Search Results: Mystery from poor mans books

Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Publications, Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1962. Second Printing. Paperback. 160 pages; Width: 4.5" Height: 7.25"author-signed Second Crest printing of a work originally published as "The Executioners." Inscription, addressed to "Dear Ol' Guth," is interspersed with blurb on first page, with words from text crossed out and replaced with author's. Printed text reads as follows "What do you do when an insane criminal threatens to destroy your family and the police are powerless to protect you?" "Criminal" has been replaced with "artist" and the words "police are" with "Dean is." The word "Duck!" appears under text and over signature "Ol' John." Volume is bound in wrappers. Book is in excellent condition. Text on front cover advertises the 1962 American psychological thriller film starring Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck. This book is from a… Read More

London: William Heinemann. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1956. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 231 pages; His first book, no US edition. Black cloth. Binding very good plus, brief ink ownership inscription on ffep, light foxing to fore-edge and few pages. DJ worn along folds, moderately soiled, large chip to lower front cover panel extending to base of spine panel, and small chip lower front fold. Not price clipped. See graphic [scanned in mylar]. .

Boston: Little, Brown. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. [1952]. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition (so Stated). Pictorial DJ by Cosgrave, slightly chipped. Sound and tight. .

N Y, N Y: Macaulay Co.. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1934. First English Edition. Hardcover. Crime; Vampire; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages; Inscribed in 1934 to Jim (Carracher) by Evertt (T. Everett Harre, Marietta, PA author). Jim was Harre's step-brother. Laid in is a check signed by Harre on his Marietta bank account. Dust jacket soiled, spine lightly sunned, edgewear w/ pieces missing. VG in GD DJ. Laid in is a book dealer's catalog description. ; Signed by Notable Personage, Related .

N Y: Simon & Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1956. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 12mo, orig black cloth; light edge wear, d/j a couple of shaoow chiips. Internally toned. Presenatation copy inscribed & signed on ffep recto by the author. Jacket is unclipped. Page edges uniformly browned as to be expected. 10 of his highly lauded collection of crime stories that often end with clever and humorous twists. ; Signed by Author .

N Y, N Y: Mysterious Press,. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1993-4. First Edition. Hardcover. Deborah Knott Mystery; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 2 volumes of the Deborah Knott mystery series. .

N Y: Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1959. First American Edition. Hardcover. So stated 1st American Edition. Graphically illustrated DJ. Jacket price is unclipped with quite minor egewear. .

Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Publications, Inc.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Paperback. 16mo 6" - 7" tall; John Dann MacDonald was an American writer of novels and short stories, known for his thrillers. A prolific author of crime and suspense novels, many of them set in his adopted home of Florida. His best-known works include the popular and critically acclaimed Travis McGee series, and his novel "The Executioners," which was adapted into the film "Cape Fear." In 1972, MacDonald was named a grandmaster of the Mystery Writers of America, and he won a 1980 U. S. National Book Award in the one-year category Mystery. Stephen King praised MacDonald as "the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller." Kingsley Amis said, MacDonald "is by any standards a better writer than Saul Bellow, only MacDonald writes thrillers and Bellow is a human-heart chap, so guess who wears the top-grade laurels?"… Read More

NY: Putnam Adult. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0399154035 . 9.10 X 6.40 X 1.30 inches; 368 pages; "...twisted, sexy, and unrelentingly gripping ." Flat Signed by author on title page . In brodart. .

London: Faber & Faber. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1949. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Francis Pettigrew Mystery; Vol. 3RD; Sm 8vo, orig russet cloth; light wear, slightly cocked, d/j (some edge wear & chipping - just touching a few letters at head of spine panel, lightly creased). First published so stated. Jacket unclipped. .