisp. bright, near fine dust jacket.
1987 NY: IPL. First edition of this paperback original which was never published in hardcover. The scarcest of Baxt's mystery novels. A fully fine, glossy, unread copy.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1941. Softcover. Proof copy in color illustrated wrappers featuring the design of the detective and his seeing eye dods that would appear as the jacket of the trade edition. 309 pp. Interior is bright and clean, wraps are very good, some light corner and lower.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1941. First edition thus. Hardcover. First "photoplay" edition and first edition under this title. Hardcover in violet cloth stamped in black, 309 pp. Fine with with embrowing to the pages as this was an early wartime publication, issued to coincide with the eleae of the.....
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1886. Softcover. Stiff wrappers printed in black and with red banner declaiming "The Great Detective Story'; rear wrap is advert for Colaline Corsets. 299 pp. plus 5 "specimen" pp. of exerpts from other novels. Front wrap notes that "Fedora" was "performed by Sarah Bernhardy and Fanny Davenport".....
NY: McGraw Hill, 1971. First. Hard Cover. First printing. Color illustarted hardcovers. Illustrations by the author. A classic of its type, a tender book which helps the very young understand the mystery of how they came to be in the first place and how they came to be who they.....
New York: Random House Publishing Group, 1994. Hardback. Hardcover. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITHOUT PERSONALIZATION OR INSCRIPTION ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. 38 pp. Later printing. Acclaimed best selling non-fiction work about a mysterious 1981 shooting in Savannah. Basis for the Clint Esatwood-directed movie starring Kevin Spacey and John Cusack.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First Edition In find condition with near fine dust jacket. 143 pages. A novel of suspense set in East Hampton, Long Island.
NY: Grosset & Dunlap. Hardcover. 1932 (later). First edition thus, an omnibus reprint edition containing three Charlie Chan novels. A tight, generally fine copy. In colorful dust jacket which reproduces the dust jackets of the original editions; jacket is worn and well chipped about the edges and corners, with old.....
1914 Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill. First edition of the author's third book, a spritely romance and finance novel typical of the period. Biggers was still a decade away from introducing the character which would win him literary immortality--Charlie Chan. A bright, unsoiled copy with white cover and spine lettering bright and.....
Grand Central Publishing, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 214 pp. Devereaux, code name "November", is called back from semi-retirement and embarks on another dramatic mission of espionage. This time the battleground is Santa Barbara and the stake is a priceless Japanese code machine.....
