Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1946. First printing. Hardcover. octavo, blue cloth boards in dust jacket, book is in very good condition, jacket is in good, jacket shows heavy edgewear with creasing at the edges and rubbing at the spine, tape at the edges, book shows mild edgewear and moderate toning.....
Black Mask, 2009. First printing. Paperback. octavo, paper wraps, book is in very good + condition with mild wear to wraps, 123pp.
New York: Atlantic Monthly, 2011. First printing. Mustard cloth boards in dust jacket, signed, 488pp.
New York: Atlantic Monthly, 2010. First American edition. Blue cloth boards, signed, 412pp.
Ann Arbor: Roger Jackson, 1995. First edition. Paperback. 1995, First edition, one 250 copies. Softcover, cream wraps. Fine copy. Crisp and unmarked. Illustrated. Includes facsimile business card of the Wo Hop restaurant.
New York: Pantheon, 2011. First American edition. Hardcover. octavo, green and black cloth boards in dust jacket, jacket and book are in very good + condition with both showing edge wear, 283+pp.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1965, hardcover with black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 223pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with hint of wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG with edgewear that includes a couple small closed.....
New York: John Lane, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. 1918, First Edition, 173 pp. Hardcover, green cloth, gilt title. Illustrated with 7 green-tinted photographic plates. Glossary in rear. Near Fine copy: previous owner's contemporary gift inscription on the fly leaf; faint sunning to spine. Otherwise a Fine, clean copy; strong binding.....
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2012. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 2012. Yellow cloth hardcover 8vo, 260pp. Large abrasion to front flyleaf, as from the removal of a bookplate, otherwise a near fine copy. In black publisher's slipcase with afro pick graphic on the cover. This copy is SIGNED.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo, brown cloth, gilt titles. Minor bumping to spine-ends of book. Light foxing to edges of text block, and mild discoloration to endpapers. Contents clean and unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
New York: Putnam Pub Group, 1987. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 1987. Hardcover in dust jacket, inscribed TO ARTIE SHAW FROM TOM PERRY. Near fine in jacket, slightest lean to the spine. Author's fourth book, a thriller set in a mythical island in the Caribbean that swindlers turn into an.....
London: The Crime Club for Collins, 1967. First UK edition. Hardcover. 1967, First UK edition. Hardcover, red cloth. A Near Fine, sharp, clean copy in a Good+ dust jacket. Shallow loss to the spine ends; 2-inch tear along the fold between the spine and front panel; 2 short snags repaired.....
Harcourt Brace, 1981. First printing. Paperback. Uncorrected proof, first edition, 1981. Blue softcover tall 8vo, 197pp. Near fine with minor sunning. Advance copy of the work on which the film 'Boiling Point' was based. With an inscription from the author to Matthew Bruccoli: "To Matt- Thanks for believing in me.....
New York: Doubleday, Doran Crime Club, 1940. Hardcover. 1940, probable later printing (no statement of first edition on copyright page), 273 pp. Hardcover, orange cloth, 8vo. Good+ copy in a Good dust jacket. Slight lean to spine; endpapers have browned; light soil to text-blocks; clean contents. DJ price-clipped and lightly.....
Essex: Ian Henry Publications, 1980. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint, 1980, hardcover with blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 189pp., not illustrated. Book VG+ with hint of wear to edges and corners, binding tight, pencil ghost to front flyleaf, text clean and unmarked otherwise with faint foxing to top edge of.....
New York: Mystery Book of The Month, 1941. First printing. Paperback. Wraps, clean unmarked text, very good copy, some soiling and edgewear to the book's covers.
Norfolk: Crippen and Landru Publishers, 2005. First Printing. Hardcover. No. 2 of 275 copies, signed by the publisher (looks like Douglas Greene). From the collection of Sarah Lee Caldwell, granddaughter of Manfred B. Lee, but not so identified. Cloth in dust jacket, near fine. Apparently this limited edition should be.....
New York: The Van Rees Press, 1912. Hardcover. Black stamped maroon cloth boards, octavo, frontispiece in b&w, otherwise not illustrated. Book has small spot to bottom front board, mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, with foxing to edges of block.
New York: A. L. Burt, C. 1914. Hardcover. Reprint. Cloth in dust jacket, book very good, 1920 inscription, light wear, jacket fair to good with moderate general wear, substantial chipping along top of front panel, some spine wear including loss to top, rear panel with some tears and wear. Hard.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, pictorial blue cloth, very good clean copy, owner's name, name stamp and blind embossed address stamp on flyleaf, otherwise very nice copy, no jacket.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, pictorial blue cloth, near fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket, very rare in jacket, light rubbing and edgewear. A mystery aboard a yacht, involving an axe murderer. As one Goodreads reviewer wrote, "Most people don't realize that this book is.....
New York: Rinehart, 1950. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, very good, minor wear. Uncommon in nice condition in jacket.
New York: Rinehart, 1950. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, rebound in full deep red leather, gilt stamped, very good, light wear and rubbing. With sticker on rear pastedown from Preservation Technologies stating this was deacidified with their patented process. We purchased a large number of similarly bound Rinehart books from a......
New York: Rinehart, 1953. First Printing. Hardcover. Publisher's black cloth in dust jacket, very good, pages tanning, jacket with light wear and toning.
New York: Rinehart, 1953. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, bound in full red leather gilt, very good, light rubbing and dryness to joints, pages quite tanned. With sticker on rear pastedown from Preservation Technologies stating this was deacidified with their patented process. We purchased a large number of similarly bound Rinehart.....