London, New York, and Melbourne: Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co., 1891. Third Edition. Octavo, 224 pages; [24] ads; Fine; bound in full dark blue morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, with their gilt stamp, paneled spine with gilt titling anbd tooling, gilt rules along board edges and gilt stamping to corners; gilt and morocco turn-ins, marbled endpapers; With a beautiful Fore-Edge Painting by Martin Frost.; EH Consignment; shelved case 3. More

1982. Quarto, 127 leaves; VG; in gray covers, hole-punched with two round head fasteners; mild wear to corners; stated 'First Draft / December 16, 1982'; Inscribed by Westlake "For Patricia - This is a novel in progress - wait and see"; cover and title page both state 'Henry Winkler Productions' with their address; shelved case 7. More

The Armchair Detective Library, 1990. First UK Hardcover Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 294 pages; VG/VG; spine black with white and red titling; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut '£12.95' and '$18.95'; very slight bumping to corners; pages age-toned, as usual; Inscribed on title page by John Gardner; With the cancelled title-page, showing the British spelling 'Licence,' as opposed to the simultaneously published US Edition, spelled 'License.; shelved case 6. More

London: John Murray, 1929. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Octavo, 1202 pages; VG/VG; spine white with black and red lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, mild wear; top edge of text bock red; price on front cover of 'net 7/6'; with small leaflet advertising the third large printing of 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories' loose within, also mentioned on the rear cover; age-toning to pages; incredibly scarce, especially with dust jacket; shelved case 13. More

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 222 pages; VG/VG-; spine blue with white lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut '$3.95'; sun-fading to spine, chipping to head and tail of spine; spine slightly cocked; small droplet stains to top edge of text block; First state dust jacket with no reviews; INSCRIBED on title page by Ross Thomas; LP consignment; shelved case 7. More

New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1940. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 270 pages, VG/VG; spine is blue with black and white lettering; dust jacket is in a mylar covering, has price uncut '$2.00', has minor wear along the top and bottom edges, with minor chipping on the fore edge corners; binding has minor shelf wear, with minor bumping on the fore edge corners; pages have mild age toning and heavily faded coloring along the top edge; EH Consignment; shelved Case 6. More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 225 pages; VG/Fair; spine black and beige with yellow and black lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, non-archival backing to 80% of dust jacket, jacket worn, chipped, soiled; Publisher's full black cloth, front board and spine stamped in red; Jacket has publisher's promotional "seal" sticker on front panel; with the remnants of the publisher's "seal" on page 159 and rear free endpaper, the first seal page is present in its entirety; EH consignment; shelved case 6. More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. Uncorrected Advance Proof. Octavo, 293 pages; VG; bound in yellow/orange paper wraps, black lettering to spine; inscribed on title page by Patricia Cornwell; includes letter from Scribner's to reviewer; shelved case 6. More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. First Edition. 8vo., 264pp.; VG/VG; spine black and red with white, black, and gold lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut '$2.00'; dust jacket has minor flaws, including slight sun-fading to spine, small amount of chipping to head and tail of spine; front cover with unusually bright colors; interior has some age-toning; LP consignment; shelved case 6. More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 249 pages; VG-/G+; multi-colored illustrated spine, white/yellow text; jacket has protective mylar cover, peeling and tape residue on inside flaps, rubbing, chipping around edges, back of flap has been colored with black marker to try to hide chipping, slight peeling on back; boards are strong, rubbing and staining around edges, minor fraying at spine tail, spine slightly cocked; textblock has edgewear, age toning, some spotting throughout, peeling on pastedowns, small stamp on front pastedown, writing on front endpaper, tape residue on both endpapers, text clean, binding strong; FLP Collection; shelved case 6, Dupont. More

New York: Random House, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; VG/VG; white spine with yellow and black text; jacket has protective mylar cover, minor shelfwear, price not clipped; boards are strong; textblock has very faint stain on fore edge, otherwise clean; pp 182; signed by author on title page. Shelve case 6. More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. First US Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 278 pages; VG/VG-; spine back with red lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price $2.00'; dust jacket has mild chipping to corners, head and tail of sine, some mild closed tears, small piece of tape to interior of front cover; one piece of tape to each flap, no damage or sign of adhesive to front pastedowns; top edge of text block red, some mild rubbing; some age-toning to pages; shelved case 6. More

New York: Putnam, 1942. First Edition. Octavo; 239pp; black cloth boards with red titles in illustrated dustjacket; top edge inked red; quarter inch loss to dustjacket at crown, mild chipping and wear to edges and corners; bottom edge of text block shows a few pages roughly opened and one page with half inch loss at lower corner; overall a very good copy with dustjacket housed in mylar wrap. Author's First Book. [Spine; white titles on black]. Shelved in Case #6. More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. Uncorrected Advance Proof. Octavo, 321 pages; VG; bound in off-white paper wraps, black lettering to spine; minor smudging to covers; signed flat on title page by John Dunning; shelved case 6. More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. Reprint. 8vo., 267pp.; VG/G+; spine yellow with black lettering, black falcon; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price cut; dust jacket has some liquid staining on rear cover; tail of spine has some chipping, the only part of the publisher's name remaining is "Gros"; age-toning to pages, brittle; LP consignment; shelved case 6, Dupont. More

New York: Dodd, Mean & Company, 1939. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 248 pages; VG/VG-; spine blue with yellow and white lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut '$2.00'; dust jacket with 9 small pieces of non-archival tape to the interior, rear flap with upper corner torn off, small hole to center of spine, chipping, wear, and creases; EH consignment; shelved case 6. More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. First Printing. Octavo, 313 pages; VG/G+; spine is blue with black and white lettering; dust jacket is in a mylar covering, has price uncut '$2.00', has moderate wear along the top and bottom edges, with chipping at the top and bottom of the spine and on the fore edge corners, has minor creasing along the sides of the spine, has a large closed tear on the back cover that has been repaired with tape; binding has minor shelf wear, has adhesive residue on the inner back cover; pages have faded coloring along the top edge, minor age toning and minimal detachment; EH Consignment; shelved case 6. More

New York: Greenberg Publishers, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo., 219 pp., VG-/VG-; DJ, teal and purple pictorial spine (faded) and front cover with white lettering, text to spine legible; wear to covers and edges of DJ, with with slight material loss to head of spine and bottom corners; price uncut "$2.75" to top right-hand corner of front flap; DJ protected by mylar; light gray cloth boards, maroon lettering to spine; bumping to head and tail of spine, mild cocking to spine; mild wear to edges of boards, bumping to corners; red top, shelfwear to text-block; age-toning to interior, text legible; published 1951, stated to copyright page, with no mention of further printings; MacDonald's first science fiction novel; LP consignment; shelved Case 8, Dupont. More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1930. First English Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 311 pages, [8] ads; G+/none; bound in publisher's blue cloth, black lettering to spine; spine sun-faded to green; rubbing to corners, head and tail of spin; INSCRIBED on ffep by Mary Roberts Rinehard to Justice and Mrs. Sterne; shelved case 6. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1937. First Edition. Octavo, 311 pages; VG-/VG-; spine is dark red with beige lettering; dust jacket is in a mylar covering, has moderate wear along the top and bottom edges, has chipping and small tears at the top and bottom of the spine and on the fore edge corners, has wear and creasing along the sides on the spine and along the fore edge, has minor rubing on the back cover; binding has minimal shelf wear, with minimal detachment on the front inner hinge; pages have minimal age toning; EH Consignment; shelved case 6. More

New York: Walker and Company, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 192 pages; VG/VG; blue and yellow spine with red text; jacket has protective mylar cover, price not clipped; boards are strong; textblock has small stain on fore edge; signed by author on title page.; shelved case 6. More

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1942. First Edition. Octavo; G/G; green spine, white text; jacket has protective mylar cover, rubbing, significant edgewear, with several open and closed tears; boards have sunning, rubbing along edges, bump on front fore edge, small rip in fabric at spine tail and in corner of front tail edge, spine cocked and shaken, webbing showing in back but board is still fully attached; textblock has edgewear, age toning, otherwise clean, binding strong; pp 285; FLP Collection; shelved Case 6, Dupont. More

New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc., 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 498 pages; VG/VG; spine yellow with white lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut '$6.95'; mild rubbing and wear to dust jacket, including small chipping and closed tears to head and tail of spine; top edge of etxt block orange; SIGNED flat on ffep page by Westlake as both Culver and Westlake; shelved case 6. More

Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1942. First Edition. 8vo., 282pp.; VG/VG-; spine red and green with white and black lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price ripped; sun-fading to spine, minor wear to edges, hinges, head and tail of spine; top edge of text block stained green, faded; pages have some age-toning; stated first edition on copyright page; INSCRIBED by Brant on ffep using her pseudonym Lange Lewis; The first of her Lieutenant Richard “The Moose” Tuck series, as well as her debut novel, this was followed by Juliet Dies Twice (1943), Meat for Murder (1943), The Birthday Murder (1945), and The Passionate Victim (1952). An oft forgotten Los Angeles based mystery writer, she was married to Mal Bissell, a writer of weird tales. She also wrote as Jane Beynon (Cypress Man, 1944), and under her own name produced a historical novel about Mexico, La Chingada; scarce in any condition, let alone with a dust jacket; shelved case 6. More

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1941. First Edition, Second Printing. 8vo., 271 pp., G+/G; dark green/gray pictorial DJ with yellow/white/black lettering to spine and front cover; chipping with material loss to head and tail of spine, corners, and top-edge of front cover towards hinge; mild fading to spine, lettering faded yet legible; creasing and closed tears to covers and edges; age-toning to covers, predominantly to back cover and flaps; "Second Large Printing" stated to top left-hand corner of front flap; original price "$2.00" stated to top right-hand corner of front flap; DJ protected by mylar; gray cloth boards, red lettering to spine and front board; bumping/chipping to head and tail of spine, mild brown staining to head of spine; mild brown staining to top of front board, lettering legible; rubbing to edges of boards, slight fraying to corners of boards; small scratches to red top towards head of spine, stippled fore-edge, age-toning/shelfwear to fore- and bottom-edges of text-block; foxing/aged paste-staining to endpapers; mild age-toning to interior, text clear and legible; LP consignment; shelved Case 6. More