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Come Climb My Hill

By: Abbott, Winston O.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: South Windsor, CT, Windsor House: 1980

Edition: Revised Edition

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 019548

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Revised Edition, SIGNED by author and illustrator, in clean unchipped jacket. Very clean green cloth boards with tree illustration on cover. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no previous owner markings. Unpaginated, illustrated with drawings by Bette Eaton Bossen. Clean jacket is unchipped, one tiny closed edge tear at top edge of rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Poetic prose about the mystery and beauty of common things.
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A Mysterious Affair of Style (Evadne Mount Trilogy)

By: Adair, Gilbert

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Faber And Faber: 2007

Edition: First

Seller ID: 028553

ISBN: 0571234259

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, First printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean black boards with cream lettering on spine. Very light surface wear to spine ends, no tears or fraying. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean. Clean red endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 292 pages. Clean jacket is not price clipped, unchipped, a few short closed edge tears, corner wear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

By: Adams, Douglas

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1987

Edition: First

Seller ID: 028700

ISBN: 0671625829

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean black boards with black cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 247 pages. Clean dust jacket has slight age-toning, is not price clipped (14.95 on front inside flap), no chips, tiny nick to spine fold edge. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Dick Gently is a private detective who is more interested in telekinesis, quantum mechanics and lu...
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The Secret of Lonesome Cove

By: Adams, Samuel Hopkins

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill: 1912

Edition: Early printing

Seller ID: 028547

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Early printing of a scarce title. Published 1912, no month on copyright page. Olive green ribbed cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. Small spots of wear-through at corners, wear at top and bottom spine edges. Binding is tight, pages and edges are clean. Previous owner name and date neatly penned on front fixed endpaper; old bookstore inkstamp (small) on both front fixed and front free endpaper at upper edge. Illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover, including frontispiece with tissue guard. 340 pages.
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The Kingdom and the Cave

By: Aiken, Joan

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday: 1974

Edition: First

Seller ID: 027564

ISBN: 0385030436

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Stated First American Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Yellow cloth boards with black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear, quite clean and bright. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean turquoise endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated by Victor ambrus. 160 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A wonderful tale of mystery, fantasy and adventure.
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Murder on the Leviathan: A Novel

By: Akunin, Boris

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2004

Edition: First

Seller ID: 020140

ISBN: 1400060516

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Stated First Edition with full number line, in clean unclipped jacket. Clean beige boards with gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Translated by Andrew Bromfield. 223 pp. Clean dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A richly atmospheric tale of suspense on the high seas set in the late 1800's.
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This Club Frowns on Murder

By: Albert Borowitz

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, St Martins Press: 1990

Edition: First

Seller ID: 028746

ISBN: 0312039433

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Unfaded black boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. BInding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean; small previous owner name neatly penned on front paste down under dust jacket flap. 182 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, one tiny closed tear at top edge of rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. An elegant, finely wrought murder mystery in the classic style with unforgettable characters and two delightfu detectives.
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Crime and Mr. Campion

By: Allingham, Margery

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday: 1937

Edition: Book Club Edition

Seller ID: 026061

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Book Club Edition in dust jacket. Very clean mint green boards with crisp red lettering on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with red top stained upper page edges, clean blank endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 575 pages. Clean dust jacket has a few small edge chips. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Three of Margery Allingham's finest mystery stories are collected in this book: Death of A Ghost; Flowers for the Judge; and Dancers In Mourning.
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The Byzantine Wake

By: Aloi, Frank

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Edward Uhlan, Publisher: 1976

Edition: First

Seller ID: 011028

ISBN: 0-682-48524-1

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Very clean black pebbled cloth boards with gold stamped lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or bookplates; clean gray endpapers. 199 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped, with just a hint of edge wear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8 vo.. Mystery.
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The Sun of Quebec - A Story of a Great Crisis

By: Altsheler, Joseph A.

Price: $325.00

Publisher: New York / London, D. Appleton and Co.: 1919

Edition: First

Seller ID: 018661

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition, First Printing, with (1) on last page, in original unchipped jacket. Very clean unfaded brown cloth boards with bright gold stamped lettering on cover and spine, clean paste-on illustration on cover which is unchipped but has two tiny surface abrasions (each about the size of a grain of rice). Two corner tips have slight bumping. No fraying or wear to cloth. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Four color plate illustrations (including frontispiece) by Charles L. Wrenn. 334 pgs. Clean dustjacket ...
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The Light of Day

By: Ambler, Eric

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1963

Edition: First

Seller ID: 023414

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Stated "First American Edition" in dust jacket. Clean turquoise cloth boards with gold author initials on cover, gold lettering and green decoration on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean map-decorated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 243 pages. Dust jacket is not price clipped (3.95 on front inside flap), clean but has some insect damage (scattered small holes ); rear panel has nice photo of Ambler standing on a balcony smoking a cigarette. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Page-tu...
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Hollywood and LeVine

By: Andrew Bergman

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart And Winston: 1975

Edition: First

Seller ID: 026732

ISBN: 0030138167

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Stated First Edition in unclipped dust jacket. Clean red boards with white cloth spine, black lettering on spine. No fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean blank endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 216 pages. Illustrated jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, one tiny closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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Madame Solario

By: Anonymous

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1956

Edition: First

Seller ID: 026741

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition (First Published in August, 1956) in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean unfaded black and lime green cloth boards with black lettering no cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with black top-stained upper page edges. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 374 pages. Dust jacket is clean, has a few tiny edge nicks, short closed edge tears, not price clipped. Jacket design by Irv Docktor. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. At a fashionable hotel on Lake Como i...
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The Goliath Scheme (A Red badge novel of suspense)

By: Arden, William

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead: 1971

Edition: First

Seller ID: 028492

ISBN: 0396062873

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition in unclipped original dust jacket. Clean blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine. No fading or soiling, small bump to one lower corner. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Book store name and address ink-stamped on front free endpaper, otherwise pages and edges are clean. A Red Badge Novel of Suspense - A Kane Jackson novel. 188 pages. Clean jacket is not price clipped, has light rubbing, chip at top spine edge (size of half a nickel), slight fading to spine. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A company president fighti...
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The Brotherhood of Fear

By: Ardrey, Robert

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1952

Edition: First

Seller ID: 028445

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Stated First Printing in unclipped original dust jacket. Lilght gray cloth boards with white and black lettering on spine. Slightest hint of foxing from paper jacket (now in mylar). No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean; blank endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 342 pages. Dust jacket is quite clean, not price clipped, has a little light rubbing and some wear at folds, a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Suspense and romance ensue in this tale of the pursuit by a ...
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Cop Cade

By: Ball, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Doubleday & Co. For Crime Club: 1978

Edition: First

Seller ID: 007416

ISBN: 0-385-14374-5

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean blue-black boards with blue lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages are clean and bright. No names, writing or bookplates. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, two very small chips to rear bottom panel edge (match head size), light corner wear and rubbing. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Mystery.
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Mrs. Raffles - Being the Adventures of An Amateur Crackswoman

By: Bangs, John Kendrick

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1905

Edition: First

Seller ID: 024280

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

First Edition, Published October, 1905. Decorated American trade binding. Gray cloth boards with decorated cover (woman with two pistols aimed at man with arms up). Black lettering and single rule line border. Gold lettering on spine. Light soiling and fading. Binding is tight, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers (previous owner name in erasable pencil on front free endpaper). Frontispiece illustration by Albert Levering with tissue guard, 15 illustrations throughout - should be 16 - missing one illustration (opposite page 66). 180 pages.
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The Thief Taker: Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner

By: Banks, T. F.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press: 2001

Edition: First

Seller ID: 013703

ISBN: 0-385-33571-7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Clean maroon boards with maroon cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 276 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Mystery.
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Track of the Cat

By: Barr, Nevada

Price: $400.00

Publisher: New York, Putnam Publishing Group: 1993

Edition: First

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 018274

ISBN: 0399138242

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Beautiful first edition, first printing of author's first book in the Anna Pigeon mystery series, SIGNED by author on title page. Clean unfaded green boards with unfaded black spine, bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping, no wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. No previous owner markings. 238 pgs. Clean bright original dustjacket with price of $19.95 on front inside flap is unchipped, no wear, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Scarce and highly collectible.
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Track of the Cat

By: Barr, Nevada

Price: $120.00

Publisher: New York, Putnam: 1993

Edition: First

Seller ID: 021089

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Fine

First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped jacket. Clean green boards with black spine, unchipped metallic lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 238 pages. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Collectible quality first edition of author's first mystery in the famous Anna Pigeon series.
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Keyword: mystery