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6 AND THE SILENT SCREAM

by Howard, Ivan, Editor

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First Edition, First Printing.
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Paperback
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New York: Belmont Books, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. vintage paperback, Belmont L92-564; a collection of six science fiction novelettes, including stories by Philip K. Dick ("Vulcan's Hammer") and Robert Sheckley ("Ask A Foolish Question"); Paperback Original, First Printing of True First Edition; lightly age-tanned, clean, tight, square in pictorial wrappers showing reading crease, minor surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.
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ADVENTURES IN THE SKIN TRADE

by Thomas, Dylan

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Used - Good to Good Plus
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First Printing, First Edition Thus.
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Paperback
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New York: New American Library, 1956. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good to Good Plus. Vintage paperback, Signet S1281; a collection of the Welsh poet's short stories and prose pieces; age-browned text is clean, tight and square; pictorial wrappers show some creasing, edge and corner wear, small 1.5 cm tear at top of spine.
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AFTER THE PLAGUE and Other Stories
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AFTER THE PLAGUE and Other Stories

by Boyle, T. Coraghessan

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  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • first
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Used - Near Fine
Edition
First Printing, First Edition Thus.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780670030057
ISBN 10
0670030058
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New York: Viking Penguin, 2001. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The sixth collection of short stories from Boyle, who won the PEN/Malamud Award for short fiction in 1999; small remainder mark on bottom edge o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket.
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THE AFTERLIFE and Other Stories
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THE AFTERLIFE and Other Stories

by Updike, John

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  • Fine
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Used - Fine
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First Printing, First Edition Thus.
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Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780679435839
ISBN 10
0679435832
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New York: Knopf, 1995. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Updike's eleventh collection of short stories, his first since "Trust Me" in 1987, focuses on characters exploring the second half of life with, in a sense, eyes newly opened. The twenty-two stories, most originally published in "The New Yorker," include Updike's 1991 O. Henry Award winner, "The Sandstone Farmhouse;" boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket is close to perfect. A very collectable copy.
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ALIEN HORIZONS

by Nolan, William F.

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Used - Near Fine to Fine
Edition
First Edition, First Printing.
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Paperback
ISBN 13
9780671779283
ISBN 10
0671779281
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New York: Pocket Books, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage paperback, Pocket Books 77928; a collection of nineteen short stories, most written by this Science Fiction/Fantasy master craftsman during the 1950s and '60s. Paperback Original, True First Printing of the First Edition. Text is clean, tight, very slight spine lean; pictorial wrappers show light reading crease, almost no surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.
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THE AMSTERDAM COPS (Collected Stories)
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THE AMSTERDAM COPS (Collected Stories)

by van de Wetering, Janwillem

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  • Fine
  • Hardcover
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Used - Fine
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First Printing, First Edition Thus.
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Hardcover
ISBN 13
9781569471715
ISBN 10
1569471711
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New York: Soho Press, Inc., 1999. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. van de Wetering's collected short stories, featuring Grijpstra and de Gier, the Amersdam police detectives from the author's widely-praised mystery series, and including two stories not previously translated into English and three published only in a limited edition. A Fine copy in like dustjacket. Collectable.
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THE ART OF LIVING AND OTHER STORIES
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THE ART OF LIVING AND OTHER STORIES

by Gardner, John

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  • very good
  • Hardcover
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Used - Very Good
Edition
First Printing, First Edition Thus.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780394516745
ISBN 10
0394516745
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New York: Knopf, 1981. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. The sixth and last of Gardner's short story collections, issued in the year before his death in a motorcycle accident. There are ten stories of a wide and varied nature, some of queens and kings and princesses in faraway magical lands; one of Welsh immigrants in upstate New York in the 1930s; another of a world-famous orchestra conductor who learns about life and death from a teenaged girl on a flight from Los Angeles to Chicago; also a story of a stubborn old woman whose unquenchable desire for revenge leads her to risk her own life in the attempt. Boards are lightly damp-stained along the edges and on spine; remainder mark on bottom edge of the text, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The heavy paper dustjacket and text are illustrated by Mary Azarian. The dj shows only a touch of edgewear, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. Makes a good reading/study copy,… Read More
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BACK IN THE WORLD
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BACK IN THE WORLD

by Wolff, Tobias

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  • near fine
  • Hardcover
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Used - Near Fine
Edition
First Printing, First Edition Thus.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780395354162
ISBN 10
0395354161
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Wolff's third book, his second collection of short stories that have won him wide-spread praise for his lean, cool prose about ordinary people faced with moral decisions; bottom corners of boards slightly bumped, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows wear around edges and at corners, some light scratching, but still whole without significant flaws; a collectable copy of a quite scarce book.
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BEAR AND HIS DAUGHTER
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BEAR AND HIS DAUGHTER

by Stone, Robert

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Used - RM o/w Fine
Edition
First Printing, First Edition Thus.
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Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780395636527
ISBN 10
0395636523
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. RM o/w Fine/Fine. The first collection of short stories by this Faulkner and National Book Award-winning novelist; a remainder dot on top edge of text, o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket. Collectable.
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BECH: A BOOK

by Updike, John

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Used - Very Good
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First Printing, First Edition Thus.
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Hardcover
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New York: Knopf, 1970. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A collection of Updike's short stories featuring Henry Bech, ambitious author and academic, most of which first appeared in "The New Yorker;" some small stains on fep o/w clean, tight, square; the price-clipped dustjacket shows some edgewear.
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BECH IS BACK
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BECH IS BACK

by Updike, John

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Used - Fine
Edition
First Printing, First Trade Edition.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780394528069
ISBN 10
0394528069
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New York: Knopf, 1982. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A second collection of short stories featuring Updike's Henry Bech, a peripatetic and unproductive writer and academic. Collectable.
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THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2004
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THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2004

by DeMille, Nelson, Editor

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Used - Near Fine to Fine
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Paperback
ISBN 13
9780618329670
ISBN 10
0618329676
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New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Trade Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. A collection of mystery and detective short stories, including work by Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan King, Benjamin Cavell and Frederick Waterman among others, edited by Nelson DeMille and Otto Penzler. Text is clean, tight, square; pictorial wrappers show only very minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce.
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THE BEST OF RUMPOLE
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THE BEST OF RUMPOLE

by Mortimer, John

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  • near fine
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Used - Near Fine
Edition
First Printing, First U.S. Edition.
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Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780670849789
ISBN 10
0670849782
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New York: Viking Penguin, 1993. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. A collection of short stories chosen by the author, John Mortimer, as among his best work featuring the now legendary sleuth, Horace Rumpole, barrister at law, sixty-eight next birthday, Old Bailey hack, with a mind full of old murders, legal anecdotes and memorable fragments of the "Oxford Book of English Verse; a remainder mark on bottom edge of text, else a Fine, collectable copy in like dustjacket.
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THE BLACK LIZARD ANTHOLOGY OF CRIME FICTION
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THE BLACK LIZARD ANTHOLOGY OF CRIME FICTION

by Gorman, Ed, Editor

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Used - Near Fine to Fine
Edition
First Edition, First Printing.
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Paperback
ISBN 13
9780887390395
ISBN 10
0887390390
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Berkeley, CA: Black Lizard Books, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. . Trade Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Some twenty mystery-suspense short stories by contemporary masters of hard-boiled, "noir" crime fiction including Estleman, Randisi, Ellison, Hensley, Lansdale, Gorman and Thompson, with five of the stories published here for the first time; text is clean, tight, square; black and blue wrappers show only very minor surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.
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BOWDRIE'S LAW
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BOWDRIE'S LAW

by L'Amour, Louis

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Used - Good Plus to Very Good
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Paperback
ISBN 13
9780553245509
ISBN 10
0553245503
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New York: Bantam Books, 1984. Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. A collection of 10 short stories featuring Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie, who knows right from wrong and will make sure you know too, even if it means from the business ends of his .44s. Paperback original, first Bantam paperback edition, first printing. Abourt 4 1/8 x 6 7/8 inches, 218 pages including a "Special Letter from Louis L'Amour" at the end of the book, and non-fiction historical notes relating to the stories following several of the stories. Pictorial wrappers show a man in black hat pointing a large revolver off the front cover. An ad for novel, "Jubal Sackett," in hardcover on inside back cover. Wrappers show very slight spine lean, reading crease on spine, other light surface creasing. No tears, no scratching or chipping. Text edges very lightly soiled, o/w text is complete, clean and unmarked. A decent copy of an '80s book that is becoming increasingly scarce in the first edition.
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CAT CRIMES I, II, III
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CAT CRIMES I, II, III

by Greenberg, Martin H. & Gorman, Ed (editors)

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  • Fine
  • Hardcover
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Used - Fine
Edition
Book Club (BCE/BOMC).
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Hardcover
ISBN 13
9781567312782
ISBN 10
1567312780
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New York: MJF Books, 1992. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. three collections of mystery-suspense short stories featuring cats and crime collected in a single, huge volume that includes stories by Lovesey and Pronzini, Hess and Breen, Lutz and Jance, D'Amato and McCrumb and a dozen other top writers. The size and weight of this book may require additional postage depending on time and destination
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A CENTURY OF GREAT SUSPENSE STORIES

by Deaver, Jeffrey, Editor

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  • Fine
  • Hardcover
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Used - Fine
Edition
Book Club (BCE/BOMC).
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780425193389
ISBN 10
0425193381
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New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2003. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A first-rate collection of 20th Century mystery-suspense short stories, edited by Jeffrey Deaver, and showcasing thirty-six of the genre's best including Barnard, Block, Brown, Cain, Ellison, Gardner, Healy, Hill, Hillerman, King, MacDonald, McBain, McCrumb, Paretsky, Simenon, Spillane, Stout and Westlake. Text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows minimal surface and edgewear.
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CLASSIC EROTIC TALES
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CLASSIC EROTIC TALES

by Omara, Ed.

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  • Fine
  • Hardcover
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Used - Fine
Edition
Book Club (BCE/BOMC).
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780785801986
ISBN 10
0785801987
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Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 1996. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Fine/Fine. A unique collection of erotica, spanning some seven centuries from Boccaccio's "Decameron," in the 12th century to Nicholson Baker's "Vox," published in the last decade of the 20th and including selections from classic authors including Casanova, James Boswell, Voltaire and Bram Stoker as well as contemporary writers such as John Updike, Marilyn French and Alina Reyes. Boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear.
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COLOR OF DARKNESS

by Purdy, James

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  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
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Used - Very Good
Edition
First Printing, First Edition Thus.
Binding
Hardcover
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New York: New Directions, 1956. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good/About Very Good. This work by Purdy was originally privately published in two paperbound volumes: a short novel, "63: Dream Palace," and nine short stories titled, "Don't Call Me by My Right Name." They attracted an extraordinary amount of attention and were then published by Victor Gollancz, London, as a single volume. New Directions added two more stories by Purdy and published this volume titled, "Color Of Darkness." Text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket slightly edgeworn, somewhat soiled. Collectable.
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THE COMPLETE STORIES OF TRUMAN CAPOTE
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THE COMPLETE STORIES OF TRUMAN CAPOTE

by Capote, Truman

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  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Near Fine
Edition
First Printing, First Edition Thus.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780679643104
ISBN 10
0679643109
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New York: Random House, 2004. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The first complete collection of the elegant, if often grotesque, short stories of Capote, who is generally known for two longer works, "Breakfast At Tiffany's" and " In Cold Blood." With an introduction by novelist Reynolds Price. A pair of pencil eraser-size stains next to the spine on the bottom edge of the text that may be due to a manufacturing error, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket is price-clipped, with a touch of edgewear. A very nice copy.
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