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MURDER PLUS: TRUE CRIME STORIES FROM THE MASTERS OF DETECTIVE FICTION.
New York: Pharos Books, 1992. Octavo, wrappers. First edition. True crime stories written by some of the great mystery writers: Jim Thompson, Dashiell Hammett, Lionel White, Day Keene, Brett Halliday, Harlan Ellison and many more.
EYES OF LAURA MARS.
New York, Toronto, London: Bantam Books, [1978]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam 12125-1. Novelization of the screenplay written by John Carpenter and David Zelag Goodman.
FIRE IN THE FLESH.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications Inc., [1957]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #691. Paperback original.
THE MOON IN THE GUTTER.
New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1953]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #348. Paperback original. Filmed in 1983 as La Lune dans le Caniveau.
THE MOON IN THE GUTTER.
New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1953]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #348. Paperback original. Filmed in 1983 as La Lune dans le Caniveau.
NIGHT SQUAD.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1961]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #s1083. Paperback original.
NIGHT SQUAD.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1961]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #s1083. Paperback original.
NIGHT SQUAD.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1961]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #s1083. Paperback original.
NIGHTFALL.
[Toronto: Export Publishing Services Ltd./Newstand Library, 1949]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Newstand Library #39. Hardboiled mystery novel. This precedes the Lion paperback edition. Source for the film noir Nightfall, directed by Jacques Tourneur, screenplay by Sterling Silliphant, starring Aldo Rey, Brian Keith and Anne Bancroft.
OF TENDER SIN.
New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1952]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #226. Paperback original.
OF TENDER SIN.
New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1952]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #226. Paperback original.
STREET OF THE LOST.
New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1952]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #256. Paperback original. Filmed in 1984 in France as Rue Barbare (aka-Street of the Damned).
STREET OF THE LOST.
New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1952]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #256. Paperback original. Filmed in 1984 in France as Rue Barbare (aka-Street of the Damned).
TRIBAL SHADOWS.
New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, [1994]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition. Review slip laid in. Ancient Indian burial ground unearthed in Los Angeles reveals the bones of twin sisters, victims of a modern murderer.
VAMPIRE DETECTIVES.
New York: DAW Books, Inc., [1995]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. DAW No. 983. Original anthology.
WHO'S WHODUNIT.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1969. Printed wrappers. First edition. Pseudonym index for writers of detective, mystery and crime fiction.
CAIN'S GIRL FRIEND bound with UNEASY LIES THE HEAD.
Ace Books, Inc., [1957]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Double #D-203. Paperback original.
MURDERER'S ROW.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1962. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Matt Helm #5.
ON GUNS AND HUNTING.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1970. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett # T2299. Paperback original. From the author of the Matt Helm books, a collection of the authors own stories on hunting, most first published in magazines.
$106,000 BLOOD MONEY.
[New York]: Lawrence E. Spivak, Publisher, n.d. [1943]. Small octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-126 [127-128], pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bestseller Mystery No. B40. Digest size magazine format, paperback original. This volume consists of The Big Knockover and $106,000 Blood Money collected together as a novel. First book publication. Both stories first appeared in Black Mask. Layman A9.1.
THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: L.E. Spivak, 1944. Small octavo, Wrappers. First edition. Bestseller Mystery #B-50. Original wrappers, digest size format. Author's first book of short fiction. Introduction by Ellery Queen. Collects seven fictions, three that feature Sam Spade.
THE CONTINENTAL OP.
[New York]: L.E. Spivak, Publisher, [1945]. Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Bestseller mystery #B-62. Original wrappers. Introduction by Ellery Queen. Collects four Continental Op stories from Black Mask magazine.
THE CREEPING SIAMESE.
[New York]: Lawrence E. Spivak, Publisher, 1950]. Small octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-127 [128], pictorial wrappers. First edition. Jonathan Press No. J48. Digest size magazine format, paperback original. Collects the following stories, "The Creeping Siamese," "The Man Who Killed Dan Adams," "The Nails in Mr Cayterer," "The Joke on Eloise Morey," "Tom, Dick or Harry," and "The King of Business." First book publication for all stories except Tom, Dick or Harry. Introduction by Ellery Queen. Layman A17.1.
NIGHTMARE TOWN.
New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., n.d. [1950]. Small octavo, cover by Robert Stanley, pictorial wrappers. Paperback edition. Dell #379 A mapback edition. Collects the following stories, Nightmare Town, The Scorched Face, Albert Pastor at Home and Corkscrew. The first story appeared in Argosy All Story Weekly, the second in Black Mask, the latter two in Esquire. Introduction by Ellery Queen.
NIGHTMARE TOWN.
New York: The American Mercury / Lawrence E. Spivak, Publisher, [1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. A Mercury Book, No. 120. Digest size magazine format, paperback original. Collects the following stories, "Nightmare Town," "The Scorched Face," "Albert Pastor at Home" and "Corkscrew." First book publication for all. The first story appeared in Argosy All Story Weekly, the second in Black Mask, the latter two in Esquire. Introduction by Ellery Queen. Layman A16.1.