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DEADLY WELCOME
by MacDonald, John D
[New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1959]. First edition. A fine unread copy with a few stress creases to upper front cover. (12422). Small octavo, cover painting by Robert McGinnis, pictorial wrappers. Dell #B127. Paperback original. First published in Cosmopolitan magazine in a shorter version as "Ultimate Surprise."
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A$118.21
SONS OF SAM SPADE: THE PRIVATE NOVEL IN THE SEVENTIES
by Geherin, David
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Frederick Ungar A Book, 1982. 2nd printing. Light soiling else a near fine copy of the trade paperback. The private eye novel of the 70's. Takes a look at Robert B. Parker, Roger L. Simon and Andrew Bergman. Part of Ungar's Recognition series. Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Lew Archer-- self-reliant, cynical, dedicated to their clients. Now only Archer remains. Is this fascinating and peculiarly American Hero dying out? Far from it, says Geherin. The Ameircan private...
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A$18.16
KINGDOM OF DEATH: Bonded Mystery #12
by Allingham, Margery
Hollywood: CA: A Bonded Mystery: Anson Bond Publications, Inc., 1946. 1st printing. (British title: SWEET DANGER). Abridged edition. Paperback size. Bonded Mystery #12 [.25 cover price]. Vintage Paperback. Anson Bond Publications only published 14 titles in their short publishing history. Albert Campion is called in by the British government to establish ownership of the tiny but oil-rich principality of Averna on the Adriatic Coast. The aristocratic but impoverished Fitton family are laying claim...
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A$34.04
THE APOLLO LEGACY
by Barker, Albert
New York: Award Books, [1970]. First edition. A fine, unread copy. (25148). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Award Books A719S. Paperback original. Thriller/SF novel. An astronaut has an affair with a journalist and the unborn child is infected with a space virus. A C.I.A. agent investigates. Hubin, p. 49.
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A$39.40
THE GULL COVE MURDERS: Detective Pat Campbell
by Colter, Eli
N.Y.: Detective Novel Classic, 1945. First paperback printing, May 1945. Detective Novel Classic #41, May 1945. Vintage Digest Paperback. The 1st of the three Private Eye Pat Campbell titles. Spine roll, reading crease, lightly soiled, pages age toned. Campbell investigates a murder at the Gull Cove Palisades, one of the most beautiful & rugged stretches of shoreline south of L.A. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear...
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A$27.99
DEAD FOLK'S BLUES **EDGAR AWARD WINNER**
by Womack, Steven
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Fawcett, 1992. 1st Edition, January 1992, fine, unread copy in wraps of this Paperback Original title. An EDGAR AWARD WINNER. 1st title in Nashville series. Thirtysomething, divorced, and working part-time as a car repossessor to stay out of the poorhouse, ex-newspaperman turned private detective Harry James Denton needs any client he can get. It's just his luck that the first person to waltz into his Nashville office is the woman who stole his heart in college - then was...
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A$15.13
Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine, Complete Year, 1989
Cornwall, Conn.: Mercury Press, 1989. Soft cover. Very Good. 7.75" X 5". The Complete year of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1989. Here you can read the classic Sci-Fi authors. Wonderful stories. Some mailing labels still attached.
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A$39.32
CARNEY KILL
by Alter, Robert Edmond
N.Y.: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, 1993. Oversize trade paperback, fine. 1st, thus. A masterpiece of lurid menace from the underbelly of the South. On his first day working for Cochrane's carny, Thaxton found that his new boss was married to his ex-wife. On the second day he found his boss's body--with one of May's throwing knives planted firmly in its chest.With its impeccably rendered carnival setting and its delirously crooked array of spielers, luc-boys, and dancing girls with...
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A$30.26
THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST ..
by Heinlein, Robert A
New York: Fawcett Columbine, [1980]. First U.S. edition, trade paperback issue. A fine copy. (#169068) (29776). Octavo, pictorial wrappers. An homage to and parody of the Mars novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, written in a pulpy 1930s style, based on the premise of numerous parallel worlds created by the act of imagining them. "An amazing farrago of SF and fantasy in which various fictional worlds intersect and the characters come to realize that they themselves are equally unreal. Lazarus Long (from...
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A$157.61
NO WINGS ON A COP
by Adams, Cleve F. (and Robert Leslie Bellem)
Kingston, NY: Quinn Publishing Company, Inc., [1950]. First edition. Spine leaned, creasing, wear at upper right corner with some loss, spine rubbed, a fair to good readable copy of an uncommon book. (25137). Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Handi-Books 112. Paperback original. Crime novel. Expanded from the original pulp publication after Adam's death by Robert Leslie Bellem. Hubin, p. 3.
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A$39.40
THE WILL TO KILL
by Bloch, Robert
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1954]. First edition. A very good to near fine copy, touch of rubbing to lower edge, two small stress creases to upper right corner, some stress crease to spine, yellow background mildly dust soiled. (10810). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Ace Books #S-67. Paperback original.
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A$197.01
ASSIGNMENT-LILI LEMARIS
by Aarons, Edward S
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1963]. Second printing. Mild age darkening to text paper, a fine unread copy. (26693). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Gold Medal k1372. Second printing, first published in 1959, GM s911. C.I.A. agent Sam Durell. Bill Pronzini writing of the Sam Durell novels "Despite all the violence and melodrama...[the] Durell novels are compulsive reading. Aarons was an accomplished writer, with excellent descriptive abilities...and an expert sense of narrative...
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A$39.40
THEM BONES
by Waldrop, Howard
New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, [1984]. First edition. Stress crease upper front cover, a fine copy, unread. (29081). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Ace Books 80557-4. Paperback original. The author's first solo novel. "A complex time mystery: present day archaeologists find objects in a bone-bed. "Meanwhile" a 21st century meddler is attempting to change history and ends up in an alternate universe." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 368. Part of the...
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A$39.40
KISS AND KILL / ON THE HOOK: **ACE DOUBLE D-47**
by Barry, Joe / Richard Powell
N.Y.: Ace Books, Inc, 1954. 1st edition of Kiss and Kill and 1st pbk printing of On the Hook [orig. title Shark River, 1950]. ACE Double D-47. [.35 cover price]. Vintage paperback. Some cover creases, spine edge rubbed, small scratch, age tonning to pages, else a very good-near fine 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.. 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers....
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A$37.83
SPACE FOR HIRE
by Nolan, William F
New York: Lancer Books, [1971]. First edition. Touch of edge rubbing, several tiny corner creases, a nearly fine unread copy. (16324). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Paperback original. Sam Space, private investigator in the Hammett/Chandler mold, investigates across time and space.
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A$39.40
UNFINISHED CRIME
by McCloy, Helen
Hasbrouck Heights: NJ, USA: Graphic Publishing Company, 1955. First paperback printing. Vintage Paperback, A Graphic Mystery #113. [.25 cover price]. Reading crease, very light wear, edges of text block have retained its bright red dye, pages age toning as usual, else a near fine, tight copy. When Sara Dacre comes across a large red pendant at a twenty cent jewellery stall she is tempted to buy it - especially when she bumps into her friend Gerry Hone, who persuades her that it will brighten up her old...
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A$30.26
WHO
by Budrys, Algis
New York: Pyramid Books, [1958]. First edition. Some age darkening to text block, mild crease to upper right front corner, some rubbing to spine panel and some spotting to rear cover, still an unread copy with a bright front cover. (15850). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Pyramid Books G339. "An American scientist is badly injured in an explosion, then "repaired" by Soviet doctors and returned to the USA. The problem is that he is now virtually a cyborg and no one can be sure of his...
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A$70.92
FIVE SINISTER CHARACTERS
by Chandler, Raymond
New York: Avon Book Company, [1946]. Second paperback edition. A near fine copy in wrappers, light crease to front cover, light stress creases to spine. An attractive copy. (12092). Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Avon #88. Trade paperback. First published by Avon first as part of their Murder Mystery Monthly series. Story collection. Raymond Chandler: A Descriptive Bibiography-A6.2.
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A$197.01
UNINVITED CORPSE: A Garry Dean Mystery
by Whelton, Paul
Hasbrouck Heights: NJ, USA: Graphic Publishing Company, 1950. 1st edition, thus. [Originally pub. as: Women Are Skin Deep. Lippincott 1948). Vintage Paperback, Graphic Mystery #24, Abridged. Reading crease, one crease at cover, pages tanninf else a near fine, tight, bright copy. Pleasantly occupied with a drink and a girl who liked to turn cartwheels, Garry Dean did not realize at first that the inebriated fellow guest on the day-bed was actually a corpse containing more than a few ice pick holes. It is...
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A$22.70
PAPERBACK PARADE #44; The Magazine for Paperback Readers and Collectors
by Lovisi, Gary (ed.)
Brooklyn, NY: Gryphon Publications, 1995. A fine unread copy. November, 1995. Digest size. Color covers. 108 pages. Latest issue is dedicated almost entirely to E. C. Tubb and his works and pseudonyms, with checklists and bibliographic study. with a 22 page informative introduction 'Paperback Talk' by Lovisi on the paperback scene with news, letters and more, with reproductions of many scarce paperback covers.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" -...
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A$22.70
ACTS OF VIOLENCE
by Kozlenko, William (editor) Includes: Paul Bowles, Charles Beaumont, William Faulkner et al
NY: Pyramid G425, 1959. 1st edition, July 1959. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL. Cover by Richard Powers. Reading crease, light edgewear else a near fine copy. Masochism and Sadism / seething with hatred / driven by desire / blind with jealousy / ridden by fear. Driven by forces stronger than themselves they find fulfillment in the climax of violence. Here are their stories--twelve electryfing experiences probed by some of the finest writers of our time--twelve revelations that strip bare the dark reaches of...
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A$30.26
MONEY TO BURN; Two Girls-One Man- and A Million $
by Kyne, Peter B. **Dell Mapback #467**
N.Y.: Dell Seal Books #1110, 1950. 1st paperback printing, December 1950, Vintage Paperback. Dell Mapback # 467. Reading crease, spine edge rubbed, a couple of creases at rear else vry-good-near fine, tight copy. Cover illustration by David Attie. Back cover map of Midwest and western United States, with 2 insets. the romantic and hilariously funny experiences of an heir to a million dollars . All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will...
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A$18.91
THE SAINT OVERBOARD. **TV TIE-IN**
by Charteris, Leslie
NY: Fiction Publishing Co 1st printing, thus [1967] Mass market paperback. Near fine Fiction Publishing # .(K111) with very light flaking at spine edges, lightly sunned at rear. Reading crease., . TV tie-in. . Cover photo features Roger Moore. . Diving deep into trouble, the Saint takes part in an underwater treasure hunt fraught with unforeseen danger. Can he successfully raid Davy Jones’s locker and salvage his reputation as well as the sunken treasure?. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Near...
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A$22.70
RAYMOND CHANDLER
by Chandler] Speir, Jerry
N.Y.: Ungar, 1981. 1st prtg. oversize wraps, lightly soiled. Treats the entire body of chandler's detective fiction. Each of his seven novels is explored in depth. His twenty-plus short stories are well scrutinized. And Chandler's own life, in London and in Los Angeles, is an important part of the story. Includes bibliography.. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Trade Paperback.
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A$22.70
LOVE ON THE RUN
by MacIsaac, Fred
Los Angeles: Bantam Publications, Inc., n.d., [1940]. First edition. Age darkening to text paper, rubbing, split at upper left edge at spine, spine roll, a good copy. (26718). Small octavo, printed wrappers. Bantam No. 18.
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A$55.16
