New York: Random House, 1965. First Edition. Attractive advance copy of Capote's best-known book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction, an Edgar Award, and basis for the 1967 Richard Brooks film Starring Robert Blake ad Scott Wilson. First Printing. Octavo (cm); publisher's brick red unprinted wrappers, bound into the..... More
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1984. First Edition. The author's highly-regarded first book, featuring CIA analyst Jack Ryan. Basis for John McTiernan's Oscar-winning film, starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, and Scott Glenn. First Printing, conforming to the following points: book measures 9.25" tall, with 18 lines of text on copyright page..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. First Edition. The author's first book, a gangster novel chronicling the rise of young Jimmie Williams from petty thief to "menace to society." Coe, an attorney by trade, would go on to write 11 more crime novels between 1928-1952. Basis for the 1928 American..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1934. First Edition. Wall Street mystery featuring Dr. Hiram Arthur, an engineer-turned-private investigator who serves the upper echelons of Manhattan's financial district. After a financier is murdered in his private office, "wily old Dr. Arthur and his team of voluptuous secretaries tangle with the..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1924. Attractive copy of Freeman's first novel, introducing the public to Dr. John Thorndyke, whose scientific approach to detection was something of a departure in the genre during this period. Thorndyke attempts to clear the name of a young man who stands accused of..... More
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1914. First Edition. An early Freeman mystery featuring Humphrey Challoner, a specialist in criminal anthropology, who after the murder of his wife dedicates his life to the apprehension and punishment of criminals (and by "apprehension and punishment" I mean he murders them, shrinks their..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1952. First Edition. Prior to the publication of his first novel, Gault was already a prolific writer for the pulps, publishing more than 300 stories for magazines like Argosy, Black Mask, and Dime Mystery. By the time the 1950's came around, the pulp industry..... More
Greenwich: Gold Medal, 1961. First Edition. The last of Goodis's twelve paperback original novels, and the final book published before his death in 1967, centered around a corrupt and alcoholic policeman at the end of his career. An uncommon advance. Hubin, p.168. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First American Edition. Attractive copy of Hammett's fourth novel. "Like Personville in Red Harvest, the city is controlled by crooked politicians in league with various mobster factions; but in The Glass Key Hammett gives us an insider's view of the corruption and in fact..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1942. First Edition. A locked-room mystery (with science fiction elements) set in Los Angeles, the second of two novels Boucher wrote under this pseudonym. Someone is trying to kill science fiction author Hilary Foulkes; Detective Terry Marshall, of the Los Angeles Homicide Squad, and..... More
New York: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, 2000. First Edition. Substantial anthology of short writing with a running theme on memory loss, edited by Lethem, whose own contribution ("Five Fucks") appears alongside those by Martin Amis, Jorge Luis Borges, Philip K. Dick, Shirley Jackson, Julio Cortázar, Flann O'Brien, Cornell Woolrich..... More
New York: Lion Books, 1952. First Edition. Superior copy of Thompson's second paperback original, a novel surrounding the lives of an Okie sharecropper, his dim-witted and volatile son, and an attractive mixed-race girl. Hubin, p.393. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (16cm); illustrated wrappers; purplish-gray edge-staining; 159,[1]pp. Pinpoint wear..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. Quite an attractive copy of Woolrich's first mystery, the first in his series of 'Black' books, and basis for the 1968 film directed by François Truffaut, starring Jeanne Moreau. Hubin, p.434. Reprint. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in red on spine; red..... More