Mystery & Detective Fiction from Lippincott Books

New York: Knopf, 1936. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. [viii], 324 pp. Orange cloth. Golf mystery. Small chip out of outer margins p.69-70, toning some pages - common to this edition, else VG

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1943. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Author's first mystery. Very Good copy with slight edge wear. In VG dust jacket with some tiny nicks and tears, edge wear at spine and corners.

New York: Random House, 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Shilstone, Arthur. 208 pp. Pictorial boards. Illustrated by Arthur Shilstone. Stories by Agatha Christie, Hugh Pentecost, Cornell Woolrich, Stuart Palmer, MacKinay Kantor, Erle Stanley Gardner, August Derleth, Michael Gilbert, Ellery Queen, Leslie Charteris, and John Dickson Carr. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1963. Hardcover. VG/VG+. Banbery, Fred. 206 pp. Pictorial boards. Illustrated by Fred Banbery. Five solve-them-yourself mysteries. In case the reader misses the clues in the story, Hitchcock highlights them at the end of each story. Illustrated hard covers. This title uncommon. Front and back boards each have a small… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 206 pp. Pictorial boards. Illustrated by Harold Isen. With thirteen stories by Agatha Christie, Richard Connell, Daphne de Maurier, Patrick Quentin, Robert Arthur, Roald Dahl, Sax Rohmer, F. Tennyson Jesse, Robert Bloch, Edgar Wallace, Dorothy Sayers, Clayre and Michel Lipman, and Percival Wilde. Near… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1953. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/GVG. Yellow cloth. 263 pp. Sir Henry Merrivale. Crease on front board else VG In dust jacket with tear and small hole towards lower back edge of the spine otherwise quite presentable.

New York: Doubleday, 1984. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. 233, [1] pp. Buckley's bookplate on ffep with inscription to Newbold Noyes and his wife in red ink. From the library of Newbold Noyes, editor of the Washington Evening Star. Noyes was an ambulance driver during World War II and then foreign correspondent for… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975. First English Edition . Hardcover. GVG/Near Fine. Spine slant else VG in Near Fine dust jacket.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 207 pp. Blue paper-covered boards, spine title gilt. Clean & tight; appears unread. Price-intact dustjacket has light edge wear and one closed tear.

New York: Random House, 1987. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 233, [1] pp. With Buckley's bookplate on front endpaper with a warm inscription to Noyes. From the library of Newbold Noyes, editor of the Washington Evening Star, Noyes was an ambulance driver during World War II and then foreign correspondent for the… Read more about this item

New York: E P Dutton, 1946. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/GVG. 252 pp. Author's first book. Blue cloth stamped in red. Unclipped dustjacket, with art by Maurer, has edge wear, light soiling. "Behind all the surface frivolity and social intrigue the author has worked out with astonishing skill an emotional drama… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1964. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. [viii], 248 pp. Black cloth over orange boards. Spine slant, light wear at lower edges. Price-intact dustjacket has wear at corners and spine edges, light soiling to rear panel. Author's first book. Jacket design and map of Concord, Massachusetts end papers… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. [iv], 316 pp. Blue cloth, titles stamped in orange. Illustrated dustjacket is lightly sunned, has edge wear with a chip at lower spine. "...a vivid narrative, an unusual story of sordid scheming, sincere devotion, dramatic incident, in a setting of exotic cosmopolitan life." … Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 236, [1] pp. Leslie serves up a fine Conch stew, mixing equal parts of sunken treasure, a sexually addicted policeman, a judge with an indiscretion, and seasoning it all with a murdered girl from an escort service.

New York: Soho Press, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Grijpstra & DeGier Mystery. 280 pp. Dark gray paper-covered boards, black cloth spine stamped in silver. "A new Amsterdam Cops novel, the 14th in this successful series of Zen mysteries.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. 151, [3] pp. From the library of Robin McKinley, science fiction writer and wife of mystery author Peter Dickinson, with her bookplate on front pastedown. A detective story of a Newport wedding. Hubin. A Bobbs-Merrill Pocket Book Series of adventure, mystery, and humor. "Pocket Book "… Read more about this item

New York: Scribner's, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 282 pp. 2nd book in the Maggie Summer series. Summer is an antique print dealer, as is the author, and much of the book revolves around her knowledge and dealings in the trade.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 266 pp. Blue cloth, silver stamped title on spine. Price intact dustjacket has small, closed tear. NF/NF

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/GVG. xvi, 201, [3] pp. With index. Association copy. From the library of Janwillem van de Wetering. Van de Wetering studied at a Zen monastery in Japan in 1958-1959, and later spent seven years in the Amsterdam Reserve Constabulary. When he began… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good/GVG. [iv], 303, [3] pp. Blue cloth, title and cover decoration stamped in black. Third printing, published in March, 1922, the same month as the first printing. Futuristic world politics of the year 1934 and the Menace of the Yellow Peril. Hubin. Bleiler. Reginald… Read more about this item