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CUT ME IN.
New York: Abelard Schuman, 1954. Octavo, boards. First edition. Author's first hardcover mystery.
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ED MCBAIN'S MYSTERY BOOK. [ALL PUBLISHED].
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1960-61. Small octavo, three issues, all published, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. Pocket Books capitalized on publishing the McBain novels by entering the digest magazine world. Managing Editor Robert Goodney sought ought well known mystery writers and invited them to submit stories with their famous characters. Authors included McBain, Richard Prather (Shell Scott), Ross MacDonald (Lew Archer), Henry Kane (Peter Chambers), Fredric Brown (Ed and Am Hunter), Robert Bloch, Bruno Fischer, Hampton Stone, Lawrence Block and others. First rate material but did not get beyond the three issue. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 211-213.
SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY.
Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Milton Luros, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Reaching for the Moon" by S[alvatore]. A[lberto]. Lombino, who would change his name to Evan Hunter and become well known using his pseudonym "Ed McBain" - this is his first published story. Other authors in this issue, George O. Smith, Stephen Marlowe, Lester Del Rey and other. SFQ is also notable as it became the last published SF pulp magazine, the last issue in 1958. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 545-550.
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. 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.
'TIL DEATH ...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. 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 PRECINCT.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. Octavo, boards. First combined (and first hardcover) edition. Omnibus volume collecting COP HATER, THE MUGGER and THE PUSHER, all 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.
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.
COP HATER.
London, New York: T.V. Boardman & Company Limited, [1956]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. The first 87th Precinct novel. First published as a paperback original in the U.S. Filmed in 1958 with Robert Loggia as Det. Steve Carella.
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.
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.