Tight Shot
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. 262 pages, 8vo, black boards, dust wrapper with mylar cover. New York: St. Martin's Press, (1995). First edition. Near fine. Signed in full by the author on the title page.
MYSTERY
Aunt Dimity and the Duke
New York: Viking, 1994. 290 pages, 8vo, black cloth-backed boards, dust wrapper with a mylar cover. New York: Viking, (1994). Fine. Signed in full by the author on the title page.
Aunt Dimity Digs In
New York: Viking, 1998. 275 pages, 8vo, blue cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: Viking, (1998). Fine. Signed in full by the author on the flyleaf.
East of A.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1999. 211 pages, small 8vo, cloth-backed boards, dust wrapper with a mylar cover. New York: Ballantine Books, (1999). First Edition. Near fine. Signed on the title page: "Dangerously yours, Russell Atwood."
A Catalogue of Crime.
New York: Harper, 1971. 831pp. 8vo, red cloth, d.w. chipped, otherwise very good. New York: Harper,& Row, (1971). Presentation copy from Jacques Barzun to Shirley (Hazzard) and Francis (Steegmuller).
The Mystery of Georges Simenon.
Illustrated, 160pp, 8vo, cloth. N.Y.: Beaugort Books, 1983. Very good in very good dust jacket.
The New Black Mask Quarterly, Nos. 1-6
New York: A Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. NUMBERS 1-6. 8vo, pictorial wrappers; No. 2 is dampstained throughout in the outer margins. New York: A Harvest/HBJ Book, 1985-1986. Books are very good(+) excepting No. 2 which is dampstained. Features pieces by John Le Carre, Raymond Chandler, Georges Simenon, and others.
A Fine Set of Teeth
Royal Oak, Michigan: Jan Burke, 1997. One tipped in black-and-white plate by Phil Parks, tipped in color photographic frontis of author. Introduction by Michael Connelly. 34pp., slim 8vo, printed yellow silk moire with inlaid plate on front cover, decorative endpapers; very minor rubbing. Royal Oak, Michigan: Jan Burke, (1997). Internally fine, a near fine copy. 14 of 200 numbered copies, signed by the author, Tim Burke, Michael Connelly and Phil Parks.
Serie Agatha Christie.
Paris: Emmanuel Proust Editions, 2003. Series of 13 volumes in full-color cartoon format. Text in French. Slim 4tos, pictorial boards. Paris: Emmanuel Proust Editions, 2003-2006. A fine set (one corner of one volume lightly bumped).
Typed Letter Signed
1936. T.L.S. 8vo. 1 page, on personal stationary, Guildford, Surry, July 16th 1936. Written to fellow mystery writer Dennis Wheatley, thanking him for his gift of a copy of "Murder Off Miami". In part: "...The splendor of your idea for the book overwhelms me. It really is a quite thrilling scheme and I am sure will meet with enormous success. The execution also seems to me entirely worthy of the idea. The reproductions are extraordinarily good. Please accept my hearty...
Typed Letter Signed
Surrey: 1932. Fine content T.L.S. 8vo. 2 pages, Rose Cottage, Surrey, May 31, 1921, in small part: "...That was a most interesting paragraph of Vincent Starrett's about the "Sea Mystery". I don't know if you are aware that that estuary, the towns, roads, railways and bridges are all really there in South Wales, exactly as described... I never can decide whether using real places is worth while. It makes a story more interesting for those who know the area, but...
The Best of Sherlock Holmes
Franklin Center: Franklin, 1977. Illustrated by Ben F. Stahl in black and white with a color frontispiece. 643 pages. Thick 8vo, gilt-stamped black leather, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers. Franklin Library, 1977. Fine. Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Later Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holms
Norwalk: Easton, 1980. Illustrated with a selection of the originals by Steele, Paget, and others. 3 vols. Thick 8vo, gilt-stamped black leather, a.e.g. Norwalk: Easton Press, (1980). Fine. Collector's Edition. A Definitive Text, Corrected Edited by Edgar W. Smith.
Rebecca
Franklin Center: Franklin, 1987. Color frontispiece by Herbert Tauss. 459 pages, 8vo, pictorial gilt and red stamped red cloth, all edges gilt, floral endpapers. Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1987. A fine copy aside for previous owner's embossed stamp on the half title page. A somewhat scarce book. "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
Bag Men
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997. 251 pages, tall 8vo, gray boards with a green cloth spine, dust wrapper with mylar cover. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., (1997). First edition. Near fine. Signed in full by the author on the title page.
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
New York: Penguin, 2012. 260 pages. 8vo, black pictorial-stamped boards, dust wrapper. New York: Penguin, (2012). A fine copy.
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
New York: Penguin, 2012. Pictorial endpapers, 8vo, 260 pages, black cloth with red metallic stamped dragon, dust wrapper. New York: Penguin, (2012). A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.
Perry Mason: The Case of the Velvet Claws, the Rolling Bones, the Stuttering Bishop, the Golddigger's Purse, the Crooked Candle, the Lame Canary, the Sulky Girl and the Lucky Legs
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1989. 4 volumes. 8vo, ornately gilt brown morocco, all edges gilt. Norwalk: Easton Press, 1989. Fine.
The World of Raymond Chandler.
New York: A&W Publishers, 1978. With a few b/w illustrations. 190pp. 8vo, red cloth, d.w.; chipped and torn. New York: A&W Publishers, (1978). A very good copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper.
The Murder Book; An Illustrated History of the Detective Story.
Illus. 191pp. 4to, cloth, d.w. N.Y., 1971.
The Murder Book: An Illustrated History of the Detective Story.
New York: Herder, 1971. Foreword by Julian Symons. Frontis. illustration, many illustrations throughout, some in color, 191pp., large 8vo, cloth, d.w.; (chipped). New York: Herder and Herder, (1971). Very good.
Mozart's Last Year: 1791
New York: Schirmer Books, 1988. 38 Illustrations. 240 pages, 8vo, cloth, dust wrapper. New York: Schirmer Books, 1988. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.
The Russia House.
353pp., 8vo, black cloth, d.w. New York: Knopf, 1989. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.
The Perfect Murder: A Study in Detection.
242pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: The Free Press, (1989). Very good.
The Queen's Head
London: Bantam Press, 1988. 236 pages, 8vo, black cloth, dust wrapper with a mylar cover. London: Bantam Press, (1988). Fine. Signed in full by the author on the title page.