LEW ARCHER: PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR by MacDonald, Ross (Ken Miller) - 1977

Mysterious Press, 1977. US First Edition, First Printing Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Clear printed dust jacket . Protected in clear Mylar cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped in a box. We do not stock or sell ex-library or Book Club editions.

New York: Mysterious Press. Hardcover. 1977. 3rd Printing. 8vo 245pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. Binding is slightly skewed. DJ has very slight wear at head of spine . This is the first hardcover edition of Lew Archer short stories, and the first complete collection, with a new introduction by the author .

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1977. First edition. Page edges foxed, a fine copy in a fine acetate dust jacket. (26). Octavo, cloth. The first complete collection of Lew Archer short stories. Introduction by the author. "Macdonald's short stories featuring Lew Archer sparkle almost as brilliantly as his novels; the best of them, in fact, are miniature novels in their own right, honed to the sharpest essentials of plot, character, and incident. This volume is the definitive collection: It contains all nine of the Archer stories, the last two of which were written and published after the appearance of the first seven in book form in the 1955 paperback original THE NAME IS ARCHER." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 525-526. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 676-678.

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1977. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue, one of 1,000 copies. Octavo (22.5cm); grey cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and printed business card mounted to upper front cover; publisher's original printed acetate dustjacket; xviii,245,[11]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed and cloudy dustjacket. The first complete collection of all nine Lew Archer stories, with an introduction by Macdonald. BRUCCOLI A29.1.a.

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1977., 1977. First edition. First edition. Signed by the author. A fine pamphlet in printed wrappers issued for promotional purposes before the publication of the book of the same name. The pamphlet prints the introduction for the first time.