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LONDON: WARD, LOCK, & BOWDEN, LTD.. VERY GOOD+ WITHOUT D.J.. PUB 1894. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. 53 FULL PAGE OR VIGNETTE ILLUSTRATIONS BY SIDNEY PADGET / QUEEN'S QUORUM #18 . GREEN CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT TITLES TO THE SPINE AND FRONT COVER WITH BLACK/WHITE/GILT SIDNEY PAGET VIGNETTES TO THE SPINE AND UPPER COVER (REPLICATING ILLUSTRATIONS ON PAGES 179 AND 71), PATTERNED ENDPAPERS, AND 4 PAGE CATALOG FOLLOWING THE 324 PAGES OF TEXT. OTHER THAN SOME RUB AND PERISHING TO THE PUBLISHER'S NAME AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SPINE AND A SMALL BLEMISH ON THE UPPER COVER, A PARTICULARLY NICE COPY OF THIS RARE DETECTIVE FICTION HIGH SPOT. .

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FIRST DRAFT "SHERLOCK HOLMES IN WASHINGTON" ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY ... BASED ON A STORY BY SIR. A. CONAN DOYLE

by [Doyle, Arthur Conan (source work)]: Millhauser, Bertram, and Lynn Riggs [screenwriters]

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[Los Angeles: Universal Pictures], 30 June 1942.. [1],107 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only of salmon colored stock. Bradbound. Pencil name on title leaf ("Milton Feld," a Universal producer at the time), a few annotations in color pencil, very good or better. A first draft of this contribution to the Holmes screen canon. Released in April of 1943, SHERLOCK HOLMES IN WASHINGTON was directed by Roy William Neill, and starred Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The association of Lynn Riggs, the Oklahoma-born, part-Cherokee gay playwright and poet with this project is very interesting. It is one of at least two of the Universal Holmes titles that Riggs worked on, the other being an (until recently) uncredited revised draft of the screenplay for SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE VOICE OF TERROR (also dated 1942). Riggs is most widely known for his play, GREEN GROW THE LILACS, which was immensely popular as the musical adaptation, OKLAHOMA!, but little has been written about his years as… Read More

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The Black Camel: A Charlie Chan Mystery

by Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933) inscribed

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First

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Fort Worth, Texas

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312 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's grey cloth with red lettering to spine and cover in original jacket. Inscribed on second front end-paper. First edition in second state jacket.Earl Derr Biggers is remembered primarily for his novels, especially those featuring the fictional Chinese American detective Charlie Chan, from which popular films were made in the United States and China. Derr Biggers was born in Warren, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard University in 1907. He worked as a journalist for The Plain Dealer before turning to fiction. His novel Seven Keys to Baldpate was popular in 1913, and George M. Cohan quickly adapted the novel as a hit Broadway stage play of the same name. Cohan starred in the 1917 film version, one of seven film versions of the play, and a 1935 revival. More than 10 years after Baldpate, Derr Biggers had even greater success with his series of Charlie Chan detective novels. The popularity of Charlie Chan extended even to China, where… Read More

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Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

The So Blue Marble

by Hughes, Dorothy B.

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Used - Very Good

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First Edition

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Portland, Oregon

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New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1940. First Edition. Very Good/Good. First edition, first printing. Publisher's black cloth binding stamped in turquoise. Very Good with light fading at spine ends, two scrapes to top edge of textblock affecting margins, toning to pages. In a heavily restored dust jacket.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes ( As Serialized , Complete Issues of The Strand Magazine, Vols. XXII and XXIII, Numbers 128-136, August 1901-April 1902);

by Doyle, (Arthur) Conan

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First Edition

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Dale Steffey Books, ABAA

Bloomington, Indiana

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London: Strand Magazine, 1901. The true First Printing of the third and arguably best Sherlock Holmes mystery, one which had avid readers queuing up across England with the publication of every new issue. With numerous illustrations by Sidney Paget. Nine complete Strand Magazines, bound without the wrappers, in contemporary brown cloth with red morocco label, gilt rules and lettering, Very Good, cloth sunned at spine, light soiling with small bumps and rubs at corners, light toning at end pages only, interior clean and bright. One section of the novel was published each month for nine months, beginning August 1901 and running to April, 1902, The book edition did not appear until 25 March 1902, towards the end of this serial publication. SCARCE with the complete magazines in contemporary binding. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Thick 8vo.

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The Glass Key

by Hammett, Samuel Dashiell (1894-1961)

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First

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Fort Worth, Texas

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[8]+282+[1, blank]+[1, note on type] pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's light green cloth, spine and front stamped in dark red and green, dark green broken key ornament at front board, dark green publisher's stamp at rear; top edge of text block stained purplish-red; original pictorial, first issue dust jacket with description of the book printed on front flap. First edition.The Glass Key is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett. It was first published as a serial in Black Mask magazine in 1930, then was collected in 1931 (in London; the American edition followed 3 months later). It tells the story of a gambler and racketeer, Ned Beaumont, whose devotion to Paul Madvig, a crooked political boss, leads him to investigate the murder of a local senator's son as a potential gang war brews. Hammett dedicated the novel to his onetime lover Nell Martin. There have been two US film adaptations (1935 and 1942) of the novel. A radio adaptation starring Orson Welles aired… Read More

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The Bishop Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story

by Van Dine, S. S. [PSEUD Willard Huntington Wright (1888-1939)] with a signed letter laid in

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viii+349+[3 ad] pages with fold out illustration. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with blue lettering to spine and cover in original jacket. Signed card laid in. First edition. Wright wrote as a critic and journalist until 1923, when he became ill from what was given out as overwork, but was in reality a secret drug addiction, according to John Loughery's biography. His doctor confined him to bed (supposedly because of a heart ailment, but actually because of a cocaine addiction) for more than two years. In frustration and boredom, he began collecting and studying thousands of volumes of crime and detection. In 1926 this paid off with the publication of his first S. S. Van Dine novel, The Benson Murder Case. Wright took his pseudonym from the abbreviation of "steamship" and from Van Dine, which he claimed was an old family name. Wright wrote a series of short stories for Warner Brothers film studio in the early 1930's. These stories were used as the basis for a… Read More

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The Bishop Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story

by S. S. Van Dine, [PSEUD Willard Huntington Wright (1888-1939)] inscribed by the author

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Fort Worth, Texas

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viii+349+[3 ad] pages with illustrations one folding. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with Art-Deco style printing in blue lettering to spine and cover with "Scribner's seal" appearing at the bottom of the copyright page and same year is listed to title and copyright page in original jacket which the index card is printed with a teal background. Early photograph of the author laid in. (Firsts, volume 14, Number 9 page 29) First edition Inscribed by the author and dated 1929. The Bishop Murder Case is not as common and The Green Murder Case. The fourth title in the series. The Bishop Murder Case (1928) is the fourth in a series of mystery novels by S. S. Van Dine about fictional detective Philo Vance The detective solves a mystery built around a nursery rhyme. The Bishop Murder Case is believed to be the first nursery-rhyme mystery book.The story involves a series of murders taking place in a wealthy neighborhood of New York City. The first murder, of a Mr.… Read More

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In the Heat of the Night

by Ball, John

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1st Edition

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Idler Fine Books

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New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed by John Ball directly on the title page, including a unique, pithy inscription from Ball, incorporating the most famous quote from the 1967 film that won five Academy Awards: "'They call me Mr. Tibbs.' / They call me / John Ball."

Book and dust jacket in fine condition, with minimal signs of wear. A beautiful copy of an historically significant work. Scarce thus.

The first appearance of African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs, receiving the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and made into an Oscar winning film of the same name, starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, and Warren Oates.

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AND THEN THERE WERE NONE

by Christie, Agatha

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Quill & Brush

Middletown, Maryland

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New York: Dodd Mead, 1940. Exceedingly scarce first U.S. edition, the first edition with this title. Originally published in the UK with a racist term in the title. AND THEN THERE WERE NONE is the world's best-selling mystery and one of the best-selling books of all time. Adapted numerous times for film, radio, stage, and television. Good to very good with some tanning to upper and lower spine areas; in fair to good price-clipped dust jacket with portions of upper and lower spine missing, few areas of internal archival-tape repair, and rubbed creasing to front panel. Scarce to rare in dust jacket.

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SILENCE OF THE LAMBS SIGNED 1ST WITH LETTER

by THOMAS HARRIS

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VAGABOND BOOKS

PASADENA, California

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A VERY FINE FIRST EDITION IN DUST JACKET. SIGNED ON BOOKPLATE WITH HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM THOMAS HARRIS

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Brenner's Collectable Books

I am Jonathan Scrivener (Scarce Inscribed First Edition)

by Houghton, Claude

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Used - Fine

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1st Edition

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Manasquan, New Jersey

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London: Thorton Butterworth, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo., 315pp. Beautiful First Edition of this scarce mystery with statement "First Published ... 1930" on copyright page. .Bound in black cloth with titles stamped in red on spine and blind-stamped on front board. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Remarkably well-preserved. A touch of off-setting to end-papers but trivial. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, (correct price of 7/6 net on the spine panel), Chipping to tip and a small chip at the crown. Light soiling. Some edge-wear and a couple of miniscule closed tears. Still quite fresh and complete and presents much nicer than the Very Good it is. Uncommonly inscribed, dated and signed by the author on the front end-paper, " Inscribed for Mrs. Robert C. Taylor, with all good wishes, Claude Hoghton. - Savage Club. London, S,W,I, March 1939". A quite sharp collectable copy, rarely found in such high-grade condition and certainly not signed.

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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

by Doyle, Arthur Conan

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near fine
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Used - Near Fine

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1st Edition

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Hardcover

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Concept Books

Veldhoven, Netherlands

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London: George Newnes, 1894. Book. Illus. by Sidney Paget. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Original gilt lettered dark blue cloth with black illustration on front cover. All edges gilt. In custom made gilt lettered dark blue clamshell box. Illustrated by Sidney Paget. The binding is remarkably fresh, tight and square with bright lettering. Minimal wear to spine-ends. Hinges are sound. Patterned endpapers. Contemporary dedication (1893!) in ink on verso frontispiece. No other marks or inscriptions. Small piece of upper corner of last free endpaper formerly sticking to pastedown with slight damage. Occasional foxing. A near fine collectible first edition, first printing. .

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No Hero

by John Phillips Marquand (1893-1960) signed

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First

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Fort Worth, Texas

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[4]+281+[3, blank] pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5") bound in original publisher's yellow cloth with black lettering to spine and black inverse lettering to cover in original pictorial jacket, all text block edges trimmed. Author's signed card tipped to front end paper. (A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone) First edition.
No Hero (later published as Your Turn, Mr Moto and Mr Moto Takes a Hand) is a 1935 spy novel by John P. Marquand and the debut novel in the Mr. Moto series. The story was first serialized in the Saturday Evening Post. A down-on-his luck American airman...a beautiful international adventuress...a mysterious Chinese courier...a scrap of paper worth many lives and the peace of the entire world...and a jigsaw pattern of treachery and sudden death that had been expertly designed to deceive and destroy. Enter the inimitable Mr. Moto, the only one who could hope to decipher and defuse the situation. Casey Lee, the airman, would never forget this extraordinary figure and the amazing feats he was… Read More

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Scene of the Crime Books, ABAC, IOBA

The Hunt for Red October ( SIGNED by Tom Clancy & Alec Baldwin )

by Clancy, Tom

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First edition first printing

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St. Catharines, Ontario