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By: Captain Charles Askins Jr.
Price: $250.00
Publisher: NY, A.S. Barnes & Co.: 1941
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: cfg38
Condition: Very Good
Charles Askins, Jr., was an American lawman, US Army officer, and writer. He served in law enforcement -US Forest Service and Border Patrol- in the American Southwest prior to the Second World War. Askins was controversial for the relish with which he described the numerous fatal shootings in his law enforcement and military careers, stating he had killed 27 men. Because he was involved in numerous shootouts along the US - Mexico border, and due to his stated practice of not keeping track of African-Americans and Hispanics, the actual number of killings he committed was potentially much highe... View more info
By: Mickey Spillane
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Signet Books #915: 1951
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed By Mickey Spillane
Seller ID: 30po
Condition: Fair
The rain clawed at the windows of the bar. Hammer was angry and wanted to be left alone. But when he sees a desperate guy abandon his kid in a bar just to step outside and get blown away, Hammer's mood switches from bad to worse. By the time he reaches the dead body, he knows he will have to pound his way through a world of thugs and wiseguys to find out how a reformed ex-con got desperate enough to die like that. What Hammer doesn't know is how a beautiful woman will figure in-- and how many bullets justice will take. front cover separated. View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Doubleday & Company: 1979
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed By Bobby Unser
Seller ID: bu21
ISBN: 0385134363
Condition: Near Fine
'COMPLIMENTS OF...Mechanical Industries' sticker on ffe View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Wm. Sloane: 1947
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: mvd5
Condition: Very Good
Price: $150.00
Publisher: NY, Pocket Books Inc.: 1953
Inscription: Signed Erle Stanley Gardner
Seller ID: 10pba
Condition: Very Good
Perry returns to his office late one night and finds an attractive woman climbing into his balcony window. She claims to be Virginia Colfax, the secretary of Ed Garvin who has an office next door to Perry's. Ms. Colfax says that she climbed into Perry's office in order to escape from Garvin's hot tempered wife but Perry later learns that Garvin is married to two women. Garvin and second wife Lorrie are sent to Mexico by Perry until he can clear up the matter but when Garvin's first wife, Ethel, is murdered there's an even bigger mess on the scene. And just who in the world is Virginia Colfax, ... View more info
Price: $150.00
Publisher: NY, Pocket Books Inc.: 1956
Inscription: Signed Erle Stanley Gardner
Seller ID: mv11
Condition: Very Good
A man's wife is divorcing him after he is caught sleep walking with a knife near her bed. When his stepbrother is found dead stabbed with the knife, he is charged with murder and is accused of using his sleepwalking as a cover-up. Adapted from the novel, and aired on CBS in 1957 on the Perry Mason TV series. View more info
Price: $1,500.00
Publisher: New York, Collier Books: 1926
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: mlfd87
Condition: Very Good
The Chinese Parrot (1926) is the second novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers. It is the first in which Chan travels from Hawaii to mainland California, and involves a crime whose exposure is hastened by the death of a parrot. The story concerns a valuable string of pearls which is purchased by a wealthy and eccentric financier. The handsome young son of the jeweler is assigned to shepherd the transfer of the pearls to the financier's vacation home in a desert area of California. Because of his long association with the owner of the pearls- before joining the... View more info
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: 1955
Inscription: Inscribed By Maurice Dreicer
Seller ID: xox10
Condition: Very Good
By: Baskin, Leonard; Dante Alighieri, Translated By Thomas G. Bergin
Price: $500.00
Publisher: New York, Grossman Publishers: 1969
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Illustrator(s)
Seller ID: 164ooo
Condition: Very Good
Inscribed presentation by Leonard Baskin on ffe of volume I. Laid in is Yale University's invitation to the opening of the exhibition concerning the making of this Grossman edition of 'The Divine Comedy'. Three volumes housed in an slipcase. View more info
By: S. S. Van Dine
Price: $1,100.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribners Sons: 1933
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed By S. S. Van dine
Seller ID: 147vvy
Condition: Very Good
The Dragon Murder Case is a 1934 mystery film adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. S. Van Dine, starring Warren William as private detective Philo Vance; Warren William's first starring role. Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone for Warner Bros. Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and ... View more info
By: Michener, James A.; Pope, Edwin
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Dallas, Texas, U.S.A., Taylor Pub: 1988
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: vlp40
ISBN: 0878336095
Condition: Fine
By: O'HARA, JOHN
Price: $350.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1951
Inscription: Signed By John O'Hara
Seller ID: 4vg3
Condition: Very Good
By: Hewlett, Maurice
Price: $350.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1898
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed Maurice Hewlett
Seller ID: xz98
Condition: Near Fine
'The Forest Lovers' is set in France during the Romantic era, and the experiences of Prosper le Gai in the mysterious forest of Morgraunt. Prosper is a happy-go-lucky guy intent only upon adventure. A confirmed bachelor, happenstance suddenly compels him to marry a poor servant-girl in order to rescue her from being hanged as a witch, or handed over to a false monk. In the end his wife, Isoult la Desireé, proves to be the long-lost daughter of the Countess Isabel, Countess of Hauterive and Lady of Morgraunt. The motive of the story is the triumphant progress of Isoult's love for her knig... View more info
By: Stover, Eric
Price: $325.00
Publisher: Germany, Scalo Verlag AC: 1998
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: x34
ISBN: 3931141764
Condition: Near Fine
Inscribed by Eric Stover. Small erasure mark at top corner of first page, else near fine.This book is the harrowing account by Eric Stover, with photographs by Gilles Peress, of how, from a hell of mud and decomposing bodies, Haglund began to piece together the victims' identities and the terrible ways they died. Over 40,000 Muslim refugees were living in and around Srebenica when it fell to the Serbs, under General Ratko Mladic in July 1995. Of the men who fled, or were rounded up by Serb troops, many were never seen again. Stover talks to the surviving families, women and children including ... View more info
By: Will H. Hays [Raymond Moley]
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1945
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 14bn
Condition: Very Good
A prominent Republic politician, Will Hays gave up his political ambitions after serving as U.S. postmaster general to become the motion picture industry's morality czar. Hays set up a strict movie production code that saved Hollywood from government censorship by imposing limits on acceptable screen behavior; it became the basis for an early industry movie rating system. The author, Raymond Moley, argues that the centralization of film standards in the Hays Office actually leads to greater freedom in film by creating federal standards rather than State and local control of content. Extensive... View more info
By: Antrim, Donald
Price: $25.00
Publisher: U.S.A., Crown: 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: dc11
ISBN: 0517703106
Condition: As New
housed in a publisher's near fine slipcase. View more info
By: Chayefsky, Paddy
Price: $175.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1967
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: vw39
Condition: Very Good
Price: $120.00
Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill: 1978
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: bjf15
ISBN: 0070224323
Condition: Very Good
Basis for the 1984 Movie 'The Lonely Guy' starring Steve Martin. If you're a Lonely Guy, says author Bruce Jay Friedman, take heart: There are millions of people just like you out there. Unfortunately, your chances of meeting any of the really attractive ones are slim. "The Lonely Guy's Book of Life" is Friedman's classic manual on handling undesired solitude. Some of his tips (and remember, a woman also can be a Lonely Guy): - Your apartment: The worst view you can have is of a bridge, particularly a "Lost Horizon" type that's obscured in fog at the far end. In no time at all... View more info
By: Mickey Spillane
Price: $275.00
Publisher: New York, Signet: 1952
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: hu30p
Condition: Good
Johnny McBride blows into Lyncastle on a mission of revenge. His best friend - a man who was his exact double - died in an accident trying to save Johnny's life. He left behind a letter revealing how he'd been framed and run out of Lyncastle, a ruined man, how he had been deprived of his money, his honor, and his girl. So Johnny sets out to get the mob who had double-crossed him. How he pulls off this dangerous, gutter-tough job and manages to hold on to his skin, makes this Mickey Spillane novel a most nerve-tingling thriller! In spite of being a low budget film, the directing, acting and ph... View more info
By: Paul, Louis
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Chicago, the Black Cat Press: 1938
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: lp5.
Condition: Very Good
Coth spine. Edges rubbed. Unumbered of 149. Additionally inscribed by Norman Forgue, book's designer. View more info
By: Edward George Hartmann, Phd.
Price: $175.00
Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press: 1948
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed By Edward George Hartmann
Seller ID: br25xx
Condition: Very Good
The Americanization Movement was a concerted effort during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to help new immigrants settle and assimilate into America's civic culture with the intent of promoting patriotism and productivity. These efforts primarily took the form of English language classes and courses in American civics but suffered from vague definitions of what "Americanization" meant besides learning the language, being loyal to the United States, and accepting our republican form of government. The Americanization movement was originally started by non-profit organizations wit... View more info
By: Capote, Truman
Price: $500.00
Publisher: New York, Reader's Digest Association: 1957
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed By Truman Capote
Seller ID: 94pzz
Condition: Very Good
Volume Two, the spring 1957 offerings from Reader's Digest. For the Truman Capote completist. This signed Truman Capote Reader's Digest book is one of a kind. View more info
By: Sammy Cahn
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Warner Bros. Publications Inc.: 1989
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed By Sammy Cahn
Seller ID: 13vpo
Condition: Very Good
Frank Sinatra once said of songwriter Sammy Cahn: "Sammy's words fit my mouth the best of all the writers." Now you can enjoy 99 of Sammy's finest compositions with this songbook in piano/vocal/guitar format. Songs include: All That Love Went to Waste . Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (Means That You're Grand) . Call Me Irresponsible . The Christmas Waltz . Come Fly with Me . Day by Day . Good Little Girls . I'll Walk Alone . I've Heard That Song Before . Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! . Love and Marriage . Only the Lonely . Our Town . Pocketful of Miracles . Shoe Shine Boy . Thoroughly ... View more info
By: Renoir, Jean
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Company: 1966
Inscription: Signed By Jean Renoir
Seller ID: xvm26
Condition: Very Good
By: Robert Graves / Omar ali-Shah
Price: $200.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company: 1968
Inscription: Signed by Robert Graves & Omar Ali-Shah
Seller ID: 28mmp
Condition: Fine
Very good+ slipcase. #319 of 500. Tipped in plate on the half-title page. View more info
By: Kingsley, Sidney
Price: $175.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1943
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed By Sidney Kingsley
Seller ID: 25cmq
Condition: Near Fine
This pulitzer prize winner's play, about Thomas Jefferson, that won the drama critic's circle award for best play of 1943. Mr. Kingsley wrote the play while in service during World War II, and the result is intriguing. "What is this democracy we are fighting for?" Mr. Kingsley says he asked himself. "Just what did these fellows - our original patriots- have in mind?" His answer, embodied in the character of Jefferson, is a confident faith in the common folk to govern themselves, to survive without guidance from a privileged aristocracy. The aristocratic side is represented ... View more info
By: Upton Sinclair
Price: $400.00
Publisher: Pasadena, CA, 1918
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed on the Cover By Upton Sinclair
Seller ID: kjb28
Condition: Good
This excoriating critique of religion, especially as represented by powerful clerical institutions, is a lesser-known work by the author who had earlier become famous with his publication of The Jungle, an expose of the poor labor conditions and unsanitary practices in Chicago's meat-packing industry. More than just a tirade against religion, this is an impassioned, idealistic socialist writing at the beginning of the First World War, when the notion of an international socialist revolution still seemed like a very real possibility to many of the left-leaning thinkers of the day. Sinclair's ch... View more info
By: Ozick, Cynthia
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated: 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Cynthia Ozick
Seller ID: 0co12
ISBN: 0679454764
Condition: Near Fine
Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City has ever elected. Soon enough, though, paradise gained becomes paradise lost, and--even for a wistful visionary like Puttermesser--the problem of disappointment remains unresolved. signed by author on a bookplate View more info
By: Greene, Graham
Price: $550.00
Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1975
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 103a
ISBN: 067122297X
Condition: Near Fine
Price: $150.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribnber's Sons: 1927
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed Robert E. Sherwood
Seller ID: 45pum
Condition: Very Good
The author's first book. "The Road to Rome" was the first play of Robert E. Sherwood, and a success on Broadway in 1927. It has a comic situation set in a period of history which allows Mr. Sherwood to work in some of his anti-war feelings. Mr. Sherwood has set his play in 216 B.C., at the time when Hannibal was nearing the end of his march on Rome. Hannibal didn't attack Rome when he reached it, Mr. Sherwood explains, because a certain blond, the bored and sex-starved wife of Rome's dictator, got to him first. When Rome seems doomed, she flees the city and breaks through Hannibal's li... View more info
