London: Cresset Press, 1950. First UK edition. Her first book. She is known for her psychological thrillers, which led to more than two dozen film adaptations. This title has been adapted for stage and screen numerous times, notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The book is fine but for the..... Item #53190 More
Woodstock: Coutryman Press, (1982). First U.S. edition, original published in the UK in 1974. "A Foul Play Press Book." Fine in dust jacket with touch of rubbing to spine ends and corners, otherwise fine. Item #54775 More
New York: Pocket Books, (1995). First edition. INSCRIBED, "With Best Wishes/ Bill Holland," on half-title page. Fine in dust jacket. Item #25968 More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1945). First edition. Basis for the 1948 film starring Edward G. Robinson. Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich, better known as Cornell Woolrich, also wrote under the name "William Irish." Very nearly fine in dust jacket with few tiny tears to head of spine, spine ends and corners..... Item #49180 More
Royal Oak, Michigan: Airtight Seals Allied Production, 1994. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by the Hornsby, James Ellroy (introduction), Raymond Obstfeld (afterword) and Phil Parks (illustrator). Heavy, vinyl-covered boards lettered in gilt on spine and with illustrated front cover plate; frontispiece color photograph of the author pasted..... Item #14531 More
New York: Duell, Sloane, Pearce, (1943). First edition. SIGNED by Hughes on title page. World War II-era noir thriller featuring intrepid heroine Julie Guilles. Near fine in very good, price-clipped dust jacket with spine ends and corners lightly nicked and rubbed. Scarce signed and in nice condition such as this..... Item #53180 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First U.S. edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Fine in dust jacket with light crease in front panel. Item #36200 More
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1979). First edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Very good with top edges of pages slightly rumpled from dampness and some light bumping; in a price-clipped dust jacket with some edge rubbing and lower rear tip nicked. Item #36380 More
New York: Phoenix Press, (1941). First edition. Pecos Appleby, a New Mexico policeman, finds a missing person who turns up dead. Spine slightly sloped, light shelf wear, still very good in about very good dust jacket with edges and folds lightly rubbed, shallow chipping and few small tears. Item #42151 More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., (1977). First edition. Red remainder dot to bottom page edge otherwise near fine in near fine dust jacket. Item #71873 More
Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, Inc., (1995). First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. First state with "Anthony" misspelled "Athony" on front panel of dust jacket. A beautiful copy, fine in dust jacket. Item #32854 More
London: Gollancz Ltd., 1961. First edition of his first book. Endpapers replaced otherwise very good or better with gilt spine lettering strong but unevenly tarnished, text block somewhat aged, offset to half-title from item previously laid in, and minor cover soiling and wear. Lacking original dust jacket but with facsimile..... Item #48949 More
London: Heinemann, (1965). First edition. An incompetent British intelligence agency known as "The Department" and its multiple botched attempts to verify a Communist defector's story of a Soviet missile build-up in East Germany. INSCRIBED BY LE CARRE on front endpaper, "S. Sanders/ best wishes/ John le Carre." Page edges foxed..... Item #55552 More
New York: Knopf, 1993. First edition. SIGNED by Le Carre on tipped-in leaf. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #55039 More
New York: Arbor House, (1981). First edition. SIGNED by author. Fine in near fine dust jacket with minor rubbing on corners and spine ends. Item #53691 More
New York: Arbor House, (1981). First edition. SIGNED by author. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #54438 More
New York: Putnam's Sons, (1971). First edition. First mystery, preceded by HOW TO BEAT COLLEGE TESTS. Small soil spot on top edge, edge of the bottom front corner and front endpaper have small, light water stain, otherwise fine in dust jacket without any corresponding stain. Item #22038 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1936. First U.S. edition. Published in England under the title "Thou Shell of Death." Bookplate on pastedown (mostly under the jacket flap), otherwise near fine in good plus, price-clipped dust jacket with extensive reinforcement/repair on verso with tape that appears to have darkened but is..... Item #53565 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937. First edition. Offset from binding glue has darkened the endpapers, there is soiling to pp.6-7 and p.7/8 is loose, the spine ends are rubbed through to boards, plus the dust jacket is backed with brown paper and has a 2 x 1/2" chip to..... Item #53558 More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1943). First edition of Jane Lewis Brandt's third book, under a pseudonym using her mother's maiden name and her own last name at the time. Murder of a vegetarian. Name on front endpaper, otherwise very good to fine in a nice bright dust jacket with a few..... Item #40261 More
Boston: L.C. Page & Co., (1911). First edition. Umbstaetter's tales with an introduction by London who credits him with saving his literary life (and perhaps his literal one) by accepting one of London's stories for publication in "Black Cat" magazine -- and paying for it immediately rather than making him..... Item #43314 More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First edition, precedes the UK edition. Spine ends slightly rubbed, top edges lightly foxed and front cover slightly soiled, still very good or better in bright dust jacket with some rubbing, edgewear and a few closed tears. Item #28823 More