Dorothy Davis Smith (11 results)

Condition: Fair. Signed Copy . Inscribed by co-author [Elizabeth] Jane Davis on half title page. Slightly dampstained.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Fair. Signed Copy . Inscribed by co-author [Elizabeth] Jane Davis on half title page. Slightly dampstained.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. PBO - Paperback Original. A 1st print (stated) of a PBO of a Dell edition from the mid 1960s of a collection of the best stories from Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine. Contents include Death of a Dead Man by Brett Halliday (Davis Dresser - probably ghostwritten), Partners of the Dark by Alson J Smith, Truck Drivers Like Girls by Dorothy Madle, Murder Slick as a Whistle by Arthur Porges, The Marrow of Justice by Hal Ellson, Man on the Run by Dennis Lynds, Death, My Love by John Douglas, Mink is for a Minx by Tighe Jerratt, Murder of an Unknown Man by James Holding, and Corpus Delicti by Talmage Powell. Dell Book 5642. GGA cover. Light edge wear with some small chips to the fore edge and bottom corner of the front cover. Book store stamp (Libby's Used Book Store .) on the FFEP. The lightly browned pages are clean and crisp. A very good copy. Robert McGinnis (cover) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. (xiv) 448 pp. Quarter-bound in black cloth on pale blue boards; lettered in silver on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Lucky Dip by Liza Cody; Full Circle by Sue Grafton; Benny's Space by Marcia Muller; The Puppet by Dorothy Salisbury Davis; The Scar by Nancy Pickard; Murder Without a Text by Amanda Cross; Discards by Faye Kellerman; Getting to Know You by Antonia Fraser; A Match Made in Hell by Julie Smith; Theft of the Poet by Barbara Wilson; Death and Diamonds by Susan Dunlap; Kill the Man for Me by Mary Wings; The Cutting Edge by Marilyn Wallace; Looking for Thelma by Gillian Slovo; Deborah's Judgment by Margaret Maron; A Man's Home by Shelley Singer; Her Good Name by Carolyn G. Hart; Ghost Station by Carolyn Wheat; Where Are You Monica by Maria Antonia Oliver; Settled Score by Sara Paretsky; and That Summer at Quichiquois by Dorothy B. Hughes. Size: 8vo. Julia Gorton; (illustrator). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. (xii) 317 pp. Quarter-bound in black on blue boards; lettered in silver on the spine. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Lucky Dip by Liza Cody; Full Circle by Sue Grafton; Benny's Space by Marcia Muller; The Puppet by Dorothy Salisbury Davis; The Scar by Nancy Pickard; Murder Without a Text by Amanda Cross; Discards by Faye Kellerman; Getting to Know You by Antonia Fraser; A Match Made in Hell by Julie Smith; Theft of the Poet by Barbara Wilson; Death and Diamonds by Susan Dunlap; Kill the Man for Me by Mary Wings; The Cutting Edge by Marilyn Wallace; Looking for Thelma by Gillian Slovo; Deborah's Judgment by Margaret Maron; A Man's Home by Shelley Singer; Her Good Name by Carolyn G. Hart; Ghost Station by Carolyn Wheat; Where Are You Monica by Maria Antonia Oliver; Settled Score by Sara Paretsky; and That Summer at Quichiquois by Dorothy B. Hughes. Size: 8vo. Julia Gorton; (illustrator). Book.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 92 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 92 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.25 inches. In Stock.

First Edition. PROFILE BY GASLIGHT, Simon & Schuster, 1944, first edition, light rubbing to the bottom edges, else near fine. Essays and contributions concerning Sherlock Holmes by: Rex Stout, Dorothy Sayers, Heywood Broun, Elmer Davis, Christopher Morley, Stephen Vincent Benet, Anthony Boucher, Vincent Starrett, Howard Haycraft, Arthur Conan Doyle, Fletcher Pratt, Carolyn Wells, et.al. Illustrated. …

First Edition. PROFILE BY GASLIGHT AN IRREGULAR READER ABOUT THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, Simon and Schuster, 1944, first edition, near vg copy with some fading to the head and heel of the spine in g/vg dust-wrapper with some tape reinforcement as well as both front and rear flaps being detached, but included. A gift to "Doc" Smith from his daughter Verna thusly, "Merry 1945 Christmas, and so much love to Daddy from Ginger -Sherlock Holmes would have loved your Skylark stories Doc!".…

Letter (292 x 232mm), pp. [distribution page], [title], [1], 2-198 (mimeographed duplication, rectos only). Final draft script for the 1945 film. Blue titled continuous card wrapper, rubber stamped, internal two brass brad binding (though punched for three), typed spine label. Noted as FINAL on the front wrapper, copy number 190, dated April 5, 1944. Perforated distribution page, stamped copy number 190, bottom receipt removed. Title page present, also dated April 5, 1944 and noted as Final Script, production number 944, and contribution credit to Anita Loos who was left uncredited for the film. Pages very good with a few pencil annotations throughout, damp-staining to the bottom right, not touching text, wrappers with some splits and creasing. [AND] Letter (292 x 232mm), pp. [distribution page], [title], [1], 2-178 (mimeographed duplication, rectos only). Shooting final script for the 1945 film. Repurposed (wartime conservation efforts?) decorative beige titled continuous card wrapper, rubber stamped (on a label covering a stamp for "The Purple Heart"), internal two brass brad binding (though punched for three). Noted as SHOOTING FINAL on the front wrapper (second revised final crossed out), production number 944, copy number 121, dated May 1, 1944. Perforated distribution page, stamped copy number 121, bottom receipt removed. Title page present, also dated May 1, 1944 and noted as Shooting Final, production number 944, and contribution credit to Anita Loos who was left uncredited for the film. Pages near fine with only the slightest toning, wrapper with creasing, short tears, pencil marks, and staining to the spine, else very good. Ex-Richard Manney; Gene Hackman. Custom double cloth box (for both scripts). Based on the classic coming of age novel by Betty Smith, in early twentieth-century Brooklyn, a bright, book-loving girl navigates poverty and family hardship alongside her pragmatic mother and her charming but alcoholic father, whose death forces the family to confront both grief and the sacrifices required for survival. Through resilience and reconciliation, the family endures, with the young heroine emerging stronger; symbolized by the tenement courtyard tree that, as her father once promised, refuses to die. Set in Brooklyn, shot on set at 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles.…