Mystery
TALES OF THE BLACK WIDOWERS.
Garden City, NY: Published For The Crime Club By Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Asimov to a mystery publisher and bookseller. The first collection of "Black Widowers" stories, a fictional club of mystery solvers. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, pp. 29-30.
THE UNION CLUB MYSTERIES.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed presentation inscription by Asimov on the title page to a mystery publisher and bookseller. Review slip laid in. Story collection.
A WHIFF OF DEATH.
New York: Walker and Company, [1968]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. First publication in hardcover of the author's first "straight" mystery novel, issued in paperback in 1958 as The Death Dealers.
THE BLACK CAP: NEW STORIES OF MURDER & MYSTERY.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-334 [335-336: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original pictorial orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore-edge untrimmed. First U. S. edition. Original anthology with fourteen noir mystery stories by J. M. Barrie, L. P. Hartley, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Barry Pain, Hugh Walpole, Arthur Machen, Edgar Wallace, W. B. Maxwell, Oliver Onions, D. H. Lawrence, Shane Leslie, Elizabeth Bowen, W. Somerset Maugham, and Cynthia Asquith. Second collection assembled by one of the weird fiction genre's most important early anthologists. "Asquith had a remarkable talent for getting first-rate material from both mainstream and genre writers; all her anthologies ... are essential reading for ghost story enthusiasts." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 14. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 23. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-6. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 56. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 41. Bleiler (1978), p. 11. Reginald 00592.
PALIMPSEST.
[London]: Quartet Crime, [1981]. Ocatvo, boards. First edition. Eerie novel concerning a missing person, Inspector Henry Beaumont. (This is perhaps a review copy, no written material on front flap).
PALIMPSEST.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1981]. Ocatvo, boards. First U.S. edition. Eerie novel concerning a missing person, with Inspector Henry Beaumont. Publisher promotional flyer laid in.
THE JUDAH LION CONTRACT.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1972. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett # T2608. Paperback original. A Joe Gall spy thriller. Joe Gall is a ruthless free-lancer called "The Nullifer."
THE WHITE WOLVERINE CONTRACT.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1971. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett # T2508. Paperback original. A Joe Gall spy thriller. Joe Gall is a ruthless free-lancer called "The Nullifer."
MISS BRACEGIRDLE AND OTHERS.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-332 [333-334: blank], original brown cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First U. S. edition. Collects thirteen stories, several crime, two of which were used as film sources. Aumonier was a highly regarded short fiction writer, praised by John Galsworthy and James Hilton. Hubin, p. 37. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 7.
THE CASE OF THE BOUNCING BETTY bound with THE CASE OF THE VIOLENT VIRGIN.
New York: Ace Books, [1957]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace double D-259. Paperback original. Two Ed Noon novels, first book publication for both. Jaffery, S., Double Trouble: A Bibliographic Chronicle of Ace Mystery Doubles, pp. 55-57. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 31-32.
THE FEBRUARY DOLL MURDERS.
New York: Signet, 1967. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The first Ed Noon detective novel.
LITTLE MISS MURDER.
New York: Signet/New American Library, 1971. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. An Ed Noon novel.
THE LIVING BOMB.
London: W. H. Allen, 1963. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Ed Noon novel. Signed inscription by Avallone, an association copy (on the dedication page): "For Leo & Cylnia-who do too, in their superb editorial way. Mike." The Leo is Leo Margulies editor and publisher. Hubin, p. 38.
THE LIVING BOMB.
New York: Curtis Books, 1972. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition. A Ed Noon novel.
MEANWHILE BACK AT THE MORGUE.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1960. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Ed Noon.
MISSING!
New York: Signet/New American Library, 1969. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
SHOOT IT AGAIN, SAM.
New York: Curtis Books, 1972. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. An Ed Noon novel.
THE TALL DOLORES.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Avallone; "For--/all the best,/ all ways/ Michael Avallone." Author's first book and first Ed Noon mystery.
THE ULTIMATE CLIENT.
London: Robert Hale, 1971. Octavo, Hardcover. First hardcover edition. An Ed Noon adventure. First published as a paperback original under the title of Little Miss Murder (New American Library, 1971). Ed clients are the President of the United States and the New York Mets.
ALL THE WAY.
[New York]: A Midwood (Tower) Publication, [1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Midwood #60. Paperback original. An original novel.
HOUR OF THE MANATEE.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
THE GORGEOUS GHOUL.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The second Hannah Van Doren mystery. Babcock was a Black Mask author.
THE KISS OF DEATH.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
MEDUSA'S HEAD.
New York, London: D. Appleton and Company, 1926. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-120 [121] [122: blank], original decorated red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. First printing with "(1)" at base of text on page [121]. Weird mystery novel. "Bacon, a successful author in the first quarter of the twentieth century of fiction that was both 'popular' and 'literary', has tended to fall between these two stools in the estimate of posterity. This is unfortunate as she was a skillful craftsman and had things to say, especially on the subject of the emancipated modern woman, where her views manage to contain nuance, skepticism and passion. She also had a recurrent interest in the supernatural, as documented by Dorothy Scarborough in her important early study, The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction. The main titles of relevance here are THE STRANGE CASES OF DR. STANCHON (1913), IN THE BORDER COUNTRY (1909) and the present title." - Robert Eldridge. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 26. Bleiler (1948), p. 37. Reginald 00697. Hubin (1994), p. 40.
A REAL GONE GOOSE.
London: T.V. Boardman, 1960. Octavo, Hardcover. First British edition. Mystery in the world of the 'Beatnik Generation.'.