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THE KISS OF DEATH.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
AFTER THE FIRST DEATH.
New York: The Macmillan Company, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Block on the title page.
AFTER THE FIRST DEATH.
New York: The Macmillan Company, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Mystery novel. [Reference: Hubin, p. 81].
ARIEL ...
New York: Arbor House, [1980]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. One of 500 special copies with printed limitation label numbered and signed by Block affixed to front free endpaper. "... an intriguing, disturbing mystery-horror story. A highly literate, carefully written novel with sensitive, ambiguous characters. One of the best and most subtle of the evil children novels." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-42. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-49. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-37. Winter list, p. 268].
THE BURGLAR WHO PAINTED LIKE MONDRIAN.
New York: Arbor House, 1983. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The fifth Bernie Rhodenbarr novel.
THE BURGLAR WHO PAINTED LIKE MONDRIAN.
New York: Arbor House, 1983. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The fifth Bernie Rhodenbarr novel. [Reference: Hubin, p. 81].
THE BURGLAR WHO STUDIED SPINOZA.
New York: Random House, 1980. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The fourth Bernie Rhodenbarr novel.
DEADLY HONEYMOON.
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1967. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Block on the title page. The author's first hardcover.
DEFENDER OF THE INNOCENT: THE CASEBOOK OF MARTIN EHRENGRAF.
[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2014. Octavo, cloth. New edition. Collects twelve stories, all the Ehrengraf fictions.
EIGHT MILLION WAYS TO DIE.
[New York]: Arbor House, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed, with inscription on the title page. A Matt Scudder novel. Edgar award nominee. Made into a feature film.
FIVE LITTLE RICH GIRLS.
London: Allison & Busby, 1984. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. First published in paperback in 1974, as MAKE OUT WITH MURDER by Chip Harrison (pseudonym).
THE GIRL WITH THE LONG GREEN HEART.
Greenwich, CT: Gold Medal Books/Fawcett Publications Inc., [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal K1555. Paperback original. Signed by the author.
LIKE A LAMB TO SLAUGHTER.
New York: Arbor House, 1984. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collection of short stories.
SOMETIMES THEY BITE.
New York: Arbor House, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by the author. Short story collection.
A STAB IN THE DARK.
New York: Arbor House, [1981]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Block. A Matt Scudder novel.
A STAB IN THE DARK.
New York: Arbor House, [1981]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Matt Scudder novel, the first in American hardcovers.
A TICKET TO THE BONEYARD.
New York: Morrow, 1990. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A Matt Scudder novel.
TIME TO MURDER AND CREATE.
London: Robert Hale, [1979]. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Signed by Block on the title page. Even though the third originally published this is the second in the Matt Scudder series. Edgar nominee for best paperback original (first published in the U. S. as a paperback original). "Most critics agree that Block's strongest and deepest work has been found in the series featuring Matthew Scudder, an alcoholic ex-cop in New York City..." St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers (Fourth Edition), pp. 86-87. [Reference: Hubin, p. 82].
THE TOPLESS TULIP CAPER.
London: Allison & Busby, 1984. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Signed by Block. First published in paperback in 1975 under the pseudonym Chip Harrison.
TWO FOR TANNER.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1968]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett Gold Medal d1896. Paperback original. An Evan Tanner novel. [Reference: Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 86-88].
THIS WAY TO EGRESS.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2010. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 400 copies printed. The author's first collection, horror, ghost and mystery fiction. Includes a new story for this book, 'Reckoning.'.
THIS WAY TO EGRESS.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2010. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 400 copies printed. The author's first collection, horror, ghost and mystery fiction. Includes a new story for this book, 'Reckoning.'.
DIVINE INVASIONS: A LIFE OF PHILIP K. DICK.
New York: Harmony Books, [1989]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Biography of Philip K. Dick.
IN PURSUIT OF VALIS: SELECTIONS FROM THE EXEGESIS.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First publication of portions of Dick's major nonfiction work comprising more than 8000 pages written between 1974 and his death in 1982. These same "mystical experiences" became the central subject matter of his final novels: VALIS (1981), THE DIVINE INVASION (1981), and THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER (1982), termed collectively by Dick the "VALIS trilogy."
IN PURSUIT OF VALIS: SELECTIONS FROM THE EXEGESIS.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First publication of portions of Dick's major nonfiction work comprising more than 8000 pages written between 1974 and his death in 1982. These same "mystical experiences" became the central subject matter of his final novels: VALIS (1981), THE DIVINE INVASION (1981), and THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER (1982), termed collectively by Dick the "VALIS trilogy."