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: 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
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
(New York): Dell, (1956). First edition. "Dell First Edition" # 85. Only American edition. Pictorial paperwraps show minor wear and faint crease at bottom front corner, otherwise very good. Item #40472 More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959. First edition. A cheap production with corners and spine edges showing minor wear in a bright dust jacket shallow chipping on corners and spine ends. Item #40319 More
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Co., (1974). First edition. This copy with "HB 2E" in gutter p.228, which would seem to be the scarcer variant. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with touch of light rubbing. Item #49927 More
New York: Lippincott, (1979). First edition. A Travis McGee mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #71692 More
New York: Mercury Publications, Inc., Nov. 1954. First edition. Also includes stories by Erle Stanley Gardner, Agatha Christie, Jack London, Roald Dahl, et al. Very good with faint foxing on page edges, light soiling and spine edges slightly rubbed. Item #49989 More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959. First edition. Near fine with the visible aging of pages common to this publisher's books issued during the period; in a slightly soiled dust jacket with light rubbing. Item #35837 More