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The Pantomime Man by MIDDLETON, Richard (1882-1911) - 1933
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The Pantomime Man
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Grosset & Dunlap NY, 1941. .Internally Illustrated By F. E. Warren in B/W. HBDJ, 1941, 1st EditIon, VG/VG, AS-IS, Inner Flap DJ lISts thru this Title, DJ light Wear, FADE to Spine, tiny Tears , Tiny Chips Extremities, Back DJ light FOX, Creases & tiny Mended Tears, Orange Illustrated Cloth with Design Black Camera & Titles on Front, Interior Nice tight Clean light FOX, Wear, 214 pgs ,NO ADS in Back . small stains outer pages edges, Interior Nice tight Clean light FOX, WeaR, PublishErs Blue Stain top outer Pages Edge, DJ Spine Ends Tiny chips. Jimmies Candid Camera helps him gather clues & Evidence in thrilling Detective Case with his Friend, Tom Howe, Mystery . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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White Face
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Garden City, NY: The Crime Club / Doubleday, 1931. First US Edition. Hardcover. 290pp. Black cloth stamped in red on cover and spine, top edge stained red. Cloth is lightly rubbed. A near fine copy in spectacular, near fine dustjacket with a faint vertical crease and two tiny, closed tears on the rear panel. In Hubin, 1994, p. 835. ; Octavo.
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The Squealer
by Wallace, Edgar
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1928. First US Edition. Hardcover. Originally published in Great Britain as The Squeaker. Black cloth stamped in red on cover and spine. A few faint spots to boards although the cloth remains bright, small stain to fore edge barely affecting last few pages. A very good+ copy in good dustjacket with a darkened spine panel, chipping and tears to edges and a stain to rear panel. ; Octavo.
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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
by [Willard Huntington Wright, writing as:] VAN DINE, S. S. (1888-1939)
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Very Good+. First Printing (with "A" and publisher's seal on copyright page). 8vo: 227,[7]pp. Publisher's canary yellow cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in black,fore-edge untrimmed, typographic dust jacket priced $2. A Near Fine or better copy, cloth clean and bright, offsetting to end papers page edges lightly toned; in a better than Very Good jacket, rubbed along edges with miniscule losses. Detective Fiction, pp. 290-92. The penultimate Philo Vance mystery, intended as a Hollywood scenario, filmed in 1939 film with Gracie Allen, Warren William, and Ellen Drew. According to Haycraft, "two factors contributed principally to the success of the Van Dine books: the great literacy with which they were written . . . and a high degree of verisimilitude, so carefully worked out in every detail that in the early years numerous uncritical readers thought the cases had really occurred . . . In a few short years, [S. S. Van…
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New York: New York: Harcourt Braceand Company, 1930, 1930 Very Good/Very Good. First Edition Second Printing. History. 296 pgs, sequil to "Condemned to Devil's Island" in very scarce red-black deco art Grosset Dunlap dust jacket which has portait of author on rear and ads inside. slight wear.. First Edition Second Printing.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
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Grosset & Dunlap NY, 1941. .Internally Illustrated By F. E. Warren in B/W. HBDJ, 1941, 1st EditIon, VG/VG, AS-IS, Inner Flap DJ lISts thru this Title, DJ light Wear, FADE to Spine, tiny Tears , Tiny Chips Extremities, Back DJ light FOX, Creases & tiny Mended Tears, Orange Illustrated Cloth with Design Black Camera & Titles on Front, Interior Nice tight Clean light FOX, Wear, 214 pgs ,NO ADS in Back . small stains outer pages edges, Interior Nice tight Clean light FOX, WeaR, PublishErs Blue Stain top outer Pages Edge, DJ Spine Ends Tiny chips. Jimmies Candid Camera helps him gather clues & Evidence in thrilling Detective Case with his Friend, Tom Howe, Mystery . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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White Face
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Garden City, NY: The Crime Club / Doubleday, 1931. First US Edition. Hardcover. 290pp. Black cloth stamped in red on cover and spine, top edge stained red. Cloth is lightly rubbed. A near fine copy in spectacular, near fine dustjacket with a faint vertical crease and two tiny, closed tears on the rear panel. In Hubin, 1994, p. 835. ; Octavo.
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The Squealer
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1928. First US Edition. Hardcover. Originally published in Great Britain as The Squeaker. Black cloth stamped in red on cover and spine. A few faint spots to boards although the cloth remains bright, small stain to fore edge barely affecting last few pages. A very good+ copy in good dustjacket with a darkened spine panel, chipping and tears to edges and a stain to rear panel. ; Octavo.
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The Second Chandler Omnibus.
by Chandler, Raymond.
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London:: Hamish Hamilton,, 1962.. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Very Good Plus copy with owner's name and two small brown spots on flyleaf in a Near Fine, unclipped dj with a touch of soiling to the rear panel of the jacket and a closed edge tear. Contains: The Little Sister, The Long Good-bye, and Playback. With an introduction from Chandler's essay, The Simple Art of Murder.
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The Mystery of the Blue Train
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New York: Pocket Book edition, 1966, 20th printing. Pocket Book 50447. Vintage pulp fiction paperback, x, [2], 194pp., advert., cover price 50 cents.. Very Good Condition with bright cover page. Slight cover and spine creasing. There are bumped corners, and signs of shelf wear, top right corner of cover with slight crease and lower edges of cover worn. Pages are unmarked. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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Godshot (SIGNED) (FIRST)
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2020 - 1st ed ("1" in number line) - SIGNED by author on the title page - "Godshot is the kind of book you find yourself thinking about incessantly." - Kristen Arnett - book: near fine - dj: near fine - dj in protective mylar sleeve"Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen–year–old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret "assignments," to bring the rain everybody is praying for.Lacey has no reason to doubt the pastor. But then her life explodes in a single unimaginable act of abandonment: her mother, exiled from the community for her sins, leaves Lacey and runs off with a man she barely knows. Abandoned and distraught, Lacey May moves in with her widowed grandma, Cherry, who is more concerned with…
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Kill Petrosino!
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London: Arthur Barker Ltd. 1st Edition, 1975 ----------hardcover, with dust jacket. The book, in black boards with orange lettering and design to the spine, is an unblemished near fine copy. The unclipped jacket has light wear to the front panel top edge and spine extremities, and is almost near fine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Note: our prices on Biblio are the LOWEST of any of the sites on which we list our books.
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Dolores Claiborne
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First Edition. (1993) Hardcover with d.j. Fine with near fine dust jacket. D.J. has slight curl on top edge and light rubbing on back. No worn edges. Tight binding with clean, sharp pages. No markings. 305 pages. Dolores Claiborne is a psychological thriller novel. The novel is narrated by the title character. Atypically for a King novel, it has no chapters, double-spacing between paragraphs, or other section breaks; thus the text is a single continuous narrative which reads like the transcription of a spoken monologue. This book is dedicated to King's mother: "For my mother, Ruth Pillsbury King."
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Pearson, Ridley (as Reardon, Joyce) | Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, The | Signed First Edition Copy
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Hyperion, 2001. hardcover. New. Author Signed Hardcover Book. 2001 NY: Hyperion First edition, first printing, fine, no dust jacket as issued, signed by the author. This is a collectible book free from material defects. Jacket covering services are available for a small fee.
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The Seven Dials Mystery (Midnight Mysteries) 1944 Books, Inc. Stated 1st. Pr. Thus) RARE IN THIS EDITION. By Agatha Christie. USED. Good-/ No DJ. Black boards, gold titling on spine. Light pop bottle rings mar front board. Original copyright by Dodd, Mead 1929. Loose last gather has been neatly taped in. A clean copy. Summary: "When Gerald Wade died, apparently from an overdose of sleeping draught seven clocks appeared on the mantelpiece. Who put them there and had they any connection with the night club in Seven Dials? This is the mystery that Bill Eversleigh and Bundle and two other young people set out to investigate...".
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Murder for Christmas (A Midnite Mystery)
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Murder for Christmas, a Poirot Story by Agatha Christie (1944 Midnite Mystery) COPYRIGHT BY AGATHA CHRISTIE MALLOWAN: "It is Christmas Eve, and elderly Simeon Lee is found violently murdered in his locked office. The police are immediately called, but of course nobody has a clue until Hercule Poirot arrives..." USED. 1944 Books inc. Midnite Mystery. Copyright 1938 - 1939 Agatha Christie Mallowan. Good+/ No DJ. Black boards with gold titling on spine. Titles gilting is still nice Scarce.
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A Is For Alibi
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1982. Fine. Book Club Edition. Hardcover and dust jacket. D.j. is near fine with slight wear on top binding edge. Inside flap d.j has slight creases. Cover is smooth, unblemished, no tears, nicks or worn corners. Hardcover, as new, black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Tight binding, sharp, clean pages. No markings. (Actual photo) A flawless copy. 208 pages. "A" Is for Alibi is crime writer Sue Grafton's first mystery novel in the Kinsey Millhone "Alphabet mystery" series, first published in 1982.
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Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) G&D Hardcover w/DJ 1945
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Christie, Agatha: Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) 1945 HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET. Unabridged. Please see our stock photo. Used. VG/Fair unclipped DJ. 209 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 ¾. A COLONEL RACE MYSTERY.
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A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
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Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."
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