Waylaid In Boston

New York: Random House, 1953. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Grey paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 274pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and touch of rubbing. Tight, quite handsome first edition. Notes delightful front jacket panel, "Homer Evans, with the skill of a Boston cab driver, threads his way through a mad and merry murder… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine/Near Fine. A Homer Evans Mystery" 8vo., 247pp. Beautiful First Printing. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. A touch of of-setting to the end-papers and two ownerships stamps on the front end-paper. Perhaps a hint of bumping at the spin ends but barely. Equally attractive… Read more about this item

1st printing. Very Good hardcover in Very Good DJ. Bright, clean, square covers and spine; tightly bound; light, clean interior. DJ is price-clipped; faintly scuffed with very slight edge wear; now in paper-backed mylar. 8vo,274 pp.

Random House, 1953. Hardcover. Good. 1953. First Edition. 274 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Moderate tanning to spine.

New York: Random House, 1953. 274 pp. Colorful dj with cartoonish characters laid out against a map of Boston. "If you like mirth with your murder and a plot as tangle d as Saturday-night traffic in Scollay Sqaure, you'll enjoy [this author's] latest novel." A very good copy.

New York: Random House, 1953. First printing (stated). Hardcover. DJ taped to boards, very mild rubbing to spine head and foot, very gentle rubbing to corners, stamp to front pastedown, light water stain to bottom of page seven, faint soiling and water stain to fore-edge, clean pages, tight binging, mild wear to DJ spine foot and head, light red… Read more about this item

Random House, 1953-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Random House 1953 first edition stated first printing hardcover, fine gray cloth w/ black medallion front panel - gilt decoration and titles in black field on spine, fine mylar-covered dust jacket, tight binding, clean unmarked text Prompt, reliable serv Prompt, reliable service, shipped next business day. Int'l mailed via first class or… Read more about this item

Random, 1953. 1st. Hardcover. A FINE crisp copy in a FINE bright dj.

New York: Random House, 1953. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gray cloth-effect boards, lettered in gilt. Slight binding lean, slightly tanned text block edges. Color illus. dust jacket shows minor rubbing to corners and spine extremities, slight chipping at head of spine, mildly sunned spine panel, now in mylar.… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1953. Homer Evans, Finky Maguire and friends formulate a challenge: can one of them follow a stranger for 48 hours and compile enough information for a report. One accepts the challenge and a stranger is chosen, but he is killed in his apartment. Rubbed with chipping at the spine ends, tears to the rear… Read more about this item

New York : Random House , 1953. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 274 pages. Light edgewear, chipping to bright pictorial dust jacket with small chips missing to edges of spine. Clean, tight copy. Record # 854271

Random House. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Good dust jacket. Slightly dampstained. Dust jacket price clipped. In protective mylar cover. (mystery, crime, vintage)

New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Paul, the author of "The Last Time I Saw Paris," also wrote a series of humorous mystery novels featuring a pair of intrepid private detectives, Homer Evans and Finke McGuire. This, the tenth book in the series, is set in Boston, where Homer, consulting with… Read more about this item

NY: Random. G in G DJ ex-library. (1953). 1st ptg. In the worst of Boston pubs a detective and a murderer play hare and hounds, mirth with murder, a plot as tangled as . Saturday night traffic. Library markings. .

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Coachwhip Publications, 2016. Paperback. New. 230 pages. 8.90x5.90x0.70 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.