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Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1944. Near Fine in a Very Good- dustjacket. Bound in full green cloth. Both the spine and the front board are stamped in brown and black. Pale green endpapers. 210pps. First Edition Stated. There is mild bumping and rubbing to the extremities and the pages, though vaguely yellowed, are immaculate: no apparent reading wear and no previous owner's markings. The binding is clean, square, and sound. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a loss of 1/4" - 1/2" at either spine-end. Smaller chips at the tips (and one amid the spine), rubbing wear along the gutters, and modest general edgewear with some creases and closed tears. A few of these flaws are tape-repaired from the inside. The original price is intact. Overall, an excellent copy of this difficult title in a flawed, though colorful dustjacket. The original price (2.00) is intact. ".In these six stories William Irish stresses the almost unbearable horror of man's inhumanity to man, the sheer awfulness of fate's… Read More

New York: Random House, 1955. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Full brick-red cloth. The spine is stamped in black and gilt. Black topstain. Octavo. 249pps. There is mild bumping to the spine-ends. Also, the endpapers are somewhat yellowed due to the acid content of the stock/jacket flaps. Otherwise excellent: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a faintly-sunned spine and shallow chipping at the extremities; overall, the jacket is quite presentable. The original price (3.00) is intact on the front flap. The author's second book, SIGNED by him -- without further inscription -- on the half-title page. An excellent, collector's-quality copy. ".When Mike Morrison arrived in Greece in 1941, the German invaders were already on the verge of driving the British Empire troops into the sea. Still, Mike figured on settling his affairs quickly, without undue trouble.… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1997. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Gray paper-covered boards quarterbound in green cloth. The spine is silver-stamped. 251pps. First Printing. There is very mild bumping to the spine-ends, otherwise excellent: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has light touches of crinkling at the extremities; no chips, soiling, or tears. The original price is intact. This is the first novel, written under a psuedonym, of Mark Costello, recently short-listed for the National Book Award for "Big If". A very nice copy.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "New Year's Day, 1965. The body of Father George Sedgewick is discovered on a snow-covered runway of Logan Airport, brutally murdered. No leads. Missing: four thousand hosts, consecrated by Pope Paul VI, meant to be given out to the faithful at the first… Read More

Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1996. In Near Fine condition. Bound in full burgundy leather, lushly gilt-stamped on all sides. Raised bands on the spine. All page-edges gilt. Octavo. Marbled endpapers and a sewn-in red ribbon bookmark. 234pps. No dustjacket, as issued. The head of the spine is very mildly rubbed and there is a slight crease at the top edge of the first three preliminary pages. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No previous ownership markings. SIGNED by the author exclusively for members of the Signed First Edition Society on a limitation page. Includes a color frontispiece by Nick Gaetano specially commissioned by The Franklin Library. Also, an Introduction by Spillane that is not included in the trade edition. "...Yes, Mike Hammer is back, and in deeper trouble and darker danger than ever before. He has the gunning down of an old army buddy to pay back with interest. He has two generations of the most powerful family in the Mafia to… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1994. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Black boards quarterbound in black cloth. The spine is gilt-stamped. 255pps. There is mild bumping to the board bottoms, otherwise Fine clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "The place is Los Angeles. The year is 1961, the dawn of a hopeful era for America's black citizens. Easy Rawlins's quiet real-estate empire is deep in the hole, so he must accept $200 from the oily white private eye Saul Lynx to track down one Elizabeth Eady, aka 'Black Betty.' Easy's murder-strewn search takes him into the depths of America's racial dilemmas and the mysteries of human character -- and his creator… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1989. Uncorrected Proofs. Fine in glossy pictorial wraps, trade-sized (pb). 294pps. There is very slight exterior rubbing. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. No reading wear and no previous ownership markings. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. A very nice, collector's-quality, advance copy of the third Robicheaux novel. ".Sweeps up from the lush, misty bayou country of southern Louisiana to the rugged landscape of Montana, where Robicheaux confronts Indians, oil company roughnecks, Mafia honchos, and a woman he could grow to love. James Lee Burke delivers a remarkable novel that shows him to be one of our most soulful, self-assured, and satisfying writers." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1989. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Gray boards with a red, silverstamped backstrip. Quarto. 290pps. First Printing. The spine-ends are mildly bumped and and a few preliminary and end-pages have creases at their lower corners, otherwise Fine: clean, tight, square and bright. No previous ownership markings. The dust jacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has light touches of rubbings; no chips, soiling, or tears. The original price (17.95) is intact. A very nice, collector's-quality copy of the third Robicheaux novel.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "Sweeps up from the lush, misty bayou country of southern Louisiana to the rugged landscape of Montana, where Robicheaux confronts Indians, oil company roughnecks, Mafia honchos, and a woman he could grow to love. James Lee Burke delivers a remarkable novel that shows him to be one of our most soulful, self-assured, and satisfying… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Violet boards quarterbound in black cloth. The spine is stamped in metallic violet. Octavo. Violet endpapers. 325pps. First printing. There is a crease in the cloth of the spine, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text is immacualte; no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new; the original price is intact. A very nice copy of this noir classic. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. ".On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history. In this fictionalized treatment of a real case, Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, both LA cops obsessed with the Black Dahlia, journey through the seamy… Read More

New York: Putnam's, 1975. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full brick-red cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 318pps. There is some dustspotting to the closed page-edges and the endpapers. The spine-ends are bumped and there is a pencil-erasure (of price) in the upper corner of the ffep. Otherwise clean, bright, square and soundly bound. The white dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has slightly yellowed (as is common), has touches of crinkling at the spine-ends, and a crease along the front panel; the original price (7.95) is intact. A decent, collectible copy of the author's first book.<br><br><font color=#003366><b> "When the game begins in New Orleans this Super Bowl Sunday . . . 80,000 people had better get ready to die. The Super Bowl--where thousands have gathered for an all-American tradition. Suddenly it's the most terrifying place on earth. Michael Lander is the most dangerous man in America. He pilots a television blimp over… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1984. (1984). Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Bound in full red cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 263pps. There is faint dustspotting to the closed page-edges, otherwise Fine: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is mildly rubbed; the original price (14.95) is intact. SIGNED by the author in his usual scrawl -- and without further inscription -- on the title-page.<b><font color=#003366><br><br> "Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can’t stand music, or any loud sounds. He’s got a beautiful wife, but he can’t get enough of other women. And instead of bedtime stories, he regales his daughters with bloody crime stories. He’s a thinking man’s cop with a dark past and an obsessive drive to hunt down monsters who prey on the innocent. Now, there’s something haunting him.… Read More

London: Allison & Busby, 1985. (1985). Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Black boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 263pps. There is mild bumping to the spine-ends, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. The textblock is immaculate; no apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is only mildly rubbed; the original price (8.95 U.K.) is intact. An excellent, collector's-quality copy, SIGNED by the author in his usual scrawl -- and without further inscription -- on the title-page.<b><font color=#003366><br><br> "Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can’t stand music, or any loud sounds. He’s got a beautiful wife, but he can’t get enough of other women. And instead of bedtime stories, he regales his daughters with bloody crime stories. He’s a thinking man’s cop with a dark past and an obsessive drive to hunt down monsters who prey on the innocent. Now, there’s something haunting… Read More

New York: Knopf, 2009. As New in an As New dustjacket. Red boards with a black, silver-stamped backstrip. Quarto. 640pps. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. The textblock is immaculate; no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is equally fine; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the author to the original owner on the title-page.<b><font color=#003366><br><br> "Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at the vortex of History. Dwight Holly is J. Edgar Hoover’s pet strong-arm goon, implementing Hoover’s racist designs and obsessed with a leftist shadow figure named Joan Rosen… Read More

London and New York: Allison & Busby, 1984. (1984). Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Black boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 256pps. There is a small and unobtrusive soilmark near the bottom of the front board and the board-edges are very mildly rubbed. Otherwise clean, bright, square, and soundly bound. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is essentially as new; the original price (7.95 net, U.K.) is intact. An excellent, collector's-quality copy of the first hardcover edition of the Ellroy's first novel. SIGNED by the author in his usual scrawl -- and without further inscription -- on the title-page. The item was signed at a Free Library of Philadelphia function.<b><font color=#003366><br><br> "Fritz Brown, ex-alcoholic, ex-vice-squad cop, and classical music buff, makes a living as a private eye on the sleazy side of L.A.'s sleazier streets. His staple work is repossessing cars from people who have fallen… Read More

New York: Messner, 1947. Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Pebbled tan boards. The spine is stamped in red. Brown topstain. 215pps. An excellent copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has modest chipping at the tips and spine-ends, a few closed tears, and two smudges on the rear panel; very little loss to the jacket. The original price is intact. 'A Recommended Mystery' written by James Henderson under a pseudonym.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "...<big>J</big>oey Sayers and George Kemper were buddies. They'd been together at Penascola and Luzon. They met again in a Hollywood bar. Leila Kane, that beautiful nymph with no visible means of support was there. So was a big, pop-eyed gorilla who worked for Big Stony. A half-hour later a black sedan shouldered George's car off the road and George lay dead in Laurel Canyon, his body riddled by a… Read More

New York: Delacorte Press, 1981. (1981). Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Black boards quarterbound in black cloth. The spine is stamped in metallic red. Octavo. 342pps. Stated First printing. The closed page edges are slightly dingy, otherwise Fine: clean, bright, square, and soundly bound. All tips are sharp. No previous ownership markings. The price-clipped dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has a closed tear with an attendant crease at the bottom of the front panel. Also, the white flap-panels are slightly yellowed. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. A very nice, collector's-quality copy of the author's early, third novel.<br><br><font color=#003366><b> "Roger Levin is an unlikely private detective -- an ex-marijuana dealer who lives over a Chinese restaurant he acquired from pot proceeds, then loses in a bar bet. Levin makes his living doing deeds for lawyers that they would rather not do themselves. In… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1937. Very Good in the publisher's full black cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt (still brilliant) and the front board is stamped in blind. Deep red topstain and beige endpapers. 312pps. (For purposes of presentation, a beautiful facsimile dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has been added to this item.) There is a bit of wear at the tips and the spine-ends including a 1/8" nick in the cloth at the heel of the spine. Also, there is a small bump at the fore-edge of five or six pages. Internally, there is a previous owner's gift inscription and name-stamp near the top of the ffep. Otherwise clean and bright with a sound and square binding. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the ffep. A nice copy of this Inner Sanctum Mystery -- scarce signed. The author's first novel and a high-spot in the mystery genre.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "We pass this book along to innumerable readers who, we believe,… Read More

New York: Morrow, 1967. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Canary-yellow boards quarterbound in black cloth. The spine is stamped in yellow. Octavo. Brown endpapers. 256pps. First Printing. There is a mild bumping to the heel of the spine and to the lower rear tip. Also, there is a slight crease at the fore-edge of pages 85 and 87. Otherwise clean, tight, square and bright. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a small, 1/8" chip at the heel of the spine and a couple of very slight rubs at the extremities; the original price (4.50) is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the ffep. A very nice, collector's-quality copy of the author's third book, a follow-up to the highly acclaimed 'The Cold War Swap'.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "McCorkle and Padillo are back -- McCorkle with a saloon, Padillo with trouble -- this time in Washington, D.C. Padillo who had dropped out of sight… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton, 2010. As New in an As New dustjacket. Black and red boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Quarto. 388pps. A flawless, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is equally fine; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page.<br><br><font color=#003366><b> "Seventeen-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst. Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission: to bring down sexual predators via elaborate -- and nationally televised --sting operations. Wendy and her team… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1992. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Brown boards quarterbound in brown cloth. The spine is gilt-stamped. Bright red endpapers. 261pps. There is mild bumping to the upper tips, otherwise flawless: clean, tight, square, and bright. No reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has touches of crinkling at the upper tips; no chips, soiling, or tears. The original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title page.<b><font color=#003366><br><br> "P.I. Kat becomes bartender Kate as she explores the mystery surrounding the death of Deidre Durkin, the bar owner's wife. Charmed by her boss's sexy, lopsided smile and touched by his palpable grief, Kat learns that many people in town wonder if Matt Durkin killed Deidre, although the cops closed the case as a robbery/murder."</b></font><br><br> Purchase with confidence: all… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1998. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Brown boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 327pps. There is a mild bump to the heel of the spine and a remainder mark on the bottom of the textblock, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, is lightly rubbed; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. ".Now Davis broadens her vista in a sweeping, emotionally intense novel of a slave who rises to be the Emperor's lady.a tale of a real Roman emperor, a woman who truly lived, and a love story so surely told, credible, and moving that it rings of truth. Rome under Tiberius, his dreadful successor Caligula, and even the brilliant Claudius is a treacherous arena for ambitious men. But the career path for citizens who aspire to become senators is called 'The Course of Honor' -- even if it is strewn with… Read More