The French Powder Mystery. A Problem in Deduction
New York (1931): Grosset & Dunlap. 12mo, 316 pages, 4 pages of ads at rear; INSCRIBED on FEP. Publisher's red cloth, printed in black. Internally clean and bright. Light spotting to rear panel. More
New York (1931): Grosset & Dunlap. 12mo, 316 pages, 4 pages of ads at rear; INSCRIBED on FEP. Publisher's red cloth, printed in black. Internally clean and bright. Light spotting to rear panel. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. A very good+ copy with mild cover edge wear, small ink stamp ffep in a very good- dust jacket with chips, short closed tears, long thin piece missing rear panel of dust jacket affecting "A Note..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1932. First Edition. octavo, 250 pages; publisher's red cloth, printed in black. Pictorial dust jacket with price of $2.75 on front flap; red on spine faded. Owner name and date on ffep. Small check marks by several titles on author's list of books. More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1929. First Edition. Octavo, 325 pages; publisher's red cloth, printed in black. Owner name at top margin of title page; very light soiling to cloth binding. Internally, quite clean and bright. More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First Edition. Octavo, 325 pages; publisher's red cloth, printed in black. A beautiful, unused copy; internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. Stated First Edition. $2.00 on dust jacket front flap. A near fine copy with owner name ffep in a very good dust jacket with tape verso of dust jacket, mild chips, short closed tears. 321 pp..... More
New York: Mercury Publications, Inc., 1953. First Edition. Octavo, Volume 22, #117, August, 1953. Contains stories by Earl Derr Biggers, Dorothy L. Sayers and others. Excellent wrapper wrapper art by George Salter. More
New York: Davis Publications, Inc., 1971. First Edition. Octavo, Volume 7, #3, March, 1971. Contains stories by Erle Stanley Gardner, Agatha Christie, John D. MacDonald. and others. Small ink letters "SA" on margin of title page. More
Toronto: Wilson Publishing Co., 1950. First Edition. Octavo, volume 15, #78, June, 1950. Containing a Lester Leith novelette by Erle Stanley Gardner. and stories by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and others. Excellent wrapper art by George Salter. More
New York: The American Mercury, Inc., 1946. First Edition. Octavo, volume 7, #30; May, 1946. Stories are by Dashiell Hammett, Christopher Morley, Manning Coles and others. Excellent wrapper art by George Salter. More
New York: Mercury Publications, Inc., 1952. First Edition. Octavo, Volume 19, #98, January, 1952. Contains stories by Georges Simenon, Joyce kilmer and others. Excellent wrapper art by George Salter. More
New York: The American Mercury, Inc., 1948. First Edition. Octavo, volume 12, #59, October, 1948; contains stories by Philip MacDonald and others. Excellent wrapper art by George Salter. More
New York: Davis Publications, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Octavo, all 12 issues from 1965, January through December, with stories by Ellery Queen, Agatha Christie, Rex Stout, Erle Stanley Gardner and others. Very good to fine. Housed in 2 open end slipcases. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. Barbara Corrigan. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. Stated First Edition. Dust Jack and Frontipiece by Barbara Corrigan. $2.50 front flap of dust jacket. A fine copy in a good dust jacket with small pieces missing spine tip of dust jacket affecting..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. First Edition. octavo, 754 pages; publisher's light green cloth, printed in gilt. "Twelfth printing, September, 1944" as stated on the copyright page. Internally clean and bright. Very faint owner inscription on ffep, small tape residue on pastedowns, binding with some slight fading. Overall, very good..... More
Random House, 1957. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Large Octavo. Twenty-sixth printing. Bound in black cloth spine over black boards. Salter dust jacket, with price of $26.50 on front flap. Quite a handsome copy, with little or no wear showing on book or dust jacket. More
New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition. First Printing (stated) in a stunning, first issue dust jacket, with $6.95 on front flap and 10/57 printed on the lower front flap and the Random House name and address on the lower rear flap; short closed tear at foot of rear jacket..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. Early Printing with page number 9 an "o" - "Refrred" on page 321 (5th line down), smaller "G" on page 381, line 4 and "Domininque" on page 480 (2nd line down). In second issue dust jacket with author photo and..... More
Kobenhavn: Berlingske Forlag, 1942. First Edition. Half-Leather. Octavo. First translation by Else Brudenell-Bruce. First Foreign Language Edition. 455pp. Bound in 3/4 brown leather over marbled paper covered boards; internally clean. Upper joint starting, but not broken through. A very good copy. Perinn, A1c. More
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo, 278 pages; number "M" of 26 copies SIGNED by all 16 contributors, among them, Lawrence Block, James Ellroy & Max Allan Collins. Black cloth binding, spine printed in red, in publisher's slipcase. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. 399 pages; pictorial dust jacket with price of $24,95 on front flap. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on title page to mystery collector Arthur H. Parson: "To Arthur - / Cheers! / Ian Rankin" followed by his drawing..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. First printing, in first issue dust jacket. 428pp. Decorated by Edward Shenton. Bound in cream pictorial cloth lettered and decorated in green; nearly fine in very good, unclipped dust jacket with mild chips. Tasteful bookplate frontpaste..... More
New York: Scribner, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO MYSTERY COLLECTOR ARTHUR PARSON BY KATHY REICHS ON TITLE PAGE. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 379 pp. More
New York: Doubleday & Company - Published for the Crime Club, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. octavo, 210 pages; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $10.00 on front flap. SIGNED on the title page by the author. First edition, stated. More
New York: Doubleday & Company - Published for the Crime Club, 1972. First Edition. Octavo, 201 pages; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $4.95 on front flap. First edition, stated. More