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By: August Derleth
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York, Candlelight Press: 1965
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: A38183
B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized paperback book. The book is in Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some fading to the spine and spine joints, along with some beginning bumping to the spine ends. "On hearing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had no plans to write more Holmes stories, the young Derleth wrote to Conan Doyle, asking permission... View more info
By: Baldwin, James
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston: 1985
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A35895
This book is in Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "James Arthur "Jimmy" Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955) , explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societi... View more info
By: Barber, Willetta Ann and R. F. Schabelitz
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1947
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A35737
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Poor dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. Both front and rear endpapers have a large strip of toning towards the foredges. The dust jacket is missing it's spine , but has both front and rear panels laid-in. "Willetta Ann Barber and RF Schabelitz wrote a series of novels feat... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1996
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A34348
Cover Art; This book is in Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition, as are the text pages. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of one tiny nick to the bottom front edge of the dust jacket. This is the first book in the Jane Austen Mystery series. "I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull. - To Jane Austen's surprise, her visit to the snowy... View more info
By: Beach, Stewart (edited by) with An Introduction by Alfred Hitchcock
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1957
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A32674
This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and wear. There is a splotch of discoloration / toning to the bottom spine end and bottom rear edge of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has edge wear, nicks and small chips missing. The dust jacket has some general we... View more info
By: Bell, Josephine (Doris Bell Collier)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, MacMillan Company: 1966
Edition: 1st American Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A37448
This book is in Near Fine condition and a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The spine ends of the book covers have some light bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has one small edge tear on the top rear panel. "Josephine Bell, pseudonym of Doris Bell Collier, (8 December 1897 – 24 April 1987) , was an English physician and writer. Bell wrote nineteen novels and ... View more info
By: Bennett, Arnold
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, Oswald Train: Publisher: 1972
Edition: 1st American Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A34391
Cover Art; This book is in Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has two tiny edge nick / tears to the top edge. There is a hint of beginning toning to the edges of the dust jacket as well. "The Loot of Cities is the only volume of detective short stories by the great English author, Arnold Bennett. He did write several other stories of this type, ... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1928
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: A32512
This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light rubbing, edge wear and beginning fraying. There is some ground-in dirt to the spine of the book. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name and address on the front endpaper. The top edge of the text block has some ground-in dirt. This is the third Charlie Chan novel. "It is set almost exclusively i... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1932
Edition: Early printing
Seller ID: A32517
This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking the dust jacket. This copy is dated 1932, but lacks the First Edition statement on the copyright page. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and edge wear, along with fraying. The text pages have some light, but generalized toning. There is a previous owner's property bookplate (Harold H. Gibson) on the front pastedown ... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1930
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: A37665
THis is a three-in-One volume including: The Chinese Parrot, the Black Camel, And, Charlie Chan Carries On. The book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have edge wear, rubbing and spots of fraying. The covers have several spots of discoloration. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper, a previous owner's ink stamped name and address on the front p... View more info
By: Block, Lawrence
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Tor Books: 1988
Edition: 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A35561
This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is one nick to the top spine end of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket is clean and bright. "It begins in the Pacific Northwest, in Oregon. Guthire looks around and decides to take a walk. He doesn't know how far he's going, he doesn't know where he's going. He doesn't take much with hi... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press: 1977
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A34212
This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good+ to Near Fine - dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There are two small semi-closed tears to the edges of the dust jacket along with some beginning rubbing and edge wear to the corners and spine ends. The reverse of the dust jacket has one thin strip of color bleeding which does not affect the dust jacket or the book. "It is early 1942. You are i... View more info
By: Burke, James Lee
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 2002
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A37599
This book is in Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "James Lee Burke (born December 5, 1936) is an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won Edgar Awards for Black Cherry Blues (1990) and Cimarron Rose (1998) , and has also been presented with the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers... View more info
By: Burke, James Lee
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 2006
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: A38288
This book is in Very Good+ and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends of the book covers have some beginning bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a black marker X on the bottom corner of the rear endpaper. There is a black marker remainder mark to the bottom edge of the text block. This copy has been signed on the first free page by the author in black ink. "James Lee Burke (born Decem... View more info
By: Burtis, Thomson
Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York, The Fiction League: 1932
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A34957
This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and brigh, but has several small edge nicks and beginning chips along with noticeable spotting and ground-in dirt to the rear panel. The Fiction League opperated as a book club (per Currey... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1962
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A34389
This is a stand-alone historical mystery by the author best known for his Dr. Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale mysteries. The book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is some light toning to the edges of the text block. The dust jacket has several small edge nicks and some light edge wear and rubbing along with spots of discoloration / toning / foxing ... View more info
By: Christie, Agatha
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Co: 1937
Edition: 1st American Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A34447
Ex-Library copy. This is a First American edition. The book is in Good only condition and is a starter copy. The book has a red buckram library binding and is lacking a dust jacket. There are standard library markings, including ink stamps, a library card pocket and date stamp page. Several of the pages have edge tearing and there is very noticeable wear and tear to the book in general. The text pages have toning and some spots of foxing. Early Agatha Christie books are ... View more info
By: Christie, Agatha
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1971
Edition: 1st American Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A34635
This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has noticeable fading to the spine and spine joints, along with several small edge nicks and rubbing to the spine ends. "Christie wrote her first short story, The House of Beauty (an early version of her later-published story The House of Dreams) , while recovering in ... View more info
By: Christie, Agatha
Price: $150.00
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and Company: 1926
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: A37419
2nd printing of the US edition. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally solid, clean condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing, edge wear and beginning fraying. The spine of the book has some fading to the curves, along with spots of ground-in dirt. The front cover has spots of rubbing to the decoration and there are two lightish coffee rings by the title. The ... View more info
By: Collins, Wilkie
Price: $200.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers: 1866
Edition: 1st American Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: A37691
B&W Illustrations; This is the First American Edition. Large octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [9] 10-320, text printed in double columns, wood engravings throughout by George H. Thomas. The book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There is beginning fraying to the spine ends and several small spots of cloth missing from the cover edges. The top rear spine joint has a small tear... View more info
