For your browsing pleasure, my usual mash-up of genres though always with plenty of vintage mysteries.
New York CIty: Harmony, 1985. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 204pp. Beautiful Unread Stated First Edition, (US), First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. No toning or foxing. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($12.95), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 241pp. Beautiful First UK Edition. Square, tight and clean throughout with some minor edge-wear. No toning or foxing. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, (18s. net), has mildly toned edges and a short crease on the front flap. Still fresh and bright with..... More
London: Hutchinson, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 346pp. Beautiful First Edition. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, (£16.99), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, or tears. Signed by the author on the title page. A gorgeous collectable copy at a...... More
New York CIty: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 255pp. Beautiful Stated First American Edition Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear . No toning or foxing. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($25.95), has a couple of tiny spots but is fresh and bright with no..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1935. First U.S. Edition. Publisher's Cloth. 8vo.,, 202pp. Sharp Advance Reading copy of the first Edition. Bound in pictorial wraps that replicates the dust-jacket. Illustrations by George Hartmann Square, tight and generally clean throughout little toning and no foxing. Fairly mild wear to spine ends..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 356pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition, Square, tight and clean throughout with a shallow crease in the cloth at the top of the spine. No toning or foxing. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($16.95), has a touch of wear at the top front..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 419pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition, Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Perhaps a touch of softness to the spine ends but quite minor. No toning or foxing. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($15.95), has a small chip at..... More
New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2001. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. 12mo., 164pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition. First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save a gentle bump to the heel. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($20.00), is fresh and bright..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 227pp. Sharp First Edition. First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save some softness to the spine ends. Stain on the fore-edge on the first 50 pages or so but..... More
New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 1991. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 227pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition. First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save a trivial touch at the spine ends. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($20.00), is fresh and..... More
New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 434pp. Beautiful Stated First American Edition. First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save a gentle bump to the heel. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($26.95), is fresh and bright..... More
New York: Bluejay International, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 504pp. Beautiful Stated First Printing. Square, tight, and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($16.95), has some mild toning to flap edges but is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. Inscribed and signed..... More
New York CIty: Arbor House, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 253pp. Beautiful First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. No toning or foxing. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($15.95), has mildly toned edges and spin but is fresh and bright..... More
Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest Books, 1992. Hardcover. 8vo., 253pp. Beautiful Stated First Hardcover Edition, originally published by Dell in1976 as a Paperback Original. This Deluxe Edition is #80 of only 400 signed and numbered copies. Bound in bright red faux-leather with gilt titles on spine. Square, tight and clean..... More
New York CIty: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 301pp. Beautiful Unread Stated First Edition. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. No toning or foxing. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($17.95), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. A gorgeous collectable..... More
Missoula, MO: Dennis McMillan, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 201pp. Sharp Stated First Edition, #448 of 500 copies printed. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped, though unpriced, dust-jacket, is fresh and bright with no chipping, crease, toning or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1935. J. Allen St. John. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 316pp.plus 4pp. ads. Beautiful First Grosset Reprint with 33 titles in first rear ad page and subsequent ads for Masters of Mystery Story Writing, Peter Kyne, and Zane Grey. Bound in red cloth with titles in..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 370(2)pp. Solid likely second printing without the F&R colophon on the copyright page. Published as "Spiderweb" in teh UK bby Hodder in the same year. Bound in green cloth with titles in black on front board and spine. Square and..... More
West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo.,243pp. Beautiful Unread Stated First Edition of the Special Edition, #229 of 475 copies signed and numbered. There were an additional 3000 Trade Edition copies and 26 lettered copies of a deluxe edition. Bound in red cloth with titles in silver..... More
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 448pp. Sharp True First Edition. Bobbs-Merrill published a reprint often confused as the first edition. Bound in publisher's red cloth with titles in white and illustration of the title character in-laid on the front board. Frontis illustration. Square, tight and clean..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2008. New Edition. Hardcover. One Volume in slipcase. 8vo.,296pp. Beautiful Unread First Folio Edition bound in orange cloth. Square, tight and clean throughout with no discernible wear. Fine publisher's slipcase. Still in shrink-wrap. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868. First U.S. Edition. Publisher's Cloth. Tall 8vo., (9)223pp. Sharp First American and First Illustrated Edition. Original brown pebbled cloth with titles in gilt on spine. 2pp of prelim. ads before the frontispiece. Double-column text. Square, tight and generally clean throughout. Some light scattered spotting..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 386pp. Beautiful First Edition, bound in orange cloth with titles and in black on front board and spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with no foxing or page toning. Some fairly minor wear to bottom edge and tip. Some softness to the..... More
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 238pp. Sharp First Edition with Scribner's "A" and seal on the copyright page as called for. Bound in yellow cloth with titles and decoration in black on front board and spine. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no..... More
