FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General from Old Algonquin Books

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very good +. A group of six salvage and use an old submarine to attempt a caper on the SS Queen Mary. Basis of a film with same title. Small dark blue marks on faded part of blue top edges. Dust jacket has very light edgewear. … Read more about this item

NY: Doubleday, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. The movie careers of the great fictional private eyes and their creators." 436 pages, numerous photos, index. 7-1/4 x 10-1/2" . Dust jacket (with price intact on flap) has a 1/8" tear and couple of small creases.

New York: Viking Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Devlin Kirk mystery.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Bibliomystery based on the 19th century English bibliophile/forger Thomas Wise. First printing. Slight edgewear top and bottom of dust jacket spine. Price on flap $5.?5 scraped off. Brown boards. Brown pictorial dust jacket (not the yellow stock photo shown).

Boston: Hudson House, 2000. Revised. Hardcover. As New/as new. New revised and expanded edition. Foreword by Graham Greene. 726 pages. Burgundy boards, gray dust jacket. Book and dust jacket are like new.

New York: Rinehart & Co., 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition with Rinehart colophon on copyright page. Review copy with Rinehart review slip laid in. Wear on bottom board edges and crease from paperclip on front free endpaper and half title page which also shows light stain from paperclip. Dust jacket has… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very good. Collection of 2 complete novels,The Little Sister, and The Long Goodbye, and 4 long stories of murder. Introduction by Joan Kahn. 734 pages. Very light rubbing on bottom corners of bright blue boards. Dust jacket, with original price intact,… Read more about this item

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. 165 pages includes a bibliography of Block's books and short stories.

New York: Harper & Row, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. First printing of first U.S. edition. Dust jacket, with price intact on flap, has light edgewear & rubs on spine.

New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing of first U.S. edition. Fine bright book and dust jacket with price intact on flap.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1946). Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good +/Good. Photoplay version of the 1943 book. Black cloth boards. Red & black dust jacket with b/w photos of the MGM film's director & stars Robert Mongomery, Audry Totter & Lloyd Nolan on the front panel and five photos on flaps. No pictures in the… Read more about this item

NY: Delacorte, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Complete Guide to Agatha Christie's Life & Work". Includes bibliography, chronology & index. 523 pages. Review copy with publisher PR sheet and a photo of Christie and the two compilers of this book. Stated first printing. Original price on dust jacket flap. Red boards… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very good. Stated first U.S. edition. Price intact on jacket flap. Slight narrow sun fade at top of red cloth. A couple of little scrapes on dust jacket.

New York: Scribners, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing. SIGNED by author in blue ink on title page.

New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Stated first US edition. Red boards, black spine. Small bump on bottom corner. Dust jacket has original price intact and code 0268 at bottom of flap.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Author's first novel. Signed on half title page. Slight wear on bottom board corner and some fading on top page edges. Dust jacket, with price on flap, has a few 1/2" to 1" tears, rubs and edgewear. Mylar cover on jacket. Housed in… Read more about this item

NY: Harper & Row, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Royal family member wants to ride in Olympics in Moscow. SIGNED by Francis on the half title page. Grey boards with black cloth spine. A one-inch scrape on front board. Grey dust jacket, with $8.95 price intact, has a little rubbing on the… Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. First printing. A Dave Robicheaux mystery. Small board corner bumps. Fine dust jacket with price intact on flap.

New York: Knopf, 1965. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near fine. Collection of the five famous suspense novels by Hammett (1894-1961). 726 pages. Green top edges have a bit of light spotting. Dust jacket has price intact on flap and date at bottom 10/65.

New York: Putnam, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Novel features the famous mystery/suspense author, Dashiell Hammettt. Blue boards slightly faded around edges. Some rubbing and edgewear on spine of dust jacket.