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As Told to Maxwell Grant The Shadow and the Living Death
Racine, Wisconsin Whitman 1940 Paper Covered Boards Very Good No Jacket 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall Hess, Erwin L.
Better Little Book #1430. Nice cover illustrations. Complete with all pages and endpapers. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages with some light even toning. Minor cover wear, mostly at bottom of spine. Slight slant. Much better shape than usually found.
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120.00 USD
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Bowers, Dorothy Fear and Mss Betony
Garden City, New York Doubleday, Doran and Co. 1942 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Nice copy of a hard-to-find crime club mystery. Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean pages; owner's name on front free endpaper. Light cover and dustjacket wear.
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150.00 USD
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Brandel, Mark Maniac Rendezvous, Originally Titled "Rain Before Seven"
New York Avon 1951 Paperback Very Good No Jacket 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall Brockell, Don
#387. "Not for tender-minded adults. . . . How many of the 4 women and 4 men were doomed to sudden death." Tight binding. Clean pages with some toning; uneven text block with edgewear to some leaves. Bright colorful cover shows killer waiting as three unsuspecting victims enter his room; corner crease. See accompanying scanned image.
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15.00 USD
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Burke, Jan 18
Mission Viejo, California ASAP Press 2002 First Edition, 1st Printing Hard Cover As New As New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author
Signed by Burke on title page. Small printing of about 600. Collection of 18 great suspense stories by the Edgar Award winning author and creator of the Irene Kelly mystery series.
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60.00 USD
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Burnett, D. Graham A Trial By Jury
New York Alfred A. Knopf 2001 First Edition, 1st Printing Hard Cover As New As New 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Grand jury account. "Part true crime, part political treatise, part contempletation of right, wrong, and the power of words, A Trial By Jury is a mesmerizing narrative of one man's encounter with crime and punishment, American style. It profoundly affects one's sense of the privileges--and perils--of citizenship." See accompanying scanned image.
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10.00 USD
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Czuchlewski, David The Muse Asylum
New York Putnam 2001 First Edition, 1st Printing Hard Cover As New As New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Author's debut novel. "Three recent college graduates become entangled by romantic and literary obsessions [as they] search to uncover the identity of the great American writer Horace Jacobs Little. Doesn't appear to have ever been read. Just like it came from the bookstore. Small remainder mark. Protected by an archival cover. See accompanying scanned image.
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20.00 USD
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Dean, Spencer The Merchant of Murder
New York Pocket Books 1960 First Thus Paperback Good No Jacket 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
#1277. Nice good girl art cover illustration of blonde disrobing; all she has left on is her slip. Tight binding. Pages clean with very light toning. Silver spine in has some edgewear. Cover shows some light wear and soiling. See accompanying scanned image.
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6.00 USD
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Doyle, A. Conan Captain of the Pole Star
London, Chicago, New York F. Tennyson Neely 1899 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Relatively early printing. 100 pages plus advertisements. Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean pages; endpapers and prelims have some light foxing. Owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper. Cover has some wear and soiling. See accompanying scanned image.
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75.00 USD
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Doyle, A. Conan Tales of Sherlock Holmes (Movie Edition)
New York Grosset & Dunlap 1940 Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good + 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
No publishing date, but circa 1940. Movie edition features dust jacket with prominent cover photo showing Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. Anthology includes A Study in Scarlet, A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-headed League, and The Sign of the Four. Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean and supple pages with toning. Bright cover with crisp lettering and very little wear. Dust jacket has some edgewear and soiling. Protected by an archival cover. See accompanying scanned image.
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125.00 USD
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Fforde, Jasper The Eyre Affair
New York Viking Penguin 2002 First American Edition Hard Cover As New As New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author
Imaginative fantasy mystery about a parallel world detective who must travel into books to solve crimes and apprehend villians. Includes promotional Scotlandesque Porridge postcard. Signed by author on title page. Protected by an archival cover.
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120.00 USD
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Fredericks, Arnold pseudonym of Frederick Arnold Kummer Sr. The Blue Lights
New York Grosset & Dunlap 1915 Pictorial Cover Very Good Very Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Grefe, Will
The kidnapping of an American millionaire's infant son in Paris, in broad daylight, from a field in the Bois de Boulogne, seems inexplicable until Richard Duvall applies "the inexorable laws of logic and deduction . . . to arrive at a solution as astonishing as it is simple, when once it has been reached." Three glossy b/w plates. Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean pages; some light toning to endpapers. Owner's info on front free endpaper. Nice, clean pictorial cover and colorful dustjacket.
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120.00 USD
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Freeman, R. Austin Pontifex, Son and Thorndyke
New York Dodd, Mead, and Company 1931 First American Edition Hard Cover Good Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Oliver, Juan
13th Dr. Thorndyke mystery. Tight binding, hinges starting to split. Slight soiling to edge of text block. Some wear to cover, heaviest at spine ends. Original dust jacket has been backed with brown paper and shows some edgewear; about 1" of front inside dj flap has been removed and replaced with white paper. Protected by an archival cover. See accompanying scanned image.
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195.00 USD
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Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
New York Doubleday 2002 Advance Reading Copy Printed Wrapper As New As New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
"Narrated by a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessedwith Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemportary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions." Nominated for the Booker Prize and the winner of the Guardian Children`s Fiction Prize and The Whitbread Prize.
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50.00 USD
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Hay L.F. It Wasn't a Nightmare
New York Macmillan Company 1937 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
British cabinet dispatches novelist to investigate the strange experiments being conducted by a mysterious munitions-maker. Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean pages; deckled edges. Erased owner's name and small price tag remnant on front free endpaper. Light cover wear. Dustjacket has some edgewear and is missing about 1/4" at top of spine. Protected by an archival cover. See accompanying scanned image.
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48.00 USD
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Hitchens, Delores The Watcher
New York Permabooks, Perma Books 1961 First Thus Paperback Near Fine No Jacket 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
M-2405. Pemabook 1st paperback printing of Doubleday hardcover . "The Watcher, the nameless faceless psychopathic killer who had confessed to the murder of three children and who--while police worked desperately to discover his identity--waited to strike down his fourth victim!" Clean, supple pages with some toning. Cover shows some wear. See accompanying scanned image.
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5.00 USD
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Hughes, Dorothy B. The Delicate Ape
World Publishing 1945 Hard Cover Very Good Good to Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Sixth mystery by the author of The So Blue Marble. Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean pages with some toning. Dust jacket and cover has show some wear; dj heaviest at spine ends.
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20.00 USD
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Hunt, David Trick of Light
New York Putnam 1998 First Edition, 1st Printing Hard Cover As New As New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Noir mystery set in San Francisco featuring a olor blind photographer, Kay Farrow. By author of The Magician's Tale. Doesn't appear to have ever been read. Just like it came from the bookstore. Protected by an archival cover.
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20.00 USD
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Libera, Antoni; Translated By Agnieszka Kolakowska Madame
New York Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2000 First American Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Polish coming of age novel set in the midst of Soviet oppression that "can be read as a thriller, a fascinating love story, and a hilarious novel of political and social satire all rolled into one." Doesn't appear to have ever been read.
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10.00 USD
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Marlowe, Amy Bell Gold Elsie
Philadelphia J.B. Lippencott 1901 Hard Cover Near Fine No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Later printing of the original Lippencott 1868 translation by Mrs A. L. Wister. Nice copy of the suspenseful, romantic melodrama (attempted murder, wild attack dogs, crazy gypsy maiden, convent tower imprisonment] that "enthralled" Germany and became a bestseller throughout Europe and then America. Said to have made even the fiercest of duelers dissolve in tears. Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean pages. Light cover wear. Pencil gift inscription on front free endpaper. See accompanying scanned image.
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15.00 USD
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Marric, J.J. Gideon's Fire
New York Harper Brothers 1951 Hard Cover Very Good Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Scotland Yard rmystery with rape, murder, and arson. Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean pages. Minor cover wear. Sunned dustjacket has some edgewear. Protected by an archival cover. See accompanying scanned image.
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12.00 USD
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