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NO MOURNING FOR THE MATADOR.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Ives Washburn, (1953) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh Jane and Dagobert Brown mystery - they lightheartedly head off to Spain for some much needed rest - only to discover themselves once again embroiled in murder when they attend a bullfight in Barcelona and the matador is killed. 191 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in tan cloth in a very good dust jacket (some light toning to the pages, small chip to bottom edge of front cover of dust jacket, original price of $2.50 still present) .
Book ID: 78283More details Price: $45.00 -
THE WRONG MAN.
Edition: First edition.
Garden City, NY: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1945. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel featuring lawyer Joshua Clunk and Inspector Underwood. Although Bailey was an English writer, the US edition preceded the UK. 252 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (faint remnants of a bookstore stamp on front endpaper, light edgewear to the dj., original price of $2.00 still present on front flap)
Book ID: 54862More details Price: $25.00 -
THE WRONG MAN.
Edition: First edition.
Garden City, NY: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1945. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel featuring lawyer Joshua Clunk and Inspector Underwood. Although Bailey was an English writer, the US edition preceded the UK. 252 pp.
Condition: Near fine in red cloth in very good dust jacket (light edgewear to the dj., original price of $2.00 still present on front flap)
Book ID: 73986More details Price: $30.00 -
DRAWBACK TO MURDER: A Christopher Storm Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth mystery featuring Christopher "Kit" Storm, an unofficial artist-detective who uses his sketch pad to make drawings at the scene of the crime to assist the New York Homicide Squad solve a series of slayings among a group of young models and artists. Illustrated with more than 40 of his sketches. 292 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (previous owner's stamp on front endpaper, offsetting and toning to the endpapers and pages, some overall edgewear to the dj, original price of 2.50 still present)
Book ID: 78122More details Price: $65.00 -
THE HOUSE OF STRANGE SECRETS: A Detective Story.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1899. Hardcover first edition - A vintage mystery complete with "attempted murder, secret passages, strange and blood-curdling noises, escaped convicts, old gentlemen with strange secrets, and two amateur detectives who are the lovers." 262 pp.
Condition: Good overall in stamped olive green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover (lettering on spine rubbed, but still legible, hinges cracking, but binding is still sturdy.)
Book ID: 50004More details Price: $31.50 -
THE CASE OF THE DEMENTED SPIV.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1950. dj. Hardcover first edition - An Inspector Littlejohn mystery. 179 pp. Dust jacket art by Arthur Hawkins, Jr.
Condition: Good in good dust jacket (discoloration from tape on endpapers, dj is price-clipped with a new publisher's price stamped on flap, minor edgewear.) Overall a decent copy of this vintage mystery.
Book ID: 55150More details Price: $30.00 -
TIME TO CHANGE HATS.
Edition: First US printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1946. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set right after the end of World War II, this novel combines humor with a complicated plot surrounding a murder of an Australian woman, featuring John Davies, a veteran and would-be detective looking to get experience. 282 pp.
Condition: Good only in a good dust jacket (some pencil notations to rear endpaper, overall edgewear the the dj)
Book ID: 72116More details Price: $35.00 -