Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. / The Crime Club, 1950. First edition. 186 pp. Publisher's red cloth with white lettering. Very Good with foxing to cloth, contents toned, in a Near Fine dust jacket, lightly edge-worn, unclipped. The crime author's debut novel, rare in the first edition. After..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1945. First edition. (Johnson The Dark Page I p. 50). [vi], 217 pp. Publisher's yellow cloth, spine lettered in green. Near Fine with foxing to cloth, offsetting to endpapers, bookplate on paste down, in a Fine example of the rare dust jacket with a...... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1945. First edition. [iv], 219 pp. Original red cloth, spine stamped in black. Very Good+ with lightl foxing to edges and endpapers, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with foxing and a little toning. The tenth novel by Albert Leffingwell under the Dana Chambers pseudonym..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1945. First edition. 222 pp. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with a little foxing to fore edge and endpapers, in Very Good+ dust jacket, spine panel darkened, small chip near foot, a little dust-soiled and worn. A WWII novel..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition stated, First Printing. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth stamped in blue; lacking a dust jacket. Very Good, with light lean to spine; cloth scuffed and lightly soiled, worn at extremities. Inner front hinge repaired, pages toned. A nice copy. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition stated, First Printing. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth stamped in blue. Near Fine with light softening to spine ends, toning to pages, small bookseller ticket to rear pasedown and crease to rear free endpaper. In a Good dust jacket with publisher's..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition. Publisher's original orange cloth stamped in blue; lacking a dust jacket. Good, with light staining, edge wear and fading to cloth. Previous owner bookplate, wear and staining to front endpapers. Inked date written on rear paste down. Pages are lightly toned, with..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First edition. [viii], 240 pp. Publisher's light brown cloth with dark crimson lettering. Very Good condition with spine lean and slight crease, former owner's name and info on front paste down, a some lightly dog-eared pages, typical slight offsetting to endpapers. No dust jacket..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First edition. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth, front board and spine stamped in dark brown. Very Good with faint light wear to cloth at extremities; endsheets offset from binders glue and former owner name written to front free endpaper, pages toned. In a...... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First edition. [viii], 240 pp. Publisher's light brown cloth with dark crimson lettering. Very Good condition with spine lean, light wear, typical slight offsetting to endpapers. No dust jacket. The third of Chandler's acclaimed Philip Marlowe novels, wherein Marlowe is hired by an old..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First edition, first printing. Very Good with toning and light soiling to cloth, pages toned with reading creases to several corners, in a Good dust jacket with price of $2.00 intact, rubbing along folds, chipping at spine ends affecting title and publisher's imprint, three..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First American edition, first issue cloth. [vi], 249 pp. Publisher's red cloth stamped in navy blue. Edges a little foxed and dust-soiled, offsetting to endpapers, else Fine and bright. The pictorial dust jacket is remarkable for being completely unsunned and rich in color-- especially the..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First American edition, first issue cloth. [vi], 249 pp. Publisher's red cloth stamped in navy blue. Very Good with a bit of sunning to spine, slight lean to spine, a few tiny black stains to back board, lacking jacket. Chandler's fifth novel to feature Philip..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949. First edition, first impression. [vi] 249 pp. Bound in publisher's first issue reddish orange cloth with blue lettering. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, worn along edges and a little chipped, typical sunning to spine panel, closed tear with creases to back panel, unclipped ($2.50)..... More
New York: Howell, Soskin, Publishers, 1942. First American edition. Bound in publisher's turquoise cloth, with titles in red on the spine. Approaching Fine, with light bumping to corners and spine ends. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing, wear at the extremities, light chipping at the crown, and..... More
New York: Phoenix Press, 1944. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's red cloth with spine lettered in black. Near Fine. Spine rolled, foxing to textblock edge and endsheets. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing and edge wear, faint pencil mark to spine, foxing to flaps..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1942. Advance copy of the first American edition, perfect bound in dust jacket with flaps. Very Good with lean and light creases to spine, indentations to front wrap, binding a little over-opened at front cover with a short split at the tail. The American..... More
London: Collins / The Crime Club, 1939. First edition, first printing, second state with no date listed on copyright page. Very Good with light lean to spine, a bit of dust soiling, fading to cloth corresponding to jacket chips, and bumping to page corners. In a Very Good dust jacket..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1951. 256 pp. Original blue cloth lettered in black. First American edition. A Very Good copy with foxing to edges and endpapers, slightly musty, a few tiny stains to top edge, in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket, a little short for the book (as..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. Signed. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition. Yellow printed wraps with publisher's letter laid in. Signed by Patricia Cornewell in black marker on the title page. Very Good. Light wear to wraps, light reading crease to front joint, horizontal crease at bottom of..... More
New York: Random House, 1950. First edition. [vi], 242 pp. Publisher's dark gray cloth stamped in black and gilt. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with small snag at upper corner of front panel, unclipped and bright. A Pat Abbott mystery set in Kentucky during horse racing season. Rare, especially..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1950. First edition. [viii], 248 pp. Black cloth lettered in white.A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, lightly rubbed, bright, attractive, and unclipped. The author's second mystery with elements of horror fiction, titled The Hollow House for its UK release. A beautiful example..... More
New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1949. First edition. [vi], 218 pp. Publisher's illustrated boards. Very Good+ with small tear at head, light wear, a little sunning to spine. No dust jacket, but boards mimic the publisher's typical jacket design so it's possible it was not issued with one. The..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1945. First edition. 189 pp. Gray cloth with red spine stamping. Slight dimple to front board, else Fine; corresponding ding to dust jacket; unclipped dust jacket is bright and attractive, two pencil marks on spine panel, a little dust-soiling to flaps. The first..... More
