Mystery
THE SEVEN SISTERS.
New York: A Permabook Edition published by Pocket Books, Inc., [1962]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Permabook M-4258. Paperback original. Crime novel set in Las Vegas. Hubin, p. 45.
THE CHINESE MASK.
[New York]: A Signet Book, [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signet D2715. Paperback original. The second Joaquin Hawks spy thriller. Set in China. Hubin, p. 45.
THE SPY IN BANGKOK.
[New York]: A Signet Book, [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signet D2820. Paperback original. The third Joaquin Hawks spy thriller. Set in Thailand. Hubin, p. 45.
THE SPY IN THE JUNGLE.
[New York]: A Signet Book, [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signet D2674. Paperback original. The first Joaquin Hawks spy thriller. Set in Southeast Asia. Hubin, p. 45.
FLYING DEATH ...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-198, title page printed in orange and black, original yellow cloth, front panel stamped in green and blind, spine panel stamped in green. First edition. Fantastic adventure novel concerning the activities of the "Flying Death," an organization of aerial bandits. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 112. Reginald 00799. Bleiler (1978), p. 14. Hubin (1994), p. 45.
FLYING DEATH.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Fantastic adventure novel concerning the activities of the "Flying Death," an organization of aerial bandits. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 112. Reginald 00799. Bleiler (1978), p. 14. Hubin (1994), p. 45.
SHYLOCK HOMES: HIS POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS.
[Arlington, VA]: The Dispatch-Box Press, 1973. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies. Edited and introduction by Jon L. Lellenberg. Collection of 10 Sherlock Holmes parodies which were serialized in American newspapers in 1903. This collection is taken from the pages of the The New York Herald.
THE DEADLY PERCHERON.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Author's first novel. "Bardin's three novels have close affinities with the Hollywood "film noir" of the 1940s, combining eerily mysterious occurrences with an interest in abnormal psychology and dreams, and an almost Gothic sense of the ways in which the past interpenetrates the present." - St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, p. 47.
THE DEADLY PERCHERON.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Author's first novel. "Bardin's three novels have close affinities with the Hollywood "film noir" of the 1940s, combining eerily mysterious occurrences with an interest in abnormal psychology and dreams, and an almost Gothic sense of the ways in which the past interpenetrates the present." - St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, p. 47.
THE LAST OF PHILIP BANTER.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Author's second mystery novel. "Bardin's three novels have close affinities with the Hollywood "film noir" of the 1940s, combining eerily mysterious occurrences with an interest in abnormal psychology and dreams..." - Pederson (ed.): The St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers (4th ed.), pp. 47.
THE APOLLO LEGACY.
New York: Award Books, [1970]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Award Books A719S. Paperback original. Thriller/SF novel. An astronaut has an affair with a journalist and the unborn child is infected with a space virus. A C.I.A. agent investigates. Hubin, p. 49.
BLOOD WILL HAVE BLOOD.
New York: Avon, 1982. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Author's first book. A Michael Sprague mystery.
THE SNAKE TATTOO.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The second Carlotta Carlyle mystery.
ALL MY ENEMIES.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1952. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Spy novel of Soviet espionage in the United States. A Ballantine hardcover, H-3. Photo montage dust jacket.
BITTERSWEET.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1984]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel. The lives of two women and love in the 19th Century American west.
ILL WIND.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The third Anna Pigeon mystery.
ILL WIND.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The third Anna Pigeon mystery.
TRACK OF THE CAT.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first mystery.
TRACK OF THE CAT.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first mystery.
THE FACE AND THE MASK.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, [1895]. Small octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-250 [251: ads] [252: blank], five inserted plates with illustrations by A. Hencke, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver, silver top edge, other edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. A scarce collection of short fiction including "The Doom of London," a catastrophe story, and "The Great Pegram Mystery, a Sherlock Holmes parody. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-8 and (1981) 1-14. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 101. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 126 and 127. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 046. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 28. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 55. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 55. Bleiler (1978), p. 16. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Hubin (1994), p. 51.
BEARING SECRETS.
New York: Walker, 1996. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed. Author's second mystery.
THE INNOCENTS.
New York: Walker, 1995. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Author's first mystery.
PINK VODKA BLUES.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Author's well received first mystery novel.
PINK VODKA BLUES.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Author's well received first mystery novel.
KISS AND KILL bound with ON THE HOOK.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition and first paperback edition. Ace double D-47. Paperback original of the Barry novel. The Powell is a reprint, originally published as SHARK RIVER. Jaffery, S., Double Trouble: A Bibliographic Chronicle of Ace Mystery Doubles, pp. 21-22.