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CUT ME IN.
New York: Abelard Schuman, 1954. Octavo, boards. First edition. Author's first hardcover mystery.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1952. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "A Planet Named Joe" by S. A. Lombino, an early published story by the author who would change his name to Evan Hunter and achieve more fame writing as Ed McBain. Also includes a Leigh Brackett story. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
SEE THEM DIE ...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. Octavo, boards. First edition. An 87th Precinct mystery novel.
THE 87TH PRECINCT.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. Octavo, boards. First edition. Omnibus volume with the first U.S. hardcover publications of COP HATER, THE MUGGER and THE PUSHER, which were first published as paperback originals.
THE 87TH SQUAD.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. Octavo, boards. First U.S. hardcover edition. Omnibus volume with the first U.S. hardcover publications of THE CON MAN and KILLER'S CHOICE which were first published as paperback originals.
THE 87TH SQUAD.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. Octavo, boards. First U.S. hardcover edition. Signed on the front free endpaper-"Evan / "Ed McBain" / Hunter." Omnibus volume with the first U.S. hardcover publications of THE CON MAN and KILLER'S CHOICE which were first published as paperback originals.
AX.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964. Octavo, boards. First edition. 87th Precinct.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Matthew Hope novel.
BLOOD RELATIVES.
New York: Random House, [1975]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed on the half title page by McBain. An 87th Precinct novel. Filmed in 1978 with Donald Sutherland with the setting moved to Montreal.
BREAD.
New York: Random House, [1974]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An 87th Precinct novel.
CALYPSO.
New York: The Viking Press, [1979]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An 87th Precinct novel.
CINDERFELLA.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1986]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Matthew Hope novel.
THE CON MAN.
New York: Perma Books, 1957. Small octavo, cover by James Meese, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Perma Books #M-3055. Paperback original. The fourth 87th Precinct novel.
EIGHT BLACK HORSES.
New York: Arbor House, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First trade edition. An 87th Precinct novel.
EVEN THE WICKED.
[London]: Severn House, [1979]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Published as a paperback original in 1958 under the Richard Marsten pseudonym. This is the first hardcover edition.
GHOSTS.
New York: The Viking Press, [1980]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An 87th Precinct novel.
GIVE THE BOYS A GREAT BIG HAND.
New York: Perma Books, 1960. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. 87th Precinct.
GIVE THE BOYS A GREAT BIG HAND.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An 87th precinct novel.
GUNS.
New York: Random House, [1976]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed on the half title page by McBain. Non series crime novel.
HAIL TO THE CHIEF.
New York: Random House, 1973. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. 87th Precinct.
HAIL TO THE CHIEF.
New York: Random House, [1973]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by McBain on the half title page. An 87th Precinct novel.
HEAT.
New York: The Viking Press, [1981]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An 87th Precinct novel.
HEAT.
New York: The Viking Press, [1981]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An 87th Precinct novel.
THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1988]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Matthew Hope novel.
I SAW MOMMY KILLING SANTA CLAUS: A CHRISTMAS STORY.
New York, Los Angeles: The Mysterious Bookshop, [1999]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Chapbook of an original Ed McBain story given as a holiday gift by the Mysterious Bookshop.