Black Lizard Berkeley Ca (81 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback with tight, uncreased spine. Cover is slightly rubbed, it also has some scrapes on the front, slight indents on back, and edges are slightly frayed. No prior markings or bookplates. Page edges are soiled. Book.

Paperback. 1st Printing. First Black Lizard printing. Fine condition. Cover art by Kirwan.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 335pp, 1987. Softcover. A collection of 20 crime fiction short stories. Bright and clean with no marks or tears. Size: 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. In good condition; hard diagonal crease top outside corner front cover; soft diagonal crease same corner title page through page 79; soft hairline crease across lower corner front cover; hard rubbing along edge of non-creased spine; points of light to hard rubbing along edges; diagonal crease lower outside corner back cover; four black stamps top edge of book; light toning to clean interior pages; set of short tears lower edge pages 43 and 45; short diagonal crease lower outside corner page 153; binding sound. 212 numbered pages. 7 x 4 1/4 in. Inv. BT017. Kirwan (cover illustration) (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. first thus. Black Lizard, CA 1988 155 pages. First thus. Near fine unread condition with a trace of wear. See photos. SR 2/6.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. first thus. Black Lizard, CA 1988 126 pages. First thus. Near fine unread condition witha trace of wear. See photos. SR 2/6.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. first thus. Black Lizard, CA 1986 141 pages. First thus. Near fine unread condition with light rubbing to covers, and light edge wear. See photos. Sr 2/6.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. first thus. Black Lizard CA 1985 189 pages. First thus. Very good condition with edge wear, readers creases, light toning to inside covers and pages, and a trace of wear. See photos SR 2/6.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st thus. ISBN#: 0-88739-084-6.PB. VG-F. Light-mod. spine edge wear.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Wraps. 1st Edition. First Edition. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. Fine and unmarked. 522pp. 522 p. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. a fine unread copy. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st Rep. Ed., with a new introduction by Whittington. Fine in pictorial wraps with magenta lettering & cover art by Kirwan picturing a strange-looking redhead sitting in a purple wing chair & covered with cobwebs. Mystery novel about a man who sets the trap for murder & catches the girl he loves in it. Mystery, Vintage Paperback.…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. 1st Prtg. 1st Printing (originally published in 1957). A fine, unread copy. Paper beginning to age tone as usual. Donald Westlake has named Peter Rabe as "by far the best" of the Gold Medal writers of the 1940's and 50's. Kirwan, Jim (illustrator). Book.

Condition: Very Good. Softcover, mass market paperback, 125 pages. A teenage girl is raped and murdered. A father turns his back on his son. A vicious press lord turns justice into a carnival. A terrified boy is railroaded. In the twisted world of Jim Thompson, everyone is guilty, and the worst crimes are unpunishable. Bookseller's stamp on inside front cover, price stamp on first page. Record # 374757.…

Paperback. Condition: NF. 1st Edition. First edition. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" trade paperback bound in wrappers. Near Fine condition. Rubs to the corners and spine tips. Some rubs to the front cover's lower edge. Signed and inscribed on the half-title page by both authors.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Light spine wear. B8.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine to Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Some twenty mystery-suspense short stories by contemporary masters of hard-boiled, "noir" crime fiction including Estleman, Randisi, Ellison, Hensley, Lansdale, Gorman and Thompson, with five of the stories published here for the first time; text is clean, tight, square; black and blue wrappers show only very minor surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Fine. First Edition, Thus. Vintage Paperback. Beautiful Unread First Printing of this Edition. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Fresh and bright with no creases, chipping or tears and pretty much As New. A simply gorgeous collectable copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This is the 2006 Black Lizard/ Vintage reprint of the 1956 Beacon paperback original. It is a first printing, EX-LIB with the usual stamps, labels associated with a withdrawn public library book, but with a tight, straight binding, bright, pictorial wrap. The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. reading crease else near fine copy, wraps. Not an ex-library copy. Sylvia Shoreham's Hollywood dreams came true long ago. Critically beloved for her beauty, talent, and style, she was on her way to international stardom when a bad contract committed her to seven years of trashy comedies and half-baked melodramas. Her marriage to her producer husband has become a rotten, loveless sham, so Sylvia's silver screen life verges on a nightmare. To escape her celluloid hell, she's got only one option: Forget Hollywood. It's time for a Reno vacation. She comes to Nevada hoping for a divorce from her husband, Vicki, and an end to her contract, but the ugly side of the business follows her. To protect herself from Vicki, she enlists Nevada's biggest Sylvia Shoreham fan. He's six feet tall, strong as a mule, and just happens to be Reno's sheriff. When her divorce turns into a war, this Hollywood icon will be glad to have him on her side. Kirwan, Jim (illustrator). Book.…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Printing. 1st prtg. Fine, unread copy in wraps, page showing some age-toning. A new 15 page introduction by Whittington. Cover by Kirwan. Buz Johnson belonged to the high-living, hard-drinking generation of World War Two flyboys who inspired the saying "Show me a hero and I ll show you a bum". A dozen years after the war he was drinking his way to oblivion at a jerkwater Florida airport, teaching playboys and rich widows how to fly. He was deep in debt, his girl had walked out on him, and he was living from paycheck to paycheck, looking forward only to the next drink. Then Sid Coates came up with the bank caper, and he needed Buz to fly the getaway plane. Buz had a chance to re-claim his pride and make a bundle besides. All he had to do was get up his nerve and be willing to kill if it came to that. He figured he was as ready for it as he d ever be. Kirwan, Jim (illustrator). Book.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author. Inscribed by both Thompson and Nichols Quantity Available: 1. Category: Mystery Fiction; Inscribed by Author. ISBN: 088739096x. ISBN/EAN: 9780887390968. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 5569.…

Condition: Good. Softcover, mass market paperback, 171 pages. "No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford" Elmore Leonard THE BLACK MASS OF BROTHER SPRINGER tells the story of Sam Springer, a drifter novelist who meets Jack Dover, the retiring Abbot of the Church of God's Flock. Dover's final official act is to ordain Springer and send him off to serve as pastor of an all-Black church in Jacksonville, Florida. Springer soon becomes entangled in the city's growing civil rights movement . . . and with the church deacon's earthy young wife, Merita. The Washington post calls this darkly humorous novel by Charles Willeford, one of the great crime writers of the 20th century, "his masterpiece." Light wear, book store stamp, price on first page, crease to rear cover. Otherwise clean. Record # 374755. …

Condition: Very Good. Mass market sized paperback, originally published in 1954. Clean, bright copy in color wraps. Record # 352562.

Condition: Very Good. Mass market sized paperback, originally published in 1971. Clean, bright copy in color wraps. Record # 352563.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: NEAR FINE. 1st thus. Berkeley, CA: Black Lizard, Berkeley, 1986. 1st thus. Mass Market Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for light crease on back cover top corner and light wear to top edge and 2 tiny puncture marks near binding edge. Appears unread. "Ah, sweet mystery ---dives into San Francisco's murky underbelly, where sex has come a long way since Adam and Eve can be a synonym for love." 127 pages.…

Trade Size Paperback. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Book Club Edition. 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 335 pages; Black and blue over sized trade paperback very lightly rubbed at edges. Text pages clean and tight. Very Good No Dust Jacket as issued.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Trade Paperback 8vo., 335pp. Beautiful Unread First Edition. Square, tight and clean throughout with just a touch of edge wear. Still fresh and bright with no creases, tears or chipping. A very pretty collectable copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very little wear overall. Text is clean. 204 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.