Dead Discreet (49 results)

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

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

Condition: Very Good. Very Good Condition. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with slight age tone. Good DJ with light wear.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Ballantine printing, March 1976. Wraps lightly scuffed and edgeworn, very good. Spine wrinkled, but without reading creases. Binding sound. Pages lightly toned, text unmarked.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fine. Reprint. Excellent copy of this Jacob Asch mystery, first published in 1974. Tight and crisp with no creasing.

hardcover. Fine in a fine Dust Jacket. First English edition, 1st printing. The first Jacob Asch mystery.

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Paperback. near fine, unread paperback.

Paperback. first edition. 24974 very good -fine, spine crease paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition hardcover with clipped dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket edges are creased, and price sticker mark noted on front inner flap. Spine ends are bumped, and page block is lightly tanned. Pages are clear and unmarked throughout. LW. Used.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. The author's first mystery, introducing Jacob Asch. Spine cocked with a shelf lean, a touch of wear to the upper edge of the rear board. Upper edge of the text block foxed, scuff on the front free end paper from bookplate removal. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, upper edges of the flaps tanned, in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good + Neat Ink Name. Very Good Light wear Dj. 1st Edition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A first UK edition in very good condition for its age.  Tanning to pages.  bump to head and tail of book spine.  The dust jacket is complete, price-clipped  and re-priced by publisher and is showing some slight signs of wear at the extremities. First book featuring Jacob Asch - Private Investigator. SYNOPSIS:   "Crime reporter Jacob Asch was jailed for six months for refusing to reveal his news sources on a murder story. Blacklisted by his former newspaper and out of work, he sets himself up as a private detective - and soon finds himself in a world where the line between respectability and corruption melts at the first probing touch." IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.…

Paperback. first edition. 24974 almost near fine, corner crease paperback.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First UK edition of the first Jacob Asch novel. Originally published in the US by Mason and Lipscomb in 1974. There are two small but heavy dents to the bottom edge of the rear panel but the boards are otherwise clean and unmarked. Dense spotting to tops of the page edges with more scattered spotting to the fore edges and bottom edges. Scattered light spotting to the endpapers and there is some spotting to several pages at the back of the book. Trace of a price in pencil to the top corner of the front pastedown. Pages otherwise unmarked. Price-clipped jacket has a one inch patch of surface damage on the front panel where a label has been removed, a small tear at the bottom left corner of the rear panel which has some browning and there is a crease at the bottom corner of the front flap. Jacket design by Melvyn Gill. First printing. Gill, Melvyn (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First edition hardback, 1977, with clipped jacket. In overall very good condition. Internally very clean. Binding tight, no annotations or inscriptions; text crisp and clear throughout.

Condition: New. In English.

First Edition. Condition: vg+/vg. 1st edition 1st print Robson Books 1977 hardcover vg+ condition book vg dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. nick to jacket on front right hand edge.

First Edition. Condition: fine/fine. fine book in near fine dw 1st ?Robson 1977 edition hardcover In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardcover in DJ with $6.95 price protected by clear book jacket cover, first printing as stated, bright yellow endpapers without mark, watermark to inside edge of front DJ flap with a couple tape repairs to underside.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Lyons, Arthur, The Dead Are Discreet, Mason/Lipscomb, New York, 1974, first edition / first printing, The debut novel introducing Jacob Asch, a sardonic private investigator navigating the darker corners of Los Angeles. Hired to find a missing young woman, Asch uncovers a web of deceit, greed, and murder. A sharp, hardboiled mystery that launched Lyons' celebrated detective series. Near fine in a very good unclipped dust jacket with light creasing and wear. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good, foxing, shaken, she. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mylared. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A NEAR FINE FIRST EDITION IN DJ . clean no writing price on dj. first book.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.