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
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran, 1952. First edition, first printing. Signed by August Derleth on the front free end paper and inscribed to a previous owner. Musty odor to pages and jacket, else Near Fine with light toning to pages. In Near Fine un-clipped jacket, with a hint of rubbing..... More
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran, 1952. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine titles lettered in gilt. Near Fine, with trace wear to cloth along bottom edges, pages lightly toned. In a Near Fine un-clipped dust jacket, with rubbing at the extremities, and a small faint..... More
New York: Jefferson House, 1944. First edition. [vi], 184 pp. Publisher's navy cloth lettered in yellow. Fine in a bright, attractive dust jacket, a little foxed, else Fine. The hardboiled crime novelist's first book. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co. / Crime Club, 1943. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine lettered in black. Very Good. Cloth lightly toned at spine and top edge, foxing to cloth and pages, pages toned. Ina Very Good dust jacket with light edge..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co. / Crime Club, 1953. First edition. 193 pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Very Good+, pages toned with age, a little foxing to top edge and mustiness, in a Fine dust jacket, unfaded with rich colors, light shelf wear and toning..... More
London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902. [viii], 359 pp. First edition. (All copies having error on p. 13 and reversed plate facing p. 76. Green & Gibson A26.) Publisher's red cloth ornately blocked and titled in gilt and black. Illustrated. Near Fine with very slight soiling, a hint of sunning to..... More
London: Spencer Blackett, 1890. First edition, second issue with typo "13" for "138" in contents and "w shed" for "wished" on page 56, line 16; "Griffith Farran & Cos. Standard Library" on spine. [Green & Gibson A7 a.i.]. [4], 283, [1] pp. sans ads at rear, as was the case..... More
London: George Newnes, 1894. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth stamped in black and gilt, all edges gilt. Slight lean to binding, light rubbing to extremities and slight soiling to cloth. Several hinges lightly over-opened, former owner name to half-title page, pages foxed. An unusually nice and bright copy..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1947. First edition. [viii], 177 pp. Publisher's slick tan cloth, spine lettered in red. Near Fine with bookplate on front free endpaper, in a spine-sunned, unclipped Very Good dust jacket, small closed tear near head, a little rubbed. The basis of the 1948 film noir..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. First edition. [vi], 202 pp. Publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with age-toned pages in a very attractive example of the dust jacket, flaps dust-soiled and a bit foxed, with a faint pencil checkmark to the spine panel, but with hardly any..... More
New York: Lion Books, 1952. First edition. 127 [1, ad] pp. Illustrated wraps. A Good+ copy with spine cocked, light wear and soiling to covers, slight wave to book, bottom tip of back cover has tiny chip. A surprisingly uncommon Lion paperback original. A pulp novel somewhat similar to..... More
Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1946. 245 pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt stamping. First edition. A Near Fine copy with a little foxing and dust-soiling to edges, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a tiny tear at head, darkening to spine panel. A very attractive, vivdly-colored..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1952. First edition. vi, 181 pp. Publisher's yellow cloth with navy spine lettering. Near Fine with light foxing to edges, in a bright dust jacket designed by Lew Keller, a little dust-soiled with a hint of wear at the head, else Fine. The jacket's vivid..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1945. First edition. [iv], 251 pp. Bound in blue cloth with black stamping. Near Fine with dust-soiled cloth, offsetting to endpapers, in Very Good+ pictorial dust jacket with a small chip at its head, spine panel unfaded but a little soiled, tiny dimple in rear..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1950. First edition. 244 pp. Publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with small soiled spot at bottom corner of front board, light foxing to edges, in unclipped pictorial dust jacket, Very Good, some dust-soiling and foxing, wear at head. Rare in jacket..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. First British edition, first printing. Second state binding with dancing girl silhouette; First state dust jacket with price 13s 6d net intact. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Light lean to spine. Edge of page block lightly soiled, else a rather nice copy. Dust jacket..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. First edition, first printing, first issue, second state. Signed by Ian Flemming on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's black cloth-affect boards with skull motif embossed on upper board, with gilt stamped coins in eye sockets and spine titles in gilt; in the second state..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. First edition, first printing, first issue, second state. Bound in publisher's black cloth-affect boards with skull motif embossed on upper board, with gilt stamped coins in eye sockets and spine titles in gilt; in the second state lacking the embossed 3 mm line to the top..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2005. A complete set as published by The Easton Press of Ian Fleming's iconic spy-thriller series. Fourteen volumes in publisher's leather stamped in gilt. Trivial instances of shelf-wear, still Fine. With Easton Press bookplates tipped in, though name space left blank. A fantastic set. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. First British edition, first printing. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket. Gilt stamping dulled and rubbed. Light lean to spine. Small scuff to foot of spine, small surface chip to cloth top of front hinge. Lightly edge worn. Previous owner details to front free end paper..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition. Bound in publisher's original green wraps printed in black with publisher's monogram in white. Very Good, with light creasing to the spine, and staining to bottom of front and rear cover lightly affecting first and last several pages. Housed..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First British edition, first printing. Second state text with "shoot" on page 10. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket. Light scuffing to boards, light rubbing to silver title stamping on spine. Small bookseller label to front paste down. Pages toned, with foxing heavy at prelims and..... More
England: United Artists / Eon Productions, 1973. A export film script for the James Bond film, Live and Let Die, which was produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli, starring Roger Moore as James Bond. In original blue card covers with metal binding clasp at top, printed on rectos only..... More
