Frankfurt: Linotype, 1960. 8vo. paper-covered boards, paper spine label. 35, (5) pages. A thrilling yet cautionary tale in verse about the book-lover Petermann. Illustrated by Werner Labbé. Traditional french-fold pages. Ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper. READ MORE about PETERMANN
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 49355
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1980. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 13 pages. One of 250 copies (Heaney B15). Being Oak Knoll's Christmas book for 1980. Containing an introduction by the firm and a chapter from Mr. Block's The Burglar who Liked to Quote Kipling about the nabbing of a book thief in an antiquarian bookshop. READ MORE about MR. RHODENBARR, BOOKSELLER ADVISES A YOUNG CUSTOMER ON SEEKING A VOCATION
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 1342
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., (1955). 8vo. half cloth, boards. 253, (3) pages. First edition with these illustrations. Given out as a dividend by the Book-of-the-Month Club. Illustrated by Douglass Gorsline. Lacks dust jacket. READ MORE about PARNASSUS ON WHEELS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 2842
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (1977). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 183 pages. First edition. READ MORE about WHAT WILL HAVE HAPPENED, A PHILOSOPHICAL AND TECHNICAL ESSAY ON MYSTERY STORIES
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 12945
(New York): Warner Books, (1995). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (x),386 pages. First edition, signed by Anaya on the title page. The first crime novel by the acclaimed Chicano writer best known for Bless Me, Ultima. The mystery series features Sonny Baca. Dust jacket has just a hint of shelf wear. READ MORE about ZIA SUMMER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 89651
New York: M.S. Milll Company and William Morrow & Co., 1963. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 189 pages. First U.S. edition; the English edition was called BLUE OCTAVO. A young man becomes suspicious when a rare book dealer pays four times retail at an auction for a copy of a slow selling mountaineering book. He is found dead in his shop. Jacket rubbed with closed tear in front cover of jacket and is price-clipped. READ MORE about BOUND TO KILL
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 8544
(New York): Dutton, (1999). 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (viii), 280 pages. First edition. A Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery. The bookseller/burglar is hired to steal a packet of letters from literary agent Anthea Landau, but when he breaks into her apartment, he finds she has been murdered. Quirky characters, twists and turns galore from the Edgar-winning author. READ MORE about THE BURGLAR IN THE RYE
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 65062
N.P. Dutton Book, (1994). 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (x), 258 pages. First edition. Bernie Rodenbarr, burglar-cum-bookseller robs a West Side apartment but is blamed for another crime in which a million dollar baseball collection is stolen across town. READ MORE about THE BURGLAR WHO TRADED TED WILLIAMS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 122823
(New York): Dutton, (1998). 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. viii, 248 pages. First edition. The author invites readers to return to the world of Evan Michael Tanner, a globe-trotting adventurer with a taste for lost causes. Missing in action for twenty-five years, Tanner is back, and making up for lost time with a vengeance. READ MORE about TANNER ON ICE
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 65106
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (2004). 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (xii), 223+(1) pages. First edition. Lilian Jackson Braun's twenty-seventh Cat Who book about Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats Yum Yum and Koko. This one involves a book project on a historic house, a new bookstore and possibly some stolen books. READ MORE about THE CAT WHO WENT BANANAS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 98472
Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1993. 8vo. cloth. x, (ii), 376, (2) pages. Supplement to the 1981 volume. A annotated list of 350 items. Indexed. Review copy with information loosely inserted. READ MORE about WHAT ABOUT MURDER? 1981-1991, A GUIDE TO BOOKS ABOUT MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE FICTION
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 119230
New York: Doubleday, (2003). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 454 pages. First edition. The novel has helped perpetuate popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and the role of Mary Magdalene in the history of Christianity. According to the premise of the novel, the Vatican knows it is living a lie, but continues to do so to keep itself in power. It is a worldwide bestseller with more than 60.5 million copies in... READ MORE about THE DA VINCI CODE
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 94234
New York: Doubleday, (2003). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 454 pages. First edition. The novel has helped perpetuate popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and the role of Mary Magdalene in the history of Christianity. According to the premise of the novel, the Vatican knows it is living a lie, but continues to do so to keep itself in power. It is a worldwide bestseller with more than 60.5 million copies in... READ MORE about THE DA VINCI CODE
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 105311
(New York): Dial Press, (2004). 8vo. cloth-backed, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (x), 372, (2) pages. First edition. A tale of timeless intrigue and scholarship is the story of two college friends forced to follow a mysterious coded manuscript, a violent Ivy League murder, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince. READ MORE about THE RULE OF FOUR
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 99836
New York: William Morrow, (1997). 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (viii), 263+(1) pages. First U.S. edition. When Sir Harry Huxwood, the wealthy head of an Australian publishing empire, is found murdered in his bedroom the morning after a tension-charged family dinner, Inspector Scobie Malone finds himself under pressure to come up with the true story, with an accusing finger pointing in all directions. READ MORE about ENDPEACE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 70586
New York: Mysterious Press, (1988). 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. (viii), 182, (2) pages. First edition. Set on a Caribbean cruise, there is murder and mayhem all around Network vice-president and chief troubleshooter Matt Cobb. All of the Matt Cobb series have Killed in the title. Light wear to book and dust jacket. READ MORE about KILLED IN PARADISE
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 91877
New York: Scribner, (2004). 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (viii), 369, (5) pages. First edition. Another of the series of mysteries feature Cliff Janeway, the Colorado bookseller and ex detective. Richard Burton (not the movie star but the author) came to American just as the Civil War loomed on the horizon. Was he a spy for Britain? Lost inscribed books and the journal kept by Burton is at the center of the plot. Signed by... READ MORE about THE BOOKMAN'S PROMISE
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 78434
New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1974. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 186 pages. Book club edition. The whole interview set-up is strange, with remarkably attentive guards hanging about, journalist Jack Seavering decides, and then the interviewee, " America's most famous novelist," writes HELP in the dirt and quickly rubs it out with his shoe before anyone besides Seavering can read it. Jacket slightly worn and spine is faded. Spot along edge of free endpaper. READ MORE about THE SEASON OF DANGER
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 49911
New York: Walker Publ. Co., 1982. small 8vo. boards, dust jacket. 189 pages. First edition. Mark Exeter, publisher of the news weekly "Tomorrow" hires private eye Nick Nicoletti to look into matters relating to the magazine staff and to Exeter's own upcoming divorce. Soon, Nicoletti is also looking into Exeter's murder. Bookplate. Large stain on front free endpaper, date stamp on half-title page. READ MORE about MURDER AT TOMORROW
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 49903
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 292 pages. First edition. A cast of historic figures, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini, and Edgar Allan Poe, seek to stop a serial killer who recreates scenes from Poe's works from making them his next victims. READ MORE about NEVERMORE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 116219
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., (1982). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 320 pages. First U.S. edition. Different writers on the different genres. Sections on Crime Fiction, How I Write My Books, The People of Crime Fiction, etc. READ MORE about WHODUNIT?, A GUIDE TO CRIME, SUSPENSE AND SPY FICTION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 34728
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. small 8vo. paper-covered boards. (viii), 181 pages. First edition. Nick Polo rather enjoys being a bodyguard to journalist Jack Slate, who has come to Pebble Beach to play golf. But Slate's journalism has annoyed someone... A Nick Polo Mystery. Dust jacket chipped. READ MORE about POLO IN THE ROUGH
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 51876
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 220 pages. First edition. An Inner Sanctum Mystery. Dan Morgan goes to Wisconsin to investigate the suicide of his successful novelist brother Rolfe, who seems to have disppeared into Lake Michigan along with a just-finished manuscript. Dan, who does not believe in the "suicide," learns that he cannot believe much else either, and that there are different degrees of guilt. Remainder mark on bottom edge of book. READ MORE about THE FINISH LINE
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 50479
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1969). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (v), 256+(1) pages. First U.S. edition. Emma Lathen is the pen name shared by Mary Jane Latsis and Martha Henissart. This is the ninth entry in the series featuring John Putnam Thatcher, an investment banker who has more than his share of adventures. Jacket is price clipped. READ MORE about WHEN IN GREECE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 89642
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. small 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (viii), 309 pages. First edition. First-person detective narrative. New York private investigator Joe Binney goes to "Caunotaucarius County" in W. Virginia to investigate the murder of a schoolbook salesman, discovers that the local corruption can stand comparison with New York's finest efforts. READ MORE about HELL-BENT FOR ELECTION
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 50423
