Vanity Dies Hard by Rendell, Ruth - 1966

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 253pp. Burgundy cloth lettered in red on the spine. 1957 Edgar Award winner for best novel. Previous owner's name in pencil on the front free endpaper, barely a hint of wear to the lower edges. A bright, fine copy in very good dustjacket with mild wear to the edges, tiny chip and light fading to the spine panel. Dustjacket illustration by Rus Anderson. ; Octavo.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1868. First US Edition. Hardcover. 223pp. Brown cloth stamped in blind on the front and in gold on the spine. Illustrated with wood engravings. A few speckles to front panel, small spot to bottom edge, previous owner's name in pencil on front pastedown endpaper, mild toning and soiling to text block. A solid very good copy. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. In Hubin, 1994, p. 180. ; Octavo.

First edition 1st printing. A Mystery Introducing Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Fine minus, unread book with just a touch of shelf wear bottom edges and a small, light sopt of binding glue near spine top edges; in a Near Fine jacket that has light rubbing, and a very slight scratch on front panel that can just be seen from certain angles. Beautiful copy of Cornwell's first mystery that has been fully and legibly signed, with middle initial, on the title page.

NY: Morrow, 1932. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Author's scarce first book. Published NY: William Morrow Company, 1932, first printing. 8vo., 266pp., purple cloth with yellow titles. Spine and cover edges sunned, pastedowns and a few pages have mild foxing, else clean and bright. Very good. Only eight copies in WorldCat. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

London: John Murray, 1929. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 1202 pages; VG/VG; spine white with black and red lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, mild wear; top edge of text bock red; price on front cover of 'net 7/6'; with small leaflet advertising the third large printing of 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories' loose within, also mentioned on the rear cover; age-toning to pages; incredibly scarce, especially with dust jacket; shelved case 6. 1308077. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Ultramarine Press, 1988. First. Hardbound. a fine bright as issued. here offered is copy letter "E". one of 10 lettered copies signed by Willeford and finely bound in full leather by Denis Gouey. 245 pp.

The original, signed painting by Thorpe for the dust jacket of the trade edition – painting is framed and matted (black frame measures approximately 16 x 12 inches). This art had to be redone at the last possible moment because an editor at Harper decided that the jacket design must include a scene from Washington D.C. The mystery leads Leaphorn and Chee to leave the reservation and investigate in Washington – an unusual twist in the Hillerman mysteries, since the action seldom shifts far from the Navajo Reservation. The plot twist is what led to the decision to redo the jacket art. This painting is the original art, which appeared only on the Advanced Reading Copy of the book, and related early publisher's promotions for the title. There were also a number of proofs of the original jacket.
A number of related items are included with the painting: a Fine, unread copy of the ARC in color wraps, to which Thorpe has added signed art to the half-title page; a front panel of one of an original proof… Read More

Collectors lettered limited edition – this is copy "B" of 26 such books. A Fine, unread book bound in simulated brown leather that has been crafted so that lettering and designs appear to have been hand-tooled to the leather; book is housed in a Fine, matching clamshell box. The over-size book is a beautiful production (box measures 11 ½ by 9 by 2 ½ inches). In addition to the Introduction and Afterword, content includes: All titles of the Arapaho Ten Commandments series; ten other short stories, and two essays. Parks has provided 66 illustrations (many of these are the same as appeared in the Ten Commandments Series. The original drawing for the third illustration ("You are my younger sister, she said") is mounted inside the box, opposite the book. All three authors and Parks have signed on the limitation page. The A.S.A.P. hardcover with jacket and the lettered editions are the true first printing
of this collection – there was a Berkley trade paperback edition in 2013. The trues firsts are… Read More

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1929. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1929, first printing. 8vo., 253pp. Bright orange cloth with black titles. Very scarce second mystery novel by the author of Scarface. Light fray to the cloth at the lower spine end, gentle rub at the lower tips, else fine, clean, bright, unmarked, binding square and tight in good, internally repaired dust jacket missing the front inner flap. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Good. 8vo.

First edition, first printing of the thirteenth novel in the "Longmire" series. SIGNED by Johnson, Robert Taylor (Sheriff Longmire), A. Martinez (Jacob Nighthorse) Bailey Chase (Branch Connally) Katee Sackhoff (Vic Moretti) and Lou Diamond Phillips (Henry Standing Bear) on the title page. Johnson, Taylor, Martinez and Chase all signed the book at various Tucson University Book Fairs. Sackhoff signed the book at Fan Expo, Toronto in 2022. Lou Diamond Phillips signed the book at the 2023 Steel Con in Monroe Pittsburgh. In fine / fine condition.