Search Results: Middle East from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1951. 1st printing. Vintage paperback. Reading crease, a few creases at lower corner, light wear, else a very good tight copy. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed. Cover painting by Robert Stanley. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good. Illus. by Stanley, Robert (cover). Vintage Paperback.

Dallas, TX, U.S.A.: Durban House Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2002. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. Set in the world of professional tennis and rooted in ancient middle East, BASHA is charged with the fiercly competitive nature of professional sports and the dangers of terrorism.. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback.

N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1960. 1st American Edition, Fine copy in dust jacket, not price clipped, ($3.95 price intact), with protective mylar cover. A sweeping adventure set in the Arabian Desert, where the shadow of British colonialism threatens to destroy a father and son. Three years ago, nineteen-year-old David Thomas beat his father to death. Actually, David only punched the old man, but it was hard enough to cause him to have a fatal stroke. And the man wasn’t really David’s father at all: The fight started because David learned that his true father was Col. Charles Stanley Whitaker, a legendary figure who made his fortune in the oil fields of the Arabian Desert. With the help of George Grant, a lawyer he’d just met, David escaped the police and set out to find his real father. But like so many travelers before him, he was swallowed by the desert and never seen again . . . Now, Grant is working for Colonel Whitaker, helping him negotiate the tangled politics of the turbulent… Read More

Sag Harbor, New York, U.S.A.: The Permanent Press, 1985. 1st ed. A few pinpricks at front else about fine in lightly used dust jacket. Paul MacGregor, CEO of a huge Florida conglomerate, and Sam Goldman, a Mossad trouble shooter, enlist the aid of Owen Hunter, a Canadian with a mysterious past, to defuse a Libyan plot against Israel. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Book.

Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.: Poisoned Pen Press, 2001. 1st prtg. Trade paperback of this first entry in the fine Historical series set in Egypt of 1908. #38 in the Missing Mystery series published by Poison Pen. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/Fine. Trade Paperback.

N.Y.: Ives Washburn Inc, 1965. 1st American edition, so stated.. Very light wear to edges, orange boards with black lettering, about fine in lightly rubbed dust jackey, unclipped, $3.95 price intact, , in protective mylar cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY, NY: Villard Books, 1988. 1st. Ed. [[ A Villard imprint of Random House Co. Number line thus ends in "2" for the first printing.] . DJ shows minimal shelf wear. INSCRIBED and DATED by author.. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Macmillian, 1985. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, Publishers, 2002. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Inspector Chafik J. Chafik of the Baghdad Police Force was the creation of Charles B. Child (1903-1993), was the pseudonym of British author Claude Vernon Frost. Beginning in 1947, the Chafik stories were some of the most popular features in Collier’s Magazine, and many were reprinted in the annual Best Detective Stories of the Year. The stories about Chafik, his wife Leila, and his adopted son Faisal whom he found on the streets of Baghdad are superlatively constructed exercises in detection, but they have a more subtle level. They are also explorations of a culture and a time and place. The stories begin when the British still influenced Iraqi politics, and continue through the period of the monarchy and the country’s attempts to identify its place in the world. This hardcover is done in a very small print run.. (appx 200 copies). 15 short stories. This is the third volume in the publisher's… Read More

Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Dble, 1932. 1st ed. very light wear at edges else near fine copy, in home-made, clear, acetate dust jacket. The book is tight and square in black cloth covered boards with yellow stamped decoration and printing to the spine and front board. Oriental adventure novel set against background of Middle East slave traffic and other nefarious activities of international gang of criminals lead by evil Chinese mastermind. Considered by some to be among Rohmer's best novels. (Bleiler, Hubin ). First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Book.

NY, NY: Dutton, 1974. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Middle East dignataries are being assassinated, and the trail leads to San Francisco. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.