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 Order nr. 12747
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 Order nr. 135199
Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1998. 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages. VOLUME 3, NO.2, FEB. 98. IN THIS ISSUE: B. Coleman on Thomas Hardy, R. Young Jr. on cinema books, N. Basbanes on the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, G. Freeman on how to distinguish between different types of engraving, C. Grossman on the Golden Cockerel Press, N. Rosin on Valentines, AND MUCH MORE. READ MORE about BIBLIO, THE MAGAZINE FOR COLLECTORS OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND EPHEMERA
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 51208
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2018. 8vo. two-toned paper covered boards. 351 pages. First edition. A fine copy in fine jacket. Signed by both Preston and Child on the second blank page. READ MORE about VERSES FOR THE DEAD
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 137011
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
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.Jacket has some tears and chipping to the edges and spine. Else near fine. READ MORE about PARNASSUS ON WHEELS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134976
New York, NY: Crime Club, Doubleday & Company, The, 1980. 8vo. faux leather over boards, dust jacket. 182 pages. First edition. A collection of twelve short stories of crime and wordplay centering on "the adventures of the Black Widowers". 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..... READ MORE about CASEBOOK OF THE BLACK WIDOWERS
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 135267
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: Doubleday, (2003). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 454 pages. Printed in the United States of America April 2003 "40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33". 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..... READ MORE about THE DA VINCI CODE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134387
New York, NY: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1948. 8vo. cloth. 219 pages. First edition. Stated first edition hardcover. This novel follows an ex-reporter whose fictional radio show scripts become real life murders. 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 Order nr. 135268
(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. Fine in fine dust jacket. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about THE RULE OF FOUR
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 99836
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 Order nr. 135229
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 Order nr. 135262
New York: Viking, 1995. 8vo. paper over boards, dust jacket. 469 pages. First edition. William Robertson Davies (1913 - 1995) was an award-winning, internationally renowned Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters." Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto. "His novels will be recognized..... READ MORE about THE CUNNING MAN: A NOVEL
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137229
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: 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 Order nr. 12806
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, (1975). 8vo. paper over boards, dust jacket. (viii), 182 pages. Book Club Edition. Self-appointed censor, Georgina Hampter, burns "dirty" books in the school library. One was by a local author, Lawrence Dilman, who is found murdered shortly after the book burning. A little digging by a local detective turns up an exotic murder weapon and a list of suspects that includes virtually everyone in Wingate, Connecticut. Hildegarde Dolson was Richard Lockridge's..... READ MORE about PLEASE OMIT FUNERAL
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 13344
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
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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
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 99269
New York, NY: Mysterious Press, 1976. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 151 pages. First edition first printing of this collection of short stories all featuring Kek Huuygens. All the stories were published earlier in separate magazines. Near fine in near fine jacket. READ MORE about KEK HUUYGENS, SMUGGLER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135217
New York, NY: TOR Books, 1988. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 313 pages. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Paul Stinson and design by Joe Curcio. READ MORE about THE SCHOLARS OF NIGHT
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 135257
New York: Stein and Day, 1973. small 8vo. quarter cloth, boards, dust jacket. 191+(1) pages. First edition. Best-selling author Osborne Kilgore takes out a very large life insurance policy, with his wife and publisher as beneficiaries. No one seems to like him very much, and, unfortunately for him, he likes wild mushrooms. Bookplate. "Eugene Franklin" is a pseudonym. Jacket slightly worn, else near fine. READ MORE about THE BOLD HOUSE MURDERS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 49905
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
