Search Results: Mystery & Detective Fiction from Lippincott Books

New York: Random House, 1963. Hardcover. VG/VG+. Banbery, Fred. 206 pp. Pictorial boards. Illustrated by Fred Banbery. Five solve-them-yourself mysteries. In case the reader misses the clues in the story, Hitchcock highlights them at the end of each story. Illustrated hard covers. This title uncommon. Front and back boards each have a small nick at the bottom, else Fine. In dust jacket with 395/395 on front flap. The front cover of ther jacket has a small tear at bottom, the jacket is otherwise Fine.

New York: Random House, 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Shilstone, Arthur. 208 pp. Pictorial boards. Illustrated by Arthur Shilstone. Stories by Agatha Christie, Hugh Pentecost, Cornell Woolrich, Stuart Palmer, MacKinay Kantor, Erle Stanley Gardner, August Derleth, Michael Gilbert, Ellery Queen, Leslie Charteris, and John Dickson Carr. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with 395/395 on front flap.

New York: Random House, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 206 pp. Pictorial boards. Illustrated by Harold Isen. With thirteen stories by Agatha Christie, Richard Connell, Daphne de Maurier, Patrick Quentin, Robert Arthur, Roald Dahl, Sax Rohmer, F. Tennyson Jesse, Robert Bloch, Edgar Wallace, Dorothy Sayers, Clayre and Michel Lipman, and Percival Wilde. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with 395/395 on front flap.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. 151, [3] pp. From the library of Robin McKinley, science fiction writer and wife of mystery author Peter Dickinson, with her bookplate on front pastedown. A detective story of a Newport wedding. Hubin. A Bobbs-Merrill Pocket Book Series of adventure, mystery, and humor. "Pocket Book " in this case being a hardcover book. Lightly foxed endpapers, and spine slant, else VG

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1953. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/GVG. Yellow cloth. 263 pp. Sir Henry Merrivale. Crease on front board else VG In dust jacket with tear and small hole towards lower back edge of the spine otherwise quite presentable.

Tuscon, Arizona: Dennis McMillan, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Joe Servello. 288 pp. Pictorial end papers.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/GVG. xvi, 201, [3] pp. With index. Association copy. From the library of Janwillem van de Wetering. Van de Wetering studied at a Zen monastery in Japan in 1958-1959, and later spent seven years in the Amsterdam Reserve Constabulary. When he began to write mystery novels these experieces were used in creating his detectives, Grijpstra and de Gier of the Amsterdam Murder Brigade, and the Japanese Inspector Saito. This book would have been used in research for the Inspector Saito novels, which were written under the pseudonym Seiko Legru.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good/GVG. [iv], 303, [3] pp. Blue cloth, title and cover decoration stamped in black. Third printing, published in March, 1922, the same month as the first printing. Futuristic world politics of the year 1934 and the Menace of the Yellow Peril. Hubin. Bleiler. Reginald 11016. Light wear at spine edges, small spot on rear board, light foxing to top edges. Price-intact dustjacket has wear at edges and folds, chipping at spine edges.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 236, [1] pp. Leslie serves up a fine Conch stew, mixing equal parts of sunken treasure, a sexually addicted policeman, a judge with an indiscretion, and seasoning it all with a murdered girl from an escort service.

New York: Random House, 1987. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 233, [1] pp. With Buckley's bookplate on front endpaper with a warm inscription to Noyes. From the library of Newbold Noyes, editor of the Washington Evening Star, Noyes was an ambulance driver during World War II and then foreign correspondent for the Star, covering American troops in Italy and reporting on the invasion of southern France and the Allied advance into Germany. The Washington Evening Star was a liberal Republican newspaper, now extinct, once rival to the Washington Post. Buckley's eighth Blackford Oakes novel. In 1963, Oakes is again in Cuba now working to overthrow Castro after the Cuban missile crisis. VG in VG dj.

New York: Viking Press, 1989. First American Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. xl, 240 pp. First American Edition. Author's first " Matteesie" Kitologitak mystery. Unpriceclipped dustjacket, with the gloss finish worn in places. NF/VG

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 207 pp. Blue paper-covered boards, spine title gilt. Clean & tight; appears unread. Price-intact dustjacket has light edge wear and one closed tear.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975. First English Edition . Hardcover. GVG/Near Fine. Spine slant else VG in Near Fine dust jacket.

New York: Soho Press, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Grijpstra & DeGier Mystery. 280 pp. Dark gray paper-covered boards, black cloth spine stamped in silver. "A new Amsterdam Cops novel, the 14th in this successful series of Zen mysteries.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 266 pp. Blue cloth, silver stamped title on spine. Price intact dustjacket has small, closed tear. NF/NF

New York: E P Dutton, 1946. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/GVG. 252 pp. Author's first book. Blue cloth stamped in red. Unclipped dustjacket, with art by Maurer, has edge wear, light soiling. "Behind all the surface frivolity and social intrigue the author has worked out with astonishing skill an emotional drama that places The Restless very definitely in the class of unusual first novels.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. [iv], 316 pp. Blue cloth, titles stamped in orange. Illustrated dustjacket is lightly sunned, has edge wear with a chip at lower spine. "...a vivid narrative, an unusual story of sordid scheming, sincere devotion, dramatic incident, in a setting of exotic cosmopolitan life." Bunco schemes. Hubin.

New York: Doubleday, 1984. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. 233, [1] pp. Buckley's bookplate on ffep with inscription to Newbold Noyes and his wife in red ink. From the library of Newbold Noyes, editor of the Washington Evening Star. Noyes was an ambulance driver during World War II and then foreign correspondent for the Star, covering American troops in Italy and reporting on the invasion of southern France and the Allied advance into Germany. The Washington Evening Star was a liberal Republican newspaper, now extinct, once rival to the Washington Post. Buckley's sixth Blackford Oakes novel. It is the early 1960s, and CIA agent Oakes meets Che Guevara and tries to ease tensions between Cuba and America after the Bay of Pigs incident. VG in GVG dj

New York: Scribner's, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 282 pp. 2nd book in the Maggie Summer series. Summer is an antique print dealer, as is the author, and much of the book revolves around her knowledge and dealings in the trade.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1943. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Author's first mystery. Very Good copy with slight edge wear. In VG dust jacket with some tiny nicks and tears, edge wear at spine and corners.