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Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. paperback used

Dell, 1972. 224 yellowing pages, yellow pictorial cover with black & red ltrs, faded and soiled green printers ink on edges, creases on spine, corners/head-heel of spine/& edges are bumped/tattered/& torn, covers soiled, store stamp on ffep,. 1st. Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Fair.

USA: New Dell Pub., 1959. Book. Illus. by Robert McGinnis (GGA) Painted Cover.. Fair / Good, This is a Reading. Soft cover. First Edition By This Publisher. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 224 pages. Goodread notes = "When the beautiful girlfriend of a notorious gangster vanishes, the last man to be seen with her needs an alibi - and fast. Enter Donald Lam of the Cool & Lam detective agency. Donald tracks down the two women with whom his client claims to have spent the night and the client declares the case closed. But it's not. Something about his client's story doesn't add up, and Donald can't resist the temptation to keep digging. Before he knows it, he's dug up connections to a mining scam, an illegal casino, and a double homicide - plus an opportunity for an enterprising private eye to make a small fortune, if he can just stay alive long enough to cash in on it!. " >> This is a reading copy. Cover creasing; spine slant;; pen to… Read More

Dell, 1952. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Dell, 1952. first thus. mass market paperback. very good: clean text, tight binding, minimal shelfwear. Dell 772 224pp. cover painting Griffith Foxley. #00453.

Walter J. Black, 1952. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good/Missing. 0x0x0. Thank you for supporting Earthlight Books and independent bookstores. Hard cover. No DJ. Very Good Condition. First edition. First printing. Full number line and/or stated 1st edition. A.A. Fair is a pseudonym of Erle Stanley Gardner

USA: New Dell Pub., 1954. Book. Illus. by Griffith Foxley (GGA) Painted Cover.. Near Fine.. Soft cover. First Edition By This Publisher. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 224 pages. Goodread notes = "When the beautiful girlfriend of a notorious gangster vanishes, the last man to be seen with her needs an alibi - and fast. Enter Donald Lam of the Cool & Lam detective agency. Donald tracks down the two women with whom his client claims to have spent the night and the client declares the case closed. But it's not. Something about his client's story doesn't add up, and Donald can't resist the temptation to keep digging. Before he knows it, he's dug up connections to a mining scam, an illegal casino, and a double homicide - plus an opportunity for an enterprising private eye to make a small fortune, if he can just stay alive long enough to cash in on it!. " >> Back Cover creasing;.

New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Walter J. Black. The Ghost of an old price mark on the front end paper. Light chipping to the dust jacket with faint soiling, a 5 inch tear to the jacket front panel. Dust jacket is in mylar. V9 . Very Good. Hardcover. 1952.

William Morrow & Company, 1952. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Dell Books. Used - Good. Good condition. (mystery fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

First UK edition first printing of the thirteenth novel in the Donald Lam and Bertha Cool series. Light edge wear. Tape stains to the reverse side of the dust jacket where someone had tried to re enforce the corners. Price clipped otherwise in very good / very good condition.

TOP OF THE HEAP, Heinemann, 1957, first English edition, fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Cool & Lam.

William Morrow, 1952-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Toning on pastedowns & pages. DJ lightly shelf worn with scuffs, creases, toning & small tears in a mylar cover. From the private collection of prominent Oregon lawyer Glenn R. Jack.

William Heinemann Ltd, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. First edition with no mention of later printings. Some wear at the corners and the edges of the jacket, but in near fine condition for its age.