![Dee Goong An: Three Murder Cases Solved by Judge Dee [Signed Limited Edition]. R H. van Gulik, trans](/pictures/thumb/9506.jpg?v=1620323290)
Tokyo: Printed for the author by Toppan Printing Company, 1949. Limited Edition, signed and sealed by the author and numbered 827 of 1200 on limitation page at front. Octavo; [vI], [XXIV], 237pp. Tinted frontis, "illustrated with three reproductions of original Chinese pictures, and six plates drawn by the author after..... More
Garden City: The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942. Stated First Edition. [vii], 276pp. Red cloth with black lettering. Lacking dust jacket. Boards lightly shelfworn with shallow bumps to corners and spine ends and some general smudging to cloth and some fading to spine lettering. Small gap /..... More
![Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go [Signed ARC]. George P. Pelecanos](/pictures/thumb/9490.jpg?v=1620237244)
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. Advance Reading Copy. Signed on title page. Octavo (21x14x1.5cm); 272pp. Illustrated card wrapper. Some minor edge and corner wear; flattened dogleg at upper right corner of cover. The blurb speaketh: "After a night of drinking, Nick Stefanos passes out in a public..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955 [but 1956?]. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in white pictorial dust jacket; [6],217pp. Ex-Northampton Circulating Library with remnants of their internal markings, including brief paper flaws to jacket flaps and endpapers from previously removed tape, remnants of card slip to rear free endpaper, jacket..... More
New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1912. First Edition. Octavo. 298 pp. Blue-green boards stamped in black and silver. Lacks dust jacket. Boards lightly worn at extremities with some very light general spotting and a touch of toning along fore edge. Sturdy and square in boards and pages..... More
Cohasset, MA: Hot House Press, 2005. First Edition. Quarto (26cm.); publisher's two-toned boards in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; vii,[1],237pp.; photographic illus. throughout. A hint of shelf wear, tiny bump at bottom edge of front board, else Near Fine. Signed by Kaminsky, Laurie Roberts, and Robert Parker on title page... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1940. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's teal cloth, spine lettered in black, green topstain; [8],248pp. Cloth extremities a bit worn with brief exposure at corners, spine slightly cocked, a hint of soil, else Very Good and sound, albeit lacking dust jacket. Murder mystery..... More
![Death Is a Dirty Trick [Inscribed and Signed]. Judson Philips, a k. a. Hugh Pentecost](/pictures/thumb/9428.jpeg?v=1620233064)
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1980. First Edition, with full numberline. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; [4],187pp. Light shelf wear and some dust-soil to jacket, spine panel a bit sunned, boards slightly scuffed at extremities, else Very Good and sound. With a humorous and bridge-themed author..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1963. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's boards in grey pictorial dust jacket; [6],214pp. A number of chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, small coin-sized loss at top fore-edge corner of front panel not approaching text, red spine lettering sunned, boards rubbed and corners..... More
Blakeney: Scorpion Press, 2000. First Edition, Limited to 85 copies of which this is no. 59. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's maroon morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, yellow topstain, in original clear acetate dust jacket; [8],314pp. Jacket very slightly chipped, light shelf wear to boards, else Near Fine. Signed by the author..... More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. 288 pp. Black boards stamped in red. Lacks dust jacket. Boards gently rubbed with slight lean to spine. Bit of scuffing to rear board. Binding is sound. Bookseller ticket to front pastedown. Pages unmarked. More
London: Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. 320 pp. Green cloth stamped in black. Lacks dust jacket. Boards lightly worn along edges with brief exposure to top corners. Very light general scuffing and small patch of spotting to spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
![Tess Monaghan [Limited Edition, Signed]. Laura Lippman](/pictures/thumb/9413.jpg?v=1619552362)
New York: Mysterious Bookshop, 2006. First Edition, Limited to 100 copies of which this is no. 95. Small, slim 12mo (18cm.); publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; 35pp. Fine condition. Signed by the author on colophon. Issued as Mysterious Profile #2. More
![Too Sweet to Die [John Easy Mystery #2] [Signed]. Ron Goulart](/pictures/thumb/9411.jpg?v=1619551966)
New York: Ace Books, 1972. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers, orange topstain; 159pp.; color photographic card bound in center advertising Kent cigarettes, regular or menthol. Light shelf wear and dust-soil, tiny loss at bottom fore-edge corner of front cover, else Very Good, internally sound. Signed by..... More
![One Grave Too Many [John Easy Mystery #4] [Signed]. Ron Goulart](/pictures/thumb/9408.jpg?v=1619551508)
New York: Ace Books, 1974. First Edition, stated First Ace Printing. 12mo (17cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 137,[7](ads)pp. Wrappers a bit worn and spine creased and slightly cocked, textblock toned due to inferior paper quality, else Good to Very Good overall. Signed by the author on title page... More
![The Same Lie Twice [John Easy Mystery #3] [Signed]. Ron Goulart, Elaine Duillo, cover art](/pictures/thumb/9407.jpg?v=1619551118)
New York: Ace Books, 1973. First Edition, stated First Ace Printing. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers, all edges stained yellow; 143pp. Light shelf wear else Very Good to Near Fine. Signed by the author on title page. One of four hardboiled novels featuring "Hollywood Dick" John Easy. More
Toronto: Musson Book Company Ltd., 1940. First Edition. Large, thick octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth in cream photo-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket lettered in green, brown topstain; 327pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, nine leaves of plates. Jacket rather wrinkled and toned with a number of shallow chips and closed tears to extremities, all..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1949. First Edition, stated. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket; 222pp. A number of closed tears to jacket extremities with subsequent wrinkling and old tape repair to verso, old price rubber-stamp on front jacket flap effaced; board extremities scuffed with..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1966. First Edition. Octavo. 190 pp. Victor Reinganum-illustrated dust jacket with 16s net price intact. Dark blue boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket is lightly rubbed and toned along edges with some additional toning to spine. Boards show a touch of shelfwear and..... More