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
(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
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: 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: 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, (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
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 about BLOOD KNOT
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 89653
London: MacMillan London Ltd., 1986. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 253 pages. First edition. Poets make poems, but what makes poets? In an age of manufactured celebrity, why not the KGB? Dissident poet Evgeny Shar is not what he seems--a new kind of agent? READ MORE about FIRST LOYALTY
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 53645
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Garden City, NY: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday & Co, 1985. small 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (vi), 181, (3) pages. test. First U.S. edition. Tamara Hoyland, archeologist and British secret service agent, has evidence that the crown jewels of Charlemagne on exhibition from the East German government are fake. Her assignment is to find the real jewels before its too late. Small tear on DJ at tail of spine. READ MORE about GRAVE GOODS
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 65264
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1919. 8vo. cloth. viii, 289 pages. First edition, first state with "Burroughs" bruised on p.76, last line, 76 missing; page 100, line 1, "Sty" for "Styx." Mystery, bomb plots and great bookselling scenes occur in this bookshop mystery. One of the best of the genre written by a real booklover. Very lightly worn at spine ends. Bumped top corners. Rear cover soiled. Shaken. READ MORE about THE HAUNTED BOOKSHOP
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 8834
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. READ MORE about PUBLISH AND PERISH
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 18694
New York: Berkeley Prime Crime`, (1995). 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (vi), 281+(1) pages. First Edition. With this atmospheric and suspenseful tale, the author introduces us to Joseph Wilder, a struggling novelist whose approach to crime is strictly literary--until his best friend's father is murdered in the West Indies. READ MORE about DANCE OF THE MONGOOSE
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 74677
(New York): Delacorte Press, (1992). small 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (viii), 216 pages. First edition. A "Nameless Detective" mystery. Old man Arlo Haas is rightfully concerned by the near-catatonic behavior of his daughter, Grady. But is that any reason to call a private detective? READ MORE about QUARRY
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 65119
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1945. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii,562 pages. First edition. Thirty-two stories of fictional crooks - successful crooks - from such authors as Dashiell Hammett, Howard Spring, Ben Hecht, Arnold Bennett, O. Henry, T.S. Stribling and Sinclair Lewis. Book is a little shelf worn with the dust jacket taking all the wear. It has many closed tears, chips and a little bit of paper loss. READ MORE about ROGUES GALLERY
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 89657
New York: New American Library, (1987). 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (xiii), 324 pages. First edition. Another attempt is made on Pope John Paul's life and it is assumed it is Soviet leader Yuri Andropov who is responsible. READ MORE about IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 59696
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1998. large 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. (xiv), 358, (ii), xxxv pages. First edition. A political conspiracy in which there is a desperate search for a 16th century manuscript. "The deadliest document ever written must be found. And time is running out." READ MORE about THE OVERSEER
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 65179
Oxford and Santa Barbara: ISIS, (1992). 8vo. printed paper-covered boards. (viii), 175, (7) pages. Large print edition. Leo Selver, an antiques dealer, is confronted by a number of other members of the trade in this murder mystery. READ MORE about THE END OF THE WEB
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 70988
New York: Atheneum, 1980. small 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. (6), 188 pages. First edition, a review copy with material loosely inserted. Not everyone whom you meet in chapter 1 is going to make it to chapter 2. The author's name is a pseudonym for a "noted writer of nonfiction and a former resident of New York City" (dust jacket). READ MORE about JACOBY'S FIRST CASE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 49761
