The Maltese Falcon by Hammett, Dashiell - 1931

First UK edition 1st printing, the 1985 Edgar winning title, Near Fine book flawed by uncut final two pages; these were opened badly resulting in a small closed tear and small chip to last page edge, while next to last page edge has a 3/4 by 1/4 inch triangular shaped chip, slight page edge toning, in a Near Fine jacket that is lightly sunned on spine with two very light, unobtrusive, overwrite lines on front panel. Signed by Wright on the title page. Very rare with price (flap shows pounds 9.50 net) and very rare signed by Wright.

Lettered limited first edition bound in quarter morocco and marbled boards. Fine book, dust jacket, and slipcase new from publisher. This was first in a planned new McMillan series of Woolrich books that sadly did not happen. This book features Woolrich stories that are light and breezy in the style of F. Scott Fitzgerald. These stories were published in several magazines during the late 1920s and the 1930s. Woolrich scholar Nevins has written an introduction and a short note about each story. He feels that the early Woolrich stories provide an essential prefiguring for Woolrich's transition to the mystery genre. This is copy VVV of 156 such copies, still in publisher's shrinkwrap and signed by Nevins on the limitation page.

London: Orion. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1857979389 . 278 p. 22 cm. Sound and square binding, in black cloth-covered boards. Very light wear to corners and spine ends. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dustwrapper has minor spine ends wear. Faint impression of a two digit number can be seen on front panel in certain light. Very lightly rubbed. The seventh Inspector John Rebus detective novel by British writer Ian Rankin. .

Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1982; First Edition; 8vo, 299 pages. Inspector Jury murder mystery, with a labyrinthine plot that unfolds in a small coastal fishing village in Yorkshire during an unusually icy winter. Second novel by Martha Grimes. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket that has a single small (3/16") edge chip in the blank area at bottom left of the back panel, not affecting titles or graphics. Clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, binding tight, sound, and square, no ownership signatures or other markings of any kind. Not price-clipped. An attractive copy.

First limited edition, 106 of 350 such copies, Fine, unread book in a Fine minus jacket with slight crimp top of spine. This is Volume 2 of McMillan's Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps series. Signed
on limitation page by William F. Nolan.

First edition 1st printing, Good to Very Good book with light edge wear, starting at title page, spine lightly pushed top and bottom and very slight bump top front corner, in Very Good dust jacket that is price clipped, edge and corner wear with couple spots of very slight loss, several small creases along edges, mild sun fade on spine and some over write incisions front cover that do not penetrate the mylar, a classic signed by Block on the title page.

New York NY: E. P. Dutton. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. ; 336 pages .

New York: Knopf, 2008. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. This is the rare first US edition, first printing of the first in the Millennium Trilogy, that has gone on to become the best-selling phenomenon of recent times. Book and unclipped jacket are in excellent condition, with slight rubbing to book spine, else fine. Larsson's genius, given that long stretches of the books are tangled with dreary detail and curious Swedish coffee mornings, is to have created characters who we really care about. The action sequences get better and better as the books progress.

Five Star Waterville, Maine, 2006 HBDJ, August 2006, stated 1st edition, NF+/VG+, This book is very good +condition except for minor shelf wear.287 pgs,Alex Night moves out of the private eye business on Larchmont Boulevard in Hollywood and into the mystery writing profession at the WRITERS AND ARTISTS BUILDING in Beverly Hills, where he intends to follow in the footsteps of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. But Night is persistently plagued by former clients who won't let him get past the title page of his potential Edgar Award mystery novel The Big Changeover. After too many false starts and near fatal distractions, Night finds himself on the treacherous trail of two missing objects. The first: an Imperial Fabergi Egg, The Tear of Russia, given by William Randolph Hearst over a half century ago to his mistress - --a Fabergi now valued at over ten million dollars. The second: his missing fianci, the beautiful Goldie Rose. It's soon evident that Goldie has been kidnapped, but by whom - and… Read More

First UK edition, Fine unread book, in a Very Good to Near Fine jacket that has slight edge and corner wear, couple of very light overwrite impressions, tiny dog-ear at top corner front flap, with a Gollancz price sticker over the original price. This copy has been signed by Hillerman on the half-title page. The second Jim Chee mystery.