Results
AFTER THE FIRST DEATH.
New York: The Macmillan Company, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Block on the title page.
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. 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, Hardcover. First edition. The fifth Bernie Rhodenbarr novel.
THE BURGLAR WHO PAINTED LIKE MONDRIAN.
New York: Arbor House, 1983. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The fifth Bernie Rhodenbarr novel.
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.
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 DEEP BLUE EYES.
[New York] and London: Hard Case Crime, [2015]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Crime novel. Review copy with press release laid in. Stick note to review affixed to front free end paper.
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.
THE SINS OF THE FATHERS.
London: Robert Hale, [1979]. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Signed by Block on the title page. The first novel in the Matt Scudder series, alcoholic private investigator, who here looks into the murder of a grieving father's daughter. "There are many reasons to praise the Scudder novels. Block is a consistently excellent prose craftsman. His stories are beautifully paced, his dialogue crisp an sure, his narrative at once very personal and yet somehow distanced. His plots are occasionally no more than adequate, but his focus is on character rather than plot, and it is here that he excels..."- Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), p. 87. Hubin, p. 82.
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.
TANNER'S TWELVE SWINGERS.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1967]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett Gold Medal d1869. Paperback original. An Evan Tanner novel. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 86-88.
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. Hubin, p. 82.
THE TOPLESS TULIP CAPER.
London: Allison & Busby, 1984. Octavo, Hardcover. First hardcover edition. Signed by the 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. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 86-88.
NOT COMIN' HOME TO YOU.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Last of the three novels using this pseudonym. About a killing spree by two young people in the southwest.
SUCH MEN ARE DANGEROUS.
[New York]: The Macmillan Company, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Block on the title page. The first of three books as Paul Kavanagh.
BORN TO BE BAD.
[New York]: A Midwood (Tower) Publication, [1959]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Midwood #14. Paperback original.
KEPT.
[New York]: A Midwood (Tower) Publication, [1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Midwood #35. Paperback original.
A STRANGE KIND OF LOVE.
[New York]: A Midwood (Tower) Publication, [1959]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Midwood #9. Paperback original.