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New York: Random House, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition Inscribed by Stanley Ellin on the title-page. A near fine copy, beige cloth spine over beige paper covered boards, gilt titles in a near fine price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 312 pp. A dark and tense mystery with Ellin's freelance investigator Jake Dekker.… Read more about this item

Lisbon: Livraria Ferreira & Oliveira, Limitada, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of the First Sherlock Holmes book to be published in Portugal . Sm. 8vo., 187pp., quarter red calf over red boards, gilt lettered & decorated at the spine. A very good copy showing modest use of this rare Portuguese edition of The Adventures Of… Read more about this item

Boston: Roberts Bros, 1895. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition of this Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone and Queens Quorum title featuring the decadent Russian detective, Prince Zaleski. The Goldstone copy, with Adrian Homer Goldstone's neat bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. A bright, fresh copy with some light overall use, wear at the heel and crown of the… Read more about this item

New York: William R. Jenkins, 1898. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The True First American Edition. A near fine example of this rare [French Language] American publication bound in decorated green cloth over boards. 8vo. [1-6], 7-239 pages preceding the Doubleday English edition. With author & title credits in highly decorative gold lettering on the upper cover above… Read more about this item

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928. First Edition. First Edition. WEDLOCK by Jacob Wassermann author of The World's Illusion. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1926. A near fine copy with the original blue cloth gold stamped on the spine and front, blue tipped top pages with beautiful blue and black patterned endpapers in a very good dustwrapper showing modest… Read more about this item

New York: [Published by Knopf in 1965], 1965. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Ross Macdonald's carbon typescript for the novel - 315 pages, rectos only. Signed as Kenneth Millar with his full address on the title page - a clean copy with several corrections in the author's hand. With appx: 116 additional pages - with major corrections, primarily deletions on… Read more about this item

Paris: Presses de la Cite, 1950. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First French edition of "Dead Yellow Women". Sm. 8vo. Pictorial stiff wrappers. A very good copy or better copy.

London: The Fortune Press, 1925. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First edition of the author's uncommon first book. 8vo., 32pp., original yapped edge stiff green wrappers with paper label. Pages uncut. A near fine example showing light use at the extremities. Day-Lewis was named Poet Laureate in 1968 & was very productive as a writer under… Read more about this item

Dodd, Mead and Company, 1897. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. First Edition, first issue lacking 'train' on the title-page. A near fine copy in decorated blue cloth, (previous collector's discreet name to the front pastedown, hinges strengthened), gilt titles to the spine and front board with black and red locomotive design, t.e.g. Housed in a black cloth slipcase with chemise,… Read more about this item

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this classic Golden Age "riddle mystery", published in two parts, the first, The Mysterious Card and the second, still sealed, The Mysterious Card Unveiled. A virtually fine copy in red cloth, black titles and rules in the scarce dustwrapper with… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of the second Terry Clane mystery by the author of the Perry Mason mysteries. 8vo. 250 pp. A near fine copy in black cloth, red and black titles to the spine, (miniscule bookseller's ticket to the front free endpaper), in a near… Read more about this item

Boulder, CA: The Aspen Press, 1974. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition Signed by the illustrater Rob Pudim and the editors, Tom and Enid Schantz on the half-title. A fine copy in decorated stiff card wrappers, as issued. Small 8vo. 40 pp. Limited to 500 copies. Superb Sherlockian and Philo Vance parodies… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950. Highsmith, Patricia. STRANGERS ON A TRAIN Custom Clamshell Case Only. Harper & Brothers New York: [1950, Book Date] Excellent Custom Clamshell Case [Not A Book] For The First Edition. Elegant Black LEATHER & fine purple cloth, Custom Gilt-Stamped Titles to spine. Embossed [sculpted] design on the side inspired from the story of the… Read more about this item

London: W. Lucas, 1890. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Burrage, (Edwin) Harcourt (1839-1916). Quarter black leather over plain dark blue boards. Gilt stamped spine title. Original illustrated wrappers bound-in. Complete numbers 1 through 17. 544pp. Extra Coloured frontispiece & Title page added [W. Lucas as Publisher], n.d. [c. 1890]. With Full colour poster page of Robin… Read more about this item

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942. First Edition, Very uncommon rare first mystery book by the author, James Gunn. Some sunning to the edges. The dust jacket which was designed by Arthur Hawkins has some trace of wear and a few nicks on the top and bottom heel. Unclipped dustjacket with the price of $2.50. Damp stains to… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd Mead, 1940. 1st Edition. No Binding. Clamshell As New/No Jacket. 1st Edition. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case, Elegant Custom Black NUBA Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, the case is decorated with gilt titles at the spine & features a sculpted cover, after Agatha Christie's, iconic mystery… Read more about this item

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Robert L. Fish. THE ASSASSINATION BUREAU was completed after the death of Jack London by mystery writer Robert L. Fish THE ASSASSINATION BUREAU New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963. 8vo., 184pp. in brown boards gilt-titled book block clean & free of blemish. The book is inscribed to Morris… Read more about this item

First Edition. Clarke Hutton. Clarke Hutton. First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. Jacket design by Clarke Hutton. 256 pp. "BEN NEVIS GOES EAST is a 1954 comedy novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. It features characters introduced in Mackenzie's The Monarch of the Glen." Wikipedia Clean patterned cloth hardcover boards with gilt lettering on spine.… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1949. First Edition. Clarke Hutton. Clarke Hutton. First Edition. HUNTING THE FAIRIES the gentle humour of an older time and an upper class. "HUNTING THE FAIRIES is a 1949 comedy novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. It features some of the characters who had previously appeared in The Monarch of the Glen."… Read more about this item

First Edition. Clarke Hutton. Clarke Hutton. First Edition. ROCKETS GALORE, the sequel to Whiskey Galore became a British film directed by Michael Relph. Jacket design by Clarke Hutton. 243 pp. "Rockets Galore is a 1957 comedy novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. It is the sequel to his 1947 novel Whisky Galore, and sees the… Read more about this item