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The Week-End Library: Issue of 1930.

By: N/A

Price: $18.50

Publisher: Garden City, NY., Doubleday, Doran & Co.: 1930.

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 9497

Binding: Orange cloth boards.

Condition: Good lacking dust jacket. Boards rubbed and soiled. Edges soiled. Front hinge cracked by not loose.

Novels: Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham, Where the Blue Begins - Christopher Morley. Novelettes: Youth - Joseph Conrad, The Time Machine - H. G. Wells. Biography: Our Mark Twain - Helen Keller, How to Work Up a Panic - Bouck White. Short Stories: Old Man Minick - Edna Ferber, The King of the Cats - Stephen Vincent Benet, Contact - Frances Noyes Hart, Mr. Jack Hollins. Mystery: A Passage to Benares - T.S. Stribling, The Investors - Edgar Wallace. Plus humor by Donald Ogden Stewart, Don Marquis, and Irvin S. Cobb, selections from Leaves of Grass by Whitman, true adventure by T. E. Lawrenc...
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(Sherlockiana) Sherlock in LA. Cat. 14. Special Ted Schulz Issue

By: N/A

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Oceanside, CA, Sherlock in LA Press: 1991

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 019246

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated catalogue of over 900 Sherlockiana items. Tribute to Schulz with 8 pages of photographs plus color photo of Schulz & wife at Reichenbach Falls. A couple of dog eared pages in catalog with inked markings. Illustrated with photos & drawings throughout.
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The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

By: (Sherlockiana) Carr, John Dickson (1906-1977)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc.: 1990

Edition: Reprint.

Seller ID: 019613

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Binding solid. Light foxing to top edge & rear cover. Text & 8 pages of illustrations bright. "The combination of Doyle and Carr makes for a notable biography." (from the front free endpaper).
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The Dallas Deception.

By: Abshire, Richard.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York., Morrow.: 1992.

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 18894

Binding: Hardcover in black quarter cloth & orange paper-w

Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket. Text is clean in solid binding. Jacket lightly rubbed at spine ends with crease to front flap. No tears or chips.

The third private eye Jack Kyle mystery. A neoclassic detective novel set in the Dallas underworld of pornographers & drug dealers.
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The Trial of Elizabeth Cree

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1993

Edition: 1st U.S. Edition

Seller ID: 019207

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First published in Great Britain by Sinclair-Stevenson. A novel of the Limehouse murders and the sensational trial that followed. Set in 1880 London. A nice copy.
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The Trial of Elizabeth Cree

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1993

Edition: 1st U.S. Edition

Seller ID: 19207

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First published in Great Britain by Sinclair-Stevenson. A novel of the Limehouse murders and the sensational trial that followed. Set in 1880 London. A nice copy.
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The Trial of Elizabeth Cree

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1993

Edition: Bound Galley. Uncorrected Proof.

Seller ID: 020110

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

First published in Great Britain by Sinclair-Stevenson. A novel of the Limehouse murders and the sensational trial that followed. Set in 1880 London. Mis-bound. Text is upside down or wrappers were bound upside down.
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The Mystery & Detection Annual.

By: Adams, Donald (ed.).

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Beverly Hills., Published by the editor.: 1972.

Edition: First Printing.

Seller ID: 13080

Binding: Hardcover in red cloth boards stamped in gilt.

Condition: Near fine lacking dust jacket. Light wear to spine ends.

The edition is dedicated to Poe with essays on Dickens, Futrelle, R. Austin Freeman, Ross Macdonald & Horace McCoy. Reviews by Julian Symons & others. Illustrations.
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Deadline For Final Art.

By: Adkins, Jan.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York., Walker.: 1990.

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 16590

Binding: Hardcover in black paper-wrapped boards with red titles on spine.

Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket. Soil to top edge. Book is square & tight. Jacket bright with none of the usual rubbing to white background. Price intact on front flap.

The author's 2nd mystery & the 1st to feature series character Charlie Salt.
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Chile Death: A China Bayles Mystery

By: Albert, Susan Wittig.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Berkley Prime Crlime: 1998

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 019401

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Small red smudge (remainder mark?) to top edge. Light bumps to jacket spine ends. No tears or chips. The award nominated author's 7th China Bayles mystery. China agrees to marry Mike McQuaid who is then paralyzed in the line of duty. And then China's mother moves back in with her. What can happen next?
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An Unthymely Death and Other Garden Mysteries

By: Albert, Susan Wittig.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Berkley Books: 2003

Edition: Book Club Edition

Seller ID: 019182

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Title page originally unopend. Opened by former owner with two tiny chips to fore edges. Light bumps to jacket spine ends. No tears or chips. Ten mysteries featuring lawyer-turned herbalist China Bayles. Also some of her best recipes, craft ideas, and gardening lore. Stories originally published in Country Living Gardener magazine.
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The Hand or The Confession of an Executioner

By: Aleshkovsky, Yuz ( pseudonym of Joseph Aleshkovsky)

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1990

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 019576

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Unrevised uncorrected proof. Translated by Susan Brownsberger with an introduction by Joseph Brodsky. Publisher's author bio laid in. Handwritten publishing date and price on front panel. Translation of "Ruka." Russia, 1980. England: Halban, 1989.
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Watery Grave.

By: Alexander, Bruce.

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York., G. P. Putnam's Sons.: 1996.

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 11034

Binding: Hardcover in cloth and paper-wrapped boards.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

The third Sir John Fielding mystery.
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Spence at the Blue Bazaar.

By: Allen, Micheal.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York., Walker & Co.: 1979

Edition: First American Edition.

Seller ID: 019111

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Allen's 3rd Detective Chief Superintendent Ben Spence mystery. A nightclub exotic dancer is murdered. Did she know the perpetrator of a previously unsolved crime? Slight spine lean. Dust soil to top edge. Bumps to spine ends. Light toning to end papers. Text clean & bright in solid binding. Jacket edge worn & rubbed with closed tear to top rear corner with chips at spine ends & front corners.
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Goodey's Last Stand.

By: Alverson, Charles.

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Boston., Houghton Mifflin Co.: 1975.

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 15159

Binding: Hardcover in cloth boards.

Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. Slight spine lean & light sunning to top of boards. Text bright in solid binding. Light rubbing to white jacket background with sunning to spine. Bright Ned Glattauer '70s jacket design.

(a Midnight Novel of Suspense). This is the author's 3rd novel & 2nd mystery. Set in San Francisco & introducing Joe Goodey, former police detective turned P.I. In the Chandler tradition.
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Cause For Alarm

By: Ambler, Eric

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1940

Edition: Later printing..

Seller ID: 020020

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Book is square and tight with bright text. Light soil to rear pastedown endpaper. Jacket lightly edge rubbed with chip to head of spine. Set in Milan. Replacing a murdered colleague in an English machinery firm, Nicholas Marlow, engineer, becomes entangled in a web of international intrigue. With Valeshoff & Tamara he helps expose a vital part of the Rome-Berlin axis.
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The Riverside Villas Murder

By: Amis, Kingsley

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich: 1973

Edition: First American Edition.

Seller ID: 019425

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Hardcover in red quarter cloth & black paper-wrapped boards. Red top edge. Light rubbing to boards. Text is clean in solid square binding. White jacket is bright with rubbing to extremities & crease to front flap. The author's 2nd mystery novel. Set in 1930s England with a 14 year-old hero. "Clever, comic, and chilling."
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The Crime of the Century

By: Amis, Kingsley (1922-1995)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Mysterious Press: 1989

Edition: First American Edition.

Seller ID: 019583

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Hardcover in black quarter cloth & blue paper-wrapped boards. Light rubbing jacket extremities. No tears or chips. Text is clean in solid square binding. First published as a six-part serial in the London Sunday Times. Readers were invited to solve the crime. The winning entry is reprinted here along with Amis's own solution. "A Very British Mystery."
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The Riverside Villas Murder.

By: Amis, Kingsley.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: London., Jonathan Cape.: 1973.

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 18904

Binding: Hardcover in green cloth boards.

Condition: Near fine in very good edge rubbed & price clipped dust jacket. Spot of soil to bottom page edges.

The author's 2nd mystery novel. Set in 1930s England. Only a young 14-year-old boy and his friend Reg guess the truth about the killer in their small country town. Book review laid in.
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The Fisher Boy

By: Anable, Stephen

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Scottsdale, Arizona, Poisoned Pen Press: 2008

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 020341

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

A nice copy. Set in Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod. A gay Boston comic becomes involved in the murder of an old school friend. The author's first mystery novel.
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Keyword:Mystery