FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General from Old Algonquin Books

NY: Morrow, 1994. Proof. Soft Cover. Fine. Uncorrected bound galleys. Author's 1st novel: Merry Folger in Nantucket. Very light bump on bottom board corner.

New York: Dutton, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. Mystery & murder set in a radio studio. Green boards. Light spotting on top page edges and offselling on endpapers. Bright black and green dust jacket has a few rubs and edgewear.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Signed by author on title page. John Dunning's first book. Light wear on board corners. Dust jacket has small chip on front flap and light fade on spine.

Seoul: Woongjin Think Big, 2013. Paperback. Fine. Korean language edition of this bibliomystery. 5-1/2 x 8 inches. 446 pages.

New York: Scribner, 2001. Soft Cover. Near fine. Copy of the typewritten manuscript with his correction marks. 8-1/2 x 11. Bound together with clear plastic front and back. Signed by author on front page. Light wear on bottom edges.

Huntington Beach: James Cahill Publ., 1995. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American hardback of Deadline, a mystery that was originally published in paperback in 1981 and in hardback in England in 1982. Signed and dated by author 6-3-96.

New York: Times Books, 1980First edition. Proof. Soft Cover. Very Good. Unrevised proofs" in gold wraps. Signed by author on title page. Novel of Denver, newspapers, and the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s in Denver. Bump and a few creases at bottom of spine and a few small stains on wraps. Inside is… Read more about this item

New York: Popular Library, 1982. Paperback. Good +. First paperback edition. Novel of Denver newspapers and the Ku Klux Clan in Colorado in the 1920s. Creases on spine and front wrap.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1982. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/near fine. First hardback edition. The paperback was published first in 1981. Bound in red cloth with bright yellow dust jacket with 6.95 pounds price on flap. Tiny bumps on corners of book and two pages have a corner crease. Jacket also has tiny… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara: Scribner / Santa Teresa Press, 2001. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Special limited edition of mystery novel set at New Jersey radio station during World War II. Number 45 of 100 numbered copies, signed by author on limitation page. This includes a tipped-in original page from his typed working draft with cross-outs which he… Read more about this item

New York: Armchair Detective, 1995. Magazine. Fine. Magazine features an interview with John Dunning by Charles Silet, as well as articles on Nero Wolfe, John Dickson Carr, Ngaio Marsh, book reviews and the list of the1995 Edgar awards nominees.

Pasadena: Salem Press, 1988. Hardcover. Fine. Study of more than 290 authors and their characters, and bibliography of their works. Index at end of volume 4. Bound in gray buckram with black spines. Volume 3 has a few little crimps at top edge, otherwise they are all very fine. Laid in are catalog cards for… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1929. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. Scarce limited edition, number 680 of 1200 copies signed by designer and illustrator W. A Dwiggins on last page. Includes the facsimile of one page of Stevenson's hand-written manuscript. Bound in black cloth with gold titles and decoration on spine. Red and black illustrated slipcase… Read more about this item

Del Mar: University of California San Diego/Publisher's Inc., 1979. Hardcover. Near fine. 697 pages, Laid in are six library cards in celophane sleeve. Burgundy cloth binding. Slightly concave spine. Clean and straight. Heavy book: no priority or international shipping.

Tucson, AZ: Press of the Gigantic Hound, 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hillerman chronology and bibliography, including contributions to books & periodicals, & works about Hillerman. Limited to 1000 copies & signed by both Hillerman and Hieb. Also laid in is an 8-page leaflet On Collecting Hillerman by Hieb and signed by him for the Univ.… Read more about this item

New York: Times Books, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Novel of Denver newspaper reporter in the 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan took over the state. Signed by author on title page. Tiny tear at top of cloth spine and a 1/4" tear on rear flap of dust jacket.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very good +. A group of six salvage and use an old submarine to attempt a caper on the SS Queen Mary. Basis of a film with same title. Small dark blue marks on faded part of blue top edges. Dust jacket has very light edgewear. … Read more about this item

NY: Doubleday, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. The movie careers of the great fictional private eyes and their creators." 436 pages, numerous photos, index. 7-1/4 x 10-1/2" . Dust jacket (with price intact on flap) has a 1/8" tear and couple of small creases.

New York: Viking Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Devlin Kirk mystery.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Bibliomystery based on the 19th century English bibliophile/forger Thomas Wise. First printing. Slight edgewear top and bottom of dust jacket spine. Price on flap $5.?? scraped off. Brown boards. Brown pictorial dust jacket (not the yellow stock photo shown).