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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966. Very good (slightly spotted page edges, interior clean) in good only dust jacket (soiled and sunned, especially the spine). Another Quiller spy novel from the author of The Quiller Memorandum.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1994. Near fine (slightly cocked) in fine dust jacket. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Random House, 1984. Very good (some small spots show up on the black covers, dusty page edges, clean interior) in very good dust jacket (light edgewear, one 1/4 inch closed tear at top of back panel). The hero stumbles into an insane plot to plunge the world into chaos in order to establish a world-wide empire. 647 pages. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Doubleday/Crime Club ., 1958. Written by "Ellis Peters" under her real name. Very good (lightly edgeworn) in good only dust jacket (worn, especially at spine top and bottom (see scans), 2 inch closed tear on front panel near spine, now protected by mylar cover; fully intact in spite of these defects; NOT price-clipped). Two novelettes, 192 pages.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Arbor House , 1987. Very good (faintly foxed top page edges) in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by author on half title and dated 1/87, the year of publication. A limited first edition was published by Mysterious Press. The "bandits" are a bunch of amateurs who want to steal several million dollars raised to help the Contras, a newsworthy subject in the 1980s. Dust jacket photo of the author makes him look like a kindly professorial type; could this be the true Leonard surfacing here?. Signed by Author. 1st trade edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Arbor House, 1987. Very good+ (a bit dusty top page edges and light edgewear at bottoom of spine, otherwise fine) in very good dust jacket (light edgewear, lightly rubbed). A limited first edition was published by The Mysterious Press.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. Deighton is the author of "The Ipcress File" featuring an anonymous anti-hero who was named Harry Palmer in the film adaptations. This is the British first edition of the fourth book in the series that began with "The Ipcress File." Very good- condition (a few spots along the page edges, and slightly cocked) in a poor dust jacket (fragile and sunned, fragile in the sense that the print on this jacket will rub off easily, so part of the lettering on the front is smeared). Nonetheless, the jacket is notable as it was designed by Raymond Hawkey, Deighton's friend.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harper & Row, 1972. 2nd printing. Very good- (some browning and foxing on page edges, cocked) in very good dust jacket (browned interior, some light edgewear, one light crease from buckled coating on front panel of dust jacket but not very noticeable, a bit of tanning or spotting on the white part of back panel, otherwise jacket looks very clean and unworn). . Hard Cover.

New York: Otto Penzler Books, 1995. Near fine (a bit of foxing on page edges) in near fine dust jacket (the Brodart cover protects and disguises the slight impression of a paperclip on the dust jacket; otherwise fine). A Lewis Cole mystery set on the New England coast.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harper Collins, 1996. Very good- (slightly cocked, some spotting to page edges, interior clean; some edgewear at the top of the spine) in very good dust jacket (lightly rubbed, light edgewear). . 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

London: Michael Joseph, 1991. Near fine (slightly cocked) in near fine dust jacket (very slight edgewear). This is the British first edition. Francis's thirtieth novel!. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Random House, 1958. Very good+ in very good rubbed dust jacket. (See scans.) First book by this author who became a renowned biographer ("Papa Hemingway," etc). Set in Italy. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Macmillan, 1958. Near fine in badly worn dust jacket. First printing, first state. GIFT INSCRIPTION from playwright CLIFFORD ODETS, dated 12/60. "Real-life" mystery about the diamond smuggling from South Africa, written by the creator of 007.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harper & Bros, 1902. Very good+ (some slight separation between first free endpaper and binding, but still secure; worn spine heel and crown; 1 of the 7 plates tipped in originally has loosened with small pieces missing from the bottom edge but picture intact). See scans. TEG and cover gilding are intact, including the cover epigram, "We ought never to do wrong when people are looking." Beautifully printed. 179 pages.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Lucius Hitchcock.

London: Collins/Crime Club, 1972. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. A Hercule Poirot mystery.. 1st British edition. Hard Cover.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976. Very good (foxed page edges, interior clear of foxing except for endpapers and half-title; unmarked pages) in good+ dust jacket (heavily foxed and edgeworn, now in Brodart protective jacket). Mysterious Press memo sheet laid in with hand-written note: "Thank you for your interest. Best, Otto Penzler." 436 pages. A wonderful encyclopedia of authors, characters, films, pulp magazines, etc., arranged mainly by authors and characters, so that in "Frankenstein," for example, the editors describe Mary Shelley's original novel and its "gentle monster," and refer briefly to the film versions and Boris Karloff. About 600 articles.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs and Sketches.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1967. Very good (some spotting on page edges, offsetting on endpapers from edge of dust jacket flap, crease down center of spine) in very good dust jacket (minor edgewear and browning on the inside). Nice copy of British first edition with intact price on dust jacket. Set in Japan.. 1st British edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Carroll & Graf, 1993. Softcover, Very Good condition (some edgewear, light crease the length of the back cover). 390 pages, arranged in categories, such as American Mysteries, The Black Detective, British Mysteries, Gay Mysteries, Police Procedurals, Women's Suspense, Hard-Boiled Mysteries, plus many others. Many reading lists. Fascinating for the mystery fan. Contributions from many writers, including Stephen King, Lawrence Block, Edward Hoch, Ed McBain, H.R.F. Keating, Jon Breen.. 1st Edition.

New York: Arbor House, 1988. Near fine (page edges look a bit dusty) in near fine dust jacket (rubbed).. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. A third printing of Deighton's third cold-war thriller featuring the same unnamed secret agent from The Ipcress File. Very good (somewhat dusty, lightly soiled page edges, interior clean) in very good- dust jacket (sunned along edges and a few scratches).. Hard Cover.