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N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1985. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in very good dust jacket rubbed at edges, light wear at spine head and foot. A Nameless Detective mystery. thirty-five years ago, Harmon Crane, king of the classic pulp writers, took his own life in his locked study. Nameless is hired by his son to find out why. Unconvinced that his efforts will unearth any new answers, Nameless still can't resist the chance to delve in his favorite world, that of pulp fiction and its creators.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

Minneapolis: MN: Fedogan & Bremer, 2000. In conjunction with Cave's 90th birthday F&B has published this collection of his hard-boiled Peter Kane detective stories. Cave's wry (or is it rye?) twist was to make Kane a pie-eyed private eye, who solved crimes at a staggering pace while fighting hangovers and hoodlums alike. Kane, the ace detective of the Beacon Agency, appeared in a popular series of nine adventures, written between 1934 and 1942 and appeared in "Dime Detective". His plots often bordered on weird menance fiction. One of only one thousand copies of the trade edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Jill Bauman.

Bowling Green: Ohio: Popular Press, 1986. 1st prtg. A fine copy of this oversize trade paperback. Ten stories from the popular pulp "Ten Detective Aces". the detectives that appeared during the height of the magazine, that period from 1932 to 1936, were Hard-boiled, Avengers or a mixture of the two-- a tribute to "Black Mask" and the first great avenger, The Shadow. Includes Norvell Page, G.T. Fleming-Roberts, Emile c. Tepperman ...Illustrated. 180 pages.. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback.

N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 2006. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Harkening back to the golden age of the pulp novel, debut novelist Paul Malmont has created a breathtaking, heartpounding, astounding, spectacular, and completely out-of-this-world adventure. During the Great Depression that plagued the U.S., Americans across the country turned to two men for relief - Walter Gibson and Lester Dent. The former was the man behind The Shadow, the latter created Doc Savage. These two men will soon find themselves caught up in an adventure that even they couldn't have imagined. After the mysterious murder of H.P. Lovecraft, Dent and Gibson team up with young pulp writer L. Ron Hubbard and embark on a heroic journey to save the planet, from the palaces and battlefields of warlord-plagued China to the seedy waterfronts of Providence, Rhode Island. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book.

Brooklyn, NY: Gryphon Books, 2001. 1st edition, January 2001, so stated. Gryphon DoubleNovel #23. Cover Illustrations by Alfred Klosterman Digest size, stiff cardboard covers, Two Paperback Original stories featuring the Masked Avenger. 110 pps.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Illus. by Klosterman, Alfred. Digest. Trade Paperback.

Brooklyn, NY: Gryphon Books, 2001. 1st edition, January 2001, so stated. Gryphon DoubleNovel #23. Cover Illustrations by Alfred Klosterman Digest size, stiff cardboard covers, Two Paperback Original stories featuring the Masked Avenger. 110 pps.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Illus. by Klosterman, Alfred. Trade Paperback.

Minneapolis: MN: Fedogan & Bremer, 2000. Wandrei's Frost stalks a territory that is somewhere between the gaslight world of the Victorian consulting Detective and the flickering neon darkness of film Noir, he is part analytical rationalist, part Angel of Death. Like someone took Sherlock Holmes, armed him to the teeth, and turned him loose on the Mean Streets of Philip Marlowe. A special note should be made of his too-good-looking assistant, Jean Moray, young, quick-witted, fast-driving, and fearless-- she was no helpless damsel. Introduction by D.H. Olsen, limited to only thirteen hundred and fifty copies of the trade edition; 8 stories; 306 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Les Edwards.

N.Y.: Non Pareil Publishing Corp, , 1955. 1st edition. Vintage Digest Magazine. Some very minor soiling to edges, pages lightly tanned, one small letter "s" at front, tiny nick at upper front corner, else a near fine, tight copy. Includes complete novel "The Frigid Flame" by Richard Matheson; feature novelette "Las Vegas Trap" by William R. Cox; and short stories: "Scared Money" by John D. MacDonald; "Fever Street" by Bryce Walton; "Teen-Age Casanova" by Gil Brewer; "Double or Nothing" by John Bender; "The Rat Game" by Philip Weck. All Vintage Paperbacks / Digests 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.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Uncredited. Digest.

Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, Publishers, 2002. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Limited to 200 hardcover copies. The second volume in Crippen & Landru's Lost Classic Series. This new collection of Rice, known at "the Mistress of the Screwball Mystery" is the first to appear since her death in 1957. Rice's biographer, Jeffrey A. Marks, has chosen and written an introduction and a new prefaces to each story. Most of the stories feature her famous detective John J. Malone, though there are two rare ones featuring her lesser known sleuth, Melville Fairr. Twelve stories. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Limited Edition.

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1984. 1st edition. Fine copy as issued without dustjacket in fine slipcase. Collects two Shadow novels first published in 1939 in the pulps: 'The Golden Master' and 'Shiwan Kahn and the Master of Oriental Nemesis'. LIMITED EDITION: 250 numbered copies signed by the author (SIGNED twice, both as himself and ''Maxwell Grant''). This is LETTERED EDITION. Included with the limitation page for the numbered copy there is an additional Lettered edition page (Letter "J") and SIGNED twice again both as himself and ''Maxwell Grant''. So there are a total of four signatures on two seperate limitation pages.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine. Limited Edition.

Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.: Gryphon Books, 1987. 1st ed. Ltd to 500 copies, digest size wraps.A fine, unread copy. INSCRIBED at title page to me! by Murray. Since his death, Lester Dent has lived on in reprints and new stories discovered and marketed by his literary agent, Will Murray. All 3 Lynn Lash stories together for the first time. They are among Dent's best pre-Doc Savage work, Cover art and interior drawings by Ronald Wilber. This story collection contains: Lester Dent and Lynn Lash: An Introduction by Will Murray; The Sinister Ray; The Mummy Murders; and The Flame Horror. 175 pages.. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine.