Keziah Dane de Sue Grafton - 1967

Twodot, 2010. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. The true story of life on the Wild West Show. 150 pages, text clean and tight. A few B/W photos. First edition number line 1-10.

Sphere Books, 1975. Mass market paperback Used - very good condition. Book is clean and tight with some shelf wear. Price sticker removed poorly- 1/4" spot with cover ink gone.. Scuffing along edges of spine and bottom edge of book. Back cover is creased near spine and at the lower-left corner. Pages are yellowed with age and there is additional discoloration on the first and last free end-papers and on the inside of front and back covers. Light marking in black marker along top edge of pages. No markings inside the book. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.

London, England: London, UK: Sphere, 1975, 1st sphere Edition, First Printing, 1975. ----------paperback, a solid Very Good example, a tidy copy with a small abrasion along the spine and front cover, signed without inscription by GRAFTON, missing from most Grafton collections, the author's 1st book, by the author of the hugely popular KINSEY MILHONE mysteries, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo. /// SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE//// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)------. Signed (see description). First Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good (see description). Illus. by Photo Cover. 4.25w x 7h Inches.

Sphere Books Limited, London, 1975. First Edition. Softcover (Photographic). Good Condition (ex-library). Photographic paperback binding with orange coloured titles to the front panel and blue and white coloured titles to the backstrip. Keziah Dane has been living on the edge of poverty with her children since the flood that drowned their town had also killed her husband. Into her life comes a crafty vagrant, Web, who insinuates himself into Keziah's confidence; " ... He uses her trust to disguise his crude attempts to rape her elder daughter, who defends herself by smashing his skull. Webb's body is dumped in the murky depths of Drowntown, but his death brings unexpected benefits to the Danes." – from the rear panel blurb. Author's first work. This book is an ex-library copy: – library stamp to the title page, due back page and library pocket along with library stamp to the rear page. A little creasing of the book corners, and along the front… Leer más

London: Sphere. Good+. 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Paperback edition of Grafton's first book. Signed by Grafton to the title page. Reading creases and other small creases to front and rear covers and rubbing to spine. ; Signed by Author .

peter owen london 1968. ex-lib first edition 220pp VG (brown cloth,tape stains to boards w.some surface losses where tape has been removed,mod.shelf wear,tape stains to eps,usual libr.stamps w.labels removed,foot of ffep clipped,contents o/w clean,spine cracked and mod.cocked) in VG d/w (mod.rubbed and sl.soiled,chipping to extrems.w.some minor closed tears,flaps trimmed w.loss of some text to rear flap,tape stains to flaps,price-clipped) scarce first edition of sue grafton's first novel;ex-libris but still relatively tidy

Macmillan, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. This copy has new end papers. Faint tape marks to boards. Small scuff to jacket. Top page edges a little dirty. NOT ex-lib.

NEW YORK: Macmillan, 1967. First edition. 1st. printing (stated). Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. EX-LIB WITH USUAL MARKINGS & EXPECTED IMPERFECTIONS; DJprotected by new mylar wrap; ALL ELSE-CLEAN, TIGHT, & ATTRACTIVE.. 8 vo; red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine; illust. dj; 220 pps. Grafton's first novel; scarce & hard to find.

New York: Macmillan, 1967. First Edition/First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Stated first printing. Really no negatives to report except some tiny nicking at jacket spine ends. Owner brief name date and place on pastedown completely under the flap. Could easily go a grade higher.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Sue Grafton (1940-2017) first novel, and only non-mystery before she started her Kinsey Malone series in 1982 with "A is for Alibi". Inscribed simply to "Dear Reader" by Grafton on the title page. First Printing. Very minimal wear to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Red cloth boards with silver embossed titling. Water damage, at some point, stained the upper and lower edges of the covers but has only had impact on the first free endpapers and pastedowns. Clean within.

1965 - First Edition stated - A Tiger Mann Mystery - "...for Tiger is told on his wedding day that he is needed for Operation Plato." - book: very good - tight, sound, and square - no previous owner markings - dj: vibrant colors with some rubbing to the black base and abstract sun - interesting black and white photo of Spillane on the back cover - a few chips repaired with archival tape - dj in protective mylar sleeve

2014 - 1st ed stated ("1" in number line) - INSCRIBED - authors debut book - "Fourteen-year-old Audrey martin, with her Poindexter glasses and her head humming the 3/4 meter of gospel music, knows she'll never get out of Kentucky - but when her fingers touch the pion keys, the whole church trembles." - book: very good (like new) - dj: very good (like new) - dj in protective mylar sleeve

First edition. Spine ends lightly rubbed, spine has small nick, small reddish stain to front cover and rear cover, otherwise very good or better. Lacks dust jacket.

New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478

Paris Editions Denoel, 1992, First Edition. paperback. First edition, Paris 1992, one of 3443 printed. -- Text (the cartoon captions) in FRENCH. -- Softcover, 8.3x10.8 inches, stiff cover with flaps. Condition: near fine (small surface scratch rear cover). -- Nice collectible example of Sempe's classic cartoon work, familiar to New Yorker readers. ISBN 220723861X

New York: Periscope-Holliday, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine-. First American Edition of two early novels. 8vo: [4],328pp. Publisher's quarter-bound black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slate grey paper-covered boards; dust jacket, priced $4.75, replicating (separately, on front and back panels) Osbert Lancaster's illustrations for the original wrappers. Near Fine (top edge soiled and stained, gilt a bit faded, gift inscription on fly-leaf); about Fine jacket. Lilley A.10. First collected in 1952 by Rinehart for the Periscope Book Shop and Holliday Bookshop in New York; the unsold stock was reissued in 1965 by Little, Brown, Powell's then American publisher (our copy), with publisher's label pasted to jacket's spine panel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions… Leer más

First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with no visible flaws, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author on a tipped-in page. A pristine copy of this novel from the Pulitzer winning author of "A Visit From the Good Squad". Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box.

Random House, 1947. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Book has some toning to the edges; one word previous owner's name to the front free endpaper. The unclipped jacket ($2.50) has light wear to the spine ends /corners and toning to the rear panel. A very good or better copy.

Beacon Press, 2021. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Galleys. Fine in illustrated wraps. By the author of Corregidora.

1939 Frederick Stokes first edition.Condition of the book is Good. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked. The main condition issue is light dampstaining to the boards. Inside pages are not affected.Condition of the dust jacket is Good. The DJ is complete, not price clipped. It shows moderate shelf wear and edge wear. The DJ is protected in a new mylar cover.
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