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NONE BUT THE LETHAL HEART.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Signet Books / New American Library (1959). First edition - The fifth in the series featuring "torrid blonde private eye" Mavis Seidlitz. Signet 1694. Cover art by Barye Phillips. 128 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only (creasing to the covers, spine slant, usual toning to pages) .
Book ID: 90382More details Price: $12.00 -
THE MANY ASPECTS OF MOBILE HOME LIVING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, one which introduces us to Evers Wheeling, "a preternaturally young North Carolina judge who's headed to the dogs with his eyes wide open. . But just before he makes it there, into his life comes a blonde in trouble with an outrageous (and ever-mutating) tale of a brother who needs help avoiding a jail sentence." James Crumley called this "a wonderfully unique read, charming and funny and touching and twisted, as fresh and tart as a perfect martini." 348 pp. ISBN: 0-375407251.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85226More details Price: $18.50 -
UNDER GROUND.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (1997). Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - "Transit cop Jack Swann travels the New York subways day after day, catching the occasional fare-beater or mugger. One day, as he is tangling with a thief, a shot is fired and a boy lies dead.. . [this] single violent incident has changed his life and his outlook." Daly is a journalist in New York City, so he knows it well. 415 pp. ISBN: 0-316217093.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 76199More details Price: $17.50 -
SLIPPY McGEE, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: The Century Company, 1920. Hardcover - Southern author's first novel, the story of a priest in a small and poor South Carolina town, who takes in the notorious safe-cracker Slippy McGee after he barely survives the loss of his leg from a train accident. Basis for two films, in 1923 and again in 1948. 405 pp.
Condition: Good condition in dark green cloth with black lettering.
Book ID: 72730More details Price: $18.00 -
THE DEATH OF FRANK SINATRA .
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Ventura's 7th book, a gritty novel featuring a Las Vegas private detective, the son of a showgirl and a small time hood from the Bugsy Siegel era. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-37381.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64230More details Price: $30.00 -
PROVIDENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which describes the effect of violence on five people - but also a novel in which the setting, the city of Providence, Rhode Island, plays a large part. Providence is a city "big enough to have neighborhoods, small enough so that everyone knows overone. . . steeped in history and corruption, [a] rough and pretty old Yankee port. . . the biggest organized crime operation in New England jostles with and sometimes runs the action at City Hall." 217 pp. ISBN: 0-670804614.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 63912More details Price: $15.00 -
WHO IS TEDDY VILLANOVA?
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - Berger's take on the hard-boiled crime thriller as practised by the masters of noir. 247 pp, Dust jacket and title page art by John Sposato. ISBN: 0-440-095468.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (prev owner's embossed seal)
Book ID: 58300More details Price: $16.50
