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MURDER FROM THE EAST: A RACE WILLIAMS STORY.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1935. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-312, original orange cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. A Race Williams adventure. Race Williams battles foreign agents. Hubin, pp. 210-211.
MURDER FROM THE EAST: A RACE WILLIAMS STORY.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1935. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-312, original orange cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. A Race Williams adventure. Race Williams battles foreign agents. Hubin, pp. 210-211.
MURDER WON'T WAIT.
New York: Ives Washburn, Publisher, [1933]. Octavo, pp. [1] [i-vi] vii-viii [1-2] 3-307 [308-310: blank], original light green cloth front stamped in blind, spine stamp in black and design. First edition. A Vee Brown novel. Vee (Vivian) Brown is a detective who works directly for the District Attorney's office and was well off due to the writing original popular music. Hubin, pp. 210-211.
MYSTERY OF THE SMOKING GUN.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company:, 1936. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi {vii-viii] 1-312, original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. A Detective Frank "Satan" Hall novel, which first appeared as five novelettes in Detective Fiction Weekly (1933) pulp magazine. Satan Hall is a New York city police detective who takes on a ruthless crime boss. Hubin, pp. 210-211.
MYSTERY OF THE SMOKING GUN.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company:, 1936. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi {vii-viii] 1-312, original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. A Detective Frank "Satan" Hall novel, which first appeared as five novelettes in Detective Fiction Weekly (1933) pulp magazine. Satan Hall is a New York city police detective who takes on a ruthless crime boss. Hubin, pp. 210-211.
READY TO BURN.
London: Museum Press, n.d., [1951]. Octavo, original black cloth, spine stamped in silver and red. First edition. A Detective Frank "Satan" Hall novel, originally published as three short novels in Detective Fiction Weekly (1934-1935). Not published in the U. S. Hubin, pp. 210-211.
THE TAG MURDERS.
New York: Edward J. Clode, Inc., [1930]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-vii [ix-x] 11-320, original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. An episodic novel first published in Black Mask, featuring Race Williams. Race is on the trail of a murderer who leaves a metal tag pinned on the victims. This book also has the first appearance of Race Williams femme fatale, "The Flame," Florence Drummond, "The girl with the criminal mind." Hubin, pp. 210-211.
THE THIRD MURDERER.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, [1931]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] [1-2] 3-308 [309-312: blank], original light blue cloth, front and spine stamped in black, top edge stained red, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. First edition. A Race Williams novel, from the pages of Black Mask. Hubin, pp. 210-211.
THE WHITE CIRCLE.
New York: Edward J. Clode, Inc., [1926]. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [7-8] 9-312, original green cloth, front and spine stamped in white and black, top edge stained black. First edition. The author's first crime novel. First published in Flynn's magazine in 1925 as "The White Champion." Down on his luck adventurer agrees to become a masked hero, "The White Circle" and fight crime in New York. Hubin, pp. 210-211.
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF A. CONAN DOYLE.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Foreword by Graham Greene. The Definitive Doyle bibliography.
TRUE CONFESSIONS.
New York: E.P. Dutton, [1977]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Filmed in 1981 from a screenplay by the author, starring Robert DeNiro and Robert Duvall.
BOOKED TO DIE.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1992]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Bibliomystery which introduces Cliff Janeway, former Denver cop and rare book dealer.
THE BOOKMAN'S WAKE.
New York: Scribner, 1995. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The second Cliff Janeway.
HALO IN BRASS.
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1950]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Pocket Book 709. A Paul Pine detective novel.
IF YOU HAVE TEARS.
New York: Mystery House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Browne; "For---/ widely known and admired/ by someone!/ Howard Browne/ 4/16/88." Signed again by Browne on the title page. An uncommon book to find, more so signed by the author.
JUNGLE BORN.
New York & London: The Century Co., [1925]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vii] viii-xi [xii] xiii-xiv [1-2] 3-294 [295-296], 23 illustrations by Mary Sherwood Wright, original olive green cloth front and spine stamped in black. First U.S. edition. Set in India, a baby boy's parents are killed by a man-eating tiger and the child is adopted by a mother-ape. Shades of Rudyard Kipling and Tarzan. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 289. Bleiler (1978), p. 70. Reginald 04984.
THE CAPTORS.
New York: Trident Press, 1969. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
THE CORPSE NEXT DOOR.
[New York: Graphic Publishing Company, Inc., 1956]. Small octavo, cover art by Oliver Brabbins, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Graphic Books 138. Paperback original. The author's first novel.
FIENDS.
Arlington Heights: Dark Harvest, 1990. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed.
FIENDS.
Arlington Heights: Dark Harvest, 1990. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 copies signed by Farris and the illustrator Phil Parks.
FIENDS.
Arlington Heights: Dark Harvest, 1990. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
KING WINDOM.
New York: Trident Press, 1967. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
SCARE TACTICS.
New York: Tor, 1988. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
SHARP PRACTICE.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
SHARP PRACTICE.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.