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June 12, 2024: Happy Summer Reading!
(and new arrivals) 
Hopefully you will find time this summer for some "beach reading," even if you can't get to a beach (it's the spirit of reading something fun, not the location, right?)! Today's new arrivals are a selection of cool mysteries. Included are nice groups by Ed McBain (with a number of Boardman editions) and John D. MacDonald (with a number of Robert Hale titles). Also titles by Erle Stanley Gardner, Rex Stout, Mignon Eberhart and many others. See the website for all the recently listed.
 | BANQUETS OF THE BLACK WIDOWERS.
Asimov, Isaac.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1984. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Asimov on the title page. The fourth collection of Black Widower stories... (#31931)
Price: $450.00 | | | 
|  | THIS IS MR. FORTUNE.
Bailey, H[enry] C[hristopher].
London: Gollancz, 1938. Octavo, pp. [1-9] 10-285 [286-288: blank], original black cloth, spine stamped in orange. First edition. Collects seven stories. Hubin, p. 42. (#32393)
Price: $250.00 | | |
|  | THE TRIUMPHS OF EUGÈNE VALMONT.
Barr, Robert.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1906. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] 1-330 [331-336: Ads], original black cloth, front stamped in tan and white, spine stamped in white... (#32390)
Price: $250.00 | | |
|  | THE CASE OF THE SEVEN OF CALVARY.
Boucher, Anthony (pseudonym of William Anthony Parker White).
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1937. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [1-2] 3-311 [312], original black cloth, front stamped in blind, spine stamped in gold, top edge stained red. First edition... (#32389)
Price: $1,500.00 | | |
|  | TOLD IN THE MARKET PLACE.
Austin, F[rederick] Britten.
London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., [1935]. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 13-509 [510] [511-512: ads], original purple cloth, front and spine stamped in blind and yellow, rear stamped in blind. First edition. Presentation... (#32397)
Price: $350.00 | | |
|  | HALO FOR SATAN.
Browne, Howard writing as "John Evans."
Indianapolis, New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1948]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The third Paul Pine novel. "...feature[s] Chicago private detective Paul Pine, one of the best of the plethora of... (#32402)
Price: $450.00 | | |
|  | THE SEARCH FOR MY GREAT UNCLE'S HEAD.
Latimer, Jonathan writing as "Peter Coffin."
Garden City, NY: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1] 2-297 [298-302: blank], original light green cloth, spine stamped in... (#32395)
Price: $1,000.00 | | |
|  | ICEBERG.
Cussler, Clive.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1975]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first hardcover novel. A Dirk Pitt adventure. (#32360)
Price: $750.00 | | |
|  | THE HIDDEN HAND.
Daly, Carroll John.
New York: Edward J. Clode, Inc., [1929]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-vii 9-319 [320: blank], jacket by Edward Caswell, original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in gold, top edge stained... (#32400)
Price: $650.00 | | |
|  | THE CASES OF SUSAN DARE.
Eberhart, Mignon G.
Garden City, NY: Published for The Crime Club, Inc., by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1] 2-303, [304-306: blank], original black cloth, spine stamped in red... (#32411)
Price: $375.00 | | |
|  | WHILE THE PATIENT SLEPT.
Eberhart, M[ignon] G.
Garden City, NY: Published for The Crime Club, Inc., by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-313 [314: blank] [315: Crime Club promo] [316: blank], original black... (#32408)
Price: $500.00 | | |
|  | MEFISTO IN ONYX.
Ellison, Harlan.
[Shingletown, CA]: Mark V. Ziesing Books, 1993. Oblong octavo, full black leather stamped in red. First edition. The "presentation" issue limited to 40 copies of which this is letter Q.... (#31856)
Price: $2,500.00 | | |
|  | THE CASE OF THE HAUNTED HUSBAND.
Gardner, Erle Stanley.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1941. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-2] 3-281 [282-284: blank], original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed... (#32373)
Price: $1,500.00 | | |
|  | THE CASE OF THE SLEEPWALKER'S NIECE.
Gardner, Erle Stanley.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1936. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-282, original black cloth front and spine stamped in red fore edge untrimmed, bottom edge trimmed, top edge stained... (#32368)
Price: $1,000.00 | | |
|  | THE D. A. HOLDS A CANDLE.
Gardner, Erle Stanley.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1938. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-277 [278: blank] [279: ad] [280-282], original black cloth front and spine stamped in red, top edge stained red... (#32379)
Price: $250.00 | | |
|  | COP HATER.
McBain, Ed (pseudonym of Evan Hunter).
London, New York: T.V. Boardman & Company Limited, [1956]. Octavo, cloth. First British and first hardcover edition. The first 87th Precinct novel. First published as a paperback original in the... (#32417)
Price: $500.00 | | |
|  | DARKER THAN AMBER.
MacDonald, John D.
London: Robert Hale, [1968]. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. A Travis McGee novel. First published in 1966 as a paperback original, this is the first hardcover publication... (#32425)
Price: $1,500.00 | | |
|  | THE QUICK RED FOX.
MacDonald, John D.
London: Robert Hale Limited, [1966]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. A Travis McGee novel. Hubin, p. 526. (#32496)
Price: $1,750.00 | | |
|  | THE DAY HE DIED.
Padgett, Lewis (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore).
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1947]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Arthur Hawkins, Jr., boards. First edition. Mystery novel, one of two using the Padgett pseudonym. Hubin, p. 623... (#31962)
Price: $75.00 | | |
|  | THE GOLDEN SPIDERS.
Stout, Rex.
New York: The Viking Press, 1953. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Nero Wolfe mystery novel. "That open (but often shut) private eye, Nero Wolfe ignores police assumptions when... (#32430)
Price: $250.00 | | |
|  | IF DEATH EVER SLEPT.
Stout, Rex.
New York: The Viking Press, 1957. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A Nero Wolfe mystery novel. "Though Archie Goodwin is here in top form, not much else can be said for... (#32449)
Price: $350.00 | | |
|  | TOO MANY WOMEN.
Stout, Rex.
New York: The Viking Press, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The twelfth Nero Wolfe mystery. "Archie is the center of a seraglio of designing creatures, who want to bribe or... (#32446)
Price: $500.00 | | |
|  | THE MAN AT THE CARLTON.
Wallace, Edgar.
Garden City: Published For The Crime Club, Inc. By Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., [1931]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-301 [302: blank] [303: Crime Club advert] [304: blank], original gray... (#32440)
Price: $250.00 | | |
|  | DARKNESS AT DAWN: EARLY SUSPENSE CLASSICS.
Woolrich, Cornell. Nevins, Jr., Francis M. and Martin H. Greenberg (eds.).
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern University Illinois Press, [1985]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects thirteen stories, including "Murder in Wax" which Woolrich used for part of the novel THE BLACK ANGEL... (#32438)
Price: $75.00 | | |
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