Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1946. New York: The Dial Press, 1943. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's deep grey cloth stamped in dark blue. Good. Lean to spine, boards slightly bowed with creasing to front board visible to cloth and front pastedown, rear pastedown visibly..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1943. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's salmon cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with foxing and spotting to textblock edge, prelims and terminals; pages toned; production error to front paste down and free endsheet, otherwise a pretty sharp copy. In a Very Good+..... More
New York: Brewer and Warren, 1930. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's red cloth with vivid black stamping. Near Fine with cloth lightly scuffed at the rear and lightly spine faded, bumped corners, toned pages. In a Very Good dust jacket with price intact, with small rubber stamp to..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951. First edition. [vi], 346 pp. Original yellow cloth with crimson stamping. Near Fine with slight dust-soiling and foxing to edges in an unfaded dust jacket with some wear/nibbling along top edge and a little bit near foot. Rare in the first printing in an attractive..... More
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1946. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in red. Good, with mottling to cloth, light foxing to textblock edge and previous owner bookplate to front pastedown, else a very sharp copy. In a Near Fine dust jacket with some foxing, toning..... More
London: Robert Hale, 1950. First edition. 246, (1) pp. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+ with foxed edges, in Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket. A posthumously-published novel with a drug-smuggling theme by prolific author of nautical fiction Aylward Edward Dingle (1874-1947), rare in jacket. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1951. First edition, first printing. In publisher's original binding. Near Fine with some foxing to pages and covers, toning to pages. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, very striking, with light rubbing and toning to white portions, and foxing mostly visible to verso..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1947. First edition stated, first printing. Fine, with a small, faint scuff to front cover, in a Near Fine un-clipped dust jacket, with light rubbing to extremities, light wear along the top edge, and the typical fading to the red print on the..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1952. First edition in triangle variant jacket, one of two with no priority established-- white shape in upper right corner of front panel where it reads "A Mike Hammer Mystery." 251 p. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. ormer owner's name on front..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1950. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Spillane on the copyright page, likely inscribed to Billy Zeman, longtime librarian and archivist at The Mystery Writers of America, as well as a co-editor alongside Sue Grafton of a handbook for writing mysteries. Good..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. First edition, first printing. Very Good, with lean to spine, spine cloth faded and with a small spot, light scuffing to rear board, faint water-spot to topstain, previous owner name in ink to front free end paper, end sheets offset from binder's glue, vintage..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1940. First edition, first printing. Red cloth binding stamped in black, in dust jacket. Very Good with tape ghosts to front and rear free end papers, paper remnant to rear paste down (institutional?), cloth lightly worn at tips. In a Good dust jacket. Tape..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, 1931. First edition. 320 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with green lettering on front board, yellow on spine. Very Good+, lightly rubbed along edges, subtle lean; lacking dust jacket, clad in facsimile. Signed by the author on the illustrated front free endpaper, neatly inscribed, "This is..... More
New York: Sears Publishing Company, 1930. First edition. [vi], 314 pp. Original orange cloth stamped in black. Very Good with slight foxing to edges, spine slightly cocked, hinge at tipped-in title page starting. In Good+ unclipped original jacket, spine dulled, chipped at extremities with a few damp stains, a few..... More
New York: Popular Library, 1955. First edition. 128 pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated wraps, all edges green. Near Fine with light shelf wear, unread. Publication date of December 29, 1955 stamped on top edge, "Dec29A"; possibly a review copy. One of the Oklahoma-born writer Jim Thompson's tightly-plotted crime novels from..... More
New York: Lion Books, 1952. First edition. Paperback original. 159 p. Fine. Typical toning to paper, very slight shelf wear along edges of back cover. An unread copy in excellent condition. More
New York: Signet Books, 1959. First edition. Paperback original. 127, [1] pp. Good only overall with spine slant, three small tears to spine cover, wear at foot, slight loss at head. Pen marks on verso of cover and first page. Basis of two films, most notably the 1972 Sam Peckinpah..... More
New York: Lion Books, 1954. First edition. Paperback original. 158 p. Good+ condition. Creased spine with slight lean, light edge wear. A crime novel from Thompson's golden period that is almost as strange as Savage Night, featuring a talking dog, a born-loser protagonist, and a well-crafted, suspenseful plot. More
New York: Greenberg: Publisher, 1946. First editon. 297pp. with Author's Note at rear. Original red cloth with black lettering. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket, unclipped ($2.50), slightly chipped along edges and slightly soiled, small nick on spine, front panel faintly creased, spine panel a little sunned. Former owners'..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. First edition. 234, (1) pp. Original light green cloth lettered in black. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with light edge wear with a bit of rubbing to front panel, unclipped and unfaded. A very neat, clean, unsophisticated copy. The crime author's third novel..... More
New York: Modern Age, 1942. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's brown cloth lettered and ruled in red. Very Good or better, with light wear to cloth, several small stains to the top edge of the page block , front inner hinge tender and pages toned. In a Good..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947. First edition. [vi], 218 pp. Original red cloth with black spine lettering. Near Fine with offsetting to endpapers, in Very Good+ dust jacket with a few short closed tears, rubbed and slightly darkened spine panel, a little foxing. A Bloodhound Mystery set..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Julian Johnson, head story editor for 20th Century Fox studios in the 1930s: "To Hildegarde and Julian Affectionately from [signed] S.S. Van Dine alias Willard." xii, 328, (5, versos only, ads) pp..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1935. Advance reading copy in green, black, and white illustrated self-wraps, "Publication Date / Feb - 8 1935" stamped on front flyleaf. First American edition. 305 pp. Very Good. Understandable creasing and concavity to spine, a bit of rubbing along edges and a slight..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1945. First edition. [x], 205 pp. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in crimson. Near Fine with small stains to bottom tips, in a Near Fine unclipped, bright dust jacket with a small tear in the bottom corner of the back panel, small closed tear, tiny..... More