Mystery
ARCTIC DRIFT
New York: G. P. Putnam, 2008. Roland Dahlquist. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED BY CLIVE CUSSLER, DIRK CUSSLER, AND ROLAND DAHLQUIST ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. Endpaper map and interior illustrations by Roland Dahlquist. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 515 pp. More
TREASURE OF KHAN
New York: G. P. Putnam, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Large Octavo. SIGNED BY CLIVE CUSSLER AND DIRK CUSSLER ON TITLE PAGE without personaliation. A fine copy in a fine ust jacket. 552 pp. More
THE WRECKER
New York: G. P. Putnam, 2009. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED BY CLIVE CUSSLER AND JUSTIN SCOTT ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 470 pp. More
ENEMY AND BROTHER
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO BOOK COLLECTOR ARTHUR PARSON BY DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS ON TITLE PAGE. A very good+ copy with foxing and edge wear covers. In a very good+ dust jacket with mild edge wear and..... More
TERROR AT COMPASS LAKE. Doubleday Crime Club Series
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. Bound in black cloth with red design spine, top edge stained red. A near fine copy with offsetting to endpapers and paste-down from dust jacket. In a very good dust jacket with 1..... More
A Praed Street Dossier
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Mycroft & Moran, 1968. Frank Utpatel. First Edition. Publisher's black cloth, dust jacket with $3.00 on fron flap; owner name and date on ffep. One of 2904 copies printed. More
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First Edition in Book Form. Hard Cover. Octavo. In first issue binding. [i-v]vi-vii[viii], [1]2-190, (2)pp. list of Dickens' works., 32pp. publisher's catalog, bound in publisher's first issue green cloth lettered and decorated in black and gilt, yellow endpapers, thirteen plates by Fildes, including the vignette..... More
The Maltese Manuscript (Signed)
Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED BY JOANNE DOBSON ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. A fine, unread copy, signed on the title page; pictorial dust jacket, with the slightest fading of spine. 275 pp. More
Murder in High Place
New York: Doubleday & Company for The Crime Club, 1970. First Edition. Octavo, 188 pages; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $4.50 on front flap. First edition, stated, in publisher's red cloth printed in black. Quite a handsome copy of one of the scarcer of the modern mysteries; very light..... More
Aristotle Detective
New York: Harper & Row, 1978. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo, 278 pages; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $10.95 on front flap. First U. S. edition, stated, with full number line. More
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1902. Hard Cover. Small Octavo. First American Edition, Second State, without the word "illustrated" on title page and with "published. March 1902, R" on copyright page. A very good+ copy bound in red cloth with white lettering spine and front cover. Lettering faded on..... More
Booked to Die (Inscribed)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. First Edition. octavo, 321 pages; pictorial dust jacket with $19.95 on front flap. INSCRIBED to mystery collector, Arthur Parson thus: "To Arthur Parson / Best luck, / John Dunning / 4 - 9 - 95" on the title page. First printing, with full number..... More
BOOKED TO DIE a Mystery Introducing Cliff Janeway
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED BY JOHN DUNNING wihout personalization. First Cliff Janeway novel; 321pp., bound in 1/4 dark blue cloth over blue paper covered boards, spine lettering in foil blue; a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
BOOKSCOUT
Minneapolis: Dinkytown Antiquarian Books, 1998. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Original Wrappers. SIGNED BY JOHN DUNNING. A fine copy in printed dust jacket over stiff wrappers. LIMITED TO 3000 NUMBERED COPIES. This was offered for sale at only six book fairs across the United States, 500 copies at each fair. This pamphlet..... More
ROYAL BLOODLINE: ELLERY QUEEN, AUTHOR AND DETECTIVE
Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. SIGNED AND DATED ON TITLE PAGE BY FRANCIS M. NEVINS, JR. without personaization. No dust jacket as issued. Very good copy bound in yellow cloth with black lettering spine and front cover. Mild soil and stains covers. Previous..... More
Blood on the Moon (Inscribed)
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. 263 pages; SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on FFEP to mystery collector Arthur Parson; pictorial dust jacket, with $14.95 on front flap. First edition stated. A beautiful copy of the author's first U.S. hardcover book. More
OPENING CHAPTERS OF WHITE JAZZ. A Novel
New York: Knopf, 1992. Original Wraps. Octavo. SIGNED BY JAMES ELLROY ON TIPPED-IN BOOKPLATE without personalization. Avance Excerpts. Fine in original wrappers. 26 pp. More
THE BIG NOWHERE
New York: Mysterious Press, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "TO ARTHUR H. PARSON - THIS BOOK EATS SOULS!" BY JAMES ELLROY ON HALF TITLE PAGE. $17.95 price on dust jacket front flap. A near fine book in a fine dust jacket. 406 pp..... More
THE BLACK DAHLIA
New York/London: The Mysterious Press, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "BLOOD CRUD!" BY JAMES ELLROY ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. 325pp. Bound in 1/4 black cloth over light purple paper covered boards, spine lettering purple foil. A fine First Edition First Printing in..... More
THE BLACK DAHLIA
New York/London: The Mysterious Press, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "To / Arthur H. Parson - / Fear / This / Book!" BY JAMES ELLROY ON FFEP. 325pp. Bound in 1/4 black cloth over light purple paper covered boards, spine lettering purple foil..... More
Sudden Country (Signed)
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. octavo, 182 pages; SIGNED by the author, without personalization on the title page; first edition stated, with full number line. Pictorial dust jacket with price of $15.00 on front flap. Internally clean and bright - as new..... More
Bachelors Get Lonely
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1961. First Edition. Octavo, 255 pages, first printing; pictorial dust jacket, with $2.95 price on front flap, and light soiling to rear panel. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. More
BEWARE THE CURVES
New York: William Morrow, 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Dust Jacket by Bill Hughes. 224 pp. A Bertha Cool and Donald Lam mystery. Price of $2.95 on front flap. More