Doomsters (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Used. Good condition. Paperbacks. 8 of 18 books in Lew Archer series. Professional book dealer with storefront since 2001. All orders are processed promptly and packaged with care. Ships in 102 business days.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. Signed review copy of Archer in Jeopardy by Ross Macdonald, with an inscription to rare book dealer James Pepper. This omnibus edition of Lew Archer stories includes The Doomsters, The Zebra-Striped Hearse, and The Instant Enemy. (illustrator). Review Copy. Octavo, vii, 757pp. Blue hardcover, title in silver on cream cloth spine. Blue topstain. Solid text block, faint sunning to top edge, clean interior. In the publisher's dust jacket, $14.95 retail price on front flap, lightly sunned spine, small loss to bottom corner of rear panel. (Penzler 262-263) A vibrant copy. Includes the publisher's review copy slip laid-in at front, with a portrait of the author. Inscribed to a rare book dealer on the title page: "To James Pepper from Ross MacDonald.". Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First edition, first printing of The Doomsters by Ross Macdonald. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 251pp, [1]. Patterned purple paper boards, title printed on spine. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Short closed tear to multiple pages in chapters 1-5, no impact to text block. Numerical stamp on front free endpaper. Faint rubbing to lower edge of boards. In the publisher's near fine dust jacket, $2.95 on front flap, light rubbing along top edge, bright illustrations, an attractive example. The Doomsters was the seventh book in the Lew Archer series. Macdonald felt that this work and The Galton Case (1959) were his most successful writing endeavors.