Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1977. First Edition, First Printing with R49 gutter code at page 447. Octavo. 447 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $8.95 price intact. Black and tan boards with spine lettered in gilt. Ex-library with adhesive remnants, but with no institutional markings (see below)... More
South Melbourne, Australia: Crime Book Publishing Co. Proprietary Limited, 1940. Presumed First Edition with no other printings listed. Octavo. 284 pp. + publisher's advertisements. Red cloth stamped in black. No dust jacket. Boards lightly worn along edges, split along bottom edge of rear joint with fraying; scuffed and..... More
Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1938. First Edition, stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00), blue topstain; [2],viii,[2],282pp. Jacket in rather rough condition with substantial rubbing to extremities, two long tears to top margin of rear panel (dampstained), corners bumped..... More
New York: Walker and Company, 1980. First American Edition, with full numberline. Octavo; publisher's boards in red pictorial dust jacket; 175pp. Light shelf wear, minor wrinkling to rear jacket panel, top textblock edge a bit foxed, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Not even taking the dog..... More
New York: Macaulay Company, 1929. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in dark green; viii,[9]-292pp. Scuffing to extremities with brief exposure at corners, spine ends a bit threadbare, spine cocked and lettering starting to dull, opens flatly between gatherings but binding secure, textblock a shade toned with foxing..... More
New York: Walker and Company, 1981. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in black pictorial dust jacket by Ernest Socolov; 192pp. General shelf wear to jacket extremities including brief shallow wrinkling along top margin of front panel, rear panel a bit dust-soiled, faint toning along gutter edges, otherwise a Very..... More