Poison in a Garden Suburb by G.D.H. Cole and M. Cole - 1929

NY: Knopf, 1992. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1992. FIRST EDITION. Nicely bound in black on black cloth with untrimmed pages in white stylized dust jacket sporting photo of bullet-ridden LAPD car. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. It's 1958 in Los Angeles and the Feds are investigating police corruption - 'deja vu all over again.'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: Methuen, 1955 (500 grams) pebbled papered boards, small pen name to fep and grease pencil price, book clean, unclipped DW tidy, light edge rubbing, small split at end of upper fore edge fold, light splitting at spine head, almost perfect wrapper, 253pp, eighteenth printing, great period ( deco) cover art. reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Near Fine, unread book with light push at bottom of spine and age toning around edges of front and back end pages, a flaw that is common with this title, in a Near Fine jacket with slight edge wear and light vertical rubs. A bookplate signed by Barr is laid-in. Barr's first Anna Pigeon mystery, set in Big Bend National Park. This title won the 1993 Agatha Award and the 1994 Anthony Award.

London: MacMillan, 1998 unclipped DW has light handling, with light rubbing to the very edges, very small hole rubbed at head of upper joint, crease along spine but this is not a white crease, just a visible fold, very small split at foot of front panel, the book spine is not perfectly square, just shows slight signs of careful reading use, 534pp, complete number line 135798642 present, the first book to feature Merrily Watkins. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Freddy And Mr. Camphor. By Walter R. Brooks. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Used. Good Condition/No Dust jacket included. Alfred A. Knopf 1944 Stated First Edition. A solid copy. Spine is sunned. Please see our photos. Summary: In Freddy and Mr. Camphor, Freddy is in need of a change and finds an opportunity for one as a caretaker on Mr. Camphor's houseboat. Of course, things never go as Freddy expects and a series of strange, amusing, and sometimes alarming adventures ensue. Please also see our Freddy The Pig catalogue.

215 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in publisher's original black with orange "red badge" insignia on front cover and orange lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition.To save a judge's daughter, Mike Shayne must invade the red-light district. For twenty years, Judge Nigel Lansdowne has been one of Washington's greatest progressives. The red-baiters in Congress would do anything to destroy his reputation, and they may have found the perfect weapon. Her name is Julia, but when she dances she goes by Dorinda. The judge's daughter came to Miami in search of a new life, and she found it dancing nude in the city's infamous red-light district. Mike Shayne is hired to bring Julia home before the judge's enemies learn of her new career, but his real job will be keeping her alive. Someone in Miami wants this beautiful dancer dead, and only Mike Shayne can help her. In the nightclubs of Miami Beach, music is played to a deadly beat.Dresser was born in Chicago, Illinois, but… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket soiled and lightly tattered, pages . toned.. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. The prolific mystery author's second book, featuring an auto racing detective, Beau Pepys, that chronologically precedes the storyline in Hammond's first published novel, Fred in Situ. Stamp of literary agent Curtis Brown on front free endpaper and title page. Jacket art by Peter Calcott. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages .

Toronto, ON, Canada: Baskerville Books, 2007 Signed By 11 Of The 24 Writers Plus Editor Caro Soles. Softcover, 271 Pages. Near Fine: Slight Cover Wear (No Spine Creasing), Covers And Pages Clean, Bright & Unmarked. Scarce To Find So Many Of These Authors' Signatures In A Single Collection. Signatures Appear On Each Contributors' Title Page And Include: Lyn Hamilton, Linwood Barclay, Edward D. Hoch, Rosemary Aubert, Mary Jane Maffini, Madeleine Harris-Callway, Maureen Jennings, Peter Sellers, Dennis Richard Murphy, Jane Burfield, Mary Keenan, Caro Soles.

The book is fine. The dust jacket shows minimal rubbing at the top of the spine.

NY: R. H. Russell. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, owner name stamped on front . pastedown and owner signature on front free endpaper.. 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Navy cloth with color illustration inset on front boards and gilt titles and lamppost design on spine. Illustrations by Thomas Mitchell Peirce and F. D. Steele. BAL 4537, binding A. A classic of detective fiction and a Queen's Quorum title. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 155 pages .