Strange State: Mysteries and Legends of Oklahoma by Cullan Hudson

London: Oxford University Press, 1953. First Edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Oxford University Press, 1953. 137 pp., Essays on Holmes and Watson. Light foxing to end papers, else fine in very good dj. Dj has fraying and a 1 inch chip to the bottom front panel.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Very Good. 8vo..

First limited edition 1st printing, Fine book and jacket in Fine slipcase, lettered limited bound in marbled boards and quarter morocco, this is copy HHH of 104 such copies, signed on the limitation page, in publisher's shrinkwrap. Crack, drug wars, and very ugly doings in Hawaii. This is a stand-alone novel by Lono. Starred review in Booklist. Noir fans need to know about Waiwaiole right now. He is the real thing, and he's too good to miss - Bill Ott.

Near Fine, unread book with light push at bottom of spine and age toning around edges of front and back end pages, a flaw that is common with this title, in a Near Fine jacket with slight edge wear and light vertical rubs. A bookplate signed by Barr is laid-in. Barr's first Anna Pigeon mystery, set in Big Bend National Park. This title won the 1993 Agatha Award and the 1994 Anthony Award.

London: Michael Joseph/Penguin Books, 2008. First UK edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 468 pp. 8vo. Tight and unread copy, protected with archival jacket cover. Signed by author on title page. Gift quality.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 319pp. Orange cloth. Cover and binding are clean and sound, a few foredges are lightly chipped, illustrated dust jacket is chipped along edges and creased, and moderately soiled. Daly was among the earliest of the "hard-boiled" fiction writers.

London: Macmillan, 1985 First printing of the first British edition, preceding the American edition by 13 years. Brown cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine. Author's first book. Age toning to page margins, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

215 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in publisher's original black with orange "red badge" insignia on front cover and orange lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition.To save a judge's daughter, Mike Shayne must invade the red-light district. For twenty years, Judge Nigel Lansdowne has been one of Washington's greatest progressives. The red-baiters in Congress would do anything to destroy his reputation, and they may have found the perfect weapon. Her name is Julia, but when she dances she goes by Dorinda. The judge's daughter came to Miami in search of a new life, and she found it dancing nude in the city's infamous red-light district. Mike Shayne is hired to bring Julia home before the judge's enemies learn of her new career, but his real job will be keeping her alive. Someone in Miami wants this beautiful dancer dead, and only Mike Shayne can help her. In the nightclubs of Miami Beach, music is played to a deadly beat.Dresser was born in Chicago, Illinois, but… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket soiled and lightly tattered, pages . toned.. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. The prolific mystery author's second book, featuring an auto racing detective, Beau Pepys, that chronologically precedes the storyline in Hammond's first published novel, Fred in Situ. Stamp of literary agent Curtis Brown on front free endpaper and title page. Jacket art by Peter Calcott. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages .

Toronto, ON, Canada: Baskerville Books, 2007 Signed By 11 Of The 24 Writers Plus Editor Caro Soles. Softcover, 271 Pages. Near Fine: Slight Cover Wear (No Spine Creasing), Covers And Pages Clean, Bright & Unmarked. Scarce To Find So Many Of These Authors' Signatures In A Single Collection. Signatures Appear On Each Contributors' Title Page And Include: Lyn Hamilton, Linwood Barclay, Edward D. Hoch, Rosemary Aubert, Mary Jane Maffini, Madeleine Harris-Callway, Maureen Jennings, Peter Sellers, Dennis Richard Murphy, Jane Burfield, Mary Keenan, Caro Soles.

The Pequod Press, 1988. First Edition. Unknown. Fine. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Handsewn printed wraps. Printed letterpress by John Ruyle at Pequod Press. One of 100 paper copies, this being #116. Light wear to wraps, else Near Fine. Another of the entertaining and witty 'Turlock Loams' parodies of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, authored and printed by John Ruyle. Ruyle's private press - the Pequod Press - issued numerous Sherlockian and other titles for over thirty years.