Millar Kenneth (451 results)

Condition: Good. Reissue. 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.

Condition: Very Good. Reissue. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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

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

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ 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.

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

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 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.

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

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Omnibus editon of three Archer novels. No dust jacket. Aquaa boards with light edge-wear, black lettering on the spine. He points out in the Foreword that while most omnibus editions are posthumous, this one isn't.

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.

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

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.].

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: Very Good. Leo Monso (DJ design) (illustrator). Book Club (BCE/BOMC). A BCE from the early 1950s of a collection of first murder stories by noted mystery writers originally published from the early 1910s through the early 1950s. Contents include Room Number Twenty-three (Hugh Pentecost), The Fifty-Carat Jinx (Lawrence G Blochman), Bezique of Death (Veronica Parker Johns), The Little House at Croix-Rousse (Georges Simenon), The Riddle of the Dangling Pearl (Stuart Palmer), Shoes for Breakfast (Lawrence Treat), Find the Woman (Kenneth Millar (Ross Macdonald)), Marksman (William Campbell Gault), Victim No. 5 (Harry Stephen Keeler), The Man in the Velvet Hat (Jerome and Harold Prince), The Adventure of the Black Narcissus (August Derleth), And on the Third Day (David Alexander), Too Many Brides (Ruth Wilson), The Fourth Degree (Jerrome Barry), The Second Sight of Dr Sam: Johnson (Lillian de la Torre), Old Calamity Tries a Bluff (Joseph Fulling Fishman), A Great Whirring of Wings (Day Keene), Thenody (Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White)), The Adventure of One-Penny Black (Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee)), and The Specialty of the House (Stanley Ellin). Light edge wear with a 1" triangular piece missing from the bottom of the spine. Light fading to the spine. The internals are clean and tight. A very good copy.

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.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

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

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

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. #497. Paperback. Mapback. Unabridged. 222pp. Good-Very Good. Mod chipped readers crease & small stress creases detract light-mod. Fore-crnr of ff clipped wi/out loss of text. Leaves light-mod edge brwnd. Tight. Bright. No marks.

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. .