The Eyes of Death by BENTLEY, John - 1934

1934 From a lending bookshop with their bookplate affixed to the end paper. A good filler example of this author's first novel, quite scarce in any condition. First Edition stated, dated 1934 on the title page, a true first.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934. Ex-Library. Fair. Cloth. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Stated First Edition. First US Edition. Black cloth binding. In addition to a few library markings, there is scattered soil spotting throughout the text. There are a few pages with some water marks in the margins. There is a name label on the front end paper. There is foxing on the page edging. The cover has scuffing and some small spots on the back where there is some paper stuck to it. The cover also has corner tip wear. The spine has a minor lean and end wear. Published by Doubleday, Doran for the Crime Club. The title page states, Introducing Sir Richard Herrivell. 276 pages. .

Toronto: Doubleday, Doran and Company (Canada) Ltd., 1934. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. viii, 276 pp. 20 cm. Black cloth, stamped in green on the spine, which shows The Crime Club imprint. The title page does not mention The Crime Club but it shows the logo. Jacket appears to be the American, with the code 707-36 on the front flap. The jacket has an internal tape repair at the top of the spine panel to deal with a closed tear, and another on the front flap fold. "Double murder - but why had the first victim bullets through both eyes?" A Sir Richard Herrivell mystery.

Garden City: Crime Club, 1934. First American Edition. Very good in dust jacket.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934., 1934. First edition. First U. S. edition. Author's first book. Originally published in the U. K. as THE BERG CASE in 1934. Near fine in dust jacket with light professional restoration to spine ends and corners. A brutal murder is committed in a fashionable jewelry shop and the police are baffled as to who and why the man was murdered. The victim was a prominent antique dealer who was visiting the jewelry store. The tale unravels with clues being uncovered and each clue makes his murder more difficult to solve. An elusive Crime Club title.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934., 1934. First edition. First U. S. edition. Author's first book. Originally published in the U. K. as THE BERG CASE in 1934. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket with light wear to spine ends and corners. A brutal murder is committed in a fashionable jewelry shop and the police are baffled as to who and why the man was murdered. The victim was a prominent antique dealer who was visiting the jewelry store. The tale unravels with clues being uncovered and each clue makes his murder more difficult to solve. An elusive Crime Club title.

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

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

The Seven Dials Mystery (Midnight Mysteries) 1944 Books, Inc. Stated 1st. Pr. Thus) RARE IN THIS EDITION. By Agatha Christie. USED. Good-/ No DJ. Black boards, gold titling on spine. Light pop bottle rings mar front board. Original copyright by Dodd, Mead 1929. Loose last gather has been neatly taped in. A clean copy. Summary: "When Gerald Wade died, apparently from an overdose of sleeping draught seven clocks appeared on the mantelpiece. Who put them there and had they any connection with the night club in Seven Dials? This is the mystery that Bill Eversleigh and Bundle and two other young people set out to investigate...".

Murder for Christmas, a Poirot Story by Agatha Christie (1944 Midnite Mystery) COPYRIGHT BY AGATHA CHRISTIE MALLOWAN: "It is Christmas Eve, and elderly Simeon Lee is found violently murdered in his locked office. The police are immediately called, but of course nobody has a clue until Hercule Poirot arrives..." USED. 1944 Books inc. Midnite Mystery. Copyright 1938 - 1939 Agatha Christie Mallowan. Good+/ No DJ. Black boards with gold titling on spine. Titles gilting is still nice Scarce.

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.

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