New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1950. First Edition. The Edgar Award-winning author's sixth novel, basis for Roy Ward Baker's 1952 film noir Don't Bother To Knock, starring Richard Widmark, Anne Bancroft in her film debut, and Marilyn Monroe in her first leading dramatic role. Hubin, p.14; The Dark Page, Vol.II, pp.4-5..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; rough brown cloth over boards, quarterbound in teal cloth, with titles and designed stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 186pp. Stamp of Edmund Grainger Productions on front endpaper, dated 1952, and likely from a production company involved..... More
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New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1957. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original. Octavo (16.25cm); illustrated wrappers; yellow edge-staining; 161; 127pp. Pinpoint wear to extremities, some tanning to text edges, with a very faint rectangular rubber-stamp to upper edge of textblock; Very Good+ to Near Fine. Hubin, p.18. More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965. First Edition. First novel featuring Ball's African American homicide detective Virgil Tibbs, who finds himself immersed in racial conflict after a murder takes place in a small Southern town. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1966, and basis for..... More
New York: The Mystery League, Inc., 1931. First American Edition. Attractive copy of this Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title and early serial killer novel that author Vincent Starrett magnanimously cited as "one of the ten greatest detective novels ever written." Hubin, p.28; Pronzini & Muller, p.52. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); black cloth..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. / The Crime Club, Inc., 1929. First American Edition. Attractive copy of this Haycraft-Queen cornerstone title and Berkeley's fifth novel featuring detective Roger Sherringham. A Crime Club offers to crack a case which has stumped Scotland Yard, involving an accidental death by poisoned..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1937. First American Edition. "A terminally ill man decides to murder someone evil, but an innocent man is accused of the crime. The well-meaning killer tries to prove his guilt (aided by Ambrose Chitterwick), and hires a lawyer to prosecute himself" (Bourgeau, p.118)..... More
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
Paris: Denoël, 1957. First French Edition. First Printing. Near Fine in illustrated wrappers, a lovely copy of the French crime fiction duo's sixth book. Light rubbing along the hinges, a few glue ridges along the spine panel, and a some light browning to the text edges. This is a French..... More
London: Hutchinson, 1956. First British Edition. Preceded only by the wrappered French First, the British Edition was the first in hardcover and the first to be translated into English. Basis for the 1958 film noir 'Vertigo,' directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. The Dark Page..... More
New York: Ives Washburn, Inc., 1957. First American Edition. The French crime fiction duo's third novel, preceded by the French edition (Denoël, 1954) and the English (Hutchinson, 1956). Basis for the iconic 1958 film noir Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, and Barbara Bel Geddes..... More
Paris: Denoël, 1954. First French Edition. Basis for the iconic 1958 film noir Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, and Barbara Bel Geddes. Not only is Vertigo widely recognized as Hitchcock's masterpiece, it is also routinely cited by AFI and Sight and Sound as one..... More
London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1934. First Edition. First edition of the only novel to feature Bramah's wildly popular blind detective, Max Carrados. The plot centers around a criminal enterprise led by the evil Julian Joolby, who plans to flood the money markets with forged banknotes, with the goal of..... More
New York: Greenberg, Publisher, Inc., 1927. First American Edition. Novel centering around a Paris doctor, a Jekyll and Hyde character acting as a "medical monster" in his clinic, exercising euthanasia and killing off poor victims with ghoulish powers. An attractive example of the Art Deco dustjacket designed by Paul A...... More
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New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1959. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original. Octavo (16.25); illustrated wrappers; yellow edge-staining; 125; 131pp. Pinpoint wear to extremities, faint vertical crease to left edge of Stranglehold, with a faint rubber-stamp to upper edge of textblock; Very Good+. Hubin, p.48. More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1932. First Edition. A superb copy of the second Detective Stephen Harper mystery, a "yellow peril" novel set in New York City. The novel has everything going for it: death, dope, detection, and torture, all set in the streets of Chinatown. And for the record (we'll..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First Edition. Third novel featuring Royal Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep. Dustjacket designed by Chip Kidd. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); black and blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 305, [5]pp. Signed by the author on the title page, dated..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in plain orange wrappers. Burdett's third novel featuring Thai detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep; this copy has been signed by the author on the title page. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1989. First Edition. Sharp copy of the third Dave Robicheaux novel, winner of the Edgar Award in 1990. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); blue-gray paper and red cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [x],290pp. Spine ends gently nudged, else very Near Fine..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in pictorial wrappers, a Dave Robicheaux novel set in the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina. Uncommon in any sort of advance format. More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [2008]. First Edition Thus. Handsome edition of the 16th Dave Robicheaux novel. Octavo (23.75cm); full dark brown leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; silk endpapers; all edges gilt; [x],373pp. Signed by the author on a special limitation page. A...... More
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: Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press, 1929. First Edition. Burnett's first novel, a hard-boiled classic charting the rise and fall of a Chicago gangster against a backdrop of political and social turmoil. The title character, Caesar Enrico "Rico" Bandello, was based, in part, after real-life Chicago gangster..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition. Cain's fourth novel, a lurid tale "about the seamier side of city politics and involving a politician double-crossed by his chauffeur who is double-crossed by his ex-mistress" (Hoopes, p.315). The novel was unfavorably reviewed and not a commercial success, selling only 7,500..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. First Edition. Cain's third novel, a story of "the great American institution that never gets mentioned on the Fourth of July, a grass widow with two small children to support" (Hoopes, p.305). Basis for the 1945 film noir directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Joan..... More