In A Lonely Place by Hughes, Dorothy B - 1947

London: John Long, 1966. 1st UK . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. 1st UK edition; 12mo; black boards; vg in a vg- dj. The book is slightly cocked; spine ends bumped; six case signatures are evident but not loose. DJ is rubbed; wear to corners and edges; 1/2" and 1/5" inch closed tear to top edge of front panel; 1/2" inch closed tear and creasing to top corner of front flap.

1947 E.P. Dutton Stated TRUE FIRST EDITION of Spillane's 1st mystery with a **SIGNED** CARD of Mickey Spillane tipped in.
A VeryGood+ Hardback and VeryGood+ Dustjacket:
The HB is very clean and tight with the only real wear being some small chips at the spine ends and tiny bumps at the corners.
It is wrapped in a Facsimile DJ also in VG+ condition with almost no wear or marks as well. A VERY RARE COLLECTIBLE!
**BONUS** Also receive a Signet paperback of another early book, The Long Wait in Good condition.
***Brenbooks specializes in first edition mysteries, many signed***

Maclehose Press. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine. 2008. Hardback. Near Fine. First UK Edition. First Print. Very collectible copy, excellent addition to your collection. Dust jacket is protected with a Mylar cover. Books are packed and shipped in boxes.

Ultramarine Press, 1988. First. Hardbound. a fine bright as issued. here offered is copy letter "E". one of 10 lettered copies signed by Willeford and finely bound in full leather by Denis Gouey. 245 pp.

The original, signed painting by Thorpe for the dust jacket of the trade edition – painting is framed and matted (black frame measures approximately 16 x 12 inches). This art had to be redone at the last possible moment because an editor at Harper decided that the jacket design must include a scene from Washington D.C. The mystery leads Leaphorn and Chee to leave the reservation and investigate in Washington – an unusual twist in the Hillerman mysteries, since the action seldom shifts far from the Navajo Reservation. The plot twist is what led to the decision to redo the jacket art. This painting is the original art, which appeared only on the Advanced Reading Copy of the book, and related early publisher's promotions for the title. There were also a number of proofs of the original jacket.
A number of related items are included with the painting: a Fine, unread copy of the ARC in color wraps, to which Thorpe has added signed art to the half-title page; a front panel of one of an original proof… Read More

The Macmillan Company. Hardback. Fine/Fine. 1. 1967. Hardback. Fine. First Edition. First Print. Signature only by author on the title page. This is the authors first published book. Dust jacket is protected with a Mylar cover. Books are packed and shipped in boxes.

W.W.Norton & Company. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 1. 1981. Hardback. Very Good. First Edition. First Print. Signature only by author on the title page, an excellent addition to your collection. Authors first novel. Dust jacket is very good, has a chip on the top and bottom of spine. Price Clipped. The books itself is in very good condition. Dust jacket is protected with a Mylar cover. Books are packed and shipped in boxes.

NY: Alfred Knopf, 1939. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 1939 Knopf Stated First edition in G+/Fair condition. A classic and very rare true first with a first state DJ! The HB is missing it's ffep and a small square from the rear end paper. The book is unmarked and clean with only minor edge and corner wear. There is a bookseller stamp on the inside board. The unclipped DJ shows a price of $ 2.00 and still has bright coloring. The rear cover is missing a large "V" affecting Ambler's picture and part of the top 1/2 of text. There is wear and minor paper loss at the corners. edges and spine ends. However despite these flaws a solid copy of this elusive mystery!

NY: Morrow, 1932. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Author's scarce first book. Published NY: William Morrow Company, 1932, first printing. 8vo., 266pp., purple cloth with yellow titles. Spine and cover edges sunned, pastedowns and a few pages have mild foxing, else clean and bright. Very good. Only eight copies in WorldCat. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

320 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's maroon with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Jacket design by Fritz Wegner. (Bruccoli A10.1.a.) First edition, first printing. The English edition preceded the American by a few months.Critics and writers, ranging from W. H. Auden to Evelyn Waugh to Ian Fleming, greatly admired the finely wrought prose of Raymond Chandler. Although his swift-moving, hardboiled style was inspired mostly by Dashiell Hammett, his sharp and lyrical similes are original: "The muzzle of the Luger looked like the mouth of the Second Street tunnel"; "The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips", defining private eye fiction genre, and leading to the coining of the adjective 'Chandleresque', which is subject and object of parody and pastiche. Yet, Philip Marlowe is not a stereotypical tough guy, but a complex, sometimes sentimental man of few friends, who attended university, speaks some Spanish and, at times,… Read More