Scott, Justin | Shipkiller | Signed & Lettered Limited Edition Book by Scott, Justin - 2012

New York: M. S. Mill Co. and William Morrow & Co, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in good dustjacket with a dampstain partially affecting lower edge of front and rear panel and a closed tear along upper edge of front panel. ; Octavo.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth stamped in silver on the spine. A fine copy in very good+ price-clipped dustjacket with a tiny chip to front flap and mild wear to the edges. The novelization of a Simon Templar comic strip published in 1959/1960. Precedes the British edition. A nice copy. ; Octavo.

Dennis Lehane's previous thrillers Mystic River (2001) and Shutter Island (2003) were best-sellers and much talked about books. The Given Day (2008) is an exploration of a rich cast of characters involved in stressed situations in Boston at the end of the First World War. It was a time of upheaval and calamity, and what Lehane does is take us inside his fictional world. The famous baseball player Babe Ruth features in this memorable story. Compared to E L Doctorow for its literary play with real historical figures it is Lehane's most mature novel. Lee Child does a brilliant job is setting out for us Dennis Lehane's journey as a writer in his appreciation for this edition. H e asks the worrying question has Dennis left crime writing behind?This signed limited is one of only 80 numbered copies, produced by arrangement with Transworld. It is bound in leather with marbled paper over boards and coloured top edge. It is a heavy volume with 704 pp. Still a landmark book for Lehane.

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.

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

First UK edition 1st printing, Good to Very Good book with bumped bottom corners, mild spine slant and slightly splayed boards, couple of very small, light spots front end page and front page edges; in a Very Good to Near Fine jacket light edge and corner wear with some loss of color, white back panel lightly soiled. This copy of Barnard’s second mystery is signed on title page.

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. First Edition . Cloth. Good+/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The author's scarce second novel and second mystery based on the railroad industry. Railroad Detective Andy MacVeigh and his wife Sue try solving the murder of a dancer in New York's Grand Central Terminal. From the dj flap: "The author was given the run of the Grand Central Terminal and the elaborate underground system by the New York Central Railroad." The front and rear endpapers consist of a map "Plan of Grand Central Terminal at Express Level." Salmon cloth with blue titles. Age-toning to paper. Bookstore stamp at top (barely visible) & bottom edges of text block, front & rear endpapers, and to one interior page, not affecting any text. A mild slant to the spine. Soiling to edges of text block. Previous owner's bookplate on verso of half-title page. Boards lightly soiled. Tightly bound, corner tips very good, and text clean. Dust-jacket, now protected in a removable archival plastic cover,… Read More

J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia,, 1958 HBDJ, Hard Cover ,1958. Stated 1st Edition, VG+/VG-, AS-IS, Grey Cloth with Red Titles has minor edgewear, Previous Owners Name Inside Front Cover. Tears and Chips Along Edges of DJ. All books in VG or better condition ,NOT EX-LIBRARY, Interior Nice tight clean Light wear, Fox, 188 pgs, Light rub, scuff & small chips DJ Spine ends & scuff along edges, DJ Protected Clear Mylar , Barby, Nancy & Doug Holland, spend the Christmas Holidays at Their New Hampshire summer Home & are involved in Another Fascinating mystery. A wooden Indian, a Hidden Journal with a secret Code, a party Telephone Line, an Ice Storm & a Helpful Librarian all play a part in Helping the Children to solve an Intriguing Puzzle from the Past.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Collins. First edition, first impression. 1938 Original orange cloth cover book is bright but it looks as though it had some type of cover at one time that was removed to reveal a lovely bright orange. Some of old cover still remains. Not ex-library, no ownership marks. A 2"x 1/2" piece removed from top right corner of Part I page. FEP and last two Advert pages a little loose and split from spine but holding. Lightly smudged here and there throughout. For it's age a very nice collectible book. Comes in a nice facsimile dust jacket mylar protected.

G.P. Putnam's Sons, February 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/Fine. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2020. Fine/Fine. Orange board covers with blue cloth spine and illustrated Dj with orange spine. Brodart cover. Flat Signed by author on title page. Full number line. 9.25 x 6.25 with 358 pp.