Millar Kenneth Ross Macdonald (270 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good to Very Good-. 2nd printing. Trade-sized. Creasing; stain at lower front spine corner, several pages deep; edge and corner wear. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2nd printing. Trade-sized. Acorner crease; minor tanning and soiling; minor bumps. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. MAGAZINE. NICE COPY. stapled binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated first edition, near fine in a very good+ dust jacket. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on spine. Just a touch of fading at edges of boards; page edges slightly darkened. The jacket is darkened at the top of the rear panel and at the top edge of the flaps. $5.95 price on jacket flap; no names or other marking in or on the book. A tight, square copy of the penultimate Lew Archer novel.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Warner Books 35893: The eighth novel in this Mystery Grand Master's now classic mystery crime series featuring California private detective Lew Archer. This time, Archer takes on the job of proving that the heir to a murder victim's fortune is a phony. Very quickly, Archer finds himself trying to straighten out a tangle of adultery, larceny and murder going back twenty years and involving the Mob. Mass Market Paperback, First Printing, First Warner Books edition. 198 pages in pictorial wrappers with cover art by Gary Kelley showing a box of bones resting on a desk. Wrappers show only minimal creasing and a touch of edge wear, no tears or chipping, no remainder marks. Text is lightly age-tanned, with slight spine lean, o/w clean, unmarked and complete. A collectable copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 270 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 6") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The Blue Hammer is a 1976 hardboiled detective novel written by Ross Macdonald (the pen name of Kenneth Millar), serving as the 18th and final book in his acclaimed Lew Archer series. Archer is hired to locate a stolen portrait of a blonde woman. The painting may be the work of Richard Chantry, a brilliant artist who vanished mysteriously 25 years prior. The simple theft case quickly spirals into a trail of fresh murders linked to a half-century of hidden family secrets, toxic rivalries, and masked brutality. Condition: Light residue from sticker to front end paper, sunning to head board edges else very good to fine in a near fine jacket.…

Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 218 pages. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 Inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing, First Edition Thus. Originally published in 1947, Millar's third book and the last before he began using the pen name he made famous, features a returning Army veteran, Johnny Weather, who comes home to find his father murdered and then starts a crusade to clean up a corrupt city; introduction by Robert B. Parker. Boards' bottom corners slightly bumped, o/w text is clean, tight, square; dustjacket worn with minor chipping and tearing at spine ends, corners and edges, a partially visible damp ring on front panel, other minor surface wear.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st thus (Bantam Mystery 1839) of a late 1940s Kenneth Millar mystery, initially published under is own name and later under his Ross Macdonald pen name. "When Johnny Weather got out of the Army he went home to the Blue City and found his father murdered." Edge wear with rubbing to the spine hinges. The binding glue has dried and the first few pages are starting to separate but delicately attached. Light browning to the pages. A fair copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ross MacDonald, creator of arguably the greatest series of mystery-detective stories of the 20th century featuring California private detective, Lew Archer, believed that while detective stories move backward, searching for a solution, suspense stories moved forward toward catastrophe. However, he rightly included one of his Lew Archer novels, "The Far Side of the Dollar," in this extra large anthology of suspense, which also includes novels by Kenneth Fearing, Agatha Chiristie and Dick Francis as well as short fiction by Greene, Hammett, Cain, Ellin, Gilbert, Highsmith and Millar. Also, surprises by Cheever, Robert Louis Stevenson and Flannery O'Conner, with an introduction by MacDonald that lays out the history of two centuries of suspense. This copy is from the Book Club Edition, issued in 1993. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, 823 pages, plus notes about the editior and the type face, in black cloth-covered boards with silver lettering on spine. Basically black pictorial dustjacket with pink and white lettering shows a half-inch, closed tear in top edge of front panel, other minimal surface and edge wear, o/w clean and whole with no creasing or chipping. Boards and text are clean, complete and unmarked, binding tight and squre. No bumped corners. A whole lot of good reading at a very economical price. [Sorry, due to book's size and weight, we cannot accept priority/express orders or orders outside the U.S. without additional postage.]. …

Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good Plus to Very Good. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. Vintage paperback, Bantam F3867; an early MacDonald hard-boiled mystery featuring Johnny Weather, discharged from the Army, who returned home to find his father murdered and his father's young wife ready to buy his silence with her body; Third Printing of First Bantam Edition (originally published in hardcover in1947); text is clean, tight, lightly age-tanned with a slight spine lean in pictorial wrappers showing only minor surface and edgewear.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st thus (Bantam Mystery 2059) of a late 1950s mystery. "The name is Lew Archer. By the time I finished this case I was lucky it wasn't permanently engraved in stone." Loss along the edges of the front cover (insect damage). Corner creases. PON (? Woodie) written in blue ink on the back cover. A fair copy - decent reader.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-Very Good. 1st Edition. A a later Lew Archer mystery. Mild edge wear and light soiling to the DJ. Slightly cocked. A very good copy.

Paperback. Condition: fair. Acceptable Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Paperback. Condition: Good+. Bantam Books 1972 Good+/ Light wear and creasing to bright glossy orange cover. Page edges dyed yellow are bright. 196 pages. 3.9 ounces. Size: 7 x 4 1/8 x 5/8 inches.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st prtg. #363. PB. Mapback. G-VG. Frnt edge of spine mod. chipped; leaves light-mod. stiff & edge browned; bright; nice example of the cv art; sq. & little read. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. MacDonald's final novel features his celebrated Southern California private detective Lew Archer investigating the theft of a valuable painting and the disappearance of an artist; edges of both covers faded (common with this title) o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows a single, small, closed tear in upper edge of dj's front panel. A collectable copy.…

Condition: VERY GOOD. First thus. Reissue of this early classic novel by Macdonald, the story of an Army veteran who arrives in Blue City only to find that his father has been murdered. This novel preceded his Lew Archer series and was originally published under his real name, Kenneth Millar. A title in the Rediscovery Books series with a new introduction by Robert B. Parker. 231 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket (some light toning to the pages).…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 24 # 128 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1954. Contains stories by Erle Stanley Gardner (The Case of the Irate Witness), Phyllis Bentley )The Tuesday and Friday Thefts), Bechhofer Roberts (Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts - The Persistent House-Hunter), A H Z Carr (, A Case of Catnapping), Charles B Child (Claude Vernon Frost - The Long, Thin Man), Margaret Millar - wife of Kenneth Millar (The Couple Next Door), John Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar - Wild Goose Chase), Ward Greene (Boy for Tea), , Melville Davisson Post (The New Administration), T S Eliot (Macavity: The Mystery Cat), and others. Light wear at the edges. Light browning to the edges of the front cover and the pages. Light creases to the lower right of the front cover. A good very good copy. George Salter (cover) (illustrator).…

Paperback. first thus. 7189 very good, creases paperback.

Condition: FINE. 5th printing (just 3 months after the first). An attractive early copy of this Lew Archer novel, by this master of the hard-boiled noir detective story, set in Southern California. 243 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (original price of $4.95 on dj flap).

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good +. First Pan Edition. G+, Edgewear, creases, abrasion, soiling, staining, browning. A Lew Archer crime thriller. Great Pan G345. Photo on request.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good Plus to Very Good. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. Vintage paperback, Bantam Q7040; a novel from the celebrated hard-boiled mystery series featuring California private detective Lew Archer; text is clean, tight, square in white pictorial wrappers with front cover showing light, horizontal crease near bottom edge, four penpoint indentations near top, o/w minimal surface and edgewear.…