FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General from Barbara Bilson Books

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2006. Fine in fine dust jacket. Clean throughout. New book quality.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983. Very good (interior clean and unmarked except for small smudge on rear pastedown and last free endpaper; exterior worn, including crease running down spine, top corners bumped, and some foxing on page edges) in very good dust jacket (light edgewear, small slit on front cover (see book image), and some light foxing on inside;… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2000. Pristine copy, fine in fine dust jacket. . 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. Fine in near fine dust jacket (some slight rubbing and very slight edgewear). A very nice copy, suitable for a gift.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2000. Near fine (minimal shelf wear, previous owner's sticker on first free end paper) in near fine dust jacket (top edge slightly worn). . 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1933. Difficult to find first American edition, published originally in the United Kingdom in 1933 as "Seven Green Stones." Very good condition (Ex-lib with the check-out sleeve from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in Culver City with other signs of library use but still in very good condition. Some separation occurring at signature divisions but still firm and clean. A… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1979. SIGNED and numbered first edition (number 199). Near fine (two small dents in top cover edge) in good dust jacket (rubbed and edgeworn around spine). Dust jacket has a gold sticker reading "Numbered first edition." INSCRIBED on first free endpaper to Helene by Gordon Gordon.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1994. Near fine (slightly cocked) in fine dust jacket. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. Deighton is the author of "The Ipcress File" featuring an anonymous anti-hero who was named Harry Palmer in the film adaptations. This is the British first edition of the fourth book in the series that began with "The Ipcress File." Very good- condition (a few spots along the page edges, and slightly cocked) in a poor… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1958. Near fine in badly worn dust jacket. First printing, first state. GIFT INSCRIPTION from playwright CLIFFORD ODETS, dated 12/60. "Real-life" mystery about the diamond smuggling from South Africa, written by the creator of 007.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. A third printing of Deighton's third cold-war thriller featuring the same unnamed secret agent from The Ipcress File. Very good (somewhat dusty, lightly soiled page edges, interior clean) in very good- dust jacket (sunned along edges and a few scratches).. Hard Cover.

New York: Random House, 1984. Very good (some small spots show up on the black covers, dusty page edges, clean interior) in very good dust jacket (light edgewear, one 1/4 inch closed tear at top of back panel). The hero stumbles into an insane plot to plunge the world into chaos in order to establish a world-wide empire. 647 pages.… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966. Very good (slightly spotted page edges, interior clean) in good only dust jacket (soiled and sunned, especially the spine). Another Quiller spy novel from the author of The Quiller Memorandum.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976. Very good (foxed page edges, interior clear of foxing except for endpapers and half-title; unmarked pages) in good+ dust jacket (heavily foxed and edgeworn, now in Brodart protective jacket). Mysterious Press memo sheet laid in with hand-written note: "Thank you for your interest. Best, Otto Penzler." 436 pages. A wonderful encyclopedia of authors, characters, films, pulp… Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollins, 1999. Very good copy of first edition (two bumped corners) in near fine dust jacket (some wrinkling from the drop that caused the bumped corners on the binding). SIGNED by author on title page.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2000. Pristine copy, fine in fine dust jacket. . 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1994. Uncorrected Proof (which nonetheless contains a few corrections in pen and a different font--added by publisher, not a reader). Nice addition to your Dick Francis special collection as you can see a few places where the final version was still in flux. Red soft covers, clean and unmarked. A little wrinkling on the… Read more about this item

New York: Dutton, 2001. Fine in very good dust jacket (some edgewear along bottom edge of dust jacket). Another terrific novel in McCrumb's Appalachian series. A ballad ties many generations together--from pre-Revolution days to the present.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Viking, 1995. Very good+ (slightly bumped coverr, thin stain--food?--on top page edges and on rear pastedown and rear free endpaper) in very good dust jacket (light edgewear, light bluish offset along top edge of flap and interior). Another of Langton's Homer Kelly mysteries, this one set in the context of the Christmas Revels at Harvard. Literate and entertaining,… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. Published by Doubleday, Doran for the Crime Club. 242 pages of mysteries with room at the end of each mystery for you to write down your solution (no one has written them down yet; you will be the first), followed by 65 pages of solutions printed at the rear and bound in upside-down so… Read more about this item