Ruric Peter (5 results)

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

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.