Five Sinister Characters

New York: Avon Book Company. What is offered here are both of the first edition paperback editions published by Avon Book Company. The first was published in 1945 as part of the Murder Mystery Monthly series, size: 7.5" x 5.25". The second was published a year later with the smaller format of 6.5" x 4.125". Both copies have very minor… Read more about this item

New York: Avon, 1945. First edition. Softcover. Good. First printing of this collection in trade sized covers (Avon would publish a traditional smaller paperback size the following year with slightly different mcover design). Color illustrated softcovers. Murder Mystery Monthly No. 28. 168 pp. Good to very good, light creasing to the covers and wear at the spine extremities.… Read more about this item

MuRDER MYSTERY MONTHLY Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. A VERY GOOD FIRST RUBBED SPOT.

New York: Avon Book Company, [1945]. First edition. Tiny 10 mm closed tear to lower front panel, slight color fade to spine, a nearly fine to fine copy. (23453). Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #28. Digest size format. Collects five stories, I'll Be Waiting, The King in Yellow, Pearls Are a Nuisance, Red… Read more about this item

New York:: Avon Book Company, 1945. 5" wide by 7.5" tall. Tight copy. No store stamp or owner's name. Brown speckles (foxing) to inner covers. Light cover creases. No chips. No tears. Lightly rubbed spine is square/flat, with no creases. Pages are a bit age toned, as usual. Avon Murder Mystery… Read more about this item

New York: Avon Book Company, 1945. First Edition. First Printing. Digest-sized octavo (19.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers; 168pp. Modest external wear, spine gently sunned and a little rolled, with mild tanning to text, and a few faint creases to wrappers; Very Good. Digest collecting five short stories previously published in the pulp magazines: "Trouble Is My Business," "Pearls Are… Read more about this item

New York: Avon Book Company, [1945]., [1945]. First edition. First edition. A digest-sized paperback. Murder Mystery Monthly 28. Foxed on inside covers and to a few end pages, and tiny nick to corner edge of top edge of rear panel and adjacent to the spine on top of rear panel, else near fine, tight copy in pictorial wrappers. Contains… Read more about this item

New York: Avon, 1945. First Edition; original wrappers. A very good copy.

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.

NY: AVON. 1946. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1946. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First edition. Trade-size paperback original. A very good copy in pictorial printed wrappers. (Paper in text age toned. Traces of light soiling at edges of covers. Foxing to margins on inside covers. Hint of penciling on cover. 1/2"-inch split at top edge… Read more about this item

New York: Avon Book Company, Published by special arrangement with Mr. Raymond Chandler, nd. Stories originally published 1938 to 1946. Softcover. Good. [2], 11-296 p. 17 cm. Paperback. Spine has creases and wear, tear in bottom rear hinge, a bit of chipping to both ends. A bit of darkening from tape to lower spine. Paper browned. Contains: Trouble… Read more about this item

NY: AVON. 1946. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. (Detectives, Mystery) 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. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes… Read more about this item

NY: MURDER MYSTERY MONTHLY. 1945. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1945. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First edition. A trade-size paperback original. Very good+ in pictorial printed wrappers. (Traces of shelf-wear at spine along with mild lean. Paper in text age toned as always. ) Features stories which originally appeared in the pulp magazines. .

NY: AVON BOOKS.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Softcover. First mass market-size edition. Avon #88 Solidly very good+ copy. (Red tinted edges lightly faded & faintly soiled. Trace of shelf wear with covers sharp. ) Hard-boiled stories from the pulps. .

New York: Avon, 1945. First Edition. Paperback original. A very good copy with some creases and wear.

New York: Avon, 1945. First Edition. Paperback original. Very good copy.

Independently published, 2017. Paperback. New. 494 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.24 inches.

Avon Books. New York: Avon Publishing Co. , 1946 . 88 very good , creases paperback,

Avon Books. New York: Avon Publishing Co. , . 88 very good - fine, reading crease 1946, paperback,

Avon Murder Mystery Monthly. New York: Avon Books. Digest Size. , 1945 . 28 almost near fine PBO. Cover by Paul Stahr.