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New York: Harper & Row, 1972. Kahn's now classic baseball history/personal memoir of the Brooklyn Dodgers during the Jackie Robinson years of the 1950s when Kahn, a young sportswriter, covered the team for the Heald Tribune, followed by Kahn's story about what happened to the team's members when the glory years were over. Illustrated with black & white photos. A neatly printed, one-line inscription along the top edge of the half title page: "Charlie/For Our Summer Days/Bill,"... more information

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New York: Dutton, 1991. Kakonis' third mystery and second novel featuring professional poker player Tim Waverly. Collectable condition.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. ... more information

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New York: Dutton, 1993. The third novel in Kakonis' well-received mystery-crime series featuring ex-professor, now pro poker player Tim Waverly; a pair of remainder marks on bottom edge of text, ink-stamped price on half-title page, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows minimal surface and edgewear.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. ... more information

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New York: Random House, 1984. The fourth book in Kallen's intelligent, humorous mystery series featuring reporter Maggie Rome and her boss, C. B. Greenfield. This time Maggie's on vacation on Sannibel-Captiva when she discovers the body of a murder victim and needs Greenfield's special genius. An ink-stamped price on the front end page, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows almost no surface or edgewear. A fine, collectable copy in like dustjacket.. First Edition, Fir... more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1987. The fourth novel in Kaminsky's highly-praised mystery series set in the Soviet Union and featuring Moscow Police Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov; a Fine in like dustjacket. Scarce. Collectable.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. ... more information

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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. A classic thriller from the author of the Toby Peters mystery series; set in Chicago and Evanston, IL, eight years after they brutally murdered her husband, a team of psychopaths return to stalk the man's wife and children; ex libris with large glue marks on inside covers and end pages, some residue on obverse side of dustjacket's flaps; spine slightly cocked. A reading copy.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Good Plus/Very Good. ... more information

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New York: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2000. the sixth novel in Kaminsky's highly-praised mystery-suspense series featuring Chicago homicide detective Abe Lieberman and his partner Bill Hanrahan, aka the Rabbi and the Priest; hardcover; First Printing of the First Edition; text is clean, tight, square; front board has several small white smudges, o/w no damage or wear; dustjacket no noticeable surface or edgewear; Very Good/Fine. Scarce. Collectable. . ... more information

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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Kaminsky's eighth book is a bibliomystery featuring 1940s Hollywood private detective Toby Peters, hired this time by Mae West to recover the only copy of the legendary star's autobiography; bottom of spine slightly bumped, faint, one-line ink stamping on fep, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows one-inch closed tear at top edge of back panel, some minor light scratching and rubbing. . First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very... more information

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New York: Forge Books, 2004. The eighth mystery in Kaminsky's widely-praised police procedural series featuring veteran Chicago police detective Abe Lieberman and his partner, Bill Hanrahan. This time Lieberman is off to Arizona to pick up an extradicted mob enforcer, who is gunned down at the airport, while Hanrahan is dealing with a rape case involving the wife of a fellow officer. Boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows a trace of edgewear . First Edition, First Printing. Hard C... more information

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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. The sequel to the Edgar Award-winning Kaminsky's "Lieberman's Folly," and the second in the series featuring the sixty-year-old Jewish Chicago police detective and Bill Hanrahan, his not-so-sober Irish partner, this time trying to disarm a fellow officer who has killed his wife and her lover, then barricaded himself on top of a building wired with enough explosives to destroy a large part of the city. A pair of small, light stains on top edge of te... more information

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New York: Carroll & Graf, 2002. The Edgar-Award-winning Kaminsky's twenty-second novel set in 1930s-40s Hollywood and featuring private detective Toby Peters, this time teaming with British intelligence agent Cary Grant to uncover murder and a nest of Nazi sympathizers. A remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square in a dustjacket showing only some light rubbing and a trace of edgewear. A collectable copy. . First Edition, First Print... more information

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Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, Inc., 1999. A collection of short stories by Florida mystery writers including Stanley Ellin, Jeremiah Healy, John Lutz, T.J. Macgregor and Les Standiford; Paperback Original, First Printing of the True First Edition; a couple of pages dogeared, o/w text is clean, tight, square; front cover has very slight roll, o/w wrappers show minimal surface and edgewear.. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. ... more information

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New York: Dell, 1961. vintage paperback, Dell First Edition B174; Kane's New York City private detective Johnny Liddell is hired by mob bosses to find a murderer in their private oasis in the Nevada desert; cover art by Harry Bennett; Paperback Original, First Printing of True First Edition; clean, tight, lightly age-tanned with some spine lean in somewhat worn but whole pictorial wrappers. Collectable.. First Edition, First Printing. Mass Market Paperback. ... more information

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New York: Dell, 1960. Vintage Paperback, Dell First Edition B159; New York City private detective Johnny Liddell investigates a smuggling case involving murder of a beautiful Chinese woman; Paperback Original, True First Printing of the First Edition; text slightly age-tanned, but clean and tight; wrappers show only minor surface and edgewear.. First Edition, First Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. ... more information

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New York: Dell, 1963. vintage paperback, Dell First Edition 7451; a hard-boiled mystery featuring Kane's New York City private eye Johnny Liddell; mass market paperback; First Printing of the First Edition; text is clean, tight, very slight spine lean; pictorial wrappers show wear at edges and spine ends with top corner of back cover dogeared; Good Plus to Very Good. Collectable.. ... more information

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Seattle, WA: Superior Publishing Co., 1965. one of the best efforts in Superior Publishing's series of pictorial histories of the western U.S. in the second half of the 19th Century; profusely illustrated with period photos; 8 1/2 x 11 hardcover; top edge of text slightly soiled o/w text is clean, tight, square in light blue boards showing very slight edgewear, small indentation in front cover near spine; dustjacket whole but somewhat worn with small triangular tear on front panel (repaired with archiva... more information

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San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. Kates, an investigative reporter for the New York Daily News, spent four years piecing together the true crime story of Phyllis Iannotta, one of New York City's homeless, 67 years old when she was raped and murdered in a Hell's Kitchen parking lot in 1981, a story not untypical of thousands of other women living on the streets in major U.S. cities; introduction by former NY Governor Mario Cuomo; hardcover; First Printing of the First Edition; text is ... more information

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New York: Smith-Horizon Press, 1973. A collection of poetry in English by the well-known Yiddish poet, Kabbalistic scholar and editor of "Bitter Root, the international poetry journal; Signed and Inscribed, and with a pen-and-ink drawing by Katzr on the fep; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket's spine is faded, and spine ends and edges show wear, though no chips or tears. Scarce. Collectable.. Signed and Inscribed By the Author. First Printing, First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Fin... more information

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New York: The Smith, 1972. A collection of related poems by this award-winning Yiddish poet and Kabbalistic scholar describing the death and destruction in the small Lithuanian village of his boyhood during World War I; First Printing of the First Edition in English (originally published in Yiddish in 1938); Inscribed and with a pen-and-ink drawing by Katz on the fep; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows horizontal crease across spine, some wear at spine ends and edges, small green dot... more information

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New York: Pocket Books, 1997. The third book in Kaufelt's mystery series featuring Long Island realtor Wynsome Lewis. A Fine copy in like dustjacket.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. ... more information

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