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New York: Harper & Row, 1989 Limited edition, 1 of 300 signed and numbered copies. Signed by Tony Hillerman. Book and slipcase in fine condition.
The Pantomime Man by MIDDLETON, Richard (1882-1911) - 1933
by MIDDLETON, Richard (1882-1911)
The Pantomime Man
by MIDDLETON, Richard (1882-1911)
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London: Rich & Cowan Ltd, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression (first published August 1933 on copyright page), edited, with a foreword, by John Gawsworth and an introduction by Lord Alfred Douglas. 8vo: xxi,[3],25-313[1]pp, with photographic frontispiece portrait. Publisher's cornflower blue cloth, spine paneled and lettered in black; pictorial dust jacket, priced 7s/6d and printed in black on yellow stock. Preliminaries spotted, else Fine (likely unread), in Fine jacket. Virtually pristine and scarce such. Horror Literature 3-170. Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 291. Posthumously published literary miscellany by "[o]ne of the most interesting stylists in British ghostly fiction." (Horror Literature). Part autobiography ("Journal of a Clerk" is drawn from Middleton's diary, which dwells on the depression that ended in his suicide by poisoning with chloroform, in 1911, at age 29); part dark tales with "madness and despair lurking barely below the surface" (Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural): The Clerk, The Wrong Turning, and the astounding The Boy Errant; part literary criticism, and part brief "occasional pieces." Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
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Talking God
by Hillerman, Tony
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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
by [Willard Huntington Wright, writing as:] VAN DINE, S. S. (1888-1939)
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Very Good+. First Printing (with "A" and publisher's seal on copyright page). 8vo: 227,[7]pp. Publisher's canary yellow cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in black,fore-edge untrimmed, typographic dust jacket priced $2. A Near Fine or better copy, cloth clean and bright, offsetting to end papers page edges lightly toned; in a better than Very Good jacket, rubbed along edges with miniscule losses. Detective Fiction, pp. 290-92. The penultimate Philo Vance mystery, intended as a Hollywood scenario, filmed in 1939 film with Gracie Allen, Warren William, and Ellen Drew. According to Haycraft, "two factors contributed principally to the success of the Van Dine books: the great literacy with which they were written . . . and a high degree of verisimilitude, so carefully worked out in every detail that in the early years numerous uncritical readers thought the cases had really occurred . . . In a few short years, [S. S. Van…
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Crows Can't Count
by Fair, A.A. (Erle Stanley Gardner)
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NY: William Morrow and Company, 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1946 William Morrow True First/First of this early Gardner mystery written as A A Fair. In VG/Good condition. Not ex-library. With the HB having a bit of a lean and a previous owner name on the ffep. The unclipped DJ shows $ 2.00 and has wear and just a bit of paper loss at the edges, spine ends. and corners. Now repaired and placed in mylar.
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The Mysterious Affair At Styles (1935 Bodley Head Half-Crown Edition)
by Christie, Agatha
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The Mysterious Affair At Styles (1935 Bodley Head Half-Crown Edition) THE FIRST HERCULE POIROT TITLE EVER WRITTEN BY CHRISTIE. Mandarin Orange cloth boards with black and green stripes on front cover. Black Titling. States Bodley Head on spine. Spine may be slightly sunned. Pages are fairly bright. Foxing noted, chiefly at the title page and verso. Used. Good Condition / New fax candlestick motif dust jacket. Hardcover. BOARDS ARE VERY CLEAN. NO CORNER BUMPS.Made and printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Ltd., Frome and London.
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THE BLACK ICE
by CONNELLY, Michael.
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FIRST EDITION (UK) in dust jacket; SIGNED by the author on the title page. FIRST EDITION (UK) in dust jacket; SIGNED by the author on the title page. The second Harry Bosch novel.
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Love's Lovely Counterfeit
by Cain, James M.
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1942 Knopf STATED FIRST edition of Cain's 4th novel and extremely scarce in this condition. The book is in VG/VG condition. The HB has bright red boards and vivid black lettering with no fading. There is a tiny bit of lean in the spine. Inside there is some age yellowing of the inside boards only with previous owner marks on the ffep. The text is very clean and bright. The DJ is mylar wrapped and price clipped. There is minimal wear with only some rubs along the edges and spine ends. There are various small slits and chips there too. An excellent copy of another Cain classic! **Brenbooks specializes in first edition mysteries and carries many CAIN firsts!
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The Casebook of Solar Pons
by DERLETH, August
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Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1965. Hardcover. Foreword by Vincent Starrett. Small 8vo. Black cloth, price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 281pp. Map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Very slightest of jacket edgewear. First edition, tight and handsome and very scarce. Limited to 3000 copies.
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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
by [Willard Huntington Wright, writing as:] VAN DINE, S. S. (1888-1939)
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Very Good+. First Printing (with "A" and publisher's seal on copyright page). 8vo: 227,[7]pp. Publisher's canary yellow cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in black,fore-edge untrimmed, typographic dust jacket priced $2. A Near Fine or better copy, cloth clean and bright, offsetting to end papers page edges lightly toned; in a better than Very Good jacket, rubbed along edges with miniscule losses. Detective Fiction, pp. 290-92. The penultimate Philo Vance mystery, intended as a Hollywood scenario, filmed in 1939 film with Gracie Allen, Warren William, and Ellen Drew. According to Haycraft, "two factors contributed principally to the success of the Van Dine books: the great literacy with which they were written . . . and a high degree of verisimilitude, so carefully worked out in every detail that in the early years numerous uncritical readers thought the cases had really occurred . . . In a few short years, [S. S. Van…
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Finding Moon
by Hillerman, Tony
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Publisher’s lettered limited edition, Near Fine to Fine book with slight edge crease to middle of a couple pages around p. 150, tiny spot front page edges, and slight push top of spine, in a similar slipcase with slight shelf and edge wear; no dust jacket as issued. This is Hillerman’s completely out of series mystery. The story is about a man’s search for a relative, a missing grandchild, that takes him into Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. He has taken the liberty of naming the characters based upon his comrades in the 410 Infantry, C Company of WWII.This is one of the very rare Harper lettered limited editions of which 26 were done for the last three limited titles produced by Harper (i.e., there were only 78 such lettered editions). The lettered limiteds were not for sale but were reserved for private distribution by the publisher and Hillerman. This copy originally belonged to dust jacket artist, Peter Thorpe. Thorpe did the jacket and slipcase designs for all the Harper Hillerman… Read More
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Uisce
by Bruen, Ken (Michael Connelly, Intro.; Jan Burke, Afterword; Phil Parks, Illustrator)
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Numbered limited first edition, Fine minus, unread book that has very slight half inch wrinkle to cloth covering near top edge front page, in a Fine, clear acrylic slipcase. This is copy number 2 of only 50 such copies (there were also 8 Collector's copies). Uisce is Gallic for "water." Contains two short stories by Bruen: All the Swans are Dying, featuring Jack Taylor; and Brant's High Tide, featuring Inspector Brant. There are mounted, full-color photos of Bruen, Connelly, and Burke opposite the title page, the Introduction and the Afterword. There are also eight B/W drawings by Parks that are tipped-in. The limitation page is signed by all four contributors.
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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
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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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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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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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The Seven Dials Mystery (A Midnite Mystery)
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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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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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