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Death Out of Thin Air by Towne, Stuart ( Clayton Rawson ) - 1941

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Death Out of Thin Air by Towne, Stuart ( Clayton Rawson ) - 1941

Death Out of Thin Air

by Towne, Stuart ( Clayton Rawson )

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Coward McCann, 1941. 1st. Hardcover. A VG+ bright tight copy in a GOOD+ dj chipped at spine ends. Also includes a MINT facsimile dj.

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  • Publisher Coward McCann
  • Date Published 1941

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White Face

White Face

by Wallace, Edgar

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Garden City, NY: The Crime Club / Doubleday, 1931. First US Edition. Hardcover. 290pp. Black cloth stamped in red on cover and spine, top edge stained red. Cloth is lightly rubbed. A near fine copy in spectacular, near fine dustjacket with a faint vertical crease and two tiny, closed tears on the rear panel. In Hubin, 1994, p. 835. ; Octavo.
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Who Done It

Who Done It

by Asimov, Isaac; Laurance, Alice, eds

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9780395291665
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0395291666
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. Inscribed and dated by Isaac Asimov and Alice Laurance on the title page. Collects stories by Robert Bloch, John D. MacDonald, Ruth Rendell, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, and many others. Story introductions by Isaac Asimov. A fine copy in very good dustjacket with front and spine panels faded. ; Octavo; Signed by All Authors.
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The Mummy Case

The Mummy Case

by Peters, Elizabeth

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9780312925475
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0312925476
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New York: Congdon & Weed, Inc, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. The third Amelia Peabody mystery. A bright and attractive copy. ; Octavo.
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The Squealer

The Squealer

by Wallace, Edgar

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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1928. First US Edition. Hardcover. Originally published in Great Britain as The Squeaker. Black cloth stamped in red on cover and spine. A few faint spots to boards although the cloth remains bright, small stain to fore edge barely affecting last few pages. A very good+ copy in good dustjacket with a darkened spine panel, chipping and tears to edges and a stain to rear panel. ; Octavo.
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Put on by Cunning
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Put on by Cunning

by Ruth Rendell

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9780091441203
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009144120X
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London: Hutchinson, 1981. First. Near Fine/Near Fine. Ruth Barbara Rendell (1930 â€" 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries She is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford in a series of two dozen books Her Wexford stories were dramatized in a long-running BBC series Like her friend PD James, Ms Rendell was widely credited with pushing mystery into new themes and ways of storytelling It was often said of her, as it was of Ms James, that her work transcended the genre, and that by any measure she was an enormously talented writer She wrote more than 60 books, and her works have been translated into more than 20 languages and have had worldwide sales estimated as high as 60 million She won three prestigious Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, which named her to its list of grandmasters She also won four Gold Daggers and a Diamond Dagger from England's Crime Writers' Association This title is the 11th book in the Wexford series, and one of… Read More
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Dearly Devoted Dexter

Dearly Devoted Dexter

by Lindsay, Jeff

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0385511248
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New York: Doubleday, 2005. Basis for the Showtime, and now CBS, hit thriller featuring Dexter Morgan, serial killer. A couple of tiny bumps bottom edge, Else Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Unaccountably scarce, and especially in such lovely condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.
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Deadly Edge

Deadly Edge

by Stark, Richard ( AKA Donald Westlake)

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New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition (stated) 1st Printing. Green Cloth. Fine/Fine DJ. 8 3/8 " High. 214 Clean, Unmarked Pages. Green And Black Boards Stamped In Silver. First Edition Stated. No Inscriptions Or Marks. Decorated Covers As New. Dj As New, No Wear Or Rubbing At All, Priced $4.95, With Two Very Faint Vertical Folds On The Front Flap. A Very Attractive Copy.
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The Rio Casino Intrigue, A Major North Intrigue Novel
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The Rio Casino Intrigue, A Major North Intrigue Novel

by Mason, Van Wyck

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Mason, Van Wyck. The Rio Casino Intrigue, A Major North Intrigue Novel. Reynal & Hitchcock First Edition, 1941. MYSTERY. Used. Good/Good rare unclipped dust jacket Original $2.00 item price appears on the back flap. now protected in a mylar wrap.
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The Croquet Player
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The Croquet Player

by Wells, H.G.

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Wells, H.G. The Croquet Player, A Dark Fantasy. Copyright 1937 H.G. Wells FIRST AMERICAN EDITION , THE VIKING PRESS. Used. VG/G Price-clipped DJ. Illustrated by Clifton Line. Boards are in nice shape. Printed in the US by the Haddon Craftsmen. By the author of 'War of the Worlds' and 'The Time Machine'. Illustrations by British artist Clifton Line. Plot Summary: "Something is horribly wrong in the remote English village of Cainsmarsh." A GHOST STORY.
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The Case-Book Of Sherlock Holmes
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The Case-Book Of Sherlock Holmes

by Doyle, Arthur Conan

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The Case-book Of Sherlock Holmes. By Arthur Conan Doyle. Publisher: John Murray, 1929 Short story anthology. Detective fiction. Used. Clean and square. Protected in a mylar wrap. Good Condition/Good- ORIGINAL DUST JACKET illustrated by J. Abby. 1929 Cheaper Edition, first printing thus. published in 1929, Blue blind-stamped cloth. Toning as is typical of this edition. 320 pages. The RARE original, White, blue and red pictorial dust-wrapper is not sunned at spine. Priced at 2/- net to the bottom right of the front panel. Back panel of the jacket lists "New volumes in Murray's Fiction Library. The 12 Titles listed there are from Beau Geste to The Black Flemings. 320pp. 4 5/8 X 7. A great find. Adventures included here are: The illustrious Client; The Blanched Soldier, The Mazarin Stone, The Three Gables, The Sussex Vampire, The Three Garridebs, The Problem of Thor Bridge, The Creeping Man, The Lion's Mane, The Veiled Lodger, Shoscombe Old Place, The Retired Colourman.
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Death Out of Thin Air

by Stuart Towne

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Cassell & Company. 1947. First edition. . Hard cover. Very good. light shelf wear, mild spine lean.
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DEATH OUT OF THIN AIR

DEATH OUT OF THIN AIR

by Towne, Stuart (pseudonym of Clayton Rawson)

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Used - A very good plus copy, some mild soiling to cloth, tear to cloth (mendable) at upper rear cover in a very good dust jacket with
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New York: Coward-McCann, [1941]. First edition. A very good plus copy, some mild soiling to cloth, tear to cloth (mendable) at upper rear cover in a very good dust jacket with some edge wear, wrinkling to upper front panel stain marks to upper rear panel. Uncommon in jacket. (9869). Octavo, cloth. Two novelettes featuring Don Diavolo, The Scarlet Wizard-magician detective. These were first published in separate issues of the pulp Red Star Mystery in 1940. This is the first of two books published with the Towne pseudonym (and the only one in hardcover).
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DEATH OUT OF THIN AIR.

DEATH OUT OF THIN AIR.

by TOWNE, STUART

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New York: Coward-McCann, [1941]., 1941. First edition. First edition. 0riginally published serially in Red Star Mystery magazine under the titles GHOST OF THE UNDEAD and DEATH OUT OF THIN AIR. A pseudonym of Clayton Rawson and the first appearance using this pseudonym. These two pulp novelettes feature a magician-sleuth called Don Diavolo and the titles are DEATH FROM THE PAST and DEATH FROM THE UNSEEN. In the story DEATH FROM THE PAST, Diavolo must solve a murder of a frightened female medium, committed in his own backstage dressing room, apparently by a vampire conjured up during a seance. In DEATH FROM THE UNSEEN, an inventor claims to have invented an invisibility machine. A few weeks later an invisible man murders a detective at police headquarters and then challenges Diavolo to find him. If you are unfamiliar with Don Diavolo, he is an illusionist who gets involved in crimes only a magician could commit. The stories are thoroughly entertaining and readable. Fine, tight copy in a bright,… Read More
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Godshot (SIGNED) (FIRST)
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Godshot (SIGNED) (FIRST)

by Bieker, Chelsea

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2020 - 1st ed ("1" in number line) - SIGNED by author on the title page - "Godshot is the kind of book you find yourself thinking about incessantly." - Kristen Arnett - book: near fine - dj: near fine - dj in protective mylar sleeve"Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen–year–old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret "assignments," to bring the rain everybody is praying for.Lacey has no reason to doubt the pastor. But then her life explodes in a single unimaginable act of abandonment: her mother, exiled from the community for her sins, leaves Lacey and runs off with a man she barely knows. Abandoned and distraught, Lacey May moves in with her widowed grandma, Cherry, who is more concerned with… Read More
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The Mystery of the Blue Train
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The Mystery of the Blue Train

by Agatha Christie

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New York: Pocket Book edition, 1966, 20th printing. Pocket Book 50447. Vintage pulp fiction paperback, x, [2], 194pp., advert., cover price 50 cents.. Very Good Condition with bright cover page. Slight cover and spine creasing. There are bumped corners, and signs of shelf wear, top right corner of cover with slight crease and lower edges of cover worn. Pages are unmarked. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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Kill Petrosino!

Kill Petrosino!

by Nolan, Frederick

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9780213165178
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0213165171
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London: Arthur Barker Ltd. 1st Edition, 1975 ----------hardcover, with dust jacket. The book, in black boards with orange lettering and design to the spine, is an unblemished near fine copy. The unclipped jacket has light wear to the front panel top edge and spine extremities, and is almost near fine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Note: our prices on Biblio are the LOWEST of any of the sites on which we list our books.
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Dolores Claiborne

Dolores Claiborne

by Stephen King

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9780670844524
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0670844527
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First Edition. (1993) Hardcover with d.j. Fine with near fine dust jacket. D.J. has slight curl on top edge and light rubbing on back. No worn edges. Tight binding with clean, sharp pages. No markings. 305 pages. Dolores Claiborne is a psychological thriller novel. The novel is narrated by the title character. Atypically for a King novel, it has no chapters, double-spacing between paragraphs, or other section breaks; thus the text is a single continuous narrative which reads like the transcription of a spoken monologue. This book is dedicated to King's mother: "For my mother, Ruth Pillsbury King."
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Pearson, Ridley (as Reardon, Joyce) | Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, The | Signed First Edition Copy

Pearson, Ridley (as Reardon, Joyce) | Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, The | Signed First Edition Copy

by Pearson, Ridley (as Reardon, Joyce)

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9780790000008
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0790000008
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Hyperion, 2001. hardcover. New. Author Signed Hardcover Book. 2001 NY: Hyperion First edition, first printing, fine, no dust jacket as issued, signed by the author. This is a collectible book free from material defects. Jacket covering services are available for a small fee.
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And Four To Go
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And Four To Go: A Nero Wolfe Foursome

by Rex Stout

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This book is in very good condition except for the dust jacket. It is in acceptable condition THe dust Jacket is worn, torn and fading. The previous owner's name is written at the top of the first page.Four Nero Wolfe novels in miniature, published in book form for the first time. Christmas Party, Easter Parade, Fourth of July Picnic and Murder is no Joke. There is a marking on the first page.
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A Is For Alibi

A Is For Alibi

by Sue Grafton

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9780805013344
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0805013342
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1982. Fine. Book Club Edition. Hardcover and dust jacket. D.j. is near fine with slight wear on top binding edge. Inside flap d.j has slight creases. Cover is smooth, unblemished, no tears, nicks or worn corners. Hardcover, as new, black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Tight binding, sharp, clean pages. No markings. (Actual photo) A flawless copy. 208 pages. "A" Is for Alibi is crime writer Sue Grafton's first mystery novel in the Kinsey Millhone "Alphabet mystery" series, first published in 1982.
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Noose, The
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Noose, The

by MacDonald, Philip

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Collins White Circle Pocket Edition #228. Great 1940s cover! Colonel Anthony Gethryn must prove a man innocent of a murder he's been convicted for in only 5 days. MacDonald was a great practitioner of the mystery-suspense genre; his books remain readable, even if his characters are nowhere near as enlightened as we tend to be today. Please read this volume in its historical context. A very clean copy, spine slightly darkened with very faint reading crease: see photos.
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Black Cherry Blues
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Black Cherry Blues

by Burke, James Lee

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9780316116992
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0316116998
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New York, NY, U. S. A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. New York, NY, U. S. A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1989. Near Fine in Very Good jacket Remainder A Dave Robicheaux mystery, Edgar Award winner npc, 290pp. rem po inscription on front pastedown, behind dj flap. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. Remainder. First Edition
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Gallagher, Stephen | Valley of Lights | Signed First Edition UK Copy

Gallagher, Stephen | Valley of Lights | Signed First Edition UK Copy

by Gallagher, Stephen

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9780450000003
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0450000001
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NEL, 1987. hardcover. New. Author Signed UK Hardcover Book. 1987 LON: NEL First UK edition, first printing, mint/new unread in a flawless dust jacket, signed by the author.
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