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First limited edition, F book in F clamshell box, no dust jacket as issued, box also contains an apartment with mounted and signed sephia tint photo by the author, a unique presentation that is signed and numbered by Coggins on the title page with a red stamp of his chop; this is copy #15 of 100. Coggins provides both a chilling, high-tech thriller and a sardonic examination of post dot-com Silicon Valley and venture capital. As co-founder of a failed dot-com startup, Coggins knows well the topics explored here.
The Eyes of Death by BENTLEY, John - 1934
by BENTLEY, John
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The Eyes of Death
by BENTLEY, John
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Garden City, N.Y.: Crime Club/Doubleday, 1934. Near Fine Crime Club First Edition in near fine dust jacket protected in mylar. 276 pages. Why had the murder victim bullets through both eyes?. First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. COLLECTIBLE Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Jacket Condition Very Good
- Edition First U.S. Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Crime Club/Doubleday
- Place of Publication Garden City, N.Y.
- Date Published 1934
- Keywords Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Crime, John Bentley
- Size 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Vulture Capital (special limited edition)
by Coggins, Mark
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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A Little Local Murder
by Barnard, Robert
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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First UK edition 1st printing, Good to Very Good book with bumped bottom corners, mild spine slant and slightly splayed boards, couple of very small, light spots front end page and front page edges; in a Very Good to Near Fine jacket light edge and corner wear with some loss of color, white back panel lightly soiled. This copy of Barnard’s second mystery is signed on title page.
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BOOKED TO DIE.
by Dunning, John.
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Ione, California, United States
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New York:: Scribner's,, (1992). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very good in a near fine dust jacket (discoloration from glue under dj flaps, but otherwise a tight and clean copy) .. First printing. A mystery introducing Cliff Janeway - perhaps the most popular bibliomystery of all time. From the opening description of Bobby the Bookscout, this story presents an entertaining look at modern book collecting and selling - wrapped up in a good murder mystery. SIGNED by Dunning on a bookplate on the front endpaper. 321 pp.
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Midnight at Mears House; A Detective Story. ( RARE Advance Copy )
by Holt, Harrison Jewell
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1912. RARE 1912 Review Copy,in publisher's pictorial printed paper wrappers,such publisher's advance copies from this era almost nonexistent. Verso of front wrapper states "To any bookseller who will by April 20th, 1912 send us the solution of the mystery of "MIDNIGHT AT MEARS HOUSE" by guessing the identity of the guilty party A PRIZE of Ten Free Copies of the Book will be presented and shipped with first order. Each customer allowed only one guess and is entitled, if successful, to one prize only. Dodd, Mead and Company, Publishers New York". Same front cover design as dust jacket of the hardcover First Edition, with price of $1.25 at spine. Very Good, paper loss to bottom one inch of spine, bit of spine lean, faint dampstain rear cover and spine. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo. Review Copy.
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Serenade to the Hangman
by Dekobra, Maurice
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New York: Payson & Clarke, Ltd., 1929. First Printing stated, 1929. Very Good, boards rubbed at edges, red from boards bleeding onto corners of paste downs ( hidden by flaps), in a Very Good dust jacket, several small chips and rubs, and light soiling. Translated from "Serenade au Bourreau" by Neal Wainwright. Wonderful Art Deco jacket art by Nanki. Filmed in France in 1951 as "Serenade au Bourreau".. First American Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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First limited edition, F book in F clamshell box, no dust jacket as issued, box also contains an apartment with mounted and signed sephia tint photo by the author, a unique presentation that is signed and numbered by Coggins on the title page with a red stamp of his chop; this is copy #15 of 100. Coggins provides both a chilling, high-tech thriller and a sardonic examination of post dot-com Silicon Valley and venture capital. As co-founder of a failed dot-com startup, Coggins knows well the topics explored here.
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A Little Local Murder
by Barnard, Robert
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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First UK edition 1st printing, Good to Very Good book with bumped bottom corners, mild spine slant and slightly splayed boards, couple of very small, light spots front end page and front page edges; in a Very Good to Near Fine jacket light edge and corner wear with some loss of color, white back panel lightly soiled. This copy of Barnard’s second mystery is signed on title page.
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BOOKED TO DIE.
by Dunning, John.
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New York:: Scribner's,, (1992). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very good in a near fine dust jacket (discoloration from glue under dj flaps, but otherwise a tight and clean copy) .. First printing. A mystery introducing Cliff Janeway - perhaps the most popular bibliomystery of all time. From the opening description of Bobby the Bookscout, this story presents an entertaining look at modern book collecting and selling - wrapped up in a good murder mystery. SIGNED by Dunning on a bookplate on the front endpaper. 321 pp.
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Midnight at Mears House; A Detective Story. ( RARE Advance Copy )
by Holt, Harrison Jewell
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1912. RARE 1912 Review Copy,in publisher's pictorial printed paper wrappers,such publisher's advance copies from this era almost nonexistent. Verso of front wrapper states "To any bookseller who will by April 20th, 1912 send us the solution of the mystery of "MIDNIGHT AT MEARS HOUSE" by guessing the identity of the guilty party A PRIZE of Ten Free Copies of the Book will be presented and shipped with first order. Each customer allowed only one guess and is entitled, if successful, to one prize only. Dodd, Mead and Company, Publishers New York". Same front cover design as dust jacket of the hardcover First Edition, with price of $1.25 at spine. Very Good, paper loss to bottom one inch of spine, bit of spine lean, faint dampstain rear cover and spine. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo. Review Copy.
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Serenade to the Hangman
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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New York: Payson & Clarke, Ltd., 1929. First Printing stated, 1929. Very Good, boards rubbed at edges, red from boards bleeding onto corners of paste downs ( hidden by flaps), in a Very Good dust jacket, several small chips and rubs, and light soiling. Translated from "Serenade au Bourreau" by Neal Wainwright. Wonderful Art Deco jacket art by Nanki. Filmed in France in 1951 as "Serenade au Bourreau".. First American Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Eyes of Death - First Printing, 1934.
by John Bentley
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1934 From a lending bookshop with their bookplate affixed to the end paper. A good filler example of this author's first novel, quite scarce in any condition. First Edition stated, dated 1934 on the title page, a true first.
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The Eyes of Death
by Bentley, John
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934. Ex-Library. Fair. Cloth. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Stated First Edition. First US Edition. Black cloth binding. In addition to a few library markings, there is scattered soil spotting throughout the text. There are a few pages with some water marks in the margins. There is a name label on the front end paper. There is foxing on the page edging. The cover has scuffing and some small spots on the back where there is some paper stuck to it. The cover also has corner tip wear. The spine has a minor lean and end wear. Published by Doubleday, Doran for the Crime Club. The title page states, Introducing Sir Richard Herrivell. 276 pages. .
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The Eyes of Death
by Bentley, John
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London, Ontario, Canada
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Toronto: Doubleday, Doran and Company (Canada) Ltd., 1934. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. viii, 276 pp. 20 cm. Black cloth, stamped in green on the spine, which shows The Crime Club imprint. The title page does not mention The Crime Club but it shows the logo. Jacket appears to be the American, with the code 707-36 on the front flap. The jacket has an internal tape repair at the top of the spine panel to deal with a closed tear, and another on the front flap fold. "Double murder - but why had the first victim bullets through both eyes?" A Sir Richard Herrivell mystery.
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The Eyes of Death
by BENTLEY, JOHN
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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Garden City: Crime Club, 1934. First American Edition. Very good in dust jacket.
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THE EYES OF DEATH.
by BENTLEY, JOHN
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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934., 1934. First edition. First U. S. edition. Author's first book. Originally published in the U. K. as THE BERG CASE in 1934. Near fine in dust jacket with light professional restoration to spine ends and corners. A brutal murder is committed in a fashionable jewelry shop and the police are baffled as to who and why the man was murdered. The victim was a prominent antique dealer who was visiting the jewelry store. The tale unravels with clues being uncovered and each clue makes his murder more difficult to solve. An elusive Crime Club title.
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THE EYES OF DEATH.
by BENTLEY, JOHN
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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934., 1934. First edition. First U. S. edition. Author's first book. Originally published in the U. K. as THE BERG CASE in 1934. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket with light wear to spine ends and corners. A brutal murder is committed in a fashionable jewelry shop and the police are baffled as to who and why the man was murdered. The victim was a prominent antique dealer who was visiting the jewelry store. The tale unravels with clues being uncovered and each clue makes his murder more difficult to solve. An elusive Crime Club title.
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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
by Stephen King
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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
by Pearson, Ridley (as Reardon, Joyce)
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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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And Four To Go: A Nero Wolfe Foursome
by Rex Stout
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This book is in very good condition except for the dust jacket. It is in acceptable condition THe dust Jacket is worn, torn and fading. The previous owner's name is written at the top of the first page.Four Nero Wolfe novels in miniature, published in book form for the first time. Christmas Party, Easter Parade, Fourth of July Picnic and Murder is no Joke. There is a marking on the first page.
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A Is For Alibi
by Sue Grafton
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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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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
by Burke, James Lee
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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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Gallagher, Stephen | Valley of Lights | Signed First Edition UK Copy
by Gallagher, Stephen
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NEL, 1987. hardcover. New. Author Signed UK Hardcover Book. 1987 LON: NEL First UK edition, first printing, mint/new unread in a flawless dust jacket, signed by the author.
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