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BUT NOT THE END.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1934. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-304 [305-306: blank], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange. First edition. The author's second novel. A depression era story in which a stockbroker with impending bankruptcy has to deal with his wife who is having an affair with a younger man. [Reference: Hubin, p. 597].
THE COMPLETE CASEBOOK OF CARDIGAN...(4 volumes).
Boston: Altus Press, 2012. Octavo, four volumes, stiff pictorial wrappers. First editions. Collects the forty-four Jack Cardigan detective stories which appeared in the pages of Dime Detective pulp magazine 1931- 1937. Introduction by Will Murray (in volume 1). Most of these stories have not been reprinted. Nebel was one of the major hard boiled writers who appeared in Black Mask and went on to Dime Detective which paid better. He was friends with Dashiell Hammett and Raoul Whitfield. A significant collection by an important writer.
FIFTY ROADS TO TOWN.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1936. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-298 [299] [300: blank] [301: publisher's statement] [302-304: blank], cloth. First edition. The author's second crime novel and third and last novel. Suspense novel set in a snowbound Maine village by one of the masters of the hard-boiled school. "This is a first rate, virile piece of story-telling. It moves dramatically but in a restrained and effective manner towards its ultimate goal. Each link is securely fastened in the chain of events and by allowing fate rather than human initiative to decide the final outcome, it retains plausibility." - NY Times review by Mabel L. Rossbach, 2 February, 1936. [Reference: Hubin, p. 597].
SIX DEADLY DAMES.
New York: Avon Publishing Co., Inc., [1950]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon #264. Paperback original. Six hard boiled stories first published in Black Mask magazine. [Reference: Hubin, p. 597].