Search Results: the hidden hand by daly carroll john

New York: HarperCollins, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. About Fine/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. glossy illustrated wraps. About Fine w/toned but supple and unmarked pages. The First Race Williams mystery. 260pp, originally serialized over 6 issues of Black Mask magazine.

HarperCollins, January 1992. Trade Paperback. Used - very good.

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Harpercollins. Very Good. 1992. Trade Paperback. 0060974362 Pages are clean and tight. The insides of both covers are slightly "tanned" at the edges. The lettering on the spine is bold and of display quality. .

Paperback. Acceptable.

New York: Harper Perennial, 1992. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing thus. Near fine

New York: HarperPerennial, 1992. Trade paperback, 260 pages; very clean and unmarked unread condition. . First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Fine.

New York: Harperperennial, 1992. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition by this publisher. Trade paperback. Light bumps to the rear corners else fine in pictorial wrappers.

harper perennial, 1992 first edition . fine trade paperback

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: HarperPerennial , 1992. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. First edition thus. Fine trade paperback copy of a Race Williams crime novel, originally serialized in Black Mask magazine. Appears unread. Clean, square, tight, no marks, tears, or creases. A lovely copy.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 319pp. Orange cloth. Cover and binding are clean and sound, a few foredges are lightly chipped, illustrated dust jacket is chipped along edges and creased, and moderately soiled. Daly was among the earliest of the "hard-boiled" fiction writers.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

NY: Grosset & Dunlap. VG-. (1929). Reissue. Hardcover. Grosset & Dunlap edition bound in green cloth with black blocking. 12m o size, 319pp+ad at rear. A VG- copy in a Good dust jacket. The cloth covers have moderate dust and hand soiling. The corners and and tips a re rubbed. The endpapers are lightly tanned. Clean text and tight hing es .The dust jacket has a couple of pieces of archival tape repair and reinforcement on the verso. Chipping to the spine tips and corners, t he edges of the rear panel and rubbing along the front fold. Race Will iams Detective novel. .

New York: Edward J. Clode, Inc., [1929]. First edition. Inscription in pencil and small bookseller label to front free end paper, light foxing throughout, rear hinge starting, lettering flaking to front cover, perished on spine, covers rubbing, a good copy. (22376). Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-vii 9-319 [320: blank], original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in gold, top stained dark blue. An episodic novel first published in Black Mask, featuring Race Williams. Race is on the trail of a crime organization headed by "The Hidden Hand," a super criminal. Hubin, pp. 210-211.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1929). Reprint. Hardcover. [nice clean copy, a touch of wear to lower extremities, spine very slightly turned; jacket shows some wear along top and bottom edges, with various small nicks and tiny chips, front panel a bit scuffed/rubbed]. Hard-boiled detective fiction by one of its earliest (and hardest-boiled) practicioners, featuring his most famous protagonist, private dick Race Williams, who could probably knock Sam Spade's teeth out with one hand tied behind his back. (Nah, on second thought, he'd probably just shoot him -- but with a clear conscience. "I never bumped a guy off who didn't need it," Race once declared.) The second of Daly's eight Race Williams novels, it was originally published serially in Black Mask magazine. .

HarperCollins, 1992-05-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

New York: Edward J. Clode, 1929. Very Good +. New York: Edward J. Clode, 1929. No edition designation by publisher. Octavo; publisher's brown cloth, front cover and spine lettered in gilt, black topstain; viii,9-319pp. Light wear to extremities, contemporary bookseller ticket to rear pastedown, else a Very Good to Near Fine, still quite brilliant, copy. Early mystery novel by the creator of Detective "Satan" Hall.

Pages 319 pp.8vo. Rust colored cloth. 1st edition. Daly is attributed as the author of the first "hard-boiled" detective story. This book features Race Williams, the archetypical hard-boiled private eye. Lacks dust jacket. Spine lettering faded. Some minor wear to extremities else very good. Scarce.