BLUE CITY
Signed first edition of this hardboiled thriller, one of only four titles author Ross Macdonald published under his real name.
Signed first edition of this hardboiled thriller, one of only four titles author Ross Macdonald published under his real name.
First printing of the great crime novelist's last novel, a powerfully atmospheric thriller full of menace and gloom.
First edition of the fifth Mike Shayne mystery novel, inspiration for the successful 2005 neo-noir thriller KISS KISS BANG BANG.
Uncommon and stylish French edition of the ur-Gothic novel, with the finest paperback cover illustration ever offered to Ann Radcliffe in any language.
First UK edition of the novel based on Fletcher's legendary radio play, exploiting the startlingly modern anxiety that a terrible, terrible thing will happen if you make a phone call.
First UK edition of Starrett's detective novel, written during his year-long stay in Beijing and a self-confessed "roman á clef with a vengeance. Friends and acquaintances made up the dramatis personae and the fictional murderer was myself."
Scarce, lovely first edition of Penrose's neo-gothic epistolary novella.
Uncommon first printing of Wall's satirical sequel to THE UNFORTUNATE FURSEY, following the sometime monk and sorcerer Fursey through his dealings with kings, demons, vampires, banditti, Vikings, and his true love, who is tired of him.
First edition of this novel about a great, a spectacular, a really wonderful, terrific, one really might be tempted to say an incredible planet, by the complicated king of science fiction's Golden Age.
First edition in book form of this illustrated far-future fantasy of divine powers and their interpersonal strife; Lin Carter, whom enthusiasm never failed, judged it van Vogt's best book.
First edition, first printing of this mid-century American noir novel in the style of Chandler, and the basis for the 1948 film LARCENY.
First edition of this collection of selected reviews and critical writing by Boucher, including his essays "Baker Street Immortal" and "Opera and Murder."
First edition in book form of these three Golden Age weird tales: The Radium Pool, The Phantom of Terror, and The Red Dimension.
Limited edition reissue of the classic 1942 genre reference, "the first bibliography of the detective short story ever written," with a new introduction by the authors.
First edition of this WWII-era Dick Whittington mystery set in London.
Abridged edition of Boucher's THE CASE OF THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS, cut down to a fraction of its former self "to speed up the story" for the reader under doctor's orders to strictly limit their daily intake of Sherlockian metafiction.