Lawrence Block Introduction (25 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback. Unmarked text. Bottom right portion of book bent.

Soft Cover. Condition: As New. First Thus. AS NEW mass market paperback, later 1985 reprint edition, 160 pages; very clean and unmarked unread condition. PLEASE NOTE: the Stock Image provided by Abebooks next to my listing is of an earlier edition of this book, NOT my copy. See also our other Block titles (buy two and save on postage!).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Gary Isaacs (Cover Photo) (illustrator). 349 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 215 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. "First edition November 1999" statement and first printing number code sequence 10 through 1 to the copyright page, $21.95 and date code 11/99 to the jacket's flaps. An anthology of eighteen mystery stories, comprising nine writers choosing their own favorite, and choosing their favorite story written by another author, each with an introduction by the writer describing his own story and his chosen author's mystery. Introducing and contributing authors include Stephen King, Peter Lovesey, Harlan Ellison, Ed Gorman, Joan Hess, John Lutz, Bill Pronzini (who chose a story by hard-boiled author Benjamin Appel), Tony Hillerman, and Lawrence Block. Fine, firm, tight and square in cranberry over taupe boards with silver embossed titles to the spine, red-and-yellow headband and tail-band; in a fine dust jacket; original printed $21.95 price still intact to the front inner flap. NO remainder mark.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Very Good+. Bright and attractive trade paperback. First thus. First Vintage/Black Lizard trade paperback edition. Curl to front cover with soiling to the head of page ends. Moderate edgewear. Nice solid copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. First edition, first printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The title story original novella by Block. Nineteen more stories by F. Paul Wilson, Doug Allyn, Gabrielle Kraft, Jack Ritchie, Jeremiah Healy, David Morrell, Robert Bloch, Bill Pronzini, Matt Coward, John F. Suter, Peter Robinson, Dorothy Cannell, Bill Crider, Ed Gorman, Marcia Muller, Helen Nielsen, Gillian Roberts, Sue Dunlap and Brendan DuBois.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Mallie Mandel (Author photo); Robert Silverman (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Signed by Lawrence Block directly on the title-page. Light toning to upper board edge, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with light toning to inside flaps, else fine. Signed by Author(s).

Phil Parks (illustrator). Number 4 of 30 copies issued with acrylic slipcase, and signed by Lawrence Block, Charles Ardai, Philip Friedman, Wendy Hornsby, & Phil Parks, on the limitation page. Small octavo in stiff paper wraps in clear acrylic slipcase. Condition: spine very slightly toned; else fine. 104 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Contributors include such luminaries as [Donald E. Westlake, Peter Godfrey, Joe Gores, Julian Symons, James Grady, Donald Hamilton, Aaron Marc Stein, Hillary Waugh, Justin Scott, Lucy Freeman, Robert Bloch, Lawrence Block, Mary Higgins Clark, John D. MacDonald, among others.*Scarce title in this condition. Fine, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine (sl chipping to spine and fold ends, else fine) mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped } M110.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed Limited Edition. RARE Signed Limited Edition Hardback with dustjacket, published by G & G books, 1995. 164pp. #308 of 500 numbered copies. Signed by Lawrence Block, without inscription to the flyleaf. Very slight bumping to spine, otherwise like new. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. First Edition. Foreword by Lawrence Block. Introduction by Poppy Z. Brite. Short stories, in many genres, by Harlan Ellison, John Dunning, Andre Dubus, Neal Barrett Jr., Wendy Hornsby, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Laymon, Lucius Shepard, Andrew Vachss and Roger Zelazny. Green quarter cloth in textured paper boards and matching green cloth slipcase. There were 250 numbered copies and 26 deluxe copies. This is an unnumbered authors copy signed by all twelve contributors. Fine in fine slipcase. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: fine/fine. Signed, limited edition. Small octavo.22cm x 14cm. 185pp. This is $116 of 250 copies. Signed by all contributors. Fine cloth copy in slipcase. Authors include Neal Barrett, Andre Dubus, John Dunning, Harlan Ellison, Wendy Hornsby, Joe Lansdale, Richard Laymon, Lucius Shepard, Andrew Vachss, and Rogeer Zelazny.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Beautifully signed by Lawrence Block and Stephen King at limiation page: "This Deluxe First Edition of 'Sins of the Fathers' Is Limited to Four Hundred Individually Signed and Numbered Copies. This is copy P/C, Lawrence Block, Stephen King". Deluxe edition of the original Matthew Scudder private eye mystery. Includes a new introduction by King entitled: 'No Cats: An Appreciation of Lawrence Block and Matthew Scudder," dated October 31, 1991 in Center Lovell, Maine. Blood red leather-like textured boards, bright gold metallic spine titles, fine. Pages fine; no writing. Textured beige endpapers. Bind fine; hinges fine. Dust wrapper, fine; unclipped are w/small 45.00 label, protected in new clear sleeve. Dramatic jacket illustration by Carol Heyer of lady's hand holding bloodied razor against red draped b.g. Preserved in fine red textured leather-like slipcase as boards. Includes rare ephemeral folded pamphlet in color from Dark Harvest previewing and summarizing this exciting title available in trade and limited edition. In this, the first of the Scudder mysteries first published in paperback in 1976, a pretty young girl is butchered in her Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister's son, is found dead in his jail cell. As far as the NYPD is concerned the case is closed. Matt Scudder, an ex-cop who now does investigative favours for friends, is persuaded to look into the case by the dead girl's father. Suddenly he's up to his neck in sleaze and corruption, phony religious cults and murderous lust. In New York's underbelly the children have no choice but to pay the price for their parent's most unspeakable sins. 179 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Signed by Authors.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First U.S. edition in hardback. Adds an introduction by Stephen King. Near fine with light evidence of erasure on front endpaper; in very good or better dust jacket with a bit of rubbing along edges, and head of spine lightly nicked and rubbed.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Parks, Phil (illustrator). Limited Edition. 104 pages; black & white pictorial soft covers; edition limited to 50 copies, copy #8; signed by Block, Ardai, Hornsby, and Friedman to limitation page; signed by Seels to editor's note page; clear acrylic slipcase; negligible wear to covers, slightest darkening to spine; ghost of sticker to case; a tight copy with no spine creases; a near fine copy; scarce example of this history of Block's ouvre, appears unread. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 215 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Limited edition. Signed by the author and Spider Robinson. Publisher's original light brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Vincent Chong illustrated dustwrapper and light brown cloth slipcase. Textured endpapers. Brown satin bookmark. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine dustwrapper which remains without fading, loss, or tears. Not price-clipped (£50/$100 to the lower rear panel). Housed in the fine, structurally sound slipcase. Issued in an edition of 200 copies, from which this example is numbered 36, and signed by the author Lawrence Block and the author of the introduction Spider Robinson in blue and black ink, respectively, on the limitation page. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 7.75 x 5.5", dec red cloth, 218pp, extremities lighlty bumped else a nice copy in a rubbed and lightly edge-worn dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 400 NUMBERED COPIES (this is copy #263), SIGNED BY LAWRENCE BLOCK, WHO WROTE THE INTRODUCTION.

First American hardcover edition. Deluxe limited edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original red faux leather with gilt titles to the spine, in the Carol Heyer illustrated dustwrapper and publisher's slipcase. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Housed in the fine publisher's slipcase. Issued in a limited edition of 400 copies, signed by Lawrence Block and Stephen King on the limitation page. The first book in the Matthew Scudder series. Originally published as a paperback original in 1976, this is the first American hardcover edition for which Stephen King contributes a ten page introduction 'No Cats: An Appreciation of Lawrence Block and Matthew Scudder'. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Special Edition. This is copy "W" of 26 special copies signed by Block, Hoch and Parks, the author, the writer of the introduction, and the illustrator respectively. It's an octavo bound in gray leather with a B&W illustration mounted on the front & rear covers. There is a tipped-in color photo of the author and B&W illustrations. It's all topped off with a wooden press which holds the book. The press has a brass plate stating the book's title, author, publisher and date with the limitation "W" engraved on it. Quite a presentation, and all in as new condition. Pages: [vi], 167.