from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Random House, 1994. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm); cloth-backed boards (hardcover), titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 496pp. Fine, tight copy in a price-clipped and lightly rubbed dustwrapper, Near Fine. Attractive copy of Carr's breakthrough novel, source for the 2018 television series starring Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans, and Dakota Fanning.

New York: The Viking Press, 1976. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23cm); blue paper-covered boards and green cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in blue and gilt on spine; dustjacket; [vi],314pp. Lengthily inscribed by the author in a contemporary hand on the front endpaper: "To Tod, the woodcarver. How about doing a totem pole? It's the least a shrewd engineer… Read more

New York: Walker and Company, 1963. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); yellow cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; [6],7-189,[3]pp. Boards a bit splayed, upper right board corner gently tapped (though still sharp), with a tiny stain to upper edge of textblock; contents clean; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.50), spine a little sunned, modest… Read more

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1941. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 253pp. Very Good or better in the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 at base of front flap) but with a ca 1-1/2" loss at front flap-fold, a few faint ink notes to rear cover and flap, just VG. Hubin-listed crime novel… Read more

New York: Hearst's International Library Co, 1914. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Red publisher's cloth, stamped in red and gilt; plain endpapers; [ii],379pp; 8 halftone plates. A straight, bright copy, lightly rubbed at edges, minor discoloration to endpapers, tear and printing error to p.42, else Very Good. The fourth Craig Kennedy novel.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1962. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); yellow paper-covered boards, titled in black on the cover and spine; dustjacket by Peter Baumann; 276pp.; minor scratch to top of textblock; spine ends gently nudged, Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.95 with minor rubbing, mostly to spine ends, Very Good+ or better. … Read more

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1936. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); light gray cloth covered boards titled in red on the cover and spine; 304pp. Top textblock shows dust soil; light toning to gutters; former owner's name inside front cover; lightly pulled hinge at title page; Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket. "Joe Wilson was a poor, itinerant… Read more

London: Faber and Faber, 1990. First Edition. First Impression. Signed by the author on the title page. Octavo (22cm); blue paper covered boards titled in white on the spine; dustjacket; 281pp.; Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced £12.99 net) also in Fine condition. "When Oscar Burolo turned a derelict farmhouse in the middle of Sardinia into a… Read more

Boston: The Writer, Inc, 1966. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],149,[3]pp. Gentle sunning to upper board edges, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.00), gently spine-sunned, with light rubbing to extremities, a few tiny tears, and a small patch of sticker-pull to lower left corner of… Read more

London: Women's Press, 1987-1991. First Editions. First impressions. Three octavo volumes (20cm) in original pictorial publisher's wrappers (softcover); 196+195+212pp. Near Fine to Fine, with some mild toning to the texts of the two later titles (as usual); Report for Murder is signed by McDermid on title page. Hard to find first printings of the socialist-feminist author's first… Read more

London: William Heinemann, 1997. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (24cm); glossy pictorial boards; dustjacket; [vi],324,[6]pp. Signed as "Nicci French" on the title page. Subtle tanning to text edges, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced £12.99). The English crime-fiction duo's first novel.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1937. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20cm); yellow cloth covered boards titled in black on the cover and spine; 299pp; Minor toning inside the covers and a faint strip to lower front board; dust soil / foxing to upper textblock; Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket. "A birthday party given by William Carrington, an… Read more

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); red cloth titled in black on the cover and spine; dustjacket; 300pp. Minor bump to upper front board; spine ends gently pushed; some foxing to the top edge of textblock; faint sunning to the spine; spot of foxing inside front cover; Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket. … Read more

London: William Heinemann, 1997. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (24cm); glossy pictorial boards; dustjacket; [vi],324,[6]pp. Signed by both authors on the title page. Subtle tanning to text edges, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced £12.99). The English crime-fiction duo's first novel.

London: Gollancz, 1936. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19vcm); black cloth covered boards, titled in orange/red on spine; 318pp; fold-out map at rear; former owner's bookplate inside front cover; tiny bookseller's ticket inside rear cover; foxing to the textblock, end papers and scattered faintly throughout the margins of the text; Very Good or better, lacking the dustjacket. … Read more

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1937. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); light gray cloth covered boards titled in red on the cover and spine; 318pp. Toning to gutters; scattered staining to a few pages of the text; Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket. "Karen Leith is a novelist whose fictional life and works bear a resemblance… Read more

New York: Harper & Row, [1965]. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in white pictorial dust jacket by Frederick Banbery; [6],244pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in Very Good to Near Fine jacket, unclipped; just a trifle soiled on front panel and with mild edgewear to extremities; a trifle faded on spine, but better than usual… Read more

London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19.25cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [8],9-254,[2]pp. Faint foxing to upper edge of textblock, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 21s. net), lightly edgeworn and gently spine-sunned; Very Good+, with the publisher's original dossier and related inserts laid in. Deighton's fifth novel featuring… Read more

New York: New Directions, 1949. First, Limited Edition. First Printing, Second State, with cancelled title page. Edition of 1500 copies. Octavo (25cm). Red cloth backstrip over blue paper covered boards decorated with white hands; red topstain; acetate jacket and slipcase with paper title label; 210pp. Mild toning to upper board edge of front cover; Near Fine. The slipcase is… Read more

New York: Harper and Brothers, [1917]. First Edition. May 1917 printing, "E-R" to copyright page. Octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in black and orange; plain endpapers; [viii],[335]pp; frontispiece. Stamp of Fred Burroughs to front pastedown. A straight, bright copy, lightly rubbed, front hinge with a few perforations (internal) but sound: Very Good. The fourtheenth Craig Kennedy novel. HUBIN… Read more