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Used paperback book with slight creasing along the spine along with small tears at the base of the spine. There is a crease where the front cover meets the spine and a small bend on the back cover (please see photos). No writing, notes, or highlighting interferes with the text but the pages are slightly yellowed from age. The binding is ok but there are some loose pages at the front of the book. The text is perfectly readable.
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Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey: Graphic Publications, 1955. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scratched and scuffed, spine is creased, pages are toning, overall a clean first Graphic edition! 189 unmarked and uncreased, suspense-filled and mystery-riddled pages! "I was with you for six hours last night, but I can't remember what you look like, or what you wore ---- except for that large orange hat. We sat shoulder to shoulder at a little bar in the east Fifties. We ate dinner together, saw a Broadway show together, shared a cab together. The bartender, the waiter, the usher, the cab driver ---- none of them remembers you. The police say I was home strangling my wife at the moment I met you. You are the only one who can prove my story. But I don't know your name, or where you live. And I can't search for you, from a jail cell.". First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

pocket book, , (first PB 1944), . 253, , Reading Copy, ,poor, hardboiled mystery, , paperback,

Graphic 1st Paperback #108 CONDITION: vg+.

graphic book, , (Reprints Pocket 253), . 108, , very good , faint creases, rubbing, hardboiled mystery, , paperback,

Lippincott, 1945. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Toronto, Canada: Graphic Books, 1955. A creased spine with edge rubbings. No store stamp.. 1st Printing. Paperback. Very Good.

New York: Dell, 1957. ....Dell # D-207, 255 clean pages, tight square and clean, no names or store stamps, corner crease front top right, minor bump front top left, faint rubbing, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo!. First Pinting . Paperback. Very Good.

Detective Book Club. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Hardcover edition. (mystery fiction, detective and mystery fiction ) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1944. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Octavo, 471 pages. Book club edition. Light blue boards with darker blue lettering. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book and dust jacket with minor wear and light sunning on spine, with jacket encased in a clear protective cover.

New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1944]. First paperback edition. A fine copy, small rub to upper front left corner, slight color fade to spine, appears unread. (12053). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Pocket #253.

Four near fine titles in Collier's Front Page Mysteries series. No internal markings. Mild rubbing to boards and minor bumps to corners, otherwise fine condition. A handsome set of mid-20th century murder and crime novels.
Zenith Jones Brown was a prolific mystery author writing under a number of psudonyms including Leslie Ford. Her title, Murder in the P.M. is one of 14 Mrs. Latham and Col. Primrose novels. Cornell Woolrich was another prolific writer of crime and detective fiction which he published under many names, The Phantom Lady, being the first published under the pseudonym William Irish. Many of his stories were made into films including his, It Had to be Murder, which Alfred Hitchcock filmed as Rear Window. Husband and wife team Frances and Richard Lockridge, co-presidents of the Mystery Writers of America were the creators of the acclaimed Mr. and Mrs. North series of books along with the Lt. Heimrich, Nathan Shapiro, and Paul Lane series, totaling more than 60 novels. Rex Stout, a… Read More

Paris: Fournier-Valdes, [1948]. First French edition. Brown wrappers with a colorful dust wrapper. The book is near fine, the dust wrapper is very good, some tape repair to verso, some rubbing and creasing, chip to head of spine panel, slight chipping along bottom edge. (12063). Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Softcover. First French edition of The Phantom Lady.

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1944. Dialogue and Continuity for the 1944 film. Based on the 1942 novel by Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym William Irish. A man is arrested for murdering his wife, only he was not home at the time of the murder, but no one will confirm his alibi. His secretary, who is secretly in love with him, attempts to prove his innocence. Robert Siodmak's first Hollywood noir. The first film produced by Joan Harrison, a former Oscar-nominated screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock ("Rebecca," "Foreign Correspondent") and Universal's first woman executive. Set in Manhattan, New York. White titled self-wrappers, noted as Dialogue Continuity on the front wrapper, production No. 1346, dated January 5, 1944, with credits for director Robert Siodmak. Approximately 110 leaves, with last page of text numbered 13. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with a small closed tear at the top edge, bound with two gold brads along the top… Read More

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1944. Vintage photograph of the Tower reader's edition of Cornell Woolrich's crime novel, written under the pseudonym William Irish, made as publicity the 1944 film adaptation. Robert Siodmak's first Hollywood noir, and one of the finest in the canon. Based on Cornell Woolrich's first novel, written in 1942, about a secretary who searches for the titular lady to clear her boss' name before he is executed for murdering his wife. The first film produced by Joan Harrison, a former Oscar nominated screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock ("Rebecca," "Foreign Correspondent") and Universal's first female executive. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US.

Collier, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good++/No DJ - As issued. 6 Volume Hardcover Set, Uniform Binding P.F. Collier & Sons. 1942 and 1943. Stated Sixth Series. All six volumes are Very Good++. Just a whisper of shelf/edge wear to Black cloth boards with red square panels/gilt titles on the spine and embossed murder weapons on the front covers (handguns, knives, swords, rifles, etc) - corners sharp. Endpapers are clean with no toning. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and unmarked with no toning. Only flaw is a touch of foxing to the textblock edges on the outside. This is another fine example of uniform binding with a touch of panache from P.F. Collier & Sons. Titles are: Black Orchids by Rex Stout, 1942 - 271 pages, Phantom Lady by William Irish, 1942 - 291 pages, A Corpse By Any Other Name byR.A.J. Walling, 1943 - 283 pages, The Case Of The Drowning Duck by Erle Stanley Gardner, 1942 - 284 pages, Siren In The Night by Leslie Ford, 1943 - 241 pages and Death On The Aisle by… Read More