LADY, DON'T DIE ON MY DOORSTEP by SHALLIT, JOSEPH - (first PB 1952),

Lippincott, 1951. 1st. Hardcover. A VG tight copy.

Vancleave: Ramble House, 2008. Trade paperback, New,. Gavin L. O'Keefe. Vancleave: Ramble House:, 2008. Trade paperback, New, 186 pp. Cover artwork by: Gavin L. O'Keefe Dan Morrison finally has his gym and all he wants is to keep it running smoothly. But local charmer Peggy Clark becomes interested in one of the boxers at Dan's gym and before he knows it there's a body in the swimming pool. In trying to re-open his gym Dan meets more Philadelphia crazies than you can throw a dodgeball at, including an anthropologist who specializes in "women" and a hoodlum who obviously belongs to the "gang who couldn't shoot straight." A print-on-demand title.

avon book, , (first PB 1952), . 461, , very good -fine, reading crease, hardboiled mystery novel, , paperback,

avon book, , (first PB 1952), . 461, , almost near fine, hardboiled mystery novel, , paperback,

Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. First Edition stated. Boards in sage-colored cloth with dark green lettering on spine. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is rubbed, showing some modest edgewear; not price clipped ($2.50); in an archival mylar sleeve. 252, [1] pages. The second mystery by Joseph Shallit (1915-1995), described as ''a fast, salty, tough and authentic baffler laid in Philadelphia, among grifters, male and female, bookies and prize fighters, suave and scholarly gentlemen.'' The protagonist, Dan Morison, made his debut in Shallit's first book, The Billion-Dollar Body.

(London: Hammond, Hammond: First published in Great Britain 1952) Dec. bds pp. 224. A Cloak and Dagger Mystery (series). Fine in very good price-clipped dust-jacket. by Sax.

New York: Avon Publishing. 1952. Reprint. Softcover. Fair in wrappers. Detatched spine. Panel are detached from spine. Mylar covering to panels. Toning throughout. Wear to spine. Edge wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .