Garden City, New York: The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1944. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Lacks jacket. Boards lightly rubbed. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked.
246 pp. 8vo. A classic example of 1940s crime noir, focusing on a corpse with two identities.
London / Gateshead on Tyne: Gifford / The Thriller Book Club / Northumberland Press Limited, 1953. Hard Cover.
Inscribed to the author's editor (at length!) and signed on front endpaper ('To my favorite editor J.P. Hall of the California Mining Journal who has the guts and the good will to.....
![Item #2351723 Top Story Murder (Roger Sheringham Cases Series Book 7) [Storey]. Anthony Berkeley](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2351723.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1768272470)
Garden City, New York: The Crime Club, Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1931. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Lacks jacket. Spine leans forward slightly, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
273 pp. 8vo. The ransacked flat and the garroted body.....
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Mottled staining on front and rear board, jacket lightly rubbed with small sticker on jacket spine, jacket price clipped.
288 pp. A pseudonymous mystery novel by British government official Godfrey Warden James, whose fiction often discusses the experiences of British.....
United States of America: Doubleday. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Jacket lightly toned, jacket spine slightly faded. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
232 pp. On assignment to restore a 13th-century German chapel, Blackford Oakes learns that its owner is far more than a charming aristocrat. The charismatic.....
New York, N.Y. Little Brown & Company, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Edges a bit foxed, jacket pricec lipped, ink gift note on front endpaper. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked.
290 pp. The third novel in the highly acclaimed Dave Robicheaux series. Personal tragedy.....
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners, toned tape repairs on reverse of jacket spine head and foot, minor scuff on front board.
255 pp. First mystery, and one of only two using this pseudonym, by Frederick.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition. Hard Cover.
1942 first edition (not the 1946 World printing often misattributed as the first). Includes original jacket. Jacket and endpapers along hinges toned, ink name on front endpaper. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked.
218 pp. Ben Grace.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, in one of three jacket states released simultaneously (each used the same W.A. Dwiggins design in different color combinations). Good in very good jacket. Light stain on rear board and top binding edge of pages (does not show.....
Bloomington, Indiana: Lou Campanozzi, 2003. Trade Paperback.
An excellent copy.
xiv, 320 pp. 'Justice" is a work of fiction that entices the reader to grapple with questions about what justice really means. Does a courtroom decision equal justice' Do two wrongs make a right' Does assassinating a killer make the.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Lacks jacket. Boards soiled, spine leans, corners slightly exposed, ink number on top edge, light smudge on bottom edge, ink date on front endpaper, toned section on half-title page and flyleaf from now-absent clipping once laid in.
296.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Lacks jacket. Boards lightly soiled.
296 pp. A detective novel by the Golden Age mystery author who also wrote under the names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, and Roger Fairbairn. Carr was considered a master of the 'locked room'.....
Norfolk, Virginia: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2000. Roberts, Tom. First Trade Edition. Trade Paperback.
First trade edition (published the same year as the limited edition). An exceptional copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
239 pp. A collection of stories originally published in Black Mask, a popular.....
![Item #2351230 5 Murderers (New Avon Library 63) [Five]. Raymond Chandler](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2351230.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762986818)
New York: New Avon Library, 1944. Mass Market Paperback.
Edges lightly rubbed, spine toned, back corner lightly creased, pages lightly toned.
286, [6] pp. Paperback in original wrappers. New Avon Library #63. Cover features characters on playing cards. Five short mysteries in one volume, by the author of The Big.....
New York: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, 1992. Baker, Richard. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Modern reprint (13-digit ISBN). Brand new from publisher.
231 pp. Inspiration for the 1946 film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his.....
New York: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Random House, Inc., 2016. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Brand new from publisher.
292 pp. Farewell My Lovely, Raymond Chandler's second novel in the Philip Marlowe series, transcends the genre it helped to create, and is now (deservedly) viewed by many as literature.....
New York: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Random House, Inc., 1992. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Brand new from publisher.
265, [1] pp. Inspiration for 1942 film Time to Kill and the 1947 film The Brasher Doubloon. A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a......
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. Reeves, Norman. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, first printing (stated, $2.00 jacket price). Jacket edges rubbed, jacket and endpapers lightly toned, 1 inch smudge on margins of four text pages. Binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked.
216 pp. 8vo. Green cloth.....
New York: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Random House, Inc., 1988. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Brand new from publisher. An excellent copy.
250 pp. "A movie starlet with a gangster boyfriend and a pair of siblings with a shared secret lure Marlowe into the less than glamorous and more.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. Artzybasheff, Boris. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, first state (red-orange cloth). Near fine in very good jacket. A couple tiny blemishes to boards, two closed 1/2 inch tears and a crease between them on top edge of rear panel, tape reinforcements to reverse of.....
New York: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, 1992. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy.
379 pp. In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry.....
Boston / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1954. Lorraine, Walter H. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with closed tear on corner taped by previous owner, some discolored patches to spine cloth, tape remnants on endpapers, maybe from a previously attached jacket cover. Binding.....
![Item #2350870 Playback [A Philip Marlowe Mystery]. Raymond Chandler](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2350870.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1764002814)
New York: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Random House, Inc., 1988. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Modern reprint (13-digit ISBN). Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy.
166 pp. Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson. In noir master Raymond Chandler's Playback, Philip Marlowe is hired.....
New York: The Library of America, 1995. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. Includes publisher's slipcase. An excellent copy.
1199 pp. Original blue cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of works by the detective novelist whose books inspired numerous films. Includes: Pulp Stories; The Big.....
Boston / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, first state jacket ($5.50 price on flap). Near fine in very good jacket. Jacket edges a bit rubbed with 1/2 inch closed tear and associated crease along top edge.
xi, 332 pp. "Killer.....