John Macdonald Pseud Kenneth Millar (9 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

364 S. Oln. mit OU., Schutzumschlag min. eingerissen, Exlibris eingeklebt, gutes Expl. 1.dt.Ausg. WiLex 1017.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First UK edition. First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped. Lew Archer's attempt to locate a missing young woman associated with an upscale Malibu country club, an early foreshadowing of Macdonald's later treatment of cross-generational themes. Bookseller's small sticker to front pastedown; boards very good; jacket price-clipped, edge wear, some creasing and chipping to spine ends. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First UK edition. First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original dark grey boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10s6d. The first UK edition of John Ross Macdonald's second 'Lew Archer' title; subsequently the inspiration for the 1975 Paul Newman film of the same name. Ink name to front endpaper; boards very good; jacket with some creasing & rubbing, with a couple of minor closed tears. Jacket design by Mudge-Marriott. (illustrator). Book.…

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, pp. 240, crown 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in silver, a few faint spots to lightly toned edges, dustjacket slightly rubbed and nicked at extremities, very shallow chipping at head of folds, very good. The US edition of the previous year was published under the truncated pseudonym of Ross Macdonald, to avoid confusion with author John D. MacDonald.…

dj. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); yellow floral-pattered paper-covered boards, with titles printed in black on spine; dustjacket; [viii],212,[4]pp. Light wear to spine ends and lower board edges, topstain faded, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), lightly edgeworn, with some dustiness to rear panel, and several tiny nicks and tears; Very Good+. Millar's fifth book written under the Macdonald pseudonym, a non-Archer novel first published in a condensed version in Cosmopolitan magazine under the title Experience with Evil. BRUCCOLI A9.1.a; HUBIN, p.268.…

First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original. Octavo (18cm); original pictorial card wrappers; red edge-staining; [vi],194pp. Signed by the author in blue pen along the upper margin of the title page. Subtle tanning to text edges, edge-staining faded to pink, else very Near Fine. A collection of seven short stories which all centrally feature Macdonald's Los Angeles private eye Lew Archer. A popular collection, which went through numerous printings in two editions into the 1970s. An unusually nice copy, not commonly found signed. Bruccoli A11.1.a; Hubin, p.261. 8943.…

FIRST EDITION pp. [v], 240, crown 8vo, original patterned orange boards, the backstrip with lettering printed in black on a white panel, slight lean to spine with edges gently rubbed, top edge grey with others roughtrimmed, a couple of very faint spots to flyleaf, dustjacket slightly chipped, nicked and rubbed at extremities, very good. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf, using a familiar form of his real name, to friends in Santa Barbara - the setting for the Lew Archer novels: 'For Hugh and Josie, who have made Santa Barbara a more interesting place to live in. Affectionately, Ken'. The fourth Lew Archer novel; the blurb compares the author to Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Eric Ambler.…

FIRST EDITION, pp. 215, crown 8vo, original boards of patterned paper, slight lean to spine, fore-edge roughtrimmed, dustjacket slightly nicked and chipped with gentle fading to backstrip panel, very good. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf, to someone whose input had evidently informed some details in the novel: 'For Doctor Bert Waite, to whose remarkable experience and generosity this story owes some touches of authenticity. Happy birthday! With my very best regards, Kenneth Millar'. The fifth Lew Archer novel; the author's identity is declared by the publisher on the dustjacket's rear panel, so that readers 'need puzzle no more'.…