SILENCE OBSERVED.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1961. 8vo. cloth. (vi), 218 pages. First U.S. edition. Near fine. Lacking the dust jacket. READ MORE about SILENCE OBSERVED
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 13266
New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1961. 8vo. cloth. (vi), 218 pages. First U.S. edition. Near fine. Lacking the dust jacket. READ MORE about SILENCE OBSERVED
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 13266
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. 8vo. cloth. (viii), 242 pages. Facsimile edition. Written under a pseudonym by Morris Gilbert Bishop, former librarian at Cornell University. A fictional account of murder at Cornell University where the library is the focal point of the story. Near fine, lacking the jacket. READ MORE about THE WIDENING STAIN
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 34702
New York, NY: Walker & Co, 1989. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 176 pages. First edition. Fine in very good dust jacket. READ MORE about GLADE MANOR MURDER
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 135283
New York: Trident Press, (1971). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 317 pages. First edition, second printing. A Sherlockiana story in which the Sons of the Copper Beeches, a branch of the Baker Street Irregulars, challenges its members with a "Chase." The winner gets a $100,000 collection of Sherlockian manuscripts. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. READ MORE about COPPER BEECHES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 31512
New York: Trident Press, (1971). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 317 pages. First edition, second printing. A Sherlockiana story in which the Sons of the Copper Beeches, a branch of the Baker Street Irregulars, challenges its members with a "Chase." The winner gets a $100,000 collection of Sherlockian manuscripts. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. READ MORE about COPPER BEECHES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 135279
New York: Trident Press, (1971). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 317 pages. First edition, first printing. A Sherlockiana story in which the Sons of the Copper Beeches, a branch of the Baker Street Irregulars, challenges its members with a "Chase." The winner gets a $100,000 collection of Sherlockian manuscripts. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Near fine in a very good jacket. READ MORE about COPPER BEECHES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 135280
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2007. large 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 512 pages. First edition. "Rare-book expert Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline, the main chararcters from Back Bay and Harvard Yard, are back for another treasure hunt through time." (from the front dust jacket flap). A search for the "early, annotated draft of the Constitution" which could change America's perception of history, as well as its future. Fine copy. READ MORE about THE LOST CONSTITUTION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 102590
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. 8vo. paper over boards. 218 pages. First edition, first printing. One of the scarest titles of the 87th Precinct Series. Detectives Carella, Meyer and Kling investigate a murder of three people in a bookstore. Some chipping to edges of dust jacket. Book Club stamp on 2nd free endpaper. READ MORE about LADY, LADY, I DID IT!
Price: $110.00 Order nr. 7981
New York: Random House, (1975). 8vo. boards. (vi), 150, (2) pages. First edition. The case revolves around Sarah Chayse, M.D., and her discovery in a paperback thriller. Ownership ink stamp on front free endpaper. Near fine in near fine jacket. READ MORE about PAPERBACK THRILLER
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 8707
New York: Random House, (1975). 8vo. boards. (vi), 150, (2) pages. Bookclub edition. The case revolves around Sarah Chayse, M.D., and her discovery in a paperback thriller. Near fine in near fine jacket. READ MORE about PAPERBACK THRILLER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 34706
New York: Delacorte Press, 1984. small 8vo. quarter cloth, boards, dust jacket. (vi), 253 pages. First edition. A Jack Journey novel. J. Journey, who writes on "historical crime and ancient felons," also collects crime books. A few months ago, he paid for a library amassed by a French police inspector, but it hasn't been delivered yet, and now the antiquarian dealer calls to say that it is no longer available, the refund is in the..... READ MORE about THE MAFIA DIARIES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 49958
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1975). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 182 pages. Book Club edition. Loren Mensing investigates the death of a bestselling novelist. Near fine in very good jacket. READ MORE about PUBLISH AND PERISH
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 18694
New York: Random House, (1972). small 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (vii), 206, (1) pages. First edition. A successful mystery-story writer is murdered and New York's number one mystery editor helps the police solve the crime. Near fine in lightly soiled and torn dust jacket. READ MORE about DEAD AS THEY COME
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 59836
New York, NY: Random House, 1973. 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket. 181 pages. First edition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some tape marks. READ MORE about THE VANISHED
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135222
New York: New American Library, (1980). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. xvi, 288 pages. First edition. A professor, reporter and CIA operative look into the death of a left-wing poet. Their search for his manuscript leads them to modern Chile, New York and Paris. Fine in near fine jacket. READ MORE about NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 8737
New York: The Mysterious Press, (1987). small 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (viii), 216 pages. First edition. Literary hunters are prowling the San Francisco streets after a large part of the manuscript of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is found in a murdered women's closet. READ MORE about HUCKLEBERRY FIEND
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 59540
New York: Harper & Row, (1973). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 183 pages. First edition. The entire mystery centers on Sampson Trehune who "was by profession a book appraiser." Near fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about THE ACUPUNCTURE MURDERS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 41571
London, United Kingdom: Rich & Cowan, 1948. 8vo. paper covered boards. 192 pages. A scarce bibliomystery. Lacking the dust jacket. Some light soiling to covers, else near fine. READ MORE about MURDER IN MANUSCRIPT
Price: $70.00 Order nr. 135204
New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1943. 8vo. hardcover. 217 pages. There were some curious things happening at the auction sale, and then the murder. Very good exlibrary copy with markings. Lacking the dust jacket. READ MORE about GOING, GOING, GONE: AN ASEY MAYO MYSTERY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135198
New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1976. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 192 pages. First edition. Fine in near fine jacket. READ MORE about UNHOLY WRIT
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 135282
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1977. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. 252 pages. First edition. A literary treasure, the romantic letters between Edgar Allan Poe and Mrs. Nancy Richmond, are still in the possession of Richmond's daughter. A young scholar who is obsessed with Poe plots to steal the letters. Exlibrary copy with markings, else fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about POE PAPERS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 7982
Stuttgart, Germany: Belser Verlag, (1991). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 252 pages. Contents, foreword by Vogler, afterword by King, chronology, general bibliography, authors' addresses, photographic credits, index of persons and places. 34 color plates, 68 black and white illustrations. Contributors include Dieter Geuenich, Ivo Auf der Maur, Johannes Duft, Walter Berschin, Christoph Eggenberger, Peter Ochsenbein, Stefan Sonderegger, Heinz Horat, Hans Martin Gubler, and Rosamond McKitterick. READ MORE about THE CULTURE OF THE ABBEY OF ST. GALL
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 130852
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, (1957). 4to. cloth, slipcase. 96 pages of text and 108 pages of color and monochrome plates. History with many illustrations of this early Luxemburg illuminated manuscript. Text based on the German text by Dr. Metz. Light sunning to edge of slipcase, else fine. READ MORE about GOLDEN GOSPELS OF ECHTERNACH, CODEX AUREUS EPTERNACENSIS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 37631
Baltimore: The Walters Art Gallery, (1974). 4to. cloth. xviii, 353, (3) pages. With a bibliography of Miner's writings and contributions by such noted scholars as John Plummer, Francis Wormald, Kurt Weitzmann, Frederick Goff and Howard Nixon. Illustrated. Covers rubbed and spine is very faded. READ MORE about GATHERINGS IN HONOR OF DOROTHY E. MINER
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 72031