New York, NY: Crime Club, Doubleday & Company, The, 1980. 8vo. faux leather over boards, dust jacket. 182 pages. First edition. Black, white and red illustrated dust jacket. Publisher's red faux leather boards lettered in black at spine. Lightly rubbed tail and head of spine. Dust jacket in very good condition with a removed exlibris spine label. Library stamp in ink on front pastedown. Library card pocket on rear free endpaper. READ MORE about CASEBOOK OF THE BLACK WIDOWERS

Price: $40.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135267

New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1954. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 207 pages. First edition. Near fine in lightly chipped dust jacket. READ MORE about DEAD GAME. A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE

Price: $50.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135287

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1983). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 182 pages. First edition. This murder mystery turns around a Bronte manuscript. Fine in fine dust jacket. READ MORE about CASE OF THE MISSING BRONTË

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 29999

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1979). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 192 pages. First U.S. edition. A mystery writer with a large loving public and a small hating group of close friends is murdered on his sixty-fifth birthday. The son who hated him the most is the largest benefactor of his will, but his current manuscript, worth over a million dollars, is missing. Fine in fine dust jacket. READ MORE about DEATH OF A MYSTERY WRITER

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 13375

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1935. 8vo. cloth. (x), 292 pages. First edition. Carroll Lindsey is "cooped in his small room in the grim old house on Irving Place, surrounded by a matchless library on crime ..." Jacket designed by W.A. Dwiggins. Lacking the dust jacket. Covers lightly soiled, else near fine. READ MORE about SATAN WAS A MAN

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 12781

New York: Arbor House, 1983. small 8vo. quarter cloth, boards, dust jacket. 253 pages. Book Club Edition. A Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery. Signed by author, front free endpaper. "It was a slow day at Barnegat Books, but then most of them are. Antiquarian booksellers, after all, do not dream of retiring to the slow and simple life. They are already leading it"(p.7). Bernie Rhodenbarr, fortunately, has a second trade to fall back on. Near fine in..... READ MORE about THE BURGLAR WHO PAINTED LIKE MONDRIAN

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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. small 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (vi), 214 pages. First edition. What's George Theroux doing behind the Cedar Springs Inn with a bullet hole in him? Nothing anymore, actually, but his ex-fiancé Celia Sommerville, who had told him just the day before that she wouldn't marry him, fearing it might have been suicide but suspecting that it isn't, begins to investigate in Cedar Springs. Turns out, someone George knew..... READ MORE about BOOKED FOR DEATH

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New York, NY: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1948. 8vo. cloth. 219 pages. First edition. Stated first edition hardcover. Lacking the dust jacket. Rubbing along head and tail of spine, as well as tips of the covers. READ MORE about MURDER CAN BE FUN

Price: $40.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135268

New York: M. A. Donohue & Company, n.d. 8vo. cloth. 249 pages. A boy's story which tells of two young brothers who become established both as job printers and as publishers of a weekly newspaper. Very good. Previous ownership markings on front free endpaper. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. READ MORE about TWO BOY PUBLISHERS

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 34972

New York, NY: Walker, 1974. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 192 pages. First US edition. Her third book a mystery involving two novelists. Fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about PLOT COUNTER-PLOT

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135229

New York: Walker and Company, (1984). 8vo. paper over boards, dust jacket. 213 pages. First edition. Mystery writer and sometimes detective Mallory tries to solve the murder of another mystery writer. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. READ MORE about KILL YOUR DARLINGS

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 34913

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 273 pages. First American Edition. DJ has light edge wear. It is clean, in a mylar cover. Book has clean covers, solid squared binding, and clean interior. READ MORE about THE SUN CHEMIST

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135262

New York: Jefferson House, 1947. small 8vo. cloth. (viii), 212 pages. First edition. Why would the red-headed night club singer offer $30,000 for a rare book? The mob and Max both try to tract down the book. Corner bumped, else near fine. Lacking the dust jacket. READ MORE about DRAW THE CURTAIN CLOSE

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 12806

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. 8vo. half-cloth over boards, dust jacket. 192 pages. First edition, second printing. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about MAN WHO WROTE DIRTY BOOKS

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 12747

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(New York): Viking Penguin, (2004). 8vo. two-tone paper-covered boards, dust jacket. xvi, 376, (6) pages. A novel. First American Edition. Thursday Next is back, and she needs a vacation. She takes a restful stint in the Character Exchange Program down in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots. However, Thursday discovers that the Well of Lost Plots is a veritable linguistic free-for-all where grammasites run rampant, plot devices are hawked on the black..... READ MORE about THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS

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New York, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1944. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 224 pages. First edition. Dust jacket has been trimmed at the top and the bottom. Very good copy. READ MORE about CLUES TO CHRISTABEL

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135258

London, United Kingdom: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1914. 8vo. cloth. viii, 310 pages. Reprint. An excellent book collecting novel. Ink inscription on free endpaper. Abraison to the head of the spine. Light soiling to tail of spine. Covers lightly soiled.Scarce reprint. READ MORE about CRIME OF SYLVESTRE BONNARD A Translation by Lafcadio Hearn

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135220

New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 254 pages. First American edition. A novel about book publishing and a fierce take-over attempt. Fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about THE PUBLISHER

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 23992

New York: Harper & Row, (1969). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. (iv), 266, (2) pages. Book Club edition of a book first published in England as THE ETRUSCAN NET. A bookshop owner in Florence, Italy, becomes involved with sinister collectors because of his knowledge of Etruscan art. Dust jacket spine is age darkened with very small water stains. A few tears around the edges, else near fine in very good jacket. READ MORE about FAMILY TOMB

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 8625

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (6), 185 pages. First edition. "Comic-strip artist Jack Deacon knows right from the start that the Tijuana Bible isn't some relic of the Spanish conquest. Maybe that's because of the way he first heard about it..." (dust jacket). Press release loosely inserted. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about THE TIJUANA BIBLE

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 49753

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1987. (1987), 8vo., cloth- backed boards, dust jacket. (viii), 299 pages. Reprint of first edition. A dismembered body is found in a antique piece of furniture. Was the murderer Theo Wrenn Browne, owner of Long Pidd's bookshop? Near fine. READ MORE about FIVE BELLS AND BLADEBONE

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 27892

New York: Walker and Co., (1983). 8vo. boards, dust jacket. (ii), 190 pages. Second printing. The University Librarian is murdered and Clifford Dunbar is asked by his daughter to help find the murderer. Why was the perfect copy of the Bay Psalm Book found in the murdered man's hand? Was this an almost perfect forgery? Near fine. READ MORE about BAY PSALM BOOK MURDER

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 2465

New York: Doubleday, (1989). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 215+(1) pages. Annie Laurance, proprietor of the Death on Demand mystery bookshop, is asked to teach a course on the three great ladies of mystery. She becomes involved in a murder mystery, of course. READ MORE about LITTLE CLASS ON MURDER

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 31502

(New York: Doubleday, 2006). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. (viii), 354, (2) pages. First edition. A young lady from Tasmania comes to New York and finds a job at the Arcadia (dead ringer for the Strand). A lost Herman Melville manuscript is the center of the intrigue. Fine in fine dust jacket. READ MORE about THE SECRET OF LOST THINGS

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 117968

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1978. 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket. 199 pages. First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about A WORD TO THE WISE

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135199

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1965. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 224 pages. First edition. The entire novel centers around the workers in a "dilapidated but vigorous branch of the public library" in Manhattan`s Upper West Side. READ MORE about CATCH A BRASS CANARY

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 8465

New York: William Morrow and Co., 1983. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. 215 pages. First edition. John Denson, a private investigator, is fishing in Oregon when the body of a dead girl rushes by. He gets caught up in a group of secret agents arguing the true identity of Shakespeare. Near fine in near fine jacket. READ MORE about THE SISKIYOU TWO-STEP

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 13118

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  other currencies  Order nr. 13266

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1936. 8vo. cloth. 448, (2) pages. First edition, third printing. Presented in an interesting format in which each chapter presents a document important to solving the murder. Some of the documents include a manuscript, a note from a composing-room foreman and a book collection. Near fine, lacking the jacket. READ MORE about X. JONES, SCOTLAND YARD

Price: $70.00  other currencies  Order nr. 29998

New York: Holt, 1964. Rinehart and Winston. (1966), 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. 192 pages. First edition, second impression. A young librarian trying to get over the death of her lover has her link to him, a necklace, stolen. She follows the leads to danger. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about MARCH TO THE GALLOWS

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 8691

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. (iv), 247, (2) pages. First American edition. An 18 year old English girl begins working for Wilhelm Schmidt, a dealer in rare books and Rembrandts, where "it is impossible to dismiss the sense of impending disaster as she is drawn into his alien, sinister world." Near fine in a lightly chipped jacket. READ MORE about THE TRAP

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 13378

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1979. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 342 pages. First edition. Lloyd Erskine becomes an editor for a major publisher. The book gives much insight into the world of publishing. Jacket is price clipped, else fine in fine dust jacket. Exlibris bookplate of Frederic Melcher and his library of books about books. READ MORE about GULLIVER HOUSE

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 1506

New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1955. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 212 pages. First edition. A group of writers got together each week to plot their mysteries. Unfortunately one of them actually followed a murder script and the police had a murder case to solve. Near fine in a lightly torn dust jacket. READ MORE about MUCH ADO ABOUT MURDER

Price: $40.00  other currencies  Order nr. 29994

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  other currencies  Order nr. 135279

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., (1972). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 186 pages. Book Club Edition. The author of a best-selling novel is found dead. Tracking down the murderer requires behind the scenes investigation of the publishing world. Near fine. READ MORE about WRITE MURDER DOWN

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 33727

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  other currencies  Order nr. 102590

With a Foreword by Frederic G. Melcher.
New York: Court Book Co., (1941). 8vo. cloth. viii, 249 pages. With a Foreword by Frederic G. Melcher. "Special Printing". Melcher says that this is "the first book I have seen to put into the form of vocational fiction a picture of what publishing is to those who are just entering it ..." Covers faded & sun faded. READ MORE about YOUNG MR. STONE, BOOK PUBLISHER

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 9702

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  other currencies  Order nr. 34706

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1969. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (iv), 252 pages. First edition. Myles McCormick spends his days "cataloguing books in odd alphabets" in the Boston Free Library. He is quite a smash with the ladies. Fine in fine dust jacket. Bookplate of Al Rodway on front free endpaper. READ MORE about PAIRING OFF

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 13014

New York: Rinehart & Co., (1947). 8vo. cloth. 189 pages. First edition. Lucius Braxton, San Francisco's most exclusive bookseller, was found murdered in his store. A drawer full of literary clues are discovered by the detectives who quickly come to the conclusion that "everybody in the business must be crazy." Lacks jacket. Near fine. READ MORE about THE TITLE IS MURDER

Price: $40.00  other currencies  Order nr. 102090

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1973. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 241 pages. First edition, first printing. Attemped murder and suicide stock the three day meeting of Thomas Jefferson enthusiasts at the University of Virginia. Exlibris on front pastedown. READ MORE about TWILIGHT AT MONTICELLO

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 12880

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1964. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 252 pages. Translated from the Italian. Pascal bequeaths a MS on the condition no one open it until 50 years after his 3rd and final death. Pascal had been the librarian of a collection of books given to a city, a fate he did not enjoy. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about LATE MATTIA PASCAL Translated by William Weaver

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 8804

New York: Walker and Company, (1969). 8vo. boards, dust jacket. 232 pages. First American edition. An excellent novel about the respectable art dealer, Mr. Rowlandson Jones, who is working on the definitive biography of Thomas Rowlandson. Assitants turn up dead in his study, a Carter and Pollard type is hounding him for allegedily stealing drawing and letters from museums and he is fighting his own imminent death in attempting to complete his manuscript. With overtones..... READ MORE about THE DANCE OF DEATH

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 16126

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  other currencies  Order nr. 135222

New York: Harper & Row, (1976). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. 153 pages. First edition. Marcia Richardson, editorial director for a large Book Club, was found shot to death over a galley proof. A first novel written with an insider's knowledge of the publishing field. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about FINAL PROOF

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 8727

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  other currencies  Order nr. 8737

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979. small 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (10), 181 pages. First American edition. The fictional papers of E.A. Pons ("edited" by the author), who suffers or perhaps pursues the delusion that he is Edgar Allan Poe, and decides to consult a psychiatrist named Dupin. "takes the reader on a fascinating quest, not only for the truth about...Poe himself, but for the truth-or several truths-about the world that has created..... READ MORE about THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF E.A. POE

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 49822

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  other currencies  Order nr. 59540

New York: William Morrow and Co., 1978. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. 202 pages. First edition. Edgar Allan Poe is brought back to life (did he ever die) in 1889 and solves a murder mystery involving the Crown Prince Rudolph and his mistress. Near fine in near fine jacket. READ MORE about EVERMORE

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 9544

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  other currencies  Order nr. 135204