Berkeley ca black lizard books (45 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good. Paperback with tight, uncreased spine. Cover is slightly rubbed, it also has some scrapes on the front, slight indents on back, and edges are slightly frayed. No prior markings or bookplates. Page edges are soiled. Book.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 335pp, 1987. Softcover. A collection of 20 crime fiction short stories. Bright and clean with no marks or tears. Size: 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. In good condition; hard diagonal crease top outside corner front cover; soft diagonal crease same corner title page through page 79; soft hairline crease across lower corner front cover; hard rubbing along edge of non-creased spine; points of light to hard rubbing along edges; diagonal crease lower outside corner back cover; four black stamps top edge of book; light toning to clean interior pages; set of short tears lower edge pages 43 and 45; short diagonal crease lower outside corner page 153; binding sound. 212 numbered pages. 7 x 4 1/4 in. Inv. BT017. Kirwan (cover illustration) (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st thus. ISBN#: 0-88739-084-6.PB. VG-F. Light-mod. spine edge wear.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Wraps. 1st Edition. First Edition. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. Fine and unmarked. 522pp. 522 p. Book.

Pictorial Wrappers. Zustand: Fine. 1st Prtg. 1st Printing (originally published in 1957). A fine, unread copy. Paper beginning to age tone as usual. Donald Westlake has named Peter Rabe as "by far the best" of the Gold Medal writers of the 1940's and 50's. Kirwan, Jim (illustrator). Book.

Zustand: Very Good. Softcover, mass market paperback, 125 pages. A teenage girl is raped and murdered. A father turns his back on his son. A vicious press lord turns justice into a carnival. A terrified boy is railroaded. In the twisted world of Jim Thompson, everyone is guilty, and the worst crimes are unpunishable. Bookseller's stamp on inside front cover, price stamp on first page. Record # 374757.…

Paperback. Zustand: NF. 1st Edition. First edition. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" trade paperback bound in wrappers. Near Fine condition. Rubs to the corners and spine tips. Some rubs to the front cover's lower edge. Signed and inscribed on the half-title page by both authors.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Light spine wear. B8.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine to Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Some twenty mystery-suspense short stories by contemporary masters of hard-boiled, "noir" crime fiction including Estleman, Randisi, Ellison, Hensley, Lansdale, Gorman and Thompson, with five of the stories published here for the first time; text is clean, tight, square; black and blue wrappers show only very minor surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This is the 2006 Black Lizard/ Vintage reprint of the 1956 Beacon paperback original. It is a first printing, EX-LIB with the usual stamps, labels associated with a withdrawn public library book, but with a tight, straight binding, bright, pictorial wrap. The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping. …

Zustand: Good. Softcover, mass market paperback, 171 pages. "No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford" Elmore Leonard THE BLACK MASS OF BROTHER SPRINGER tells the story of Sam Springer, a drifter novelist who meets Jack Dover, the retiring Abbot of the Church of God's Flock. Dover's final official act is to ordain Springer and send him off to serve as pastor of an all-Black church in Jacksonville, Florida. Springer soon becomes entangled in the city's growing civil rights movement . . . and with the church deacon's earthy young wife, Merita. The Washington post calls this darkly humorous novel by Charles Willeford, one of the great crime writers of the 20th century, "his masterpiece." Light wear, book store stamp, price on first page, crease to rear cover. Otherwise clean. Record # 374755.…

Trade Size Paperback. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Book Club Edition. 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 335 pages; Black and blue over sized trade paperback very lightly rubbed at edges. Text pages clean and tight. Very Good No Dust Jacket as issued.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Very little wear overall. Text is clean. 204 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Pictorial Wrappers. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. 1st edition. Covers lightly sunned else about fine. 523 pages. MACAVITY AWARD FOR BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL WORK. lA comprehensive survey of series characters created by women authors in crime fiction from 1867 to 1987. This is a specialized catalog listing protagonists from mystery and crime fiction series written by women (although men with female pseudonyms or teams with a woman member are also included). It is a special catalog as well, for the researchers approach the project like the avid mystery readers they are. Categorizing the nearly 600 characters under academia, police, religious, artists, and other labels, they critique each character's personality and development through the series, demonstrating true familiarity with them all. This sense of reader giving reader information makes the book a valuable find for anyone who enjoys mystery and crime fiction. Paperback Original.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. As new harcover in similar, unclipped dust jacket. Nisbet's best books maintained the dreadful momentum and mordant humor of noir while incorporating everything from metaphysics to astrophysics. A doctor tasked with the execution of a condemned prisoner becomes convinced that the man he just put to death was innocent. He heads off to Dallas to prove his theory, and becomes entangled with two unsavory characters, one of whom may have committed the crime that earned the prisoner his death sentence.153 pages. cover art by Kirwan (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First edition thus. A fine and bright as new copy. Book.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First edition thus. A fine and bright as new copy. Book.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First edition thus. A fine and bright copy. Appears as new and unread. Book.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First edition thus. A fine and bright copy. Appears as new and unread. Book.

Hardcover. First Edition. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. ; Octavo.

Paperback. First Printing. A fine copy. ; Small octavo.

Paperback. First Printing. A fine copy. ; Small octavo.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Third Paperback Edition. First printing of the Black Lizard edition. Originally collected in book form in a digest sized paperback in 1946 by Saint Enterprises with a second edition published by Avon in 1950. Half inch strip of fading to the left side of the front cover but otherwise only light surface and edge wear to the covers. Browning to the edges of the pages and the pages are browned but otherwise unmarked. Two page introduction by Bill Pronzini. Cover illustration by Jim Kirwan. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed. Kirwan, Jim (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus (preceded by the 1956 paperback original release, published then as "Down There" among others) first printing of a fine softcover pages toning. Featuring Eddie Lynn, a former concert pianist, working in a bar, trying to hide from his past until his estranged brother shows up. This novel is the basis for the 1960 French film "Shoot The Piano Player" starring Charles Aznevour.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. Near fine in poor dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signature only). No stated edition or number line (Black lizard Books, presumed first). Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 153 p. Audience: General/trade. Dust jacket has heavy edgewear, frayed corners, closed tears, creases, nicks, a torn-away piece of the spine, and assorted damage, now in protective mylar sleeve. Book has softening to the cap of the spine. Boards have faintly sunned edges.By the late two-time Pangolin Papers Annual Fiction Award- and San Francisco Book Festival Science Fiction Award-winning author of 'Death Puppet' and 'An Octopus on My Head'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus (preceded by the 1941 U.S. hardcover release among many others) first printing of a near fine softcover with minor wear to the extremities and pages toning. Featuring Frankie Christopher and Jill Lynn investigating the murder of her sister after he is accused of the crime. This novel is the basis for the 1941 film of the same name starring Betty Grable, Victor Mature and Carol Landis.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First edition thus. A fine and bright as new copy. Book.

Paperback. First Edition. First Black Lizard edition. A near fine copy.; Small octavo.