Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, (1960). 8vo. cloth. 255 pages. First U.S. edition. Historical fiction for the young reader based on Caxton and his printing press. Spine faded. READ MORE
Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 78224
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
Price: $75.00 other currencies 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
Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 2842
(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
Price: $10.00 other currencies 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
Price: $50.00 other currencies Order nr. 8544
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1979. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket, later slipcase. xvi, 193, (12) pages. First trade edition thus. This collection of short stories contains "Night School" which begins "You find them on the sidestreets of every large city, and you wonder, sometimes, how the proprietors manage to make a living." Mr. Bloch is referring to used book shops. READ MORE
Price: $20.00 other currencies Order nr. 13373
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
Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 122823
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
Price: $15.00 other currencies 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
Price: $15.00 other currencies 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
Price: $100.00 other currencies 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
Price: $50.00 other currencies 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
Price: $10.00 other currencies 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
Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 70586
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1944). 8vo. cloth. (vi), 250 pages. First edition. Henry Gamadge's name is found on a circular on the pavement that implicated him with owning a collection of "curiosa." This draws him into a relationship with another collector and a mystery about a missing plate from a book. Covers damaged at bottom of spine. Inner hinges partially split. Shaken. READ MORE
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 8572
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
Price: $5.00 other currencies 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
Price: $65.00 other currencies Order nr. 78434
New York: The Mysterious Press, (1992). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. ix, 326 pages. First edition. A murder mystery centering around the long lost "Casket Letters," the legendary letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots which are said to prove that she murdered her husband. READ MORE
Price: $5.00 other currencies Order nr. 77709
New York: R.R. Bowker, 1969. 4to. cloth. xx, 834 pages. First edition. Aside from a bibliographic guide to fiction, Hagen also has "Subject Guides to Mysteries," as well as lists of movies and plays of the genre and other listings. READ MORE
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 35163
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
Price: $20.00 other currencies 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
Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 34728
London: Chatto & Windus, (1998). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 391+(1) pages. First edition. Detective novel set in the English Civil War of the mid-17th century. A London bookseller is given the task of restoring a library pillaged during the war. Signed by author on title page. READ MORE
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 109112
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
Price: $8.00 other currencies 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
Price: $25.00 other currencies 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
Price: $5.00 other currencies Order nr. 50423
London: Michael Joseph, (1991). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 308 pages. First edition. Signed on the title page by the author. Former journalist is plunged into a maze of political cover-ups and violent death which begins innocently enough on a sailing trip with some reforming juvenile delinquents. READ MORE
Price: $20.00 other currencies Order nr. 89653
