New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc., 1934. First Edition. Psuedonymously written mystery novel by this husband and wife, set in New York City. A murder takes place in a New York concert hall while 5,000 people listen to a world-class pianist and symphony orchestra; Douglas Blair, a young music..... More
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1937. First Edition. The final volume in Fuchs's Williamsburg Trilogy, published by Vanguard between 1934-37, which together paint a witty, sad, and faithful picture of Jewish Brooklyn during the early 1930s. The story is centered around a soda parlor in Neptune Beach (a fictitious version..... More
London: New English Library, 1980-1983. First U.K. Editions. An attractive set of the first four books written under King's Richard Bachman pseudonym, originally issued as paperback originals by Signet between 1977-1982. With exception to Rage, nice copies of the UK editions appear with less frequency than their American counterparts. Brooks..... More
[Los Angeles]: RKO Radio Pictures, [1947]. A striking piece of ephemera from this cornerstone film noir, based on Geoffrey Homes's 1946 novel Build My Gallows High. The story is centered around an ex-private eye-turned-gas station owner, trying to live out his life quietly in Bridgeport, California, when a figure from..... More
Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company / Harper & Row / Alfred A. Knopf, 1970-1985. First American Hardcover Editions. Complete run of MacDonald's color-coded crime novels featuring beach bum, ladies man, salvage expert, and all-around tough guy Travis McGee. In the twenty-one novels written over as many years, McGee..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First Edition. Cain's first novel, in which "an itinerant worker and the young wife of the Greek owner of a roadside lunchroom near Los Angeles plot her husband's murder. The first attempt fails; the second succeeds. What follows is guilt, suspicion, betrayal, their own..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First Edition. Cain's first novel, and one of the defining works of crime fiction to come out of the Depression. "An itinerant worker and the young wife of the Greek owner of a roadside lunchroom near Los Angeles plot her husband's murder. The first..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First Edition. A presentable copy of Dreiser's most enduring novel, in which a young man makes a tragic and ill-fated attempt to break from his lower-class background. Fleeing Kansas City from a crime he didn't commit, he settles in a fictional New York town..... More