Sleep by Taylor Sam (10 results)

Paperback. first PB. 821, very good , hardboiled crime novel, paperback,

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. VG in pictorial wraps with blue & yellow lettering & cover art picturing a redheaded babe unconscious on a bed with pills & a spilled glass of water beside her on the bed. Mystery featuring P.I. Neal Cotten who is hired by a redheaded heiress to find the blackmailer who is bleeding her. Mystery, Vintage Paperback.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Spine creased and torn, covers creased and a small hole in the front one, foxing, bookseller's marks. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday in recyclable card packaging.

Paperback. first PB. 821, very good - fine hardboiled crime novel, paperback,

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. McLoughlin, Denis (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. First UK paperback edition. TVB No. 119. First published in the UK as a Boardman hardback in 1951. Originally published in the US in hard covers by Dutton in 1949 and then in paperback by Signet in 1950. The front cover has slight creasing at the corners. The rear cover is a little discoloured on the white centre panel with a faint traces of some writing in pencil. The spine is a little rolled with reading creasing, edge rubbing and a little tearing at the bottom. Browning to the pages with a little spotting to the first and last pages and in a few places through the book but the pages are otherwise generally unmarked. Cover illustration by Denis McLoughlin. First printing of this edition. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Paperback. first PB. 821, near fine hardboiled crime novel, paperback,

189 S. Orig. cased binding signs of using, slightly dusty and foxing.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. London: T.V. Boardman and Company Limited, (1953). First Boardman edition, first printing; mass-market paperback. "Published in T.V.B. Books 1953" statement to the copyright page, TVB 119 and 1'6 price to the front cover. One of Boardman's snazzy digest-sized paperback issues of U.S. mysteries, this one a Los Angeles based tale which leads Neal Cotten, head of the new Cotten Bureau of Investigation on a grim hunt from a mansion in Pacific Crest to a shoddy flop-house in Skid Row, to a crooked gambling dive in Angel Gardens. Hardboiled collectible mystery cover art. Chip to the upper corner and creases to the lower corner of the front cover, rubbing and pressure creases at the spine folds, very small chip to the upper spine edge, minor crease lines and rubbing to the spine,and shelf-edges, mild finger-pull creases to the fore-edge and with upper corner creases to the rear cover, else good and firm in glossy wraps with fabulous hard boiled street scene front cover art depicting a Los Angeles City skyline, three fedora-wearing men, one shooting another in the back from a car window; printed code TVB 119 and 1'6 price still intact to the front cover. *(No fading to the spine.) 160 pages; ads to the inside covers. Elusive in this Boardman edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Crisp and clean, and covered in a bright attractive jacket that is just a tad short for the book. Excellent hardboiled mystery and a terrific copy.

First Edition. Very good copy with some minor edge wear without dust jacket.