Mystery
THE SCARF OF PASSION.
New York: Avon Novels Inc., [1948]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Avon Monthly Novel #9. Digest size format. Signed by Bloch on the title page.
THE SCARF.
New York: The Dial Press, 1947. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page: "Best wishes-Robert Bloch."
SCREAMS: THREE NOVELS OF SUSPENSE.
San Rafael, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First combined edition. Collects The Will to Kill (1954), Firebug (1961), and The Star Stalker (1968). First hardcover edition for all titles (all first printed in paperback). The Will to Kill "tells of a Korean War veteran searching to the secret of his periodic mental blackouts"; "Firebug was the story of a murderous pyromaniac"; "The Stark Stalker, an evocative novel set in Hollywood during the last days of silent movies." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 82-84.
SCREAMS: THREE NOVELS OF SUSPENSE.
San Rafael, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First combined edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Bloch. Collects The Will to Kill (1954), Firebug (1961), and The Star Stalker (1968). First hardcover edition for all titles (all first printed in paperback). The Will to Kill "tells of a Korean War veteran searching to the secret of his periodic mental blackouts"; "Firebug was the story of a murderous pyromaniac"; "The Stark Stalker, an evocative novel set in Hollywood during the last days of silent movies." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 82-84.
SCREAMS: THREE NOVELS OF SUSPENSE.
San Rafael, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Bloch, this is copy number 1. Collects The Will to Kill (1954), Firebug (1961), and The Star Stalker (1968). First hardcover edition for all titles (all first printed in paperback). The Will to Kill "tells of a Korean War veteran searching to the secret of his periodic mental blackouts"; "Firebug was the story of a murderous pyromaniac"; "The Stark Stalker, an evocative novel set in Hollywood during the last days of silent movies." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 82-84.
SHOOTING STAR bound with TERROR IN THE NIGHT: AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1958]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace double #D-265. Paperback original. SHOOTING STAR is a "a Hollywood private eye novel." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 82-84, TERROR IN THE NIGHT collects seven stories first printed in various digest sized mystery magazines.
SHOOTING STAR bound with TERROR IN THE NIGHT: AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1958]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace double D-265. Paperback original. SHOOTING STAR is a "a Hollywood private eye novel." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 82-84, TERROR IN THE NIGHT collects seven stories first printed in various digest sized mystery magazines.
THE WILL TO KILL.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Books #S-67. Paperback original.
CLUES FOR DR. COFFEE: A SECOND CASEBOOK.
Philadelphia, New York, J.B. Lippincott Company, [1964]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The first volume with Dr. Coffee was a Queens Quorum selection. Hubin, p. 81. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, pp. 67-68.
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.
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.