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NY: Dutton, 1994. 1st ed.Page edges soiled, spine slant esle very good in near fine dust jacket.. With the passing of Ted an interesting item to add to any collection. A million-dollar baseball card collection is stolen and Bernie is framed for the heist.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine.

NY: Dutton, 1994. 1st ed. Fine in dj. With the passing of Ted an interesting item to add to any collection. A million-dollar baseball card collection is stolen and Bernie is framed for the heist.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Dutton 1994 1st ed. Fine in dj, SIGNED COPY. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York and Chicago: A.L. Burt Company, 1933. 1st thus [1933]. Near fine except for some spotting at rear cover. Dust Jacket is about fine with some light rubbing , shallow loss at top of spine end and flap corners. Jacket by Politzer. The character The Lone Wolf was a popular crime figure in theaters from 1917 to 1949, and was featured in at least twenty-four films. The character was initially developed by Vance in his 1914 novel of the same name. . First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-Near Fine. Illus. by Politzer. Book.

N.Y: Putnam, 1990. 1st ed., near fine in dj. Chicago. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Putnam, 1990. 1st ed.,with complete number line beginning with 1, Near fine in protective mylar dust jacket cover. SIGNED COPY, signed by Izzi at title page. Successful thief Frank Vale, aka the Iceman, awaits his younger brother Jimmy's return from nine years in state prison. The prison-based White Aryan Brotherhood wants to use Jimmy to get Frank to help rub out mob chief Mad Mike Tile, grown soft and a bit crazy with drugs and girls. The Police Reconnaissance and Intelligence for Crime Control (or PRICC) is after a piece of Frank's action. And Frank is seriously considering going straight for the sake of lawyer/child-advocate Tina. A would-be Mafia boss has plans to kill Frank and Jimmy after they off Mad Mike, and the Feds are working undercover to nab the corrupt PRICCs. Chicago. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: A.L. Burt Company, 1938. First Photoplay Edition, circa 1925. Red cloth, white lettering. Bottom edges heavily worn, covers lightly rubbed, small nick at spine head. Pages uniformally age-toned, in dust jacket, lighly soiled at spine else near fine. Illustrations by R.F. Schabelitz. 315 pg. The first title in the Lone Wolf mystery series about Michael Lanyard, a jewel thief turned private detective. One rainy winter night, an orphan is abandoned to the care of a shabby Parisian inn called Troyon's. For the next eleven years, the boy is up before dawn to clean and fetch and serve, his only respite the closet to which he retires at night and the books he pilfers from the hotel's guests. A few francs here and there also find their way into his pockets, but not so much that anyone would notice--anyone, that is, except Bourke, the cultivated Irish thief who regularly hides out at Troyon's. Caught red-handed, the amateur outwits the professional. Turn me over to the innkeepers, he says, and I'll go to… Read More

London: Allison & Busby, 1987. 1st hardcover edition. (Originally published as a paperback original in the U.S. in 1963 by Pocket Books.) Fine in dust jacket, very lightly rubbed, page edges lighly tanned, price clipped. A Parker title. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Soho Crime, 2012. 1st ed. A fine copy of the Advance Uncopyeditied Edition. Wyatt, the cool, ever-evasive thief, snatches the cash easily enough. He bypasses the alarm system, eludes the cops, makes it safely back to his hideout in Hobart. It's the diamond-studded Tiffany brooch--and perhaps the girl--that undoes him. Now some very hard people want to put Wyatt and that brooch out of circulation. But this is Wyatt's game and Wyatt sets the rules--even if it means a reckoning somewhere far from home. In a murky world where the cops are robbers, old-style criminal Wyatt positively shines.. 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Advance Uncorrected Proof.

NY: Scribner, 2004. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover.. Author's third novel. A HAMMETT AWARD NOMINEE. The men wear masks. Their guns are drawn on the bank manager. She nervously recites the alarm code, and the tumblers within the huge vault fall. The timing and execution are brilliant. It could be the perfect heist. But as the huge sum of cash is stolen, so too is one man's heart -- and that man is the Prince of Thieves. Charlestown, a blue-collar Boston neighborhood, produces more bank robbers and armored car thieves than any square mile in the world. In this gripping, intricately plotted thriller, Claire Keesey, the branch manager for a Boston bank and one of an influx of young professionals chipping away at the neighborhood's insularity, is taken hostage during a robbery. She is released, but Doug MacRay, the brains behind the tough, tight-knit crew of thieves, can't get her out of his… Read More

N.Y.: Soho Crime, 2011. 1st US edition, August 2011. Advance Uncopyedited Edition, cover has some lighht marrkings but a near fine, unread copy. Garry Disher's cool, enigmatic anti-hero Wyatt has a job--a jewel heist. The kind Wyatt likes. Nothing extravagant, nothing greedy. Stake out the international courier, one Alain Le Page, hold up the goods in transit and get away fast. Wyatt prefers to work alone, but this is Eddie Oberin's job. Eddie's very smart ex-wife Lydia has the inside information. Add Wyatt's planning genius and meticulous preparation, and what could possibly go wrong? Plenty. And when you wrong Wyatt, you don't get to just walk away.. 1st American Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. Trade Paperback.

Boston: MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. 1st ed. Near fine in dj very lightly rubbed. Inspector Raven. Zaleski is a middle-aged philanderer determined to retrieve the Virgin's Dowry, a jeweled monstrance worth £500,000, which has reappeared for display in an art gallery in Conduit Street in London. This ageing Polish patriot carries out the crime but in doing so becomes the target for Detective Inspector John Raven of the CID - one of the most ruthless and capable policemen on the force. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.