MUTE WITNESS by Pike, Robert L. (pseud. Robert L. Fish) - 1965

Doubleday, June 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Stated First Edition of a scarce book. Ex-library copy, with usual marks. Dust jacket in Very Good condition, protected by mylar taped to book. Old library bar code stuck to mylar. Binding tight and strong with slight cant. Library stamp on inside front and back cover, and light pencil and pen marks on front endpaper. Pages intact and strong but yellowed and with some soiling and light coffee stains on first few pages. Cheapest available copy of the book that became the iconic Steve McQueen movie Bullitt. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.

Doubleday, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/Very Good. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($3.50 price intact). Published by Doubleday/Crime Club, 1963. Octavo. Black cloth boards stamped in red. Book is very good with a slight spine lean and previous owner name on pastedown and flyleaf. Has a few smudges/spots on first three pages (stops before title page). Dust jacket is very good with some shelf/edge wear and a few small nicks. Light spine fading. A very scarce copy of Robert Fish's early book and first written under the "Robert L. Pike" pseudonym. Book that was turned into the acclaimed film "Bullitt" starring Steve McQueen. Book has been placed in a custom acetate protector. 183 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks.… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday/Crime Club. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1963. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book and DJ would be Fine/Fine, except for glue residue inside the covers and under the DJ flaps, where someone had glued down the DJ. Date stamp on the fep, but not a single library mark in or on the book. Not clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 183 pages .

Garden City, NY: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday., 1963. Hardcover. The first novel using the Pike pseudonym, Mute Witness was the basis for the 1968 feature film "Bullitt", starring Steve McQueen. 1st edition, 1st printing. 183 pp. Near Fine book (no markings to text; very light toning to page edges, ink name under front dj flap, felt marker checkmark on top corner of front free endpaper) / Near Fine dust jacket ($3.50 price not clipped; 1/4" tear to bottom edge of front dj panel near spine -- not visible from the outside; white dj spine and front flapfold slightly darkened with trace of fading to orange and red coloring on spine; rear dj panel has a 1/2 quarter-sized skinned area at bottom near spine; a trace of foxing on the inside of the front dj flap). A very attractive copy of a very scarce book. Photos available upon request.

Garden City: Doubleday, Crime Club, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very good +. Police novel which was made into the Steve McQueen film "Bullitt". Bump on bottom front board corner. Two tiny specks at top of front free endpaper. Dust jacket with $3.50 price has a little rubbing on the rear panel. Jacket is bright except for the publisher's name at bottom of spine which is somewhat faded.

New York: Doubleday, 1963. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the 1968 film "Bullitt," directed by Peter Yates and starring Steve McQueen. Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket, without a trace of the usual fading to the reds and oranges on the jacket spine. Page edges lightly foxed, with faintest offsetting to the endpapers. Jacket lightly rubbed at the corners, with a tiny closed tear at the top right corner of the front panel.

Garden City, New York: Published For The Crime Club By Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963. First edition. Previous owners neat gift inscription to upper left corner of front free endpaper, touch or rubbing to extremities, a nearly fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket, light shelf wear to corners, some age darkening to spine panel, some rubbing to rear panel. front panel colors bright as well as no fading to colors on spine panel. An above average copy of an uncommon book. (13986). Octavo, cloth. This book was the source material for the Steve McQueen feature film "Bullitt" The feature character Lt. Clancy appeared in two more novels. This is also the first novel using the Pike pseudonym.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963., 1963. First edition. First edition. Former owner's small inked name and date on front free fly leaf, else a fine copy in dust jacket with orange and red inks lightly faded on the spine and a hint of rubbing to the bottom fore-corners. An unaccountably scarce book and the basis for the hit movie, BULLITT, filmed in 1968, directed by Peter Yates, and starring Steve McQueen as Detective Frank Bullitt, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland, and Norman Fell. Robert L. Pike is a pseudonym of author Robert L. Fish. Included with this copy is an as new, un-opened "Blue Ray" DVD movie disc of the 1968 hit movie BULLITT, that starred Steve McQueen. Leonard Malkin's Movie Guide says "Now-classic car chase, one of the screen's all-time best." When gangster kingpin Johnny Rossi comes to New York to testify against his crime syndicate associates, it falls to Lieutenant Clancy to keep the… Read More