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.....
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1996. First American edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing in English translation. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 362 pp. The author's first book in English translation (though it was his third book in his native Spanish, following "The Flanders Panel"), an inventive and sophisticated novel.....
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1990. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First American edition of the author's first book to appear in English translation (his second book overall). Hardcover, 294 pp. A sophisticated whodunit set in the European art world but whose roots extend back to the.....
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.
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.....
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. Fine, fresh, aparently unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 355 pp. From the bestselling author of "The Collector's Apprentice", "The Muralist", and "The Art Forger" comes this invetive, immersive novel centered in the Metropolitan Storage Warehosue.....
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/ printing.Inscribed by Shapiro on the title page "To _____/ Artfully/ B. A. Shapiro". Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 343 pp. Set in the 1920s, a novel of a young woman who first marries a fellow who.....
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.....
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: Holt, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/ first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 290 pp. It's the early 1950s in Los Angeles and private eye Philip Marlowe greets a new client---young, beautiful, expensively dressed Claire Cavendish with expressive black eyes. An entertaining, well written homage to.....
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.....
Minotaur Books, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First edition/ printing. Hardcover. 308 pp. Suspense thriller set in philadelphia. "It was Benny Lunch who got himself dead...". Benny was a fixer, putting shady people together to work out sticky situations. After he gets clipped nis daughter Andrea.....
Barnes & Nobel Books, 1997. Hardcover. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. x+ 579 pp. Anthology of New York-centric mystery tales by such as Isaac Asimov; Ed McBain; Ellery Queen; Cornell Woolrich; Donarld E. Westlake and others.
