Search Results: Crime & Detective from Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera

Doubleday Doran & Co: Crime Club. 1944. First ed.. First edition. Basis for the 1946 film noir The Chase, starring R obert Cummings and Peter Lorre. Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 296. A very good copy; clean and tight with no damage other than very light rubbing to lower corners and a small rectangle of paper/glu e residue on ffep possibly from a prior bookplate removal. [1/2†x1”] Dust jacket is fair only; not price-clipped but with sig nificant chipping to edges and corners and 1” closed tear at bo ttom of spine. .

Dutton. Near Fine. 1967. 1st ed.. Inscribed by Braun to her sister Florence. . 1st edition in dustjacket. A nice association copy inscribed by B raun to her sister Florence, with the stamped paw print of cat Ko Ko. Near fine: some age-toning to top edge; lightly cocked to ri ght; otherwise fine. Dustjacket is very good; has some light edge wear and age-toning. Not price-clipped. .

Alfred A. Knopf. 1927. First ed.. 1st ed., 12mo, decorated boards. . rical play that was the basis for several popular Broadway produc tions and films about sex, murder, and âRoxie Hartâ -- including the 2002 Oscar winning production with Richard Gere and Renee Zellweger. . First book in the New Theater series edited by George Jean Nathan. A Very good copy with light rubbing to edges and corners, several small nicks at top and bottom of spine, some light spotting to end paper hinges. In the very scarce dust jacket; very good with mild darkening to spin e, tiny chip at top. .

Ground breaking bibliography in the field of detective fiction; the first bibliography of the detective short story. One of 1060 copies of which 1000 were offered for sale. Several closed tears in dust jacket edges and spine; otherwise a nice clean copy.

Hale, Cushman & Flint, New York. Very good. 1929. 1st edition. FULL TITLE: A Handbook on Hanging: Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution, and Containing Much Useful Information on Neck-Breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Decapita tion and Electrocution; As Well as Data and Wrinkles for Hangmen, an Account of the Late MR. Berry's Method of Killing and His Wor king List of Drops; To Which Is Added a Hangman's Ready Reckoner and Certain Other Items of Interest; All Very Proper to Be Read a nd Kept in Every Family . , 1929. First Edition. 16mo; Black cloth with printed spine label . 129pp + hangman's "Ready Reckoner" drop chart at back. Patterne d gallows endpapers. Lacks dust jacket. A satirical handbook on h anging and other methods of capital punishment. Hailed as a "mino r classic" by Dylan Thomas, the book was reprinted in 1999 under the NYRB Classics imprint. Spine label chipped, otherwise a VG-ne ar fine copy. .

London: Collins. 1975. UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOFS to first ed. 8vo, red wrappers, 221 pp . Fine copy with just a tiny, light smudge to front cover.The pro of was issued under the original title 'Poirot's Last Case' where as the published book was called 'Curtain'. .

Mysterious Press. Fine. 1984. Special edition; limited.. Inscribed by author on half-title page . Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies signed by the author, thi s being copy J. Octavo burgundy cloth in pictorial dust jacket, s lipcase; xv,[1],234pp. Signed on the colophon page, as normal, b ut with an added signature on the title page and an author’s in scription on the half-title. A pristine copy. .