England: United Artists Corporation / Eon Productions, 1977. A picture and dialogue export script for the James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me, which was produced by Albert Broccoli, and starring Roger Moore as James Bond. In original pink card covers with metal binding clasp at top, printed on..... More
London: Michael Joseph, 1965. Advance uncorrected proof of the first British edition in beige printed wraps. Good with lean to spine, half-inch tear-aways at the spine ends, wraps lightly soiled, and a bit of separation to binding at the title page. The author's third novel, involving a horse breeder-turned-investigator. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1932. First American edition. (Follows the British edition, which was titled When Rogues Meet.)312 p. Black cloth with green lettering. Very Good condition. No dust jacket. Lettering a bit rubbed, cloth lightly worn at edges, small stain spot on back cover. Light foxing to..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1909. First edition. (Catalogue at rear dated "908" for September 1908, predating publication, but no priority.) 288 p. with 32 page catalogue at rear. Original brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, orange and black stamping on front. Very Good. Spine a bit cocked, tips worn, gilt..... More
New York: Phoenix Press, 1935. First edition. 246 pp. Bound in publisher's purple cloth with black lettering. Very Good with small stain to front board, hint of sunning to spine, light wear. Lacking dust jacket. The uncommon debut novel of Samuel Fuller, who would go on to carve out a...... More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Inc., 1944. First edition, first printing. [Johnson The Dark Page II p. 68]. [vi], 250 pp. Original navy cloth lettered in red. Near Fine with two small stains to top edge, dust-soiling to edges, in an unfaded, vividly colored Very Good+ example of the..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1935. First edition. Very Good condition. No dust jacket. Small gold bookplate on front end paper, exposed tips at bottom. Old Toledo, Ohio bookseller stamp on back paste down; back hinge repaired. Small dampstain spot to back bottom corner. Nice condition overall. More
New York: William Morrow Company, 1934. Warmly inscribed to former owner, mysterious writer Tee Rose (author of a single piece in a 1948 Argosy magazine that ran alongside one of Gardner's stories, as far as anyone knows) who had numerous books of Gardner's inscribed to her over decades:"To Tee Rose..... More
New York: William Morrow Company, 1955. First edition. viii, [2], 275 [2, ads] pp. Green cloth with black lettering. Tape stains on boards with offsetting to endpapers, else Very Good, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, toned, nick in front panel, spine-sunned, and a little short for book. Another Perry..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1966. First edition, first printing. Crime writer and literary critic Dorothy B. Hughes' copy with her signature on the front free endpaper; publisher's review slip laid in. Fine, in a Very Good or better dust jacket with a repaired tear to the bottom of..... More
London: Guild Publishing, 1988. Signed by author on title page in black ink. Book club edition. 1st thus. 190pp. Gray cloth with silver spine lettering. Near Fine with toned pages in Near Fine dust jacket, very faintly foxed on verso and front flap. A signed British book club edition of..... More
New York: Arcadia House, 1946. First edition. 304 pp. Brown cloth with black lettering. Near Fine with slightly foxed top edge, slight lean, in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with chipped head, slightly dulled spine panel, back panel a little soiled, light foxing to flaps and verso... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett / Gold Medal, 1956. First edition. 157, (2)pp. Illustrated wraps. Good+ condition with creasing and edge-rubbing to cover, hinge exposed but holding at front cover. The basis of Francois Truffaut's 1960 film Shoot the Piano Player. More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett / Gold Medal, 1957. First edition. 143, (1) pp. Illustrated wraps. Very Good+ with shelf light wear along edges, small tiny horizontal creases in spine and at top edge of front wrap, small stain on top edge, typical toning to pages, but overall quite alluring-- not unlike..... More
New York: Julian Messner Inc., 1947. First edition. 214 pp. Original gray cloth with blue lettering. Very Good+ with rubbing and a little toning along bottom edge, sticker shadow to ffep, in unclipped original dust jacket with creased tear in top of front panel, else Very Good with a few..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1943. First American edition. 239 pp. Near Fine with neat, sharp lettering; a few light spots of rubbing to cloth and spots of soiling to edges. In Very Good unclipped dust jacket, torn near head, spine panel dulled, tape offsetting near there as well, dampstain..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1993. First edition, limited issue. Number 80 of 350 limited copies signed by John Grisham. Bound in publisher's deluxe full charcoal leather binding stamped in gilt, speckled page edges and marbled endsheets. Fine in fine original cloth slipcase, lacking glassine dust wrapper. More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1993. Limited edition; Number 252 of a limited 350 copies, signed by John Grisham. Bound in publisher's maroon leather stamped in gilt, Fine, publisher's glassine wrapper and lightly rubbed cloth slipcase. More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1993. Limited edition; Number 190 of a limited 350 copies, signed by John Grisham. Bound in publisher's dark blue leather stamped in gilt, Fine, in wrinkled dust jacket in Near Fine slipcase with mild shelf wear. More
New York: Wynwood Press, 1989. First edition, first printing. Signed by John Grisham on the half title page. Bound in publisher's ocher paper-covered boards over maroon spine cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with light wear to binding, slight fading at edges. In a Good dust jacket with price intact..... More
New York: Wynwood Press, 1989. First edition, first printing. Signed by John Grisham on the half title page. Bound in publisher's ocher paper-covered boards over maroon spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light soiling to textblock edges, former owner name to front free endpaper and short crease to..... More
New York: Wynwood Press, 1989. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original ocher paper boards over maroon spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight softening to spine ends, in a Very Good unclipped ($18.95) dust jacket and subtitle "A Novel of Retribution," with light rubbing, edge wear..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First Edition. First Printing. First state, with "dopped in" on line 19 of page 260. Very Good. Slight lean to spine, light soiling with a few spots and small stains to cloth. Light edge wear. Rubbing to spine. Light edge wear. Area of wear..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First edition, first printing. In Very Good condition. Clean text, though pages age toned and show light wear. Small stain to title page, small bookseller tag to rear paste down. Binding lightly shaken. Bottom edge of boards, and top edges near corners are rubbed..... More
