NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops lightly dust stained.. 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. 039914577x . Signed by the author. Author's note and acknowledgement, about the author page. Authors first book. A Lily Connor mystery. ; 275 pages; Signed by Author .
NY: Hotel Taft. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, spine has waterstain.. N.D.. Hardcover. Circa 1930s. Orange pictorial cloth with image of NY's Hotel Taft on front boards. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
London: John Murray. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed.. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth binding. A collection of short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. ; 313 pages .
Chicago: Ben Abramson. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, paper label on front boards . stained.. 1955. Hardcover. A lost play by the British actor who famously played Sherlock Holmes many times on the stage. Orange cloth with red cloth spine and stained printed label on front boards. Introduction by Vincent Starrett; 25 pages .
London: Hodder & Stoughton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0340832878 . Signed by Le Carre on the title page in black felt-tip marker. Red silk ribbon marker. ; 383 pages; Signed by Author .
Chicago: Willett, Clark & Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards sunned, foxing to first and last several . leaves.. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth binding with titles stamped in black on front boards and spine. A vintage bibliomystery. ; 259 pages .
NY and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, top front corner bumped, . front free endpaper removed, spine sunned.. 1900. First American Edition. Hardcover. 98 illustrations by Gordon Browne. Green decorative cloth with design of chemical beaker flanked by flowering plants on front boards in dark green white, and gilt. Possible Margaret Armstrong binding (interlocked MA stamped on front boards). x, 383 + [5] pp. of publishers ads. An early mystery featuring a female detective, Hilda Wade, a nurse who comes to St. Nathaniels Hospital to work with medical sleuth/physiologist Professor Sebastian. The book is narrated by Dr. Cumberledge, Sebastians assistant, who follows her to Rhodesia and Tibet as Hilda uncovers dark secrets about the Professors past. The novel was first serialized in the Strand Magazine and was published after the authors death. The publishers note states that the last chapter of the novel was finished by Allens friend and neighbor, Arthur Conan Doyle. .
Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket; Pages brittle and toned, boards rubbed.. N.D.. Hardcover. Circa 1880s-90s reprint. Dark green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. An early detective novel by the author of the bestselling novel, The Moonstone. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 363 pages .
NY: Dodd, Mead and Company. Good with no dust jacket; Spine cocked, boards soiled and sunned, . bookstore label on rear pastedown.. 1927. 2nd American edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth with red lettering stamped on front boards and spine. The first published novel of Christie's and the first novel featuring the fussy little Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 296 pages .
NY: Mysterious Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Pages toned.. 2006. First Printing. Hardcover. 0892960728 . A Joe Gunther mystery inscribed by the author on the title page. ; 292 pages; Signed by Author .
NY: Vanguard Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rubbed.. 1978. Hardcover. 0814908063 . Black cloth binding. Author photo on rear jacket flap. ; 219 pages .
Boston: The Christoper Publishing House. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed.. 1930. Second Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth binding. Exuberantly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Frontispiece photo of the author. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 185 pages; Signed by Author .
NY: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rubbed.. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670804886 . Signed by Dobyns on the title page. Author photo on rear jacket flap. Jacket art by Robert Crawford. The third Saratoga Springs, New York detective Charlie Bradshaw novel in which our hero comes home from his moonlighting job as a milk man to find a dead, headless jockey at his kitchen table. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages; Signed by Author .
London: Century. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Pages toned.. 1997. First Printing. Hardcover. 0712677917 . Signed by the author on the title page. The ninth novel in the historical mystery series set in ancient Rome featuring Didius Falco. ; 294 pages .
NY: Putnam's Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Several small closed tears to jacket.. 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. 0399145621 . Signed by the late author on the half-title. A horseracing mystery by the late former jockey and bestselling mystery writer. ; 293 pages; Signed by Author .
NY: St. Martin's Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rubbed.. 1986. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0312000596 . The first Hugh Cobbett mystery, set in the court of King Edward I. ; 186 pages .
NY: Walker and Co.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1984. First Printing. Hardcover. 0802755879 . The first novel in Rosen's baseball mystery series featuring major league baseball player Harvey Blissberg. This novel won the Edgar Award for best first mystery. Signed by Rosen on the title page. ; 234 pages; Signed by Author .
NY: M. Evans and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket very lightly rubbed.. 1980. First Printing. Hardcover. 0871313251 . Inscribed by the late Edgar Award winner on the half-title. Cloth-backed boards. ; 287 pages; Signed by Author .
NY: Carroll & Graf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Foxing to jacket and edges.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 0881845795 . A short novel and short stories featuring Gardner's "phantom crook" Ed Jenkins, which were first published in the magazines in the 1920s. ; 275 pages .
NY: Donald I. Fine, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1992. First Printing. Hardcover. 1556112793 . Review copy with publisher's press release and author press photo laid in. xv, 219 pp, index, photos. The author is a noted forensic psychiatrist who unearthed previously unpublished information from Scotland Yard which pointed to Prince Albert Victor and his tutor as a Jack the Ripper criminal duo. .
