Mystery
CHATTERTON.
London: Hamish Hamilton, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Short listed for the 1987 Booker Prize.
FIRST LIGHT.
London: Hamish Hamilton, [1989]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's fourth novel.
NO WINGS ON A COP.
Kingston, NY: Quinn Publishing Company, Inc., [1950]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Handi-Books 112. Paperback original. Crime novel. Expanded from the original pulp publication after Adam's death by Robert Leslie Bellem. Hubin, p. 3.
THE PRIVATE EYE.
New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, [1942]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-284, jacket illustration by Arthur Hawkins, Jr., original light gray cloth, spine stamped in black, fore edge uncut. First edition. Private eye novel set in Arizona involving corrupt cops, gangsters and shady mine operators. "...in his own style Adams captured the gray and gritty feel of the time as powerfully as Chandler, and created as enduring an image of the private detective." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), p. 3. Some readers consider this one of Adams best books. Hubin, p. 3.
CONTRABAND.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition. Posthumous published novel. This fix-up novel used several pulp stories which was tied together and fleshed out by Robert Leslie Bellem. Hubin, p. 2.
THE MYSTERY AND DETECTION ANNUAL 1972.
Beverly Hills, CA: Donald K. Adams, 1972. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe. Also includes the first publication of selected passages from Dashiell Hammett's unpublished story, "The Thin Man" (different from his later novel).
THE GREENWAY.
[London]: Macmillan, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel.
NOT WHAT YOU EXPECTED: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES...
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1974]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Aiken to a mystery book publisher and book seller on the title page. Two brief notes signed by the author laid in. A collection of stories which appeared in previous collections of the author's work. No equivalent U.K.edition of this book.
BURNING MARCH.
New York: Dutton, 1994. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by the Albert. Third novel in the series.
BURNING MARCH.
New York: Dutton, 1994. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Third novel in the series.
THE FEBRUARY TROUBLE.
New York: Walker, 1992. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the Albert. The second P.I. Dave Garrett novel.
THE JANUARY CORPSE.
New York: Walker, [1991]. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed by the Albert. The first P.I. Dave Garrett novel.
THE JANUARY CORPSE.
New York: Walker, [1991]. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The first P.I. Dave Garrett novel.
A CHOICE OF ENEMIES.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1972]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Precedes the English edition. Author's first novel. "The book's compassionate outlook and portrayal of a man's dismal treatment by his own intelligence service make it a feeling man's Spy Who Came in From the Cold." - Jay Pedereson (ed.): St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, pp. 11.
A CHOICE OF ENEMIES.
London: Peter Davies, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. The author's first novel. "The book's compassionate outlook and portrayal of a man's dismal treatment by his own intelligence service make it a feeling man's Spy Who Came in From the Cold." - Jay Pedereson (ed.): St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, pp. 11. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 467.
DEEP PURPLE.
[Sevenoaks, Kent]: New English Library, [1989]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Allbeury on the front free endpaper. Spy thriller involving Soviet defectors. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 470.
THE JUDAS FACTOR.
[Sevenoaks, Kent]: New English Library, [1984]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Spy thriller. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 471.
THE SEEDS OF TREASON.
[Sevenoaks, Kent]: New English Library, [1986]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Spy thriller involving love and betrayal. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 481.
A TIME WITHOUT SHADOWS.
[Sevenoaks, Kent]: New English Library, [1990]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Spy thriller in which a operative who served in WW II attempts to find out if his resistance unit was betrayed. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 470.
A WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS.
[Sevenoaks, Kent]: New English Library, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Spy thriller involving the use of psychics. One sheet press release from the publisher laid in. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 487.
AN AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE: EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS COLONEL CLAY.
London: Grant Richards, 1897. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1] 2-317 [318: blank] [319-320: ads], illustrations by Gordon Browne, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. "The first great rogue of mystery fiction," Colonel Clay, "preceded ... Raffles by two years ..." - Queen's Quorum 21. Glover and Green, Victorian Detective Fiction 4. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 4. Hubin (1994), p. 11.
THE RELUCTANT HANGMAN AND OTHER STORIES OF CRIME...
Boulder, CO: The Aspen Press, 1973. Octavo, illustrated by Alfred Pearse and Sidney Paget, pictorial yellow wrappers. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Three stories, "The Great Ruby Robbery" and "The Conscientious Burglar" collected earlier in IVAN GREET'S MASTERPIECE (1893), the title story, original published as "Jerry Stokes," THE STRAND March 1891, apparently published here for the first time in a book.
BLACK PLUMES.
New York: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1940. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-270 [271-272: blank], original yellow cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First U.S. edition. Mystery novel. Dust jacket designed by Boris Artzybasheff. Hubin (1994), p. 13.
BLACK PLUMES.
New York: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1940. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-270 [271-272: blank], printed wrappers. Advance reading copy of the first edition. Mystery novel. Advance proof copy sent to the trade with a printed note from the editor on the cover. Hubin (1994), p. 13.
CARGO OF EAGLES.
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Albert Campion mystery, the author's last, completed by her husband after she passed away.