Search Results: Mystery from Mare Booksellers

Garden City: Doubleday and Company, 1968. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. Stated first edition. Black cloth in unclipped jacket. 189 pp. A murder mystery set in Arizona, and drawing on its local culture. GOOD condition. Some fading and toning to the jacket. Minor soiling, with dark scuffs to the rear panel. Jacket extremities scuffed and worn, with some creasing, chipping and minor tearing. Book faded, with some scuffing. Slight lean to the binding. First endpaper apparently cut out, with two small tape burns to the second endpaper.

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First edition with publisher's logo on copyright page and no other printings given. Hardcover lacking a dust jacket. This is Ford's second book. In GOOD+ condition with three faded spots of dampstaining to the front cover and a section of the same sort of light faded dampstaining to the rear cover, running the length of the book and about a 1/3 of the way out from the rear hinge. These are both faint and do not affect the text in any way. Minor soiling to the covers and general fading. Light edgewear. Top page edges with light soiling. Slight forward lean to the book. Inner text solid with minor sporadic soiling along the page fore edges. Previous owner's signature on ffep. Still a nice copy of this hard to find work in GOOD+ condition.

New York: The Parlor Car Publishing Co, 1895. Original Wraps. Fair. First edition. Wraps. 106 pp, plus 17 pages of ads. With an illustrated title page. LACKING THE ORIGINAL WRAPS. A pulp novel featuring Cad Metti, a woman detective and her exploits with Dudie Dunne in foiling a counterfeit operation. FAIR condition, lacking the wraps. Moderate browning to the paper, with offsetting along the extremities of the rear blank page. Minor soiling. Minor chipping and tearing along the fore edge. Interior solid and clean, with a faint dampstain in the fore edge margin of the last half of the book.

London: Gryphon Books, 1956. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/Fair. First edition, so stated. Blue cloth in unclipped jacket. 190 pp. A mystery/thriller novel involving smuggling, gunrunning, etc. FAIR/GOOD condition. Heavy chipping, tearing and creasing to the jacket along the extremities, with some loss. Minor soiling and scuffing. Rear panel toned. Several tears along the spine. Overall a very worn jacket. Book with some toning, soiling and fading. Light edgewear. Text block toned. Paper somewhat brittle. Top center margin of leaf 61/62 has a piece torn off, resulting in slight loss of text. Paper clip stain to those pages.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1985. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. First edition, stated first printing. Blue paper covered boards with brown cloth spine, in unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author, with a brief inscription, on the first endpaper. 311 pp. Another installment of this detective series featuring Parker's private eye, Spenser. GOOD condition. Minor soiling, scuffing and fading to the jacket. Extremities bumped, frayed and worn, with minor chipping peeling and loss to the head and tail. Book faded, with minor scuffing and edgewear. Faint dampstain to the top page edges near the spine. Titles checked off in pencil, with another title written in, facing title page.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. First American Edition. Good/Good. First US edition. Black cloth in unclipped dust jacket. 224 pp. mystery featuring Inspector Morse. GOOD+ condition. Minor fading and edgewear. Rear panel scuffed. Book faded and scuffed, with some soiling. Corners bumped.

New York: Street and Smith, 1900. Wraps. Fair. Illustrated wraps. Digest sized. 318 pp. Victorian era novel, originally printed in 1891. FAIR condition. Moderate to heavy soiling, staining and darkening to the wraps. Minor chipping, creasing and tearing along the extremities, with some loss to the head and tail of the spine. A 2 inch piece MISSING from the lower right rear corner. Interior solid. Pages heavily browned, with a few scattered minor stains and faint dampstaining to the lower page edges and upper fore edges of a few pages.

New York: The McClure Company, 1908. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First edition. Orange illustrated cloth. 239 pp. First solo novel by Adams, an early mystery. Samuel Hopkins Adams, a prolific writer of fiction, was also known for his muckraking journalism. VERY GOOD condition. Minor fading, soiling and edgewear. Text block toned.

Crown Publishers, 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. No additional printings indicated. First edition. Hardcover in unclipped jacket. GOOD+ jacket on a VERY GOOD book. Light soiling and sunning to the jacket, most noticeable to the back jacket. Some light scuffing to the jacket. Moderate to heavy edgewear to the jacket. One large 1 inch chip missing from lower jacket spine. This piece is lain in. Heavy fraying to top of jacket spine. Light soiling and fading to the book. Inside front cover has heavy yellowing from several newspaper clipping that had been laid in. Text clean and solid. Nice looking copy of this first edition of the first book in this series in GOOD+/VERY GOOD condition.

Lowell, MA: C.I. Hood Company, 1914. Original Wraps. Good. Illustrated wraps depicting four cowboys with guns aiming at a woman on a horse. 144 pages. A pulp novel reprint blending the genres of crime and westerns. GOOD condition. Moderate browning and faint spotting to the front cover, with general soiling and fading. A few faint, small dampstains present to the wraps. Minor creasing. Two chips to the wraps along the front fore edge, with minor tearing along the spine. Interior clean and solid with heavy browning to the paper.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd. Cloth. Good/Poor. no date, perhaps 1920s. Red cloth in unclipped jacket. Viii, 278 pp. Price of 2/6 on the spine. Jacket art by Leo Bates. Presumed an early reprint. A spy/mystery novel set during World War I. POOR/FAIR jacket on a GOOD book. Jacket moderately stained and soiled, with general toning. Heavy scuffing along the hinges. Heavy edgewear, with many small chips, tears and associated creasing. Minor soiling, spotting and general darkening to the covers. Minor edgewear. Heavy toning to the paper. Minor scattered soiling in the interior.

New York: Random House, 1940. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Stated first edition. Beige cloth. No jacket. 326 pp. A mystery novel by American journalist and novelist Elliot Paul, an author tangentially associated with Gertrude Stein and other Americans in Paris in the 1920s. GOOD condition. Small semicircular ring stain to the front cover. Minor toning and soiling. Light edgewear. Cloth fraying along the hinges. Owner's signature present. Several pages with diagonal creases.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1938. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. First edition, stated. Blue cloth. No jacket. 312 pp. A mystery set in a small town, incorporating the rise of fascism with a mystery, with archaeology and architecture used as means of solving the crime. By Stanley Casson, a British archaeologist. GOOD condition. Minor toning, rubbing and soiling to the covers. Light scuffing and bumping along the extremities. Small owner's bookplate on the first endpaper. Minor toning to the text block.

New York: Phoenix Press, 1945. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Light olive cloth. No jacket. 256 pp. SIGNED by the author with date and a short inscription indicating this was the author's copy. A hard-boiled detective/mystery story set in Boston, Massachusetts and following the exploits of private detective Duke McCale. GOOD condition. Heavy browning to the cloth along the extremities and spine. Minor soiling, with several spots of staining to the front and rear cover. Minor scuffing. Extremities bumped, with some fraying to the cloth at the corners and spine tips. Interior solid. Moderate browning to the paper. A few old tape scars along the fore edge of the inside front cover.

New York: Fictioneers, Inc., Publisher, 1948. Wraps. Good. Color illustrated wraps. Approximately 10 by 7 ½ inches. 130 pp. A single issue of this mystery/crime pulp magazine, featuring the short novel by John D. MacDonald 'Come Die With Me,' as well as work by Ray Cummings, Shad Collins and others. GOOD condition. Heavy chipping, tearing and creasing along the fore edge and bottom edge of the magazine. Minor fading, soiling, toning and creasing to the covers. Interior solid but browned. Pencil check mark on the first page of the MacDonald story.

Boston: James H. Brigham, Publisher, 1880. Wraps. Poor. 1880 or perhaps later. Presumed late 19th century reprint of the Lee and Shepard American publication. Wraps (LACKING both front and rear). vi, 259, 8 pp. The 8 pages at the rear are specimen pages from a forthcoming work. A mystery/detective style novel set in late 19th century France and involving the discovery of a corpse. POOR/FAIR condition, LACKING the front and rear wrap. Most of the wrap present along the spine, with some loss at the head and tail. Heavy browning to the paper, with some soiling to the first and last page. Minor chipping and tearing to the extremities of the first and last pages. Text block solid.

New York: Standard Magazines, Publisher, 1952. Wraps. Fair. Pulp magazine. 9 ½ by 7 inches. Featuring color vintage cover art of a woman and man struggling on a bed over a gun. 114 pp. With a few black and white illustrations in the interior. A single issue of this mystery/detective pulp magazine, featuring work by Robert Wallace, Philip Morgan, Harry Widmer, The Phantom, Elizabeth H. Sutton and others. FAIR condition. Outer wraps chewed in several places along the spine. 2 inch area of dark staining at the upper spine/rear hinge. Minor soiling and scuffing, with general fading. Wrappers chipped and creased along the extremities, with several minor tears. Black cross in crayon on the upper front cover, somewhat blending into the background of the illustration. Small pen doodle to the woman's exposed leg. Interior clean and solid with general browning to the paper.

New York: Mysterious Press/Warner Books, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. First edition, stated first printing. Paper covered boards in unclipped jacket. SIGNED on the title page, with a brief dedication, by the author. 325 pp. A Joe Gunther mystery. GOOD+ condition. Minor scuffing, wrinkling and fading to the jacket, with light creasing along the top edge. Small split at the upper hinge of the front flap. Minor fading and edgewear to the book.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. First US edition. Light beige cloth in price clipped jacket. 267 pp. Third novel featuring Highsmith's anti-hero Tom Ripley. GOOD+ jacket on a VERY GOOD book. Minor soiling and uneven fading to the jacket. Minor bumping and creasing along the extremities. Light fading and edgewear to the book.

New York: Doubleday and Company, 1952. Cloth. Fair/Fair. Greenish blue cloth in unclipped jacket. 220 pp. An award winning collection of mystery stories. FAIR/GOOD condition. Heavy chipping, creasing and tearing along the jacket edges, with some loss. General fading and toning to the jacket. Minor soiling. Rear jacket a bit stained. Lower corner of the rear jacket scuffed, with superficial loss of paper. Minor fading and edgewear to the book. Minor staining/discoloration to the rear cover, with a small faint stain to the upper front. Moderate to heavy toning to the text block.