New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Stated first American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's teal cloth stamped in gilt and red. Very Good with slight dulling to spine, light shelf wear, toning to pages. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket, edgeworn with a chip to the top corner..... More
London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1979. First edition, first printing. Near Fine with a light shelf lean, light bruising at spine ends and light bumping to corners, small patch of wear to front paste down; in a Near Fine second state dust jacket with the rear panel blank, light rubbing and..... More
London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1979. First edition, first printing. Very Good with light wear at corners and spine ends, soiling to front free endpaper, pages occasionally thumbed with several creased corners. In a Very Good first state dust jacket with the Capricorn One advert on the rear panel, sunning to..... More
London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1979. 159 pp. First edition, first printing. Near Fine with slight wear at tips, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a blank rear panel, with light rubbing, several nicks and several small indentations to the rear panel, but very little fading to the spine..... More
London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1979. 159 pp. First edition, first printing. Very Good with pen markings to front endsheets, light wear at spine ends. In a Very Good dust jacket with a faded spine, light rubbing and light edge wear. More
New York: Harmony Books, 1980. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Douglas Adams and inscribed to a former owner on the front free end paper. Remainder marks to top and bottom textblock edge, else Fine in a Fine dust jacket with light rubbing. A lovely copy, signed by the..... More
London: Rex Collings, 1972. Signed. First edition, first printing. Warmly inscribed by the author "To dear Janet, with much love, Richard Adams, December 1974." Very Good, lean and reading crease to spine, bumping to foot, light rubbing to cloth at extremities, endpapers foxed, previous owner name (Janet Vernon Hall) to..... More
New York: Doubleday and Company, 1949. First edition signed by Algren in black ink on the title page. Very Good+ in unclipped first issue dust jacket. Name and date written on front flyleaf, small stain on bottom edge. Jacket presents well but front flap separated, a few small pieces of..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First American edition. Inscribed by Ambler to Norman Nolan on page facing title page at the Mystery Writers of America awards (Ambler won the Grand Master award) in New York, April 25, 1975. From the Otto Penzler Collection of Mystery Fiction. [xiv], 281, [1]..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1939. First edition. 320pp. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Good+ condition, sans jacket. Cloth a bit stained with wear spot on back board, spine darkened, slight lean, previous owner's bookplate on paste down, small stain on fore edge, internally clean and fairly bright. The..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1939. First edition. 320 pp. Red cloth with black lettering on spine; lacking the dust jacket. Good, with spine cloth faded, a few small stains and light fraying to cloth, slight cock to spine. Light pencil gift inscription to fep "In commemoration of the Great..... More
London: William Pickering, 1846. First edition in English. (iv), 197 pp. Late 19th Century three quarter leather over marbled paper, spine lettered in gilt. A Good or better copy with edges well-rubbed and cloth and leather mostly rubbed off or chipped there. Lacking front free endpaper. Last signature of pages..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. First hardcover edition, first printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket with price intact. Foxing to edge of page block, and publisher's remainder stamp at bottom edge. Dust jacket is a bit tired looking, with rubbing and light edge wear--nothing major, but..... More
New York: Gnome Press, 1950. First edition, wrappered issue. Though the publishing history is murky, this is assumed to be either an example from the publisher's short foray into paperback publishing, or an Armed Services edition. Very Good. Pages toned. Wraps lightly worn with a short tear and associated creasing..... More
New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, 1963. First edition. (xiv), 302 pp. with eight pages of photos. Original green and black cloth lettered in white. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($4.95), a little rubbed and worn at tips. A lovely copy of the baseball book that inspired the 1988..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1965. First edition. Inscribed to former owner on title page, "From Virgil Tibbs and John Ball." 184 pp. Original half cloth and boards, lettered in silver. Near Fine with a few finger smudges, in price-clipped dust jacket, easily Very Good+ with a lot less wear..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1965. First edition. 184 pp. Original half cloth and gray paper-covered boards, lettered in silver. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slightly sunned spine panel. An uncommonly neat, unrubbed example of the dust jacket. The author's first book. Winner of the Edgar..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. First British edition, first printing. Very Good in a Good dust jacket with price intact. Front board lightly bowed. A few small spots of bleeding to front end paper. Water warping to just jacket, with wrinkling to laminate; ding to front panel near spine. Served as..... More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1930. First British edition. iv, 315 pp. Publisher's light blue cloth with navy lettering. Cloth very faintly stained, foxing to edges and prelims, still a clean, straight Very Good+ copy in very nice shape. Lacking the dust jacket. The basis of the 1932 film with a dynamite..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page, and inscribed to a former owner. Fine, in a Very Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket, with a small bit of tape residue to the spine panel on the blank verso, and a...... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Very Good with light shelf lean, flaking to lettering on spine, wear at corners and light sunning to edges. In a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price intact, wear at the..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. First edition. 233 pp. Green cloth with crimson lettering. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, spine darkened with some small tears and edge-chips. Best-known as the basis of Jules Dassin's film noir Thieves' Highway. Also a tightly-plotted proletarian novel that managed to..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. First edition. 233 pp. Green cloth with crimson lettering. Near Fine in original dust jacket, unclipped ($3.00), chipped at extremities, else Very Good with spine panel dulled, tape shadow on back panel upper corner. Best-known as the basis of Jules Dassin's film noir Thieves'..... More
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Kobenhavn (Copenhagen): Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag, 1937. 384 pp. First Danish edition, first printing. A fine copy, in recent half leather binding with original front cover bound in, title page printed in red and black. First edition in the original Dutch language. More
