Mystery
PUZZLES OF THE BLACK WIDOWERS.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1990. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The fifth collection of Black Widower tales which is a 'best of' from the previous volumes and two new stories previously uncollected.
ROBOTS AND EMPIRE.
West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 650 numbered copies signed by Asimov. Robots re-negotiate the laws of robotics and set humankind on the road to galactic empire. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-52.
THE ROBOTS OF DAWN.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First trade edition. "The detective team of Lije Bailey and Daneel Olivaw investigate robotcide on the planet Aurora and meet the telepathic robot Giskard, setting the scene for the rise of a non-robotic Galactic Empire. This book is the hinge between the previously unconnected "Robot" and "Foundation" series." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 309. 1984 Hugo award nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-52.
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.
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.
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.
GORGEOUS GHOUL MURDER CASE.
New York: New Avon Library, [1943]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. The second Hannah Van Doren mystery. Babcock was a Black Mask author.
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.