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This is the lettered limited version. Fine unread book and jacket in Fine slipcase. Bound in black pigskin quarter morocco, and marbled boards - a beautiful production. This is copy III of 104 such copies, signed by Nisbet on the limitation page. Nisbet's novel takes the reader on a roller coaster ride between drug deals in Oakland and a strange series of events in San Francisco. The principal character being a bald, strung-out guitar player, who is caught up in a series of ever more bizarre events. I've read it twice, and it is an unpredictable and unforgettable trip.
Mystery Book, The by Abbot, Anthony; Ford, Leslie; Frome, David; Rinehart, Mary Roberts; Stout, Rex - 1939
by Abbot, Anthony; Ford, Leslie; Frome, David; Rinehart, Mary Roberts; Stout, Rex
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Mystery Book, The
by Abbot, Anthony; Ford, Leslie; Frome, David; Rinehart, Mary Roberts; Stout, Rex
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New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Part of the William F. Farley collection. Spine is slightly cocked, light soiling and sun fading to top page edges, fore-edge and tail edges of pages just beginning to fox and have uneven sun darkening, spine is rolled, free end paper and paste down pages are sun darkened, the front paste down page has a previous owner's book plate adhered on it (about the size of half and index card), on the front free-end paper has a previous book seller stamp affixed to it (about the size of a postage stamp). Dj edges are chipped along most of its' length, there are several closed tears, a rolled spine and has significant rubbing along front hinge and fore-edge, fly leaves have their corners clipped but the price is still intact, it is sun darkened and has soiling mainly to back cover.
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- Book Condition Used - Good
- Jacket Condition good
- Edition First edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Farrar and Rinehart
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1939
- Keywords MYSTERY ANTHOLOGY STOUT
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The Octopus on my Head
by Nisbet, Jim
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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The Water-Walker
by Brown, Fredric
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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First limited edition, 138 of 425 such copies, Fine, unread book; in a Fine minus jacket with several slight overwrite impressions panels. This is Volume 17 of McMillan's Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps series.
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Paper Money
by Follett, Ken
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- 9780688058401 / 068805840X
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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Comments: Back of d-j has very subtle shelf wear.Synopsis: A politician wakes with a beautiful girl; a criminal briefs his team; a tycoon breakfasts with a Bank official. Then three stories break: an attempted suicide, a hijack, and a takeover bid. They seem unrelated – until Evening Post reporters ask questions. Why is a Jamaican bank in trouble? Who drove the Rolls-Royce seen near the raid? Who was the man with gunshot wounds? As the day wears on, new questions arise – about paper money.
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The Caruthers Affair
by Harben, Will[iam] N[athaniel]
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Lukeville , Arizona, United States
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New York, F. Tennyson Neely, 1898, hardcover, 224 pp, First Edition, Good condition in blue cloth boards decorated with red and silver. Straight and very firmly bound with no markings, spots to boards, spine a bit faded, light spine-end and corner wear, stain to bottom edge, faint evidence of dampstain to top edge of a few pages. The Georgia native and popular Victorian author of 30 novels presents a Sherlock Holmes-style detective story featuring a taunting villain, a particularly gruesome murder, and an Indian mystic and master hypnotist in a castle with a secret dungeon.
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White Heat
by Marks, Paul D.
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- 9780985076023 / 098507602X
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Lukeville , Arizona, United States
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Timeless Skies Publishing, 2012, trade paperback, 352 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, Signed and dated by the Author on the title page, New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers. A hard-boiled detective story fraught with racial tension and set in 1992 against the turmoil of the Los Angeles riots that followed the acquittal of the police officers charged with assaulting motorist Rodney King. The inaugural winner of the Shamus Award for Indie P.I. Novel in 2013. ISBN 9780985076023
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If I Should Murder
by Patrick Laing
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NY, Phoenix Press, 1945, 1st? (Not stated) . Hardcover . G++/VG-. APPEARS TO BE EX LENDING-LIB. Bit of black tape on boards; couple small ink-stamps fep; couple small words inked fep; bit of glue residue on end-pages. DJ w/ some black tape residue on the inside; some wear and few chips; in new Brodart protector.
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The Adrian H. Goldstone Collection of Mystery and Detective Fiction
by Various
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
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California Book auction Galleries, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Special Limited Edition. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Top edge very slightly spotted or marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Books on Books; Antiquarian & Rare. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 13124. .
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High Priest of California (novel and play) and Wild Wives
by Willeford, Charles
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Limited edition, 1st printing of this hardcover version. A back-to-back packaging of two early Willeford novels that appeared as PBOs, plus his play version of first title. A Fine minus book that has slight wear and color loss to corners and spine ends; in a Fine minus book with just a hint of fade to spine. This is number 1 of 250 copies; signed by Willeford and numbered on a limitation page.
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The Doomsday Book
by Maclaren-Ross, J.
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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A Novel of Intrigue & Suspense, The first U.S. edition. Very Good book that is very slightly bumped at corners, soft at spine ends with bit of wear there to quarter cloth; In a Very Good, PRICE-CLIPPED, jacket that edge and corner, two 1 inch closed tears top of front panel, wear and slight chipping to spine ends, and moderate soiling to back panel and spine. The U.K. author was quite popular following WWII and was well-known in English literary circles. Very scarce in any edition, but especially in this U.S. 1st printing.
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SOURCE FOR EDGAR ALLAN POE: Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician
by Warren, Samuel (1807-1877)
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Worcester, United Kingdom
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Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1832. 1st Edition . Half leather. Very Good. First edition (published 1832-38), octavo, three volumes; xii, 388; 409; 509pp. In contemporary half calf (lightly worn), spines divided into five compartments with gilt rolls and double fillets, gilt lettered titles and volume numbers to second and fourth compartments respectively. Early ownership labels to front endpapers, neat early ink ownership names to head of each title page, early pencil ownership inscription to opening blank of volume three, half-titles present in all three volumes. Clean attractive copy in first edition of Warren's often macabre tales that have received considerable scholarly attention as a source for Edgar Allan Poe's works of mystery and the supernatural.
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The Second Mystery Book (One Full-Length Novel, One Story and Four Novelettes)
by Stout, Rex; Abbot, Anthony; Wylie, Philip; Ford, Leslie; Frome, David and Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Topeka, Kansas, United States
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Fair in New dust jacket. 1940. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Cover corners and spine ends worn. External hinges worn with a split along the rear hinge about half of the length of the spine in each direction. The spine head is also split. Internally, the binding is broken and held by the mull at the title page. Binding is otherwise sound and functional. Several small stains and signs of repeat readings found throughout the text. Facsimile dust jacket is in as new condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 471 pages .
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The Second Mystery Book (One Full-Length Novel, One Story and Four Novelettes)
by Stout, Rex; Abbot, Anthony; Wylie, Philip; Ford, Leslie; Frome, David and Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Topeka, Kansas, United States
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Very Good- in New dust jacket. 1940. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Cover corners and spine ends worn with loss of color. Binding remains fairly clean. The text is also fairly clean with a few creases and smudges scattered throughout. Facsimile dust jacket is in as new condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 471 pages .
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Godshot (SIGNED) (FIRST)
by Bieker, Chelsea
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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…
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The Mystery of the Blue Train
by Agatha Christie
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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.
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Kill Petrosino!
by Nolan, Frederick
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Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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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.
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Dolores Claiborne
by Stephen King
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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."
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Pearson, Ridley (as Reardon, Joyce) | Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, The | Signed First Edition Copy
by Pearson, Ridley (as Reardon, Joyce)
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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.
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A Is For Alibi
by Sue Grafton
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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.
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The Seven Dials Mystery (A Midnite Mystery)
by Christie, Agatha
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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...".
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Murder for Christmas (A Midnite Mystery)
by Christie, Agatha
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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.
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by MacDonald, Philip
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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.
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Black Cherry Blues
by Burke, James Lee
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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
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