You Play the Black and The Red Comes Up

New York: McBride, 1938. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Minute bumps to the crown and foot else fine in a lovely, about near fine example of the scarce dustwrapper with a few rubbed spots and slight loss at the spinal extremities (affecting a couple of letters), and some very neat professional reinforcing at the folds. A lost classic… Read more about this item

Gregg Press, Boston, 1980. 8vo, 213pp. A very good hardback copy in faded dust jacket with insect damage to spine. .

MA: Gregg Press, 1980. FINE condition in NEAR FINE dust jacket. MA. Gregg Press. HARDCOVER. 1980. FIRST PRINTING of Gregg Press Mystery Series Reprints. Originally published in 1938. AS NEW, bound in black with silver titles in rose pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, NOT clipped. Dust jacket has minimal… Read more about this item

Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1986. First Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Printing Thus. Bound in grey cloth with title information to spine in siver. 213 pages. This edition is a complete photographic reprint of a work first published in 1938. AS NEW. Alas, not read. All corners pointed. Binding tight,… Read more about this item

New York: McBride, 1938. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Attractive bookplate of L.C. Perry on the front fly, else fine, lacking the dustwrapper. A lost classic of hardboiled fiction, when it came out it was compared to *The Postman Always Rings Twice* and *They Shoot Horses, Don't They?* An Oklahoma man comes home and finds his wife and child… Read more about this item

NY: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1938. First edition. Stamp "Property of Vangaurd Films, Inc." at endpapers and title page, touch of shelf wear to spine ends and corners, a little soiling at edges, a bright nearly fine copy, without the dust jacket. (13990). Octavo, [1-8] 1-213 [214-216, blank], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in… Read more about this item

Dell, 1951. Book. Poor. Mass Market Paperback. First Printing. Dell 510. Well creased. Spine-slant. Tear along edge of spine.

FIRST EDITION in red cloth with printing in black; lacking the dust jacket. The book is very good with some bumping to the spine ends and a small spot of wear to the front edge of the front cover; large sticker mostly removed from the front pastedown, (possibly from a rental library); two-inch square owner's label also on the front… Read more about this item

New York: McBride, 1938. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. A lost classic of hardboiled fiction; when it came out it was compared to *The Postman Always Rings Twice* and *They Shoot Horses, Don't They?* An Oklahoma man comes home and finds his wife and child gone, perhaps to California, and he sets out after them.… Read more about this item

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1938. First edition. 8vo, 213pp. Red cloth lettered in black. Staining to boards, worn at corners and spine ends, spotting to page edges, page block toned. A very good copy in facsimile jacket. Presentable first edition of this classic of hardboiled detective fiction set in Southern California.

McBride, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Minor bumping to bottom edge. Tiny tears to bottom inside… Read more about this item

Gregg Press. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1980. First ed; Stated First Printing. Hardcover. 0839826532 . Gregg Press Mystery Fiction Series; 8.3 X 5.7 X 0.9 inches; 213 pages .

Dell Publishing, 1938-01-01. paperback. Very Good. 6x1x9. Softcover. Very Good condition. Free of any markings and no writings inside. Clear Text. Minor shelf-wear. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.

Dell Books. New York: Dell Publishing Co. , 1951 first edition . 510 reading copy, many creases Cover by Victor Kalin. paperback,