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HarperCollins, May 1992. Paperback. USED Good.

Harpercollins, 1992-05. Paperback. Good.

UsedGood. The book may have minor cosmetic wear (i.e. creased spine/cover, scratches, curled corners, folded pages, minor sunburn, minor water damage, minor bent). The book may have some highlights/notes/underlined pages - Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included - Safe and Secure Mailer - No Hassle Return

Harper Perennial, 1992. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1981 Book. As New. Hardcover. Hardcover Re-Issue. Octavo. 8vo. (6) 318 (2) pp, illus. With a new introduction by Charles Shibuk. New Edition, 1981. Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 5.75" x 8.25". Dark-blue cloth with silver lettering to spine, and marble endpapers. Illustrated dj in acetate protector..

HarperCollins, 1992-05-01. Paperback. Like New.

Resurrected Press. New. Special order direct from the distributor

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

HarperCollins, 1992-05-01. Paperback. New. 7x5x0.

New York: HarperCollins, 1992. 1st Edition . Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Drew Bishop (cover). First edition thus. A Race Williams story. Originally published in 1927. Fine, possibly unread copy. Tight, square, internally clean. No creases or tears. A classic hard-boiled detective story by one of the inventors of the genre and a stalwart of Black Mask magazine.

E.J. Clode. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. No Dust Jacket Cover soiled. Front hinge cracked. (Vintage Mystery and Adventure)

1/1/1927. Hardcover. 1st edition; Edward J. Clode, Inc., New York, 1927; no dust jacket; flap removed and pasted on endpaper facing title page; green cloth with black and red decoration and lettering on cover and spine; small area of top of front cover faded; spine shelf worn; text clean. G

altus, 2015 first edition . each fine 5 large oversized softcovers

New York: Edward J. Clode, [1927]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm); textured dark brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 318pp. Tight and straight, with rubbing to cloth at base of spine and board corners; text slightly toned at margins; just Very Good overall and lacking the scarce dustwrapper. A seminal work in the hardboiled canon, scarce in or out of jacket.

New York: Edward J. Clode, 1927. First Edition. First Edition. In the first state dust jacket, priced $2.00 and with a blurb for this title on the front flap and an advertisement for Richard H. Watkin's "Half a Clue" on the rear flap. From the collection of Otto Penzler. In the early days of the seminal pulp magazine "Black Mask," writer Carroll John Daly was the first to publish a story in the hard boiled vernacular, virtually inventing the style. He was followed months later by Dashiell Hammett, but for some time remained the magazine's number one selling author. His popularity legendarily changed the magazine's focus from traditional mystery fiction to hard boiled crime fiction. As publishers began to pick up on Daly's popularity, he published his first novel, preceding Hammett's "Red Harvest" by two years. Also the first book to feature Daly's hard boiled private detective Race Williams. Rare in the first-state jacket, with a single auction record listed in Rare Book Hub (Swann, 2011), a much… Read More