Search Results: Mystery from The Book Moose

Doubleday, Garden City, 1933. Book Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Very good without dust jacket. Bright orange & black spine, cloth.

Hard Cover. Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. SCARCE: Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co. (1928). First edition, (not a first printing). Binding is poor in yellow cloth with purple titles. Contents are good.

Publisher: New York: A. L. Burt, 1926; Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6 3/4 " - 7 3/4 " tall. The first Philo Vance Mystery.

NY: Dodd, Mead, 1935 A very nice example with some scuffing to the bottom edge of the covers and 1 spine corner. A FINE first printing faux dust wrapper is included.

NY: Villard Books, 1995, 1995 Illustrated Card Wraps. NF/NA. True First. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. VG condition, with first page missing. Publishing data on the Rear Cover. Stated: Advance Readers Edition.

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION with scribners 'A'. A library reading copy in good condition, front flap is all that remains of the dust wrapper tucked in the front with price of $2.00.

NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962 A very Good Example in cloth hardcover in an unclipped dust wrapper from a rural NH library with a bookplate and pocket inside. Clean, NO markings to the exterior or dust wrapper. A scarce title.

12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. SCARCE: Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company. New York, 1938. (So dated on the title page) Hardcover, First Edition, first printing. Light cloth boards titled in Red. Lovely faux dustwrapper from a Fine original. 303pp. Beautiful, photos sent per request.

1878 8vo, original roan cloth, black and gilt titles with stamped rules. Dated 1878 on both the title and copyright pages, a true first printing. 'Dora's Worst Enemy ' is bound here with Bertha M. Clay's story 'A Thorn in Her Heart' (pages 74-100).

NEW YORK NY MCGRAW-HILL BOOK CO. PUB 1965., Newr Fine in a like dust jacket. DJ not price clipped, $5.50

NY: Morrow, 1962 Morrow, New York, 1962. Hardcover. Condition: About Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: About Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Author's second mystery featuring L.A. detective Lt. Luis Mendoza. No foxing, tanning, tears, etc... or other wear, appears near new and is quite nice. A lovely example of this title at a very reasonable cost.

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.

Doran Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, New York, 1930. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Ex-Library.

NY: SOHO, 2016 4 books published 2016/17, all first printings thus.

Publisher: Souvenir Press London 1965; First Edition NF/VG+. Author's first book. Unclipped $, name on first FEP.

Boston Houghton Mifflin 1940 First Edition-First Printing Hard Cover Near Fine in Very Good- jacket The dust jacket is edge worn. This example was once part or a bookshops ( Ridge Top Book Shop) book lending program and has 2 stamps, also an additional stamp that has been partially inked out denotes ownership by a Senior Center. The book shop had their own dust wrapper which is stamped with the shops emblum. The original dust wrapper is also included in good condition and unclipped with the price of $2.00 in the upper corner of the front flap. Both will be archival wrapped.

Larcom Press, 2001 Author's first novel, flat signed on the title page.

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Sun Dial Press, 1935. Hardcover. First Edition thus, NF, no dust wrapper. Red Boards, black illustrated titles. . Author's first book, extremely scarce.

NY: Sears, 1930 A decent example of this scarce title with some light water marks to the top edge. DJ unclipped with moderate edge wear and spine sunned a bit.

NY: Farrar & Rinehart Inc., 1932 The Authors first book and winner of the French Literary award 'Prix du Roman d'adventures', 1931, quite scarce in this 1st US printing. He was just 23 at the time. One of only 3 mystery novels that were published in English by this very popular French writer. This title in French (Six hommes morts) also went on to become the First of several of his books to grace the silver screen as The Riverside Murder (1935) and The Last One of the Six (novel "6 Hommes morts") in 1941. The condition is quite worn with the dust wrapper affixed (glued) to the bds and a lending library sheet on the front end paper also glued along the top edge over the blurb (a duplicate of the DJ front flap title blurb) about Stephen Vincent Benet and his wife who is the translator of this title. I have not seen the copy treated in this manner before, perhaps they were testing this printing with and without a dust wrapper? The DJ is complete with price intact ($2.00) on… Read More