Collection: Mystery & Thriller

Santa Fe: Burning Books, 2011. First edition. 150pp; duodecimo; perfect-bound in illustrated wraps. Very good or better, with light edge and corner wear. A terse and hardboiled mystery novel by American composer and librettist Robert Ashley (1930-2014), notable in particular for Perfect Lives and his... More

NY: Arno Press & The New York Times, 1971. 316pp. 8vo. Tan cloth; black spine titles; dust jacket. Offsetting, apparently adhesive-related, to gutters. Mild dust soiling to textblock top. Unclipped jacket with shallow chipping at spine ends, wear and creasing to hinges, rubbing and toning... More

First edition copy of the third book in Asimov's Black Widowers mystery series. NY: Doubleday & Company, 1980. First edition. Octavo, 8-1/2 x 5-3/4 in. 182pp. Red papered boards; black spine titles; dust jacket. Light shelfwear, bumping to spine ends. Unclipped ("$7.95") jacket several short... More

Photographic reprint of the American detective novel, generally acknowledged as the first by a woman, originally published serially in 1866 and in book form in 1867. With an introduction by Michele Slung. Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Reprint edition. Octavo, 8-1/4 x 5-5/8 in. ix, vi,... More

First Signet printing of this Hollywood novel by the American hard-boiled writer, author of They Shoot Horses Don't They? and others. NY: Signet/New American Library, 1951. First edition thus (stated first printing). Perfect-bound in pictorial color wraps, 7-1/8 x 4-1/4 in. Textblock edges stained pink.... More

The uncommon ninth book (of eleven total) in Holton's "Father Bredder" mystery series. NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1972. First edition (no additional printings noted on copyright page). Octavo, 8 1/4 x 5 5/8 in. 156pp. Red cloth boards; black spine titles; in dust jacket.... More

NY: Henry Waterson Company, 1927. Presumed first edition (no statement of printing; we have observed several different binding variants among other copies currently listed in the trade). Small octavo (5.25 x 7.5 in.); 266pp.; dark blue cloth boards; red lettering to spine and front panel;... More

First edition of the final volume in Asimov's black widowers sequence, which collects ten of the best previously published stories, along with two new, uncollected additions. NY: Doubleday, 1990. Octavo (5.75 x 8.5 in.); 253pp.; tan papered boards with black cloth backing and gilt spine... More

NY: A.A. Wyn, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 224pp. Grey cloth, red spine titles. Moderate shelfwear, with some fraying to the cloth at spine ends and along board edges (book board just exposed at bottom rear corner). Light toning/flecking to textblock. Unclipped "$2.75" jacket show some... More

NY: Macmillan, 1963. Hardcover. 8vo. 198pp. Green cloth, dark red topstain. Presumed early reprint (no statement of printing). Light shelfwear, red remainder mark to bottom of textblock, else near fine in an unclipped "$3.95" jacket with a 1" closed tear and related creases at head of... More