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Bantam Books, 1972. Wraps have light wear. Pages are clean with no markings in text. Glued binding on vintage paperbacks may be brittle. . Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Garden City: Mystery Guild. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Bound in black boards with spine titles stamped in gilt. Book club edition; undated. All three Lew Archer classics unabridged. 647 pages. Just a trace of edgewear to book and jacket. Clean, tight and unmarked; jacket in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

New York: Knopf, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fair/Fair. MacDonald's celebrated and award-winning Southern California private detective Lew Archer investigates extortion and murder in the midst of a brushfire ravaging a Southern California community; tape marks on top and bottom edges of both covers; bottom edges of both covers stained; signature of previous owner on fep; back paste down stained, with date (4/71) in ink in upper right corner; dustjacket shows some edgewear with stained lower right front panel (not particularly noticeable against dustjacket's orange background color; stain and tape marks on jacket's obverse side; having noted all that, text is still tight and clean. A placeholder or reading copy.

New York: Bantam Books, 1972. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Bantam Q7040; a novel from the celebrated hard-boiled mystery series featuring California private detective Lew Archer; text is clean, tight, square in white pictorial wrappers with front cover showing light, horizontal crease near bottom edge, four penpoint indentations near top, o/w minimal surface and edgewear.

Bantam Books, 1972-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. New. In shrink wrap.

Garden City: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, 1980. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 647 pgs. Black boards w/gold foil letters. DJ design #1264399 by Elizabeth Middlebrook. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. GIFT QUALITY. The Ivory Grin: Traveling from sleazy motels to stately seaside manors, The Ivory Grin is one of Lew Archer's most violent and macabre cases ever. A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track down her former maid, who she claims has stolen her jewelry. Archer can tell he's being fed a line, but curiosity gets the better of him and he accepts the case. He tracks the wayward maid to a ramshackle motel in a seedy, run-down small town, but finds her dead in her tiny room, with her throat slit from ear to ear. Archer digs deeper into the case and discovers a web of deceit and intrigue, with crazed number-runners from Detroit,… Read More

London: Collins Crime Club;. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0002318482 . 1st edition; 8vo hbk in d/w; scarlet cloth boards; gold gilt lettering to spine; no names or other handwriting inside; tiny amount of foxing to blocked page foredges; d/w not price clipped (1.50) a few tiny nicks to d/w edges, scarcely noticeable; vg+/Vg; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First edition. Very good plus in a very good plus dust jacket, slight shelf wear to spine ends, small closed tear to rear panel. (7073). Octavo, cloth backed boards. A Lew Archer novel. A television pilot was made based on this novel starring Peter Graves. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 676-678.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth backed boards, top edge stained black. A mystery featuring Lew Archer. A fine copy in very good dustjacket with a closed tear to the lower edge of the front panel, a crease to the front flap and mild soiling.; Octavo.

Bantam Books, 1984-01-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [10], 3-272, [8] pp. Orange paper-covered boards quarter-bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine; black top stain. Price of $5.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Bruccoli A23.1.a. A presentable copy of the sixteenth Lew Archer novel. A name on the free front endpaper, minor foxing to the endleaves and a bit of bowing to the boards; jacket shows a crease on each flap and light foxing.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [10], 3-272, [8] pp. Orange paper-covered boards quarter-bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine; black top stain. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Hal Seigel. Bruccoli A23.1.a. A nice copy of the sixteenth Lew Archer novel. A few spots of foxing on the pastedowns; jacket has a spot of edge wear to its spine panel and some foxing to its flaps.

London: Collins/ The Crime Club, 1971. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Bruising to spine ends, reading crease to spine. Edges toned. Else, clean and tight. In the Roy Belcher dust jacket: rubbed and creased at edges, extremities and joint of front flap. Still, an appealing copy. Very good/ very good. The sixteen Lew Archer novel.

London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1971. [Crime Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Roy Belcher, priced at £1.50. Spotting to edges. Jacket quite heavily rubbed to edges with a few small chips. Very good. A Lew Archer detective novel.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Good +. 273 p. 22 cm. Quarter black cloth with orange paper boards in mylar-covered orange dustjacket designed by Hal Siegel. Top edge black. Tears in jacket edges. Front flap creased. Some label residue on front free endpaper. Bottom corners worn. "The first Lew Archer Novel since the best-selling The Goodbye Look."

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth backed boards, top edge stained black. A mystery featuring Lew Archer. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket with mild fading to the spine panel. ; Octavo.

Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1972. First Italian Edition. Hardcover. 284pp. Blue cloth stamped in gold on the spine. A Lew Archer mystery. Light toning to pages, lower front corner tip bruised. A near fine copy in near fine price-clipped dustjacket. Text in Italian. Translated by Vincenzo Mantovani. ; Octavo.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original black cloth and orange boards. Owner signature, else fine in very good dust jacket. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo.

London: Collins Crime Club, 1971. First Edition. First UK Edition, preceded by the First Edition published by Knopf the same year. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Mark Braun / with regards and best wishes / Ken Millar." The 16th Lew Archer novel. Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket corners and spine ends lightly rubbed.