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Five Star Waterville, Maine, 2006 HBDJ, August 2006, stated 1st edition, NF+/VG+, This book is very good +condition except for minor shelf wear.287 pgs,Alex Night moves out of the private eye business on Larchmont Boulevard in Hollywood and into the mystery writing profession at the WRITERS AND ARTISTS BUILDING in Beverly Hills, where he intends to follow in the footsteps of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. But Night is persistently plagued by former clients who won't let him get past the title page of his potential Edgar Award mystery novel The Big Changeover. After too many false starts and near fatal distractions, Night finds himself on the treacherous trail of two missing objects. The first: an Imperial Fabergi Egg, The Tear of Russia, given by William Randolph Hearst over a half century ago to his mistress - --a Fabergi now valued at over ten million dollars. The second: his missing fianci, the beautiful Goldie Rose. It's soon evident that Goldie has been kidnapped, but by whom - and…
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Rex Stout Journal No. 1-4
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Ashton, MD: Pontes Press, 1984. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Set of four issues (No.1, Autumn 1984; No.2, Spring 1985; No. 3, Autumn 1985 and No. 4, Spring 1985) of the Rex Stout Journal. some sun fading to light blue paper covers. Original order form laid in No.1. worksheet to solve puzzles in No. 4 laid in that copy. Each has a reproduction of an etching of Stout on cover. Part of the William Farley/Rex Stout Collection. Sold as a set only.
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A Night in Hollywood Forever, ( Cemetery on Santa Monica Blvd ) SIGNED a, (Five Star First Edition Mystery) Edgar Award-winning author ,Alex Night moves out of the private eye business
by Andrew J. Fenady, SIGNED & Inscribed BY CA. AUTHOR, INNER DJ FLAP .95
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Blue Pig 8 (1969)
by Ball, David, and George Tysh (eds.), Andrew Crozier, John James, Tom Raworth, Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh, Ted Greenwald, Michael Dunbar, Pepe Angel
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Paris: Sand Project Press, 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 10 leaves (printed one-side), side-stapled and inserted into printed wrappers. Rare issue of this experimental review, includes a poem by Tom Raworth and five by Ted Greenwald, plus other notable contributros. Unmarked copy with light wear and minor rust offsetting from staples to inside covers.
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Trobar 5 (1964)
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New York: Trobar, 1964. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 44pp, stapled wrappers. Final issue of this important little magazine, including work by LeRoi Jones, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, et al. Unmarked copy, a bit of sunning and wear to wrappers.
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Tlaloc 12 (Issue No. Twelve; Series 2, Number 6; 1966) / How 6
by McCarthy, Cavan, and Andrew Lloyd (eds.), Gerry Gilbert, Carlos Reyes, Bill Bissett, Anselm Hollo, Jim Burns, George Bowering, Pete Hoida, Earle Birney, et al
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Leeds, England: Location Press, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 20pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce joint issue of two important sixties little magazines of avant-garde writing. Cover by John Furnival. A few scattered marginal checkmarks to publications list pages and library stamp to cover (no other markings), horizontal mailing folds, a bit of general wear and soil.
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Partisan Review, Volume 2, Number 6 (II; January - February 1935)
by Phillips, William [as Wallace Phelps], Philip Rahv, et al. (eds.), Nelson Algren, Andre Malraux, James T. Farrell, Muriel Rukeyser, Harold Rosenberg, Samuel Putnam, et al
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New York: Partisan Review, 1935. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 96pp, printed wrappers. Rare early issue, includes writing by Nelson Algren, Muriel Rukeyser, et al. Unmarked copy, chip at lead of spine, a bit of wear to lap edges, last two leaves have some edge tearing.
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A Night in Hollywood Forever, ( Cemetery on Santa Monica Blvd ) SIGNED a, (Five Star First Edition Mystery) Edgar Award-winning author ,Alex Night moves out of the private eye business
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Five Star Waterville, Maine, 2006 HBDJ, August 2006, stated 1st edition, NF+/VG+, This book is very good +condition except for minor shelf wear.287 pgs,Alex Night moves out of the private eye business on Larchmont Boulevard in Hollywood and into the mystery writing profession at the WRITERS AND ARTISTS BUILDING in Beverly Hills, where he intends to follow in the footsteps of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. But Night is persistently plagued by former clients who won't let him get past the title page of his potential Edgar Award mystery novel The Big Changeover. After too many false starts and near fatal distractions, Night finds himself on the treacherous trail of two missing objects. The first: an Imperial Fabergi Egg, The Tear of Russia, given by William Randolph Hearst over a half century ago to his mistress - --a Fabergi now valued at over ten million dollars. The second: his missing fianci, the beautiful Goldie Rose. It's soon evident that Goldie has been kidnapped, but by whom - and…
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Adventures in Poetry 3 (Number Three, January 1969)
by Fagin, Larry (ed.), Clark Coolidge, Aram Saroyan, Tom Veitch, Francis Picabia (translated by Ron Padgett), Gordon Baldwin, et al
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New York: Larry Fagin, 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 4to, 57 leaves (mimeographed one side), stapled wrappers. Rare third issue of this key New York School poetry journal, includes writing by Clark Coolidge, Aram Saroyan, et al. Back cover is detached from staples; otherwise, an unmarked copy with a bit of wear and soil.
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Life Magazine (The Poetry Project, 1970)
by Veitch, Tom (ed.), Allan Appel, Rochelle Ratner, Nancy Benoit, Jack Libert, Frank Stacom, Rebecca B. Brown, Susan Best, Daniela Gioseffi, Allan Kornblum, "Space" Fuller, Ted Kennedy, Martha Diamond
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New York: The Poetry Project, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, ~40 leaves (printed one side), stapled wrappers. 1 of 200 copies of this scarce 1970 Poetry Project publication from a Tom Veitch workshop. Unmarked copy, light outer wear.
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The World 8 (Volume Eight, November 1967)
by Waldman, Anne (ed.), Jim Carroll, Rene Ricard, Sam Shepard, Ted Berrigan, Tom Clark, Scott Cohen, Lee Harwood, Gerard Malanga, Joel Oppenheimer, Ron Padgett, Ed Sanders, Peter Schjeldahl, Tom Veitch, Lewis Warsh, George Schneeman, et al
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New York: The Poetry Project, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 42 leaves (mimeographed one side), stapled wrappers. Rare early issue of this seminal little magazine, includes collaborations and work by Ted Berrigan, Rene Ricard, et al. Unmarked copy, light wear and minor outer spots.
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The Harvard Advocate, Volume 97, Number 3 (Volume XCVII, Spring 1963)
by Goldfarb, Sidney, et al. (eds.), William Burroughs, Norman Mailer, Brother Antoninus (William Everson), Robert Grenier, Kenneth Irby, et al
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Cambridge, MA: Harvard Advocate, 1963. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 96pp, printed wrappers. Rare Beat-era literary journal, includes Who Him? Dont Let Him Out Here by William Burroughs (Schottlaender C56; Shoaf III-45), plus work by Mailer, Everson, Irby, et al. Unmarked copy, light stain to covers (mainly back), back cover has some lamination-type residue (as if something was so treated on top of it).
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Godshot (SIGNED) (FIRST)
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2020 - 1st ed ("1" in number line) - SIGNED by author on the title page - "Godshot is the kind of book you find yourself thinking about incessantly." - Kristen Arnett - book: near fine - dj: near fine - dj in protective mylar sleeve"Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen–year–old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret "assignments," to bring the rain everybody is praying for.Lacey has no reason to doubt the pastor. But then her life explodes in a single unimaginable act of abandonment: her mother, exiled from the community for her sins, leaves Lacey and runs off with a man she barely knows. Abandoned and distraught, Lacey May moves in with her widowed grandma, Cherry, who is more concerned with…
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The Mystery of the Blue Train
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New York: Pocket Book edition, 1966, 20th printing. Pocket Book 50447. Vintage pulp fiction paperback, x, [2], 194pp., advert., cover price 50 cents.. Very Good Condition with bright cover page. Slight cover and spine creasing. There are bumped corners, and signs of shelf wear, top right corner of cover with slight crease and lower edges of cover worn. Pages are unmarked. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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Kill Petrosino!
by Nolan, Frederick
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London: Arthur Barker Ltd. 1st Edition, 1975 ----------hardcover, with dust jacket. The book, in black boards with orange lettering and design to the spine, is an unblemished near fine copy. The unclipped jacket has light wear to the front panel top edge and spine extremities, and is almost near fine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Note: our prices on Biblio are the LOWEST of any of the sites on which we list our books.
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Dolores Claiborne
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First Edition. (1993) Hardcover with d.j. Fine with near fine dust jacket. D.J. has slight curl on top edge and light rubbing on back. No worn edges. Tight binding with clean, sharp pages. No markings. 305 pages. Dolores Claiborne is a psychological thriller novel. The novel is narrated by the title character. Atypically for a King novel, it has no chapters, double-spacing between paragraphs, or other section breaks; thus the text is a single continuous narrative which reads like the transcription of a spoken monologue. This book is dedicated to King's mother: "For my mother, Ruth Pillsbury King."
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Pearson, Ridley (as Reardon, Joyce) | Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, The | Signed First Edition Copy
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Hyperion, 2001. hardcover. New. Author Signed Hardcover Book. 2001 NY: Hyperion First edition, first printing, fine, no dust jacket as issued, signed by the author. This is a collectible book free from material defects. Jacket covering services are available for a small fee.
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A Is For Alibi
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1982. Fine. Book Club Edition. Hardcover and dust jacket. D.j. is near fine with slight wear on top binding edge. Inside flap d.j has slight creases. Cover is smooth, unblemished, no tears, nicks or worn corners. Hardcover, as new, black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Tight binding, sharp, clean pages. No markings. (Actual photo) A flawless copy. 208 pages. "A" Is for Alibi is crime writer Sue Grafton's first mystery novel in the Kinsey Millhone "Alphabet mystery" series, first published in 1982.
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The Seven Dials Mystery (A Midnite Mystery)
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The Seven Dials Mystery (Midnight Mysteries) 1944 Books, Inc. Stated 1st. Pr. Thus) RARE IN THIS EDITION. By Agatha Christie. USED. Good-/ No DJ. Black boards, gold titling on spine. Light pop bottle rings mar front board. Original copyright by Dodd, Mead 1929. Loose last gather has been neatly taped in. A clean copy. Summary: "When Gerald Wade died, apparently from an overdose of sleeping draught seven clocks appeared on the mantelpiece. Who put them there and had they any connection with the night club in Seven Dials? This is the mystery that Bill Eversleigh and Bundle and two other young people set out to investigate...".
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Murder for Christmas (A Midnite Mystery)
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Murder for Christmas, a Poirot Story by Agatha Christie (1944 Midnite Mystery) COPYRIGHT BY AGATHA CHRISTIE MALLOWAN: "It is Christmas Eve, and elderly Simeon Lee is found violently murdered in his locked office. The police are immediately called, but of course nobody has a clue until Hercule Poirot arrives..." USED. 1944 Books inc. Midnite Mystery. Copyright 1938 - 1939 Agatha Christie Mallowan. Good+/ No DJ. Black boards with gold titling on spine. Titles gilting is still nice Scarce.
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Collins White Circle Pocket Edition #228. Great 1940s cover! Colonel Anthony Gethryn must prove a man innocent of a murder he's been convicted for in only 5 days. MacDonald was a great practitioner of the mystery-suspense genre; his books remain readable, even if his characters are nowhere near as enlightened as we tend to be today. Please read this volume in its historical context. A very clean copy, spine slightly darkened with very faint reading crease: see photos.
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Black Cherry Blues
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New York, NY, U. S. A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. New York, NY, U. S. A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1989. Near Fine in Very Good jacket Remainder A Dave Robicheaux mystery, Edgar Award winner npc, 290pp. rem po inscription on front pastedown, behind dj flap. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. Remainder. First Edition
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