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New York: The New American Library - A Signet Book, 1964. First Printing Stated . Trade Paperback. Good. 160 Pages. A First Printing November 1964 Signet Edition #D2548. A used book but not abused. Covers show some wear and the red page edges are a bit faded. Interior text pages white. Made to order for the no-holds-barred Spillane fans, this is a yarn of violence and vengeance that zeroes Mike Hammer into the middle of an old, old crime. At the end of the street was the woman that Mike Hammer had been waiting for seven long years. Was she still beautiful? Had seven years of hell changed her? And could he protect her now, when a thirty-year-old murder and three million dollars hung in the balance?

A Signet Book by New American Li, 1964-11-01. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 0.6000 in x 6.8000 in x 4.0000 in.

Signet Books, 1964. Good mass market paperback, some wear and creasing.. Mass Market Paper Back. Good.

NY: Signet Books. Very Good. 1964. First Edition. Paperback. 0450057305 . Signet Books 1964 printing, paperback. (different cover art). Pages are clean and intact, no markings, light age tanning to page edges and both covers. Cover has light edge/corner wear, tiny tears spine bottom, light spotting to covers and small stains on spine. "Mickey Spillane at his best. Refreshing adventures in the days before ‘political correctness’ as the hero takes no prisoners" (95os422) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 160 pages .

London: Arthur Barker, 1964. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

USA: Curley Pub. library marks, otherwise book clean and tight. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Library.

NY: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1964. First Edition. Brief signed presentation from Spillane on the front endpaper: "Hi Ron! Mickey Spillane." Mickey Spillane [1918-2006] was an American crime novelist (and a New Jersey guy), whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing Hammer himself in Ring of Fear (1954). Ron is a Chicago-based book collector who amassed a large mystery genre collection. In 1946, Spillane, an established comic-book writer created the private-eye character Mike Danger for proposed comic-book or comic-strip publication. Unable to sell the project as a comic, he reworked the story as the novel I Jury," converting Mike Danger to Mike Hammer and supporting character Holly to Velda. 8vo., green cloth in dust jacket; 192 pages. Very Good (covers nice, contents clean & tight with a small 69 in a circle stamped on the front endpaper-… Read More