Mystery from Minotavros Books

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. SIGNED by author with inscription to title page. Quarter blue cloth, blue paper boards. 166 pp. Spine tilted. Dust jacket is tanned to flaps. Near fine overall. An Inspector Charlie Salter Mystery.

Toronto: Dundurn, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. SIGNED by author to title page. Black paper boards. 232 pp. Spine tilted. Faint damp staining to tail edge of front board. Dust jacket is lightly bumped at extremities.

New York: Arbor House, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Quarter black cloth, red paper boards. 283 pp. Light damp staining to spine ends. Dust jacket is price clipped and age toned, else fine.

New York: Atheneum, 1972. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. First American edition stated. Full black cloth. 381 pp. Lightly age toned to interior. Dust jacket has some very light wear and toning to extremities. Close-Up is an astonishingly authentic view of the film world - the world where, as one character remarks, even the has-beens… Read more about this item

New York: Julian Messner, Inc, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. black cloth. 245 pp. White spot to head of front joint. Dust jacket is edge worn, chipped to spine ends, soiled to rear cover, creasing to flaps.

New York: William Morrow, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Quarter black cloth, yellow paper boards. 256 pp. Bruising and faint damp stain to spine foot, slight sunning to edges. Slightly age toned to interior. Dust jacket is age toned, light bumping to edges, damp stained to spine foot (mostly… Read more about this item

New York: Teen Age Books, INc, 1955. Soft cover. Very Good. 4" x 7" Paperback. 248 pp. Toning and creasing to covers, rubbing to extremities. Interior age toned, creasing to lower corners of some pages at front.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. SIGNED with inscription to ffep. White and black paper boards. 292 pp. Dust jacket is age toned, else fine.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1957. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Blue and white paper boards. 191 pp. Sunning to edges of boards. Dust jacket is price clipped, rubbed to covers and extremities.

Gardeny City, NY: The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. Crime Club Selection. Orig. orange cloth boards. Top edge orange. vii, 310 pp. Light wear and rubbing to extremities, bruise to spine ends and tail edge of rear board, damp stain to head of rear board. Interior slightly… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. SIGNED by author to title page. Quarter burgundy cloth, blue paper boards. 200 pp. Spine tilted. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, tanned to flaps. Near fine overall. An Inspector Charlie Salter Mystery.

Los Angeles: Ernest E. Gagnon Company, 1933. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. black embossed cloth, gilt titles. 160 pp. Spine tilted, rubbing and discolouration to cloth of front board. Scuff to rear board. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. With The Plot Genie: Weird - Terror Story Formula and The Screen Angle, published by Parker& Baird, Los Angeles,… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1939. 1st Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. Crime Club Selection. Black paper boards, red decoration to spine. T.E.R. vi, 311 pp. Spine tilted, rubbed to extremities. Slight age toning to interior. Cropping to upper corner of ffep.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1933. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Blue and red cloth. 306 pp. Spine tilted, chafing to extremitiesInterior age toned. Damp staining to upper margin of p. 115.

Toronto: Simon & Schuster, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quarter black cloth, black paper boards. 247 pp. S&S remainder stamp to tail edge. Dust jacket has some light age toning, else fine. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is the first ever fully realized Ghost-Horror-Detective-Whodunit-Time-Travel-Romantic-Musical-Comedy Epic.

London: Gollancz, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. black cloth. 318 pp. Front board bowed, some light damp staining to cloth, light abrading to extremities. Spine cocked. Foxing to fore edges.

New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. orange cloth, pictorial paper onlay. 448 pp. [4] B&W plates. Spine tilted and sunned, fading and bumping to upper corners. A few spots of light foxing, age toned to interior.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine. Vandine Detective Library Series. Black and silver cloth, 306pp. Frontispiece. Near fine.

London: Hutchinson, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Orig. black paper boards. 208 pp. Spine tilted and creased. Foxing to endpapers, light foxing to edges of text block. Dust jacket lightly edge worn, light soiling to rear cover, a few short tears to flaps.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. black cloth. 286 pp. Spine cocked. Chafing to extremities. Interior age toned. Offsetting to ffep, foxing to rear endpapers. Facsimile dust jacket. A detective story but something much more: a portrait gallery of dons, depicted with the driest wit, and… Read more about this item