New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition. Scarce advance copy of one of Burnett's best-known novels, the story of a hardened criminal just out of prison, a heist gone bad, and a stand-off with police high in the snow-capped Sierra's. Basis for two superb adaptations: the 1941 film noir..... 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
Greenwich: Gold Medal, 1957. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original. Octavo; illustrated wraps, with cover art by Barye Phillips; yellow edge-staining; 143pp, [1]. Some faint stress creases along upper edge of rear cover, with a few hairline fissures to paper at mid-spine; a bright, attractive copy - Very Good+..... 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
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1942. First Edition. Pseudonymous novel by Cornell Woolrich, first serialized in the pages of Detective Fiction Weekly. A waking nightmare of a novel: "A man quarrels with his wife, goes out and picks up a woman in a bar, spends the evening with her, and comes home..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket. Very gently nudged at the crown of the jacket's spine, else Fine. This copy belonged to noted science fiction author Philip José Farmer, inscribed to him by Willeford in the year..... More