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Hardcover. edges of dj show light rubbing. thin black line on bottom edge of pages. 1 1/2 x 2 1/4 " photo of a flower glued to upper corner of front free end page. upper and lower corner of rear flap of dj folded over and seemingly glued down. 387 pages very small 1/2 x 1/4 inch piece missing from lower edge of rear panel of dj. ; 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 " Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Later Printing. Dj has light edgewear. Light wear. Very light soiling. Bumped corners.

Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. From the library of science fiction and fantasy writer, editor, publisher and prolific book reviewer D. Douglas Fratz. (Horror, Antholoogy, Short Stories).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. BCE. DJ: nominal edge wear. Quarter navy/grey boards with teal spine text. Prior owner's Ex-Libros plate obverse upper board. May have other minor incidental cosmetic defects expected with age. Else tight and square. Gutter code reads "L14" on page 752. Contents available upon request. Scarce/rare/hard to find/out of print. SCIFI/FANTASY/SHORTSTORIES. Antler & Baldwin [DJ] (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Fine hardcover book with black on gray glossy boards with silver foil lettering. Boards are rigid and warp-free. Spine is flat and square. Corners are crisp. Lightest marking to bottom of book block. No previous owner marks (no names, no underlining, no bookplates, etc). No remainder marks. DUST JACKET complete, NOT price-clipped. Clean with only very minor signs of rubbing, soft edge wear. Slight crinkle at tail of spine area of dust jacket. Photos coming! In the meantime, contact us now to request pictures of the ACTUAL book you will receive. All of our books are in-stock and ready to be shipped immediately. Masterpieces of Mystery and Suspense is a massive 1988 anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg featuring 40 classic short stories. Rather than having a single linear plot, it collects top-tier crime, detection, and psychological thriller fiction written by legendary masters of the genre. Contains: • The Copper Beeches — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • The Blue Cross — G. K. Chesterton • The Submarine Plans — Agatha Christie • The Necklace of Pearls — Dorothy L. Sayers • Death on the Air — Dame Ngaio Marsh • Help Wanted, Male — Rex Stout • Midnight Blue — Ross Macdonald • Abraham Lincoln's Clue — Ellery Queen • The Fever Tree — Ruth Rendell • Twenty-One Good Men and True — Dick Francis • The Victim — P. D. James • Little Terror — Robert Barnard • The Dream Is Better — Julian Symons • The Homesick Buick — John D. MacDonald • Danger Out of the Past — Erle Stanley Gardner • The Case of the Emerald Sky — Eric Ambler • Strictly Diplomatic — John Dickson Carr • The African Tree-Beavers — Michael Gilbert • There Are No Snakes in Ireland — Frederick Forsyth • The Splintered Monday — Charlotte Armstrong • The Dancing Detective — Cornell Woolrich • And So Died Riabouchinska — Ray Bradbury • Quitters, Inc. — Stephen King • The Ninety-Five Man — Stanley Ellin • The Man Who Collected Poe — Robert Bloch • The Nuggy Bar — Simon Brett • The Theft of the Four of Spades — Edward D. Hoch • The Parker Shotgun — Sue Grafton • Lucky Penny — Linda Barnes • Never Shake a Family Tree — Donald E. Westlake • The Marked Man — Ursula Curtiss • Have a Nice Death — Antonia Fraser • The Stolen White Elephant — Mark Twain • The Cross of Lorraine — Isaac Asimov • The Worst Crime Known to Man — Reginald Hill • The Honest Blackmailer — Patricia Moyes • Cat's Paw — Bill Pronzini • A Nice Place to Stay — Nedra Tyre • Milady Bigamy — Lillian de la Torre • One Thousand Dollars a Word — Lawrence Block. Gorey, Edward (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Book Club Edition. Reader's Digest edition. A fine, tight copy; in a fine dust jacket illustrated by Edward Gorey. This special collection contains forty of the most compelling classic and contemporary stories in the mystery and suspense genre.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. BCE - Book Club Edition. 651 pp. Tight and solid binding. Clean and unmarked pages. A very small tear on dj near top of spine. Great read. Edward Gorey (Jacket) (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Dj Has Light Edgewear With A Couple Small, Taped Tears. Light Wear.

hardback. vii, 200 pages ; 24 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. BCE. DJ: edge wear. Quarter black/grey boards with gold gilt spine text. Light dust/spotting. May have other minor incidental cosmetic defects expected with age. Else tight and square. Gorey, Edward (illustrator), but uncredited. Authors such as: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Rex Stout, Erle Stanley Gardner, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, Sue Grafton, Isaac Asimov, Mark Twain, G. K. Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers, Dame Ngaio Marsh, Ross MacDonald, Ruth Rendell, Dick Francis, P.D. James, Robert Barnard, Julian Symons, John D. MacDonald, Eric Ambler, John Dickson Carr, Michael Gilbert, Frederick Forsyth, Charlotte Armstrong, Cornell Woolrich, Stanley Ellin, Robert Bloch, Simon Brett, Edward D. Hoch, Linda Barnes, Donald E. Westlake, Ursula Curtiss, Atonia Fraser, Reginald Hill, Patrica Moyes, Bill Pronzini, Nedra Tyre, Lilian de la Torre, Lawrence Block. MYSTERY/SUSPENSE. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. CB3 - A hardcover book club SIGNED by Frederick Forsyth on his story page in very good condition that has some bumped corners, some light stains on the page edges and endpapers, light discoloration and shelf wear with no dust jacket. Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dame Ngaio Marsh, Rex Stout, Ross Macdonald, Ellery Queen, Ruth Rendell, Dick Francis, P.D. James, Robert Barnard, Julian Symons, John D. MacDonald, Eric Ambler, John Dickson Carr, Michael Gilbert, Frederick Forsyth, Charlotte Armstrong, Cornell Woolrich, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, Stanley Ellin, Robert Bloch, Simon Brett, Edward D. Hoch, Sue Grafton, Linda Barnes, Donald E. Westlake, Ursula Curtiss, Antonia Fraser, Mark Twain, Isaac Asimov, Reginald Hill, Patricia Moyes, Bill Pronzini, Nedra Tyre, Lillian de la Torre, Lawrence Block. 8.5"x6", 651 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed. Book Club (BCE/BOMC).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition thus. "Abridged from the Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces." Fine in a fine illustrated dust jacket with design by Karen Nelson. 529 pages.

Large wraps. Very Good to Near Fine condition. Includes work by Poe, Le Fanu, Stoker, Wells, Lovecraft, Woolrich, and many others.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Fine dust. Later Printing. Book is in NF condition with trace edge wear noted else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in FINE condition - bright, intact and whole. FOLCAS 11/20; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition thus. "Abridged from the Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces." Minor crimp to the lower spine, else very nearly fine; in a fine illustrated dust jacket. 529 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good in very good dust jacket. Pages very light yellow. Edges of spine bumped. Text clean. Clean cover. Dustwrapper flaps light yellow. Clean dust jacket. Solid book. Introductin by Stephen King.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Possible first edition with no additional printings listed. Thick octavo. 768pp. Bound upside-down in half green cloth, gray papercovered boards. Small glue stain on page fine foredges causing them to stick together (can easily come apart), front hinge starting, about very good lacking the dust jacket. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Dust jacket illustration by Edward Gorey, but uncredited. Measures approximately 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 651 pages. 40 stories. Dust jacket is in fine condition with little to no wear. Price shows $19.95. Boards are in near fine condition with one slightly bumped board corner. Spine is tight. Pages are clean and crisp. No writing inside.…

Condition: Good Plus. First Edition, octavo hardcover lacking original dust jacket. Collects five stories originally published in 1930s-40s. Andrew J. Offutt name stamp on the front endpaper. Good Plus, lean, rubbing, toning, foxing, a few pages w/ pencil marginalia, edge stains. A reader copy.

FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (scruffy); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First thus. Collected here for the first time in one volume are 13 complete short detective novels from the masters: RAYMOND CHANDLER - Finger Man, Philip Marlowe is accused of murder and must untangle a complicated web of political corruption to find out who framed him. LESLIE FORD - Death Stops at a Tourist Camp, a young woman makes an unexpected overnight stop at a tourist camp and finds herself the prime suspect in a murder. LESLIE CHARTERIS - The Saint in Palm Springs, Simon Templar accepts a job as bodyguard to a playboy who reports his life has been threatened. PHILIP WYLIE - A Puzzle in Snow, Tony Andrews must prove he was framed for murder, until a likely suspect commits suicide and the police close the case. Unconvinced, Andrews picks up the trail. ERLE STANLEY GARDNER - The Case of the Crimson Kiss, Perry Mason is hired to find out who framed an innocent woman for the murder of her roommate's secret lover. CORNELL WOOLRICH - The Room with Something Wrong, A string of suicides in the same hotel room are too many for coincidence, so the house detective sets out to unearth a murderer. JOHN D. MacDONALD - Murder for Money, An insurance investigator looks into the disappearance of an older man with a younger wife and digs up some surprises. ROBERT VAN GULIK - The Morning of the Monkey, Judge Dee's curiosity about the antics of a wild monkey leads him into a complicated case of murder. GEORGES SIMENON - Maigret's Christmas, On a bleak Christmas morning, Inspector Maigret hears an odd tale about a visit from "Father Christmas" that leads him into a case of murder. STUART PALMER AND CRAIG RICE - Withers and Malone, Brain-Stormers Retired schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers is propelled by ]ohn J. Malone, a slightly shady lawyer, into a case involving forgery, a paternity suit, and murder. ED McBAIN - Death Flight, A bomb, a plane crash, and the death of a rich man's daughter draw private eye Milt Davis into a case that could be his last. BILL PRONZINI - Who's Calling, The "Nameless Detective" investigates a series of obscene phone calls that could be either malicious mischief or a serious threat to his unwilling client's life. Edward D. HOCH - City of Brass, The mysterious Simon Ark solves a tangled case involving unethical scientific experiments, bizarre family secrets, a startling religious phenomenon and murder. ; 235 x 160mm; 664 pages.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition: Uncorrected proofs. Abrasions to the spine lettering, else fine in light grey pictorial wraps; in an oversize proof dust jacket (without text) with creases to the edges. Collects classic fantasy stories by Poe, Bierce, Dunsany, Merritt, CAS, Robert E. Howard, C.L. Moore, Lovecraft, Bradbury, Vance, Kuttner, Wellman, Sturgeon, Bloch, Ellison, and others.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 382 pages. Hardback with the dustwrapper. The dustwrapper is browned and worn, some tears to the edges. Pages lightly browned. The novels included are: But Without Horns by Norvell W. Page - Destiny Times Three by Fritz Leiber - Crisis in Utopia by Norman L. Knight - The Chronicler by A.E. van Vogt - The Crucible of Power by Jack Williamson.…