Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1870. First edition, issued as the fifth book in the 'Rosa Abbott Stories'. Uncommon early detective fiction. Uncommon; early mystery/detective fiction. Read More about The Young Detective; Or, Which Won?
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London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, [1939]. First edition. One of Ambler’s most celebrated novels and the basis for the 1944 film, A Coffin for Dimitrios, starring Peter Lorre, Sidney Greenstreet, and Zachary Scott. Rare. Read More about The Mask of Dimitrios
Price: $850
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First American edition. Read More about The Schirmer Inheritance
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London: 1 November, 1957. "Self-discipline is the professional writer's primary need" Interesting letter from Ambler, in answer to the question, "How important to you was your high school education, and is college experience necessary for creative writing?" Ambler points out that in England "there is no real equivalent of 'high..... Read More about Typed Letter Signed ("Eric Ambler") to Westley S. Hartley, in response to the latter's...
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Los Angeles: December 10, 1962. Read More about Typed Letter, Signed, To Mr. T. Roy Pitts, sending autograph
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London: Jonathan Cape, [1965]. First edition. Read More about The James Bond Dossier
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London: F.V. White & Co, 1889. First edition. Read More about The Queen Anne's Gate Mystery. A Novel
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London: Victor Gollancz, 1950. First edition. Signed by Borges, from His Library. Borges was an attentive and discriminating reader of detective fiction, and in April 1952 lectured on “The detective novel from the origins to the present day” at the Asociación Argentina de Cultura Inglesa. Read More about Frequent Hearses. A Detective Story
Price: $5,000
New York: Herder and Herder, [1972]. First edition. Signed by Borges. Detective novel, originally published as El Estruendo de las Rosas (1948), translated by Donald A. Yates, scholar and translator of Jorge Luis Borges, who has contributed an introduction. Signed by Borges on the title page, and with a loosely..... Read More about Thunder of the Roses. A Detective Novel Introduced by Jorge Luis Borges. Translated by Donald A....
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Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores, [1943]. First edition. First book publication of ‘Death and the Compass’. A pioneering collection of detective fiction, from Hawthorne, Poe, and Stevenson, to Simenon and Borges and his contemporaries. The translations and selections are by Borges and Bioy Casares. This volume contains the first book publication..... Read More about Los mejores cuentos policiales
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Buenos Aires: Herder and Herder, October 5, 1971. With agreement signed by H. Bustos Domecq. Both members of the collective pseudonym H. Bustos Domecq have signed this agreement for the appearance in Latin Blood. The Best Crime and Detective Stories of South America, an excellent anthology edited by Donald A...... Read More about Typescript agreement to reprint “Los doce figuras del mundo” by H. Bustos Domecq in Latin...
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London: W. H. Allen, 1977. First English edition of author's first book. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK INSCRIBED TO ROBIN WINKS. Inscribed by Richard L. Boyer, on the title page, to Edgar Award winning author, Robin Winks: "For Robin Winks- With appreciation, and all Best Wishes! X-Mas, 1985. Rick Boyer" [Robin Winks..... Read More about The Giant Rat of Sumatra
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New York: George H. Doran, [1923]. First American Edition. Inscribed on the half-title: "Not that I assume to select your reading- Merely a thought that you would enjoy these delightful stories, and the quaint form of their telling. Cordially Will Bradley July '23"... Read More about Kai Lung's Golden Hours
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1927]. First edition. Sharp copy of this collection of stories of Bramah’s acclaimed blind detective, Max Carrados. Read More about Max Carrados Mysteries
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n.p: Ca. 1936. Corrected Typescript of a George Bruce “Dr. Corrigan” Detective Story. One of a series published in the magazine: a pencilled note advises: “Get build-up of Dr. Corrigan from first story and insert in proper place.”. Read More about “Claim of the Little Red Bugs. A Doctor Corrigan Story”: Original typescript of this...
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London: Grant Richards Limited, 1916. First edition. Queen's Quorum. Refused by 12 publishers before Grant Richards accepted it. These are the first published tales by Burke of London's East End. Read More about Limehouse Nights: Tales of Chinatown
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London: Hamish Hamilton, [1964]. First edition. ‘about as unobtrusive as a tarantula on a slice of angel-food’. The first posthumous collection of Chandler's early stories, with Durham's pioneering appreciation of Chandler's art and technique. Read More about Killer in the Rain. With an introduction by Philip Durham
Price: $500
Stockholm/London: Zephyr Books, [1943]. Zephyr Books. Library of British and American Authors Vol. 162. Read More about The Lady in the Lake
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London: Hamish Hamilton, [1953]. First edition. A fine copy of the first edition of the sixth Philip Marlowe novel, published the year before the American edition. Read More about The Long Good-Bye
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Small archive featuring early typescripts of Agatha Christie's "Black Coffee," the author's first piece for the stage, which launched her successful second career as a playwright. The first typescript is dated 1932, stamped by the Royal Typing Bureau, with a handwritten note on the first page, "All communications to /..... Read More about Black Coffee [Two Typescripts PLUS Two Printed Editions, from the Archive of Agatha Christie's Agent
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c 1934. "The Dead Harlequin" was first published in the March 1929 issue of Grand Magazine. About a year later, it was published in the UK by William Collins & Sons, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company, as part of the short story collection, "The Mysterious Mr..... Read More about Someone At The Window [Typescript]. Typescript of an unpublished play, "Someone At The...
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London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1948. First edition. Front panel states: "A full-length Poirot Novel" Read More about Taken at the Flood
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Toronto: Rose-Belford Publishing Company, 1878. First edition, preceding the English edition. Published in October, 1878. Collins’ novel of intrigue and experimental chemistry was serialized in Belgravia from June to November 1878. This Canadian printing precedes the Chatto & Windus edition, published in two volumes in 1879. Read More about The Haunted Hotel. A Mystery of Modern Venice
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1884. A mystery with an heroine becoming a detective, telling the true story of her father's death. The plot relies heavily on coincidence and, as in The Law and the Lady, a supposed murder turns out to have been suicide. Read More about "I Say No" or the Love Letter Answered
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1952]. First English edition. Read More about French Strikes Oil. [An Inspector French Novel
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