Flying Finish by Francis, Dick - 1966

New York: Scribners, 2001 Limited edition: special fingerprint edition: Ring finger. approximately 20% of 2500 copies printed. Signed by John Dunning, with finger print. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

215 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in publisher's original black with orange "red badge" insignia on front cover and orange lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition.To save a judge's daughter, Mike Shayne must invade the red-light district. For twenty years, Judge Nigel Lansdowne has been one of Washington's greatest progressives. The red-baiters in Congress would do anything to destroy his reputation, and they may have found the perfect weapon. Her name is Julia, but when she dances she goes by Dorinda. The judge's daughter came to Miami in search of a new life, and she found it dancing nude in the city's infamous red-light district. Mike Shayne is hired to bring Julia home before the judge's enemies learn of her new career, but his real job will be keeping her alive. Someone in Miami wants this beautiful dancer dead, and only Mike Shayne can help her. In the nightclubs of Miami Beach, music is played to a deadly beat.Dresser was born in Chicago, Illinois, but… Read More

First edition 1st printing, Good to Very Good book with light edge wear, starting at title page, spine lightly pushed top and bottom and very slight bump top front corner, in Very Good dust jacket that is price clipped, edge and corner wear with couple spots of very slight loss, several small creases along edges, mild sun fade on spine and some over write incisions front cover that do not penetrate the mylar, a classic signed by Block on the title page.

328+[5 ad] pages with diagrams and fold out plan. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with yellow lettering to spine and cover in original jacket. (Firsts, volume 14, Number 9 page 29) First edition with the first printing "A" on copyright page, second state with the dates 1929, 1930. Wright wrote as a critic and journalist until 1923, when he became ill from what was given out as overwork, but was in reality a secret drug addiction, according to John Loughery's biography Alias S.S. Van Dine. His doctor confined him to bed (supposedly because of a heart ailment, but actually because of a cocaine addiction) for more than two years. In frustration and boredom, he began collecting and studying thousands of volumes of crime and detection. In 1926 this paid off with the publication of his first S. S. Van Dine novel, The Benson Murder Case. Wright took his pseudonym from the abbreviation of "steamship" and from Van Dine, which he claimed was an old family name. Wright… Read More

New York: A. L. Burt, 1917. LONG LIVE THE KING- Mary Robert Rinehart- Illustrated- A. L. Burt-NY- September 1917-1st Edition-1st Printing- New York A.L. Burt 1917- Hardcover:-12mo- VG++/ no jacket- dark green decorated cloth is clean, with only light rubs- pp. [vi], 485 + ads are clean, no tears or writing- SEE PHOTOS- "Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the release of the 1923 Metro Pictures silent film starring Jackie Coogan. Illustrated throughout."- bright copy -no dj- pages and photos are nice and crisp-an exceptional copy of this very scarce book, especially in a first printing!- Fiction-mystery-murder-classic- (2773) . 1st Edition-1st Printing. Illustrated Cloth. VG++/No Jacket. Illus. by Illustrated. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. KNOPF. HARDCOVER. 1992. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in black on black cloth with untrimmed pages in white stylized dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. It's 1958 in Los Angeles and the Feds are investigating police corruption - 'deja vu all over again.'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: Oxford University Press, 1953. First Edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Oxford University Press, 1953. 137 pp., Essays on Holmes and Watson. Light foxing to end papers, else fine in very good dj. Dj has fraying and a 1 inch chip to the bottom front panel.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Very Good. 8vo..

240+[1 biography] pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 6") bound in original publisher's quarter black paper with silver lettering to spine over beige boards with Random House blind-stamp to cover in original jacket. Inscribed by the author. First edition.There has been a satiric wrinkle in most of Millar's work since the late Fifties, but here the comic energy just about swamps everything else--mystery included. The detective is again lawyer Tomas Aragon (Ask for Me Tomorrow), but mostly Tom just plays straight man for all the flaky folks who hang out at Southern California's posh Penguin Beach Club: impossibly precocious nine-year-old Freddy; the girlish, aging, semi-retarded daughters of a retired Admiral; a senile rumor-monger; and vain, fiftyish widow Miranda, who runs off with the Penguin's macho lifeguard, followed by Tom--who's working on her late husband's pathetic estate. Where's the murder, you ask? Not till the last 50 pages, when impoverished Miranda, deserted by her lifeguard, takes a job as… Read More

Lettered limited first edition bound in quarter morocco and marbled boards. Fine book, dust jacket, and slipcase new from publisher. This was first in a planned new McMillan series of Woolrich books that sadly did not happen. This book features Woolrich stories that are light and breezy in the style of F. Scott Fitzgerald. These stories were published in several magazines during the late 1920s and the 1930s. Woolrich scholar Nevins has written an introduction and a short note about each story. He feels that the early Woolrich stories provide an essential prefiguring for Woolrich's transition to the mystery genre. This is copy VVV of 156 such copies, still in publisher's shrinkwrap and signed by Nevins on the limitation page.

B.E. Trice First Limited edition, Fine book in Fine slipcase, no dust jacket as issued, signed by Crais on the limitation page. Another beautiful production by B. E. Trice, still in publishers shrink wrap. This is copy number 24 of only 150 copies produced.