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Pocket, 1951. Softcover. Poor. #821

Pocket Book 2821, 1959. 2nd. Paperback. A VG+ bright tight copy.

New York: Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1959. 2nd. Softcover. Very Good/None. 195 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #2821. Moderate crease to center front cover wrapper. Record # 368762

Signet, 1959. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. age toned, most of back cover missing

pocket book, , (Reprints Pocket 821), . 02821, very good -fine , reading crease hardboiled mystery, paperback,

Pocket, 1951. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

UsedAcceptable. 1966 3rd printing w/ alt blk cover. The pages are sun faded and slightly yellowing There is some crinkling to some of the pages possibly from water The cover has visible markings and wear. There are stains or residue on the cover This is a paperback copy There is staining on the text block edges Fast Shipping - Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!

Penguin Classics, 2012. Paperback. New. 272 pages. 7.76x5.12x0.75 inches.

New York: Pocket Books, 1951. First Paperback Edition [stated] . Illustrated Wrapers. Very Good. First Softcover Printing. Complete, No Names Or Marks. Faint Reading Crease Near Spine Edge Of Front And Rear Covers, Faint 3/4" Crease Top Edge, And Another Coming From Center Of Spine

NY: Knopf, 1950. VERY GOOD condition in POOR dust jacket. NY. Knopf. HARDCOVER. 1950. FIRST Edition, FIRST Printing. Bound in green patterned boards with blue titles in black cust jacket. Square and firm, original price of $2.50 intact. Toning to covers, see images. EX-LIBRARY, sticker residue and library pocket affixed to endpapers. Dust jacket has chips, tears, missing pieces, front flap detached and toning to interior, see images Second in the series featuring Private Eye Lew Archer.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor.

Pocket Books. New York: Pocket Books, Inc. , 1951 first edition . 821 very good - fine Cover by Ray App. paperback,

Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. First Edition. Octavo, green illus. boards (hardcover), uncut, [v] 244 pp + [i] pp. Good, with lightly rubbed and soiled covers, foxing (age darkening) to endpapers. The 2nd title in the Lew Archer Series & Film Classic. Photographs gladly provided upon request. From Foreword: Lew Archer, who made his debut in The Moving Target, returns to the private wars of his calling to find the answer to a lady’s question. At least Maude Slocum looked and talked like a lady, though her question concerned the authorship of certain written aspersions on her chastity. When Mrs. Slocum’s mother-in-law was very shortly drowned, the question became more urgent. It took Archer a long way down from the hill-top where the Slocums lived in two-car poverty. He pieced the answer together from many sources: an English lordling living in California, thieves and hoodlums living and dying on various income levels, a beautiful woman grotesquely married to a millionaire graduate of… Read More

E-363. Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1950. 244 pgs. A Lew Archer Mystery. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in decorated paper covered boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The first edition of John Ross Macdonald's second Lew Archer title, preceding the UK edition by two years; subsequently the inspiration for the 1975 Paul Newman film of the same name. When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his seductive teenage daughter. Private investigator Lew Archer takes this case in the L. A. Suburbs and encounters a moral wasteland of corporate greed and family hatred - and sufficient motive for a dozen murders. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

VG / G+. 1950 Knopf, stated first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. MacDonald's 6th novel, and 2nd featuring Lew Archer. Basis for Paul Newman film version from the mid-60's.
Book has a little shelf wear along board edges. Jacket has edge wear + wear to spine and flap folds. Jacket is intact and not price clipped.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1950. Very nice copy of first printing. Unmarked, tight and square. Decorated paper patterned boards in light green. Spine tanned with moderate wear at spine ends. Jacket is facsimile with no flaws and protected in mylar. . Firs American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Fine (Facsimile Dust Jacket). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1950. First edition stated. Green patterned boards with small blue fish illustration near bottom right of front panel. Green boards still clean and pretty fresh, spine tannned.. Missing front free endpaper and hinge seemingly cracked slightly but hinge at both front and back solid. Rear endpaper and pastedown show light offset and foxing. Textblock clean, supple and square. Jacket has small chips at spine ends with small area of creasing at top of front panel. Rear flap has light dampstain. Price intact front flap has short crease. The second Lew Archer novel. Basis for film "Harper" that starred Paul Newman. In mylar. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/VG-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. 1st. Boards. VG+/VG. Octavo. Decorated boards with edgewear and ink name to endpaper o/w fine. Dust jacket with wear and shallow chipping to extremities. The second Lew Archer mystery.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1950.. First edition.. publisher's boards in dust jacket.. Slightly cocked; spine a little soiled; edges rubbed. The jacket has a few pieces of internal tape, a few small chips, a 2" closed tear to the bottom of the back panel, and some general use. A very good copy in dust jacket.. 8vo,.

Knopf, 1950. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Ed. First ed. Very good/Very good condition, moderate over all wear to book and dustjacket, small crinkles to top and bottom edges of dustjacket, small closed tears to lower left corner of front and lower right corner of back of dustjacket, several small rubbed spots to back and spine of dustjacket, dustjacket worn at flap folds..