Paris: Denoël, 1952. First French Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in a Very Good+ example of the rare dustjacket. The jacket has one shallow chip at the crown of the spine, with a light rubbing and a several short closed tears to the extremities. The French crime fiction duo's..... More
New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. Novel set in rural Mississippi during the 1940's, dealing heavily with race relations and centered around the murder of a white man and the black man accused of the killing. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone title, and basis for the highly-regarded 1949 Clarence Brown film... More
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New York: Oxford University Press, American Branch, 1927. First Edition. Scarce anthology of mystery stories compiled by Wells (1862-1942), collecting works by Poe, Hawthorne, Bierce, Dreiser, Moffett, and others. Of particular note is Wells's inclusion of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper, a key work of feminist literature, first published... More
New York: Macmillan, 1967. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; full red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; blue-gray topstain; 220pp. Bookplate signed by Grafton loosely laid in. Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket, lightly worn along lower edge, with a few tiny tears. A nice copy of... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1949. First Edition. Hall's first book, a pseudonymously-written gangster novel set in Los Angeles, which he reportedly wrote in two weeks and sold to Farrar, Straus. Uncommon; OCLC notes 15 copies. Hubin, p.182. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); yellow cloth, with titles stamped in red... More
New York: Lawrence E. Spivak, 1943. First Edition. First edition of Hammett's "novel" comprised of two stories - "The Big Knockover" and "$106,000 Blood Money" - in which the Continental Op "sets out to find the gang that robbed the Seaman's National Bank of several million dollars, and does battle... More
New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1950. First Edition. Perhaps the best of the author's late-career novels, and certainly one of the most difficult to find in collectors condition. A typically unforgiving jacket in terms of showing wear poorly, this example is almost entirely unrubbed, and still retains the gloss... More