Of Missing Persons by Goodis,David - 1951

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO: TOMMY NELSON. VG. AUDIO CASSETTES (6). 1992.

New York, NY: Pocket Books, Inc. (1951) 152+2 pp. Original pictorial wraps, lightly soiled w/ mild edge wear. Slight lean to front cover. Approx. 3/4" closed tear to rear cover at spine. Light foxing to endpapers. Edges of leaves a bit age toned.. First Printing. Soft Cover. Good to Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

pocket book, , (first PB 1951), . 833, , very good +, hardboiled suspense novel, , paperback,

pocket book, , (first PB 1951), . 833, , very good -fine, , reading crease, hardboiled suspense novel, , paperback,

pocket book, , (first PB 1951), . 833, , near fine, unread, hardboiled suspense novel, , paperback,

New York: Morrow, 1950. First Edition. Very good copy with a thin split to the front hinge and some minor edge wear and spotting to the boards in an excellent facsimile dust jacket.

NF / VG. 1950 William Morrow & Co., first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fifth novel by David Goodis, and the last to be released as a hardcover. Terrific copy of the book, with a jacket that has a couple of small chips; one to top of cover - 1/4" missing at top of jacket spine.

NY: Morrow, 1950. Previous owner's small ownership label on front pastedown (completely hidden by front flap of dust jacket). Small four digit number written on top corner of ffep. Overall, a tight, clean copy of this early Goodis first edition bounf in boards, stamped in red. 186pp. Included in the price is a facsimile dust jacket that fits the book perfectly. . First Edition. Hard Cover. VG++/Fine (Facsimile DW).

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1950. First Edition. Goodis's fifth novel, his last one in hardcover before churning out a dozen of the finest paperback originals ever written. Basis for the 1956 Pierre Chenal film 'Section des Disparus' starring Guillermo Battaglia and Amalia Bernabé. Hubin, p.173. First Printing. Octavo; black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in red on spine; dustjacket; 186pp. Some pinpoint wear to spine ends, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50) and unfaded, lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny nicks and short tears and one small skinned area at crown; an attractive, Very Good+ example.

New York: William Morrow & CO., 1950., 1950. First edition. First edition. Near fine in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners, a small crease to top edge and bottom edge of front cover and lightly soiled on the back panel. Author's fifth mystery novel. Paul Ballard is the head of Missing Persons Bureau, and his customers are the people of the city who have lost other people and want Ballard to bring them back. But Ballard's prize customer is found dead, and this particular murder tears City Hall wide open. It left him with one crazy thousand-to-one chance of saving all the things he stood for, and his boss was not fooling when he said, "It's your funeral!"