Great Expectations (Signet Classics) by Charles Dickens - September 1, 1961

London: Macmillan, 1985 First printing of the first British edition, preceding the American edition by 13 years. Brown cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine. Author's first book. Age toning to page margins, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1994 First printing of the first British edition. Author's first novel and the first in the series of mystery novels set in medieval Oxford. Signed by Ian Morson directly on the title page. Soft tiny crease to upper corner of inside flap, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

215 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in publisher's original black with orange "red badge" insignia on front cover and orange lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition.To save a judge's daughter, Mike Shayne must invade the red-light district. For twenty years, Judge Nigel Lansdowne has been one of Washington's greatest progressives. The red-baiters in Congress would do anything to destroy his reputation, and they may have found the perfect weapon. Her name is Julia, but when she dances she goes by Dorinda. The judge's daughter came to Miami in search of a new life, and she found it dancing nude in the city's infamous red-light district. Mike Shayne is hired to bring Julia home before the judge's enemies learn of her new career, but his real job will be keeping her alive. Someone in Miami wants this beautiful dancer dead, and only Mike Shayne can help her. In the nightclubs of Miami Beach, music is played to a deadly beat.Dresser was born in Chicago, Illinois, but… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket soiled and lightly tattered, pages . toned.. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. The prolific mystery author's second book, featuring an auto racing detective, Beau Pepys, that chronologically precedes the storyline in Hammond's first published novel, Fred in Situ. Stamp of literary agent Curtis Brown on front free endpaper and title page. Jacket art by Peter Calcott. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages .

The Pequod Press, 1988. First Edition. Unknown. Fine. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Handsewn printed wraps. Printed letterpress by John Ruyle at Pequod Press. One of 100 paper copies, this being #116. Light wear to wraps, else Near Fine. Another of the entertaining and witty 'Turlock Loams' parodies of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, authored and printed by John Ruyle. Ruyle's private press - the Pequod Press - issued numerous Sherlockian and other titles for over thirty years.

NY: Knopf, 1992. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1992. FIRST EDITION. Nicely bound in black on black cloth with untrimmed pages in white stylized dust jacket sporting photo of bullet-ridden LAPD car. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. It's 1958 in Los Angeles and the Feds are investigating police corruption - 'deja vu all over again.'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: Oxford University Press, 1953. First Edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Oxford University Press, 1953. 137 pp., Essays on Holmes and Watson. Light foxing to end papers, else fine in very good dj. Dj has fraying and a 1 inch chip to the bottom front panel.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Very Good. 8vo..

Near Fine, unread book with light push at bottom of spine and age toning around edges of front and back end pages, a flaw that is common with this title, in a Near Fine jacket with slight edge wear and light vertical rubs. A bookplate signed by Barr is laid-in. Barr's first Anna Pigeon mystery, set in Big Bend National Park. This title won the 1993 Agatha Award and the 1994 Anthony Award.

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990. Book. Very Good+. Hard Cover with Dustjacket. Signed by Author(s). First American Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover with dustjacket : very good plus / very good plus. Book: lower front corner of binding is lightly bumped; slight musty smell. Jacket in new mylar protector; slight wrinkling to tail of spine; jacket flaps a little toned. Flat signed on title page by Gardner..

703 ChristieBrownSuit The Man In The Brown Suit. By Agatha Christie. Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd., London, 1958, Stated Fourth Impression Thus,1970. ISBN 0370006720. Please see our stock photos. EXLIB. Good Condition/Good Original Shakel & Ryder Dust Jacket with Yellow spine, black titling, woman and ship cover art. Protected in mylar wrap. "States new and redesigned Edition, Fourth Impression, 80p. Blue boards with black titling. Our book spine has skinned spot at the word "brown" from removal of scotch tape. Plot Summary: Who is he, the man in the brown suit? He says he is a doctor; but Anne Beddingfield, who witnesses the fatal accident at a London tube station, is quick to notice some curious features about him when he comes to the scene. Her investigation of the accident leads her into the thick of mystery. This novel is more than an ingenious puzzle: It is a gripping suspense story."