A Coffin for Dimitrios by Ambler, Eric - 1939

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.

Charles Scribner's Sons. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. 1938. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 428 pages: 6.75 x 9.5 in.: 2.8: KB#010194: Book is contained in a beautiful, fine condition, matching labeled cloth clamshell box. Bookjacket/dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Dustjacket is price clipped and has some edge cuts and a small edge chip. Book's boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Has scarce Scribner's "A" on copyright page. Boards are original decorated beige cloth, with front and spine lettering stamped in green and a green picture of a boy with his fawn on the front board and yellow endpapers. A classic novel that was the best-selling novel in America for the year 1938, won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1939, and was adapted into a film in 1946, starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman, both of whom were nominated for Oscars for their performances.:… Read More

x+533 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with brown lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket.The Simple Art of Murder is hard-boiled detective fiction author Raymond Chandler's critical essay, a magazine article, and his collection of short stories. The essay was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in December 1944. The magazine article appeared in the Saturday Review of Literature, April 15, 1950. The article, somewhat rewritten, served to introduce the collection The Simple Art of Murder, 1950 (Houghton Mifflin Co.), which contained eight of Chandler's early stories pre-dating his first novel, The Big Sleep. The essay is considered a seminal piece of literary criticism. Although Chandler's primary topic is the art (and failings) of detective fiction, he touches on general literature and modern society as well. Chandler reserves his praise for Dashiell Hammett. Although Chandler and Hammett were contemporaries and grouped as the founders of… Read More

SUMPTUOUS EASTON PRESS EDITION SIGNED BY LOIS LOWRY and still SEALED in the original shrinkwrap. A gorgeous leather-bound, gilt embellished limited edition in gift-worthy condition. Expedited shipping is welcome; signed by author.

SIGNED BY DOUGLAS ADAMS without personalization but with "Best Wishes" directly to the title page. An extraordinary 1st printing (full numberline) trade PB of the 1997 Ballantine Books edition. Book is astonishingly still like new with beautiful wraps, sharp corners and no sppine crease. Text is lightly tanned. I've simply never seen this version of the classic tale in such amazing condition. Expedited and international shipping are welcome; signed by author.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1992).. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. xiv, 321 pages. A clean, attractive copy. This crackerjack book is the cornerstone of a collection of first-rate mysteries.

Garden City, NY: The Crime Club / Doubleday, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth lettered in red on the front panel and the spine panel. Spine ends are worn, front flap of dustjacket pasted on the front free endpaper, inscription dated 1929 also on the endpaper. Still a nice copy that has been married to the rare dustjacket. The dustjacket is in fine condition with only a very short tear along the edge of the rear flap. Lovely period cover art by Ernest Walker. An outstanding copy of this scarce book.; Octavo.

1945, 1st edition year, 4th edition . Tight bright red boards. Original (chipped) DJ in protective foil. Original owner inscription dated 1946.

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