Killer in the Rain de Chandler, Raymond - 1964

California Book auction Galleries, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Special Limited Edition. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Top edge very slightly spotted or marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Books on Books; Antiquarian & Rare. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 13124. .

Professional Press , 1999 HBDJ, 1999, 1ST Edition with #1 Intact Number Line, FINE/FINE, . Author interacted personally with Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev on 2 different occasions. FAST Paced Thriller. Few of Stevens questions are answered by the time he leaves for U.S. with the Secret Film hidden in His Shoe, author was Pioneer in use of hypnosis in criminal investigation & is Fellow of Royal Society of Arts, London ,England.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine-Fine.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good plus. Black cloth over boards with title stamped in orange onto top board and spine, 8vo (7-5/16 x 4-15/16 inches [18.5 cm x 12.5 cm]), pp. [i-iv], v, [vi-viii], 1-279, all edges trimmed. Stated "First Edition" and code "I - F" [Sept. 1931], to copyright page and "1931" on title page, "A HARPER SEALED MYSTERY" device stamped in orange onto bottom of spine and top board, remnants of original blue onion skin "seal" to rear paste down/rfep and pg 233. Modest wear and rubbing to boards, one small bump damaging the cloth at center fore-edge of rear board, spine with both ends softened and fading to spine lettering, front hinge tender. Text toned with moderate soil throughout and light damp stain touching the fore-edges of first and last few leaves, p.153 with a large closed tear noted and rfep partially attached to rear paste-down by blue onion skin "seal" remnant near spine. Carr's third of forty-six detective novels,… Leer más

Limited first edition, 1st printing, unread Fine book in Fine jacket and slipcase. This is copy U of 26 lettered copies. Book is bound in quarter morocco with marbled paper boards in matching marbled slipcase. Bizarre, wrap-around dust jacket by the late, well-known comix artist S. Clay Wilson. The book is signed by Crumley on the limitation page. This is one of the few McMillan titles with only 26 deluxe lettered editions.

Limited edition, 1st printing of this hardcover version. A back-to-back packaging of two early Willeford novels that appeared as PBOs, plus his play version of first title. A Fine minus book that has slight wear and color loss to corners and spine ends; in a Fine minus book with just a hint of fade to spine. This is number 1 of 250 copies; signed by Willeford and numbered on a limitation page.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. Inscribed and dated by Isaac Asimov and Alice Laurance on the title page. Collects stories by Robert Bloch, John D. MacDonald, Ruth Rendell, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, and many others. Story introductions by Isaac Asimov. A fine copy in very good dustjacket with front and spine panels faded. ; Octavo; Signed by All Authors.

New York: Congdon & Weed, Inc, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. The third Amelia Peabody mystery. A bright and attractive copy. ; Octavo.

The Secret Of Chimneys (1941, John Lane/The Bodley Head 3/6 POPULAR EDITION. W/Fax DJ) Christie, Agatha. Used. Good- Condition/ New Facsimile 1st Ed. Candlestick DJ. The Secret of Chimneys, copyright 1927, 1941 3/6 Popular Edition / W New facsimile DJ. INSPECTOR BATTLE. Our copy has a couple of chocolate spots on the boards. Please see our photos. Summary: "A young drifter finds more than he bargained for when he agrees to deliver a parcel to an English country house. Little did Anthony Cade suspect that a simple errand on behalf of a friend would make him the centrepiece of a murderous international conspiracy."

Du Maurier, Daphne: Jamaica Inn Copyright 1936, states 1937 on the title page. Doubleday Doran & Co. QUITE RARE. Used. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. 332 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. Plot summary: "Shadows moved across the moor. Horses' hoofs rang sharply on the stone pathway. They had come again - the mysterious visitors who arrived at Jamaica Inn under cover of darkness...Here is a story of passion, treachery and death. Of a beautiful woman caught in the web of a dangerous intrigue. And of her compelling love for a scoundrel. Daphne du Maurier tells this strange tale of the suspense and excitement which characterizes her internationally famous novels Rebecca and The Scapegoat"

The Poison Belt. 1913 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. By Arthur Conan Doyle. Hodder & Stoughton/ George H. Doran. States Hodder & Stoughton on the spine. RARE. Illustrated. Red Boards with gilt titling. Gilting still bright. All 16 B&W plates, including frontis, present and affixed to binding. THE PROFESSOR CHALLENGER SERIES. "Being an account of Another Amazing Adventure of Professor Challenger. USED. Bright pages. Very Good Condition/ No DJ Included. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾. 252 pages. RARE.