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NY: Alfred A. Knopf , 1973. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Stated first edition, near fine in a very good+ dust jacket. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on spine. Just a touch of fading at edges of boards. The jacket is darkened at the top of the rear panel and at the top edge of the flaps. $5.95 price on jacket flap; no names or other marking in or on the book. A tight, square copy of the penultimate Lew Archer novel.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1969.. Hardcover -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (original price of $4.95 on dj flap). 5th printing (just 3 months after the first). An attractive early copy of this Lew Archer novel, by this master of the hard-boiled noir detective story, set in Southern California. 243 pp..

New York: Mysterious Press, 1977. Prospectus [one of 200 copies]. Octavo (23cm); beige sewn wrappers with front deckle fore-edge printed in black on the cover within decorative frame; rear cover has publisher's device printed in black; 14pp. Toning to spine; Near Fine. Prospectus issued before the publication of the book, printing the introduction for the first time. BRUCCOLI A 28; AHEARN APG 030a.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1976.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A Lew Archer novel, by this master of the hard-boiled noir detective story, set in Southern California and involving the theft of a valuable painting and the disappearance of a famous artist. 270 pp..

[New York]: The Library of America, [2015]. First edition of this collection. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (24702). Octavo, cloth. Collects THE WAY SOME PEOPLE DIE, THE BARBAROUS COAST, THE DOOMSTERS and THE GALTON CASE.

London: The Crime Club/Collins; (1968). First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First UK edition, fine in a near fine dust jacket. The jacket has minor edgewear and small creases on both flaps. The white background of the jacket is clean and bright. A Lew Archer novel. Publisher's price on jacket flap; no names or other marking in or on the book.

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1977. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue, one of 1,000 copies. Octavo (22.5cm); grey cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and printed business card mounted to upper front cover; publisher's original printed acetate dustjacket; xviii,245,[11]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed and cloudy dustjacket. The first complete collection of all nine Lew Archer stories, with an introduction by Macdonald. BRUCCOLI A29.1.a.

London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1971. [Crime Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Roy Belcher, priced at £1.50. Spotting to edges. Jacket quite heavily rubbed to edges with a few small chips. Very good. A Lew Archer detective novel.

Santa Barbara: Capra; (1981). First Edition . Full-Leather. #210 of 250 copies signed by the author and by Eudora Welty, who provided the Foreword. Fine in black leather with gilt lettering on spine, without dust jacket or slipcase as issued.

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1977. Limited to 250 number signed copies, signed by Kenneth Millar. Bound in original publishers cloth, binding in excellent fine condition. Plastic dust jacket in excellent condition. Internally, no loose pages, no writing/marking, pages bright and clean. Housed in original publishers slipcase. A71. Signed Limited Edition. 8vo.

New York: Knopf., 1951. First edition.. Hardcover. Fair./good. New York: Knopf, 1951. First edition. Hardbound. Dust jacket. The jacket was taped to the book at one time leaving tape stains on the covers, one scar where the tape has peeled off the decorated paper covering the boards. The endpapers have stains from the tape or stickers covering the stains, some erasing near at the stains. The dust jacket is price clipped, has a small sticker, (partially removed), a little fading to the spine, some rubbing, tape or tape stains to the inside of the jacket.

Alfred Knopf, NY,, 1964. HBDJ, Red & Blue Cloth, ,bookplate, 1964, few chips DJ & small crease, stated 1st edition, VG+/VG, AS-IS. First Edition. Hard Cover.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue decorative boards, navy topstain. Stated first edition. Spine ends/tips slightly rubbed, hint of spine lean. Faint erasure to ffep, small closed tear/crease to title page, chip to dedication page. Tight binding. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); yellow floral-pattered paper-covered boards, with titles printed in black on spine; dustjacket; [viii],212,[4]pp. Light wear to spine ends and lower board edges, topstain faded, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), lightly edgeworn, with some dustiness to rear panel, and several tiny nicks and tears; Very Good+. Millar's fifth book written under the Macdonald pseudonym, a non-Archer novel first published in a condensed version in Cosmopolitan magazine under the title Experience with Evil. BRUCCOLI A9.1.a; HUBIN, p.268.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. 8vo, pp. 247. Original black quarter boards, lettered in gilt on green to spine. Author's initials and leaf design blind stamped to front panel. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket, author's photographic portrait to rear flap. Ownership signature to front free endpaper dated 17 January 1965, but a fine copy in an all but finr dust jacket with the lightest of wear to head of spine. Dust jacket design by Arthur Hawkins. First edition. A Lew Archer title, and a fine copy. HUBIN, p. 268.

Columbia/Bloomfield Hills: Bruccoli Clark, 1982., 1982. First edition. Unpublished "Manuscript Edition." Folio. One of 221 numbered copies (the entire edition), this copy being unnumbered and marked "Out of Series." The unnumbered copies were used as review copies (a publisher's prospectus for the book is laid-in). According to publisher Matthew Bruccoli: "The printer spoiled the copies, and I destroyed them. I decided not to start over because by that time Ken (i.e. Ross Macdonald) was unable to sign copies." Through the years only a literal handful of copies, all unnumbered, have been encountered. Bound in patterned paper over boards with a giltstamped leather spine. Fine, unread copy with one leaf of the author's draft affixed to a preliminary page. This edition includes a final chapter that was not present in the original 1965 novel published by Knopf.

Summer, 1938. Fine. Unpublished. Brad-bound in a heavy stock folder. The paper was graded "A" by his professor. A provocative 30-page examination of Imagism that is by turns an intellectual history of the movement and Macdonald's analytic conclusions of the theories of Ezra Pound, William James, H.D., etc., as well as an assessment of the "Thirty Cantos." "-- Pound has thrown logic overboard, and lets his sequence depend on the association of ideas. His interest in ideographic writing has let him to the Chinese literary language where the words are stylized visual representations of the things named." Macdonald's pencilled emendations are present throughout and signed by him on the first and last pages.

Fine in the original envelope which is labelled in Macdonald's hand: "Davidson Film contract for 'R.M. In The First Person'.". Macdonald's photocopied transcription, with his extensive corrections written out in both pen and pencil throughout. This transcript is the only form in which the original interview survives and probably is the only copy in existence since, according to a letter from Kaye, "No original exists as we destroyed copies in order not to get mixed up." The very earliest version of what -- after much cutting and rearranging by both Macdonald and Kaye -- became the script for the 20-minute documentary film, "Ross Macdonald: In The First Person," which was shown on public television in 1971 and not since. The original interview lasted several hours, ranged over a wider variety of topics, and included many trenchant digressions. In condensing the film to twenty minutes it is no exaggeration to state that the lion's share of this material ended up on the cutting room floor.… Read More