Search Results: Authors starting with H from MONROE STAHR BOOKS

Black cloth boards: without a dust jacket, as issued. AS NEW.

UNCORRECTED PROOF - printed pages in a tape binding with acetate covers; the title and author s name is printed on the first page. AS NEW. Promotional letter to bookseller laid in.

FIRST EDITION in a slipcase; SIGNED by the author on the title page. The book is FINE, without a dust jacket as issued. The slipcase is faintly sunned - otherwise FINE. Illustrated by Thomas W. Nason.

FIRST EDITION in a slipcase; SIGNED by the author on the title page. The book, without a dust jacket as issued, is in a complimentary slipcase - the spine of the book is faintly sunned; the slipcase is FINE. Illustrated by Thomas W. Nason.

FIRST EDITION in dust jacket; SIGNED by the author on the title page. Both the book and the unclipped dust jacket are AS NEW. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

FIRST EDITION in red cloth with printing in black; lacking the dust jacket. The book is very good with some bumping to the spine ends and a small spot of wear to the front edge of the front cover; large sticker mostly removed from the front pastedown, (possibly from a rental library); two-inch square owner's label also on the front pastedown; rear endpaper missing; A guy from Oklahoma follows his runaway wife to Hollywood. Once there he falls in with an alcoholic film director. He takes up a life of petty crime and ends up convicted of murder. Even as he is saved from the gas chamber Considered an under-appreciated noir novel in the vein of James M. Cain and Horace McCoy.

FIRST EDITION in paperback. Reading crease, price sticker smudge on back cover - otherwise very good.

FIRST EDITION in dust jacket. The book and unclipped dust jacket are both fine. A Japanese-American detective in Los Angeles.

FIRST EDITION in dust jacket; SIGNED by the author on the title-page. Both the book and dust jacket are in fine condition. No remainder mark; price intact on the front dust jacket flap. 'Network-Not for Resale' stamp on top of book block paritally whited out.

FIRST EDITION in dust jacket. The book is near fine with some minimal wear to the boards and a stamp on the FFEP which identifies that as 'Out of Print File/D. Appleton-Century Co., Inc./No. 3975.' The unclipped dust jacket has chips at the spine ends and flyleaf folds. Not in See or Brooker. 'The grisly and mysterious fate which overtook Leslie Delmond, former screen star.'

FIRST EDITION in dust jacket; SIGNED by the author on the title-page. Both the book and dust jacket are in fine condition. No remainder mark; price intact on the front dust jacket flap. 'Network-Not for Resale' stamp on top of book block paritally whited out.

FIRST EDITION in dust jacket; SIGNED & DATED by the author on the title page. Both the book and dust jacket are new and unread. Midwest mystery - rural Michigan.

FIRST EDITION in dust jacket. The book and the unclipped dust jacket are both fine. Introduction by Robert B. Parker.

SECOND EDITION in decorated paperback wraps. A paperback original. NEAR FINE. 390 pages of listings of paperback books from 1939 to 1959; Selected Canadian and post-1959 books are included also, based on collector interest. While the price listings have changed, this is a wonderful guide to paperback publishers, with listings by publisher s number, while every page has a few black & white illustrations of books listed. Includes digest size titles as well as the more common mass-market size books.

UNCORRECTED PROOF in white paperback wraps. FINE.

FIRST EDITION in wraps. A paperback original. As New.

UNCORRECTED PROOF in decorated paperback wraps. FINE.

FIRST EDITION (American) in wraps. A paperback original. The glue fastening the cover to the spine of the book is hardened and the cover is detached, otherwise fine. An unusual fold-out front cover; the full cover is twice the size of the book, with the balance of the cover image folded under the first half of the cover. 'They were a weird lot, these characters of the 1920s in Hollywood.' Sleaze.

Later printing of this first edition. Both the book and unclipped dust jacket are fine.

UNCORRECTED PROOF in decorated paperback wraps. AS NEW.