Ruric Peter (7 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. VG+, tight, clean copy. Flat spine has no creasing. No prior owner markings.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Thomas, Maurice (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. First paperback edition. Originally published in the US in hard covers by Simon and Schuster in 1946. Reading creasing and edge rubbing to the spine. The front cover has a one-inch crease to the bottom right corner and a small nick to the right edge. Otherwise there is only some discolouration and light edge wear to the covers. Slight discolouration to the edges of the pages. Previous owner's name stamped to the first page. Browning to the pages which are otherwise unmarked. Cover illustration by Maurice Thomas. First printing.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Book Publication. Trade paperback binding is solid and holding tight with corner chips to the front and rear cover, reading wear to the spine, and a slight curl about .5" away from the spine. The interior is clean: no writing, no bookplates, etc. The text is clean and unmarked with a smudge on one page. NOT ex-library. A good copy of this rare paperback original, complete with the author's bizarre biographical statement on the rear cover. Cain was the author of Fast One, and these 7 hard-boiled stories are of the same high caliber.

Second edition in book form. One of 30 copies. Publisher's original white card covers printed in black. Blue endpapers. A near fine copy, the binding firm with a little darkening and the odd mark. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Scarce. Peter Ruric AKA Paul Cain's last piece of published fiction "The Tasting Machine" was originally published in two parts, in the November and December 1949 issues of Gourmet, The Magazine of Good Living and first published in book form in 2000 by Obscure Publications in an edition of only 25 copies. Provenance: from the library of Martin Stone. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First Edition. Original gray cloth, stamped in dark red. Classic of hard-boiled detective novel of a man who sets out to destroy the Los Angeles underworld and includes narcotic content. Author's only novel. A nearly Very Good copy, general soiling to cloth, jacket flaps are adhered to pastedowns, some smudges to half-title and few other pages, small pharmacy stamp at front endpaper, but binding and hinges firm.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Original illustrated wrappers, slight wear to this very fragile item, overall very good to very good plus. Scarce.

Vintage studio still photograph of a camera crew capturing a scene with actors Bela Lugosi, David Manners, and Julie Bishop on the set of the 1934 film. One of several great films by director Edgar G. Ulmer, and along with his 1945 noir classic "Detour," probably his finest achievementan efficient tale in which a young couple with a broken-down automobile land in a decidedly art deco haunted house, where Karloff resides and Lugosi is visiting. Michael Weaver notes: "Boldly thumbing its nose at convention, the film is a veritable catalog of human corruption. Sadism, shades of incest, revenge, murder, torture, voyeurism, Satan worship, ailurophobia, necrophilia, rape, and insanity are weaved into the nearly plotless story with remarkable precision." 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.