Description:
Garden City, NY: Crime Club/Doubleday, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1st ed. 1939. Minor slant to spine, wear to extremities, tape ghosts on paste down endpapers. A very good copy lacking dustjacket. Professor Theocritus Lucius Westborough investigates the murder of a well-to-do Chicago businessman and collector of ancient weapons. A copy of a hard-to-find title that still presents nicely. ; Octavo.
The Hammersmith Murders by Frome, David (Zenith Jones Brown) - 1930
by Frome, David (Zenith Jones Brown)
Similar copies are shown below.
Similar copies are shown to the right.
The Hammersmith Murders
by Frome, David (Zenith Jones Brown)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. 294pp. Black cloth stamped in red on the cover and the spine. Signed and inscribed by Frome on the front free endpaper in the year of publication. Slant to spine, mild fading to cloth and toning to text block, lower corner tips bruised. A very good copy in bright fine price-clipped dustjacket. The first mystery featuring Evan Pinkerton. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. ; Octavo; Signed by Author.
- Bookseller Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare (US)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication Garden City, NY
- Date Published 1930
- Keywords MYSTERY, Haycraft Queen Cornerstone, DETECTIVE, EVAN PINKERTON, ENGLAND, INSPECTOR BULL, SCOTLAND YARD
We have 9 copies available starting at $15.00.
Dragon's Cave
by Clason, Clyde B.
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Schenectady, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
$180.00
Show Details
Item Price
$180.00
Before It's Too Late
by Stewart, Jay (Charles Stuart Palmer)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Schenectady, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
$150.00
Show Details
Description:
New York: M. S. Mill Co. and William Morrow & Co, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in good dustjacket with a dampstain partially affecting lower edge of front and rear panel and a closed tear along upper edge of front panel. ; Octavo.
Item Price
$150.00
Death and Judgment
by Leon, Donna
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780060177966 / 0060177969
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Schenectady, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
$120.00
Show Details
Description:
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards. Short corner crease to front free endpaper. A fine copy in fine dustjacket with a hint of wear to spine panel. The fourth mystery featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti. ; Octavo.
Item Price
$120.00
The Runaway Bag
by Terhune, Albert Payson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Schenectady, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
$480.00
Show Details
Description:
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Dark blue cloth stamped in orange on cover and spine. Cloth shows mild wear to lower edges, name on front endpapers. A near fine copy in very good dustjacket with chipping along the edges and two closed tears on the spine panel. In Hubin, 1994, p. 792. Rais 34. ; Octavo.
Item Price
$480.00
The Saint in Pursuit
by Charteris, Leslie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Schenectady, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
$180.00
Show Details
Description:
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth stamped in silver on the spine. A fine copy in very good+ price-clipped dustjacket with a tiny chip to front flap and mild wear to the edges. The novelization of a Simon Templar comic strip published in 1959/1960. Precedes the British edition. A nice copy. ; Octavo.
Item Price
$180.00
Dragon's Cave
by Clason, Clyde B.
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Schenectady, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
$180.00
Show Details
Description:
Garden City, NY: Crime Club/Doubleday, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1st ed. 1939. Minor slant to spine, wear to extremities, tape ghosts on paste down endpapers. A very good copy lacking dustjacket. Professor Theocritus Lucius Westborough investigates the murder of a well-to-do Chicago businessman and collector of ancient weapons. A copy of a hard-to-find title that still presents nicely. ; Octavo.
Item Price
$180.00
Before It's Too Late
by Stewart, Jay (Charles Stuart Palmer)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Schenectady, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
$150.00
Show Details
Description:
New York: M. S. Mill Co. and William Morrow & Co, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in good dustjacket with a dampstain partially affecting lower edge of front and rear panel and a closed tear along upper edge of front panel. ; Octavo.
Item Price
$150.00
Death and Judgment
by Leon, Donna
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780060177966 / 0060177969
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Schenectady, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
$120.00
Show Details
Description:
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards. Short corner crease to front free endpaper. A fine copy in fine dustjacket with a hint of wear to spine panel. The fourth mystery featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti. ; Octavo.
Item Price
$120.00
The Runaway Bag
by Terhune, Albert Payson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Schenectady, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
$480.00
Show Details
Description:
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Dark blue cloth stamped in orange on cover and spine. Cloth shows mild wear to lower edges, name on front endpapers. A near fine copy in very good dustjacket with chipping along the edges and two closed tears on the spine panel. In Hubin, 1994, p. 792. Rais 34. ; Octavo.
Item Price
$480.00
A Dram of Poison
by Armstrong, Charlotte
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Schenectady, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
$1,080.00
Show Details
Description:
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 253pp. Burgundy cloth lettered in red on the spine. 1957 Edgar Award winner for best novel. Previous owner's name in pencil on the front free endpaper, barely a hint of wear to the lower edges. A bright, fine copy in very good dustjacket with mild wear to the edges, tiny chip and light fading to the spine panel. Dustjacket illustration by Rus Anderson. ; Octavo.
Item Price
$1,080.00
The Hammersmith Murders
by Frome, David
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
$15.00
Show Details
Description:
Crime Club/Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1930 | HC black cloth, stamped in red, spine slightly cocked, staining to front cover, previous owner name inked
Item Price
$15.00
More Photos
The Hammersmith Murders
by David Frome
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Foster, Rhode Island, United States
- Item Price
-
$50.00
Show Details
Description:
Dell, 1944. paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Dell Publishing Company; New York, 1930 copyright. Mass Market Paperback. A Very Good, binding intact, some handling/scuff marks to covers, bit of cover edge/corner wear, rubbing along joints, age toning to pages, stress creases to spine, small tears to spine edges, creases to cover corners, all text block edges stained blue with some blemishes, starting front hinge, previous owner ink handwritten ownership information front free endpaper, in wraps. A nice and overall clean copy. 16mo[sextodecimo or approx. 4 x 6.75 inches], 237pp. Select standard shipping and receive free upgrade to domestic 1st class. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
Item Price
$50.00
More Photos
Hammersmith Murders. The
by Frome, David
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Westfield, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
$75.00
Show Details
Description:
Dell. Softcover. Good. #36, cocked spine and other moderate wear; Mapback edition
Item Price
$75.00
More Photos
The Hammersmith Murders -by David Frome (The 1st Evan Pinkerton Mystery )( Dell # 36 Mapback Edition )
by Frome, David (penname for Zenith Jones Brown, aka Leslie Ford, Brenda Conrad ) ( Dell Mapback Edition )
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good (see description)
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
- Item Price
-
$124.95
Show Details
Description:
New York: N.Y./New York.: Dell # 36, 1930 (actually 1944 ), 1st Paperback Edition, First Printing, 1944. ----------( 1st Printing of the First paperback Edition ) ---paperback, a solid Good to Very Good example, overall wear and rubbing, faint creases, a bit of age toning to paper, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo///NOT SIGNED---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good (see description). Illus. by Gerald Grace Cover Art. 4.25w x 6.25h Inches.
Item Price
$124.95
Hammersmith Murders
by Frome, David (Pseudonym of Zenith Brown) & Gerald Gregg & Ruth Belew
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First ed/pb
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Houston, Texas, United States
- Item Price
-
$125.00
Show Details
Description:
Dell 36. Fair. 1930. First ed/pb. Paperback. Tape has been applied to spine. Scotch tape-starting to tun brownish/splitting off a little on back hinge; could be repaired and tape removed fairly easily in all likelihood w /heat gun and a little patience .
Item Price
$125.00
Hammersmith Murders
by Frome, David (Pseudonym of Zenith Brown) & Gerald Gregg & Ruth Belew
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First ed/pb
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
- Item Price
-
$125.00
Show Details
Description:
Dell 36. Fair. 1930. First ed/pb. Paperback. Tape has been applied to spine. Scotch tape-starting to tun brownish/splitting off a little on back hinge; could be repaired and tape removed fairly easily in all likelihood w /heat gun and a little patience .
Item Price
$125.00
The Hammersmith Murders. (Dell - 36). MAP BACK.
by FROME, David
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$100.49
Show Details
Description:
Dell Publishing Company, Inc. New York. 1930. Dell Publishing Company, Inc. New York. 1930. Dell Mystery paperback (number 36) First edition thus. Map back. Front inner hinge visible and tape to head of spine. Slight creasing to spine. Light marks to front cover and pages slightly browned, otherwise a sound copy.
Item Price
$100.49
The Hammersmith Murders
by David Frome
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Simi Valley, California, United States
- Item Price
-
$550.00
Show Details
Description:
The Crime Club, Inc., 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. . First ed in rare dust jacket. Price clipped at inner flap, blue stain on back of jacket. Otherwise jacket is tanned but clean. Front of jacket looks really nice. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.
Item Price
$550.00
THE HAMMERSMITH MURDERS.
by FROME, DAVID
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Greencastle, Pennsylvania, United States
- Item Price
-
$650.00
Show Details
Description:
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930., 1930. First edition. Later edition (Most likely printed later in 1930). First state of the original dust jacket. Pseudonym of Zenith Jones Brown, who also wrote using the pseudonym of Leslie Ford. Former owner's neat inked signature on the half-title page, and cloth spine faded somewhat, else a very good copy in price-clipped dust jacket. "A man is being murdered at 16 Caithness Road, is the cryptic message received by the Commissioner of the C. I. D. in an envelope postmarked HAMMERSMITH. Inspector Bull traveled to 16 Caithness Road and found a man who had just died, but the doctor said his death was caused by tetanus. A curious fact uncovered by the Inspector was that the dead man's father had been killed quite recently in a bus accident and that his daughter had been present at both events. From this beginning, two more murders and a series of robberies occur before the criminal is finally captured while preparing to commit the…
Read More Item Price
$650.00
More Photos
Godshot (SIGNED) (FIRST)
by Bieker, Chelsea
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Tempe, Arizona, United States
- Item Price
-
$21.99$6.60Save $15.39!
Show Details
Description:
2020 - 1st ed ("1" in number line) - SIGNED by author on the title page - "Godshot is the kind of book you find yourself thinking about incessantly." - Kristen Arnett - book: near fine - dj: near fine - dj in protective mylar sleeve"Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen–year–old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret "assignments," to bring the rain everybody is praying for.Lacey has no reason to doubt the pastor. But then her life explodes in a single unimaginable act of abandonment: her mother, exiled from the community for her sins, leaves Lacey and runs off with a man she barely knows. Abandoned and distraught, Lacey May moves in with her widowed grandma, Cherry, who is more concerned with…
Read More Item Price
$21.99$6.60
Save $15.39
!
More Photos
The Mystery of the Blue Train
by Agatha Christie
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
- Item Price
-
$12.00
Show Details
Description:
New York: Pocket Book edition, 1966, 20th printing. Pocket Book 50447. Vintage pulp fiction paperback, x, [2], 194pp., advert., cover price 50 cents.. Very Good Condition with bright cover page. Slight cover and spine creasing. There are bumped corners, and signs of shelf wear, top right corner of cover with slight crease and lower edges of cover worn. Pages are unmarked. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
Item Price
$12.00
Kill Petrosino!
by Nolan, Frederick
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780213165178 / 0213165171
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- Item Price
-
$14.55
Show Details
Description:
London: Arthur Barker Ltd. 1st Edition, 1975 ----------hardcover, with dust jacket. The book, in black boards with orange lettering and design to the spine, is an unblemished near fine copy. The unclipped jacket has light wear to the front panel top edge and spine extremities, and is almost near fine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Note: our prices on Biblio are the LOWEST of any of the sites on which we list our books.
Item Price
$14.55
Dolores Claiborne
by Stephen King
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780670844524 / 0670844527
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States
- Item Price
-
$15.99
Show Details
Description:
First Edition. (1993) Hardcover with d.j. Fine with near fine dust jacket. D.J. has slight curl on top edge and light rubbing on back. No worn edges. Tight binding with clean, sharp pages. No markings. 305 pages. Dolores Claiborne is a psychological thriller novel. The novel is narrated by the title character. Atypically for a King novel, it has no chapters, double-spacing between paragraphs, or other section breaks; thus the text is a single continuous narrative which reads like the transcription of a spoken monologue. This book is dedicated to King's mother: "For my mother, Ruth Pillsbury King."
Item Price
$15.99
Pearson, Ridley (as Reardon, Joyce) | Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, The | Signed First Edition Copy
by Pearson, Ridley (as Reardon, Joyce)
- New
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780786868018 / 0786868015
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Seller
-
Tualatin, Oregon, United States
- Item Price
-
$59.99$24.00Save $35.99!
Show Details
Description:
Hyperion, 2001. hardcover. New. Author Signed Hardcover Book. 2001 NY: Hyperion First edition, first printing, fine, no dust jacket as issued, signed by the author. This is a collectible book free from material defects. Jacket covering services are available for a small fee.
Item Price
$59.99$24.00
Save $35.99
!
A Is For Alibi
by Sue Grafton
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- N
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780805013344 / 0805013342
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States
- Item Price
-
$25.00
Show Details
Description:
1982. Fine. Book Club Edition. Hardcover and dust jacket. D.j. is near fine with slight wear on top binding edge. Inside flap d.j has slight creases. Cover is smooth, unblemished, no tears, nicks or worn corners. Hardcover, as new, black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Tight binding, sharp, clean pages. No markings. (Actual photo) A flawless copy. 208 pages. "A" Is for Alibi is crime writer Sue Grafton's first mystery novel in the Kinsey Millhone "Alphabet mystery" series, first published in 1982.
Item Price
$25.00
More Photos
The Seven Dials Mystery (A Midnite Mystery)
by Christie, Agatha
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ Included
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
- Item Price
-
$45.00$27.00Save $18.00!
Show Details
Description:
The Seven Dials Mystery (Midnight Mysteries) 1944 Books, Inc. Stated 1st. Pr. Thus) RARE IN THIS EDITION. By Agatha Christie. USED. Good-/ No DJ. Black boards, gold titling on spine. Light pop bottle rings mar front board. Original copyright by Dodd, Mead 1929. Loose last gather has been neatly taped in. A clean copy. Summary: "When Gerald Wade died, apparently from an overdose of sleeping draught seven clocks appeared on the mantelpiece. Who put them there and had they any connection with the night club in Seven Dials? This is the mystery that Bill Eversleigh and Bundle and two other young people set out to investigate...".
Item Price
$45.00$27.00
Save $18.00
!
Murder for Christmas (A Midnite Mystery)
by Christie, Agatha
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ Included
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
- Item Price
-
$45.00$27.00Save $18.00!
Show Details
Description:
Murder for Christmas, a Poirot Story by Agatha Christie (1944 Midnite Mystery) COPYRIGHT BY AGATHA CHRISTIE MALLOWAN: "It is Christmas Eve, and elderly Simeon Lee is found violently murdered in his locked office. The police are immediately called, but of course nobody has a clue until Hercule Poirot arrives..." USED. 1944 Books inc. Midnite Mystery. Copyright 1938 - 1939 Agatha Christie Mallowan. Good+/ No DJ. Black boards with gold titling on spine. Titles gilting is still nice Scarce.
Item Price
$45.00$27.00
Save $18.00
!
More Photos
Noose, The
by MacDonald, Philip
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Canadian?
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
$30.00
Show Details
Description:
Collins White Circle Pocket Edition #228. Great 1940s cover! Colonel Anthony Gethryn must prove a man innocent of a murder he's been convicted for in only 5 days. MacDonald was a great practitioner of the mystery-suspense genre; his books remain readable, even if his characters are nowhere near as enlightened as we tend to be today. Please read this volume in its historical context. A very clean copy, spine slightly darkened with very faint reading crease: see photos.
Item Price
$30.00
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Black Cherry Blues
by Burke, James Lee
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780316116992 / 0316116998
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Ellensburg, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
$30.00
Show Details
Description:
New York, NY, U. S. A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. New York, NY, U. S. A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1989. Near Fine in Very Good jacket Remainder A Dave Robicheaux mystery, Edgar Award winner npc, 290pp. rem po inscription on front pastedown, behind dj flap. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. Remainder. First Edition
Item Price
$30.00