Search Results: Detective fiction from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Oakland: PM Press, 2012. xi+258p., wraps, New. New edition of first novel in the Filomena Buscarsela series of mysteries set in NY. Buscarsela, born in Ecuador, is one of the first latinas on the NYPD.

San Francisco: GLB Publishers, 2001. 160p., second edition, very good trade paperback in pictorial blue wraps. First novel published in the Dick Hardesty mystery series yet sequentially the second case. Gunn page 149.

Miami: Self published by the author, as Manny Chaco Enterprises, Inc, 1990. Paperback. 123p., text in Spanish, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps (illustrated with a black eagle crushing the Presidential Seal). Involves Secret Service and a threat against the US president.

Tallahassee: Naiad Press, 1984. Paperback. 204p. + backlist, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Lesbian LAPD detective Kate Delafield in a murder mystery.

Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2003. Paperback. 268p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. First Russell Quant mystery. Gunn page 126.

Seattle: Seal Press, 1989. Paperback. 212p., review materials laid-in, very good first edition, first printing stated trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. Second mystery featuring Catalan PI Lonia Guiu.

Tangier, London & New York: Ecco Press, 1977. Paperback. 323p. + ads, fiction, very good paperback literary journal in yellow pictorial wraps. All-fiction issue.

New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 1997. Hardcover. 248p., very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Mystery.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Hardcover. 243p., very good first edition, first printing stated in boards and unclipped dj. Eighth mystery featuring the Chicago-based amateur sleuth. Gunn page 235.

White Bear Lake, MN: Allen J. Hubin, 1974. Magazine. Four issues, various pagination, stapled pictorial wraps, 8.5x11 inches, all with worn wraps, one issue with a subscription renewal notice stapled to the front wrap, else generally very good condition. Issues present are Vol. 6 No. 4 and Vol. 7 Nos. 1, 3, and 4.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Hardcover. 305p., personal inscription to Sam [Steward] signed by the author,very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket. Roma sub Rosa. Sequel to "Roman Blood" book two of "Roma Sub Rosa" series. Acquired from Samuel M. Steward's executors collection.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Hardcover. 305p., signed by the author, near-fine first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped bright dj. Roma sub Rosa. Sequel to "Roman Blood" book two of "Roma Sub Rosa" series.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Paperback. 305p., very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and price-clipped bright dj. Roma sub Rosa. Sequel to "Roman Blood" book two of "Roma Sub Rosa" series.

Woodstock, VT: The Countryman Press, Foul Play Press, 1982. Hardcover. 167p., near-fine first edition stated in cloth boards, review slip laid-in, and bright unclipped dj. California student Alan Tarr who does not identify as gay but has two gay lovers seeks the truth of his father's death. Gunn page 244, Other Fictional Investigators of Interest.

Berkeley: International News Keyus, Inc, 1978. Newspaper. 20p. + a 12p. insert, folded tabloid newspaper, stories, news, opinion, reviews, events, photos, ads, evenly toned, else very good on newsprint. This issue is from the late '70s era when the Barb had evolved into a quality paper with (mostly) serious journalism afoot. Cover on San Francisco private eyes, with an article on classic detective novels, a review of the 1978 version of the "The Big Sleep," an interview with a private detective, and an interview with Margo St. James (who was a private eye in addition to a sex worker and activist.).

Tallahassee: Naiad Press, 1982. Paperback. 160p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Grier A**.

Tallahassee: Naiad, 1992. Paperback. 274, [6]p., wraps, very good later printing. A Kate Delafield mystery.

Toronto: Amanita Enterprises, 1987. Paperback. 222p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Mystery featuring lesbian detective Helen Keremos.

New York: Star Dist, 1988. Paperback. 149p., very good first printing PBO in explicit camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Young Stallions YS-115. Gay Detective Petrovich Pasternak. Not in Gunn.

New York: Star Distributors, 1990. Paperback. 154p., price sticker on cover else a very good first printing PBO in original camp explicit, pictorial yellow wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Finland Books FIN 179. According to Drewey Wayne Gunn's Gay Male Sleuth in print & Film page 121 these two titles had their covers switched during publication. This book is actually a marvelous spoof of gay pulp mysteries according to Gunn and features California PI Shiv Buzzcock!