Joseph T Shaw Editor (10 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good-. First Edition. Minor edge and corner wear; spine is lightly creased as well as the front of the wrapper; pages are beginning to tone; lightly scuffed and scratched; some shelf wear; light liquid stain on the outer page edges (does not affect interior pages); overall a nice used copy! Color illustrated wrapper with yellow and black lettering. 372 adventure-filled and historical pages! "The western frontier was as raw as an open wound. The law was primitive ---- take care of yourself and your own. Life was cheap ---- kill or be killed.These are stories of the men who made the west. They came to carve out a chunk of its wealth for themselves. They fought for and took what they wanted.and it was a saloon brawl with no holds barred.". …

Very good+, some little flaws to edges.

Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-ix [x] xi-xii [1-2] 3-468, cloth. First edition. Collects fifteen stories from the most influential of the early detective pulps, BLACK MASK, which gave rise in the 1930s to the lean and mean hard-boiled school of detective writing. Stories, first published between 1929 and 1936, by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Raoul Whitfield, Lester Dent and others, with introduction by Shaw, the editor of BLACK MASK when these stories were published. Spine panel darkened and spotted, a very good copy in good rubbed, chipped and dusty (rear panel) dust jacket priced $3.00 on the front flap. (#175375).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $3.00. A landmark anthology collecting early hard-boiled crime stories originally published in Black Mask magazine, the volume showcases foundational writers of American tough-guy detective fiction, including Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and their contemporaries. Ink name to head of title-page, small ink stamp to foot of front free endpaper; cloth slightly creased and bumped at spine; jacket with some wear to corners, otherwise good. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Near fine in very good dust jacket. (468pp. ) (Orange hue on spine of jacket faded. Couple slim chips & traces of shelf-wear to jacket. ) Classic hard-boiled stories culled from the pages of the famed pulp magazine by its illustrious editor. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 468 pages.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Pulp pages tanned to edge browned, supple with no flaking, small piece off base of spine, cover overhang at foredge trimmed even. Cover artwork by Fred Craft. Pictures on request.

Octavo, single issue, cover by Fred Craft, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Raoul Whitfield, Murray Leinster, Marion Scott and others. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 62-68]. Text paper darkened with some minor loss to upper right corner, edge wear to yapp with tiny tears and creases, creasing to lower right corner, mild wear to spine ends, a very good copy. (36856).…

Octavo, single issue, cover by Schlaikjer, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Raoul Whitfield, Horace McCoy, Frederick Nebel, Carroll John Daly and others. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 62-68]. Mild edge wear, creases to upper right front corner, partial loss of title lettering to center of spine, a very good to nearly fine copy. (22193).…

Octavo, single issue, cover by J. W. Schlaikjer, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Frederick Nebel, Raoul Whitfield, Horace McCoy, Carroll John Daly and others and others. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 62-68]. Tanning to text paper, edge wear, closed tears and creases, a good copy. (34994).…

Octavo, single issue, cover by J. W. Schlaikjer, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Hat Trick" (Continental Op story) by Dashiell Hammett. This is part one of the serial stories that would make up THE GLASS KEY. Other fiction by Horace McCoy, Raoul Whitfield (with two, also writing as Ramon Decolta), and others. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 62-68]. Tanning to text paper, slight edge wear, a fine copy. (34993).…