---No sooner had I finally gotten the couple boxes of books catalogued that had been laying around here way too long, than another box (39#) got dropped on the porch. I didn’t want these to receive the same lazy treatment, so I went and catalogued them now:
hardcovers:
Anderson, Poul GOING FOR INFINITY, Tor, 6/02, 1st edn, (A Literary Journey; more than just a collection of some of author’s most acclaimed works; 416 pages), vg-f in dj 12.00
Boys' Life (eds) THE BOYS' LIFE BOOK OF OUTER SPACE STORIES, Golden, nd, (©'64; Ray Bradbury, etc.; Henry Kane illus), vg (pictorial boards) 10.00
Carr, John Dickson THE DOOR TO DOOM and Other Detections, Harper & Row '80, 1st, (includes a Carr bibliography; Douglas G. Greene [ed & intro]), vg+ in dj 10.00
Davies, L.P. DIMENSION A, Doubleday, nd, Reinforced Library Edition, remainder speckling, vg in price-clipped dj $10
Dibdin, Michael COSI FAN TUTTI: An Aurelio Zen Mystery, Faber & Faber '96, 1st (UK), vg+ in dj 10.00
Dibdin, Michael MEDUSA, Pantheon '04, 1st US edn, SIGNED, (Aurelio Zen mystery; author’s unpredictable veteran Italian police officer is back), vg-f in dj $10
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan & associated hands SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Published Apocrypha, Houghton Mifflin '80, 1st, (parodies, non-canonical stories, etc.; Jack Tracy [ed & intro]), vg+ in dj 15.00
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan SHERLOCK HOLMES DETECTIVE STORIES: New Edition, Murray '30, (©’30 too; 512 pages), g in fr dj (internally repaired but all extant) $20
---Perhaps in less than collectible condition, but a pretty decent copy.
Dunsany, Lord THE COLLECTED JORKENS: Volume One, Night Shade ('04), 1st edn, (Arthur C. Clarke foreword; Joshi intro), vg-f no dj as issued (barcode/isbn sticker on back cover has been removed, leaving a mark) 30.00
Ellin, Stanley THE BLESSINGTON METHOD and Other Strange Tales, Random House '64, 1st, (Ten Grand Guignol Masterpieces), g-vg in dj 20.00
Howard, Robert E. & Richard A. Lupoff THE RETURN OF SKULL-FACE, Fax ('77), (1st), (completion of unfinished sequel to Skull-Face; Frank Belknap Long intro), vg-f in dj 35.00
Leacock, Stephen NONSENSE NOVELS, NYRB, 11/04, 1st thus, (orig: 1911; satirical masterpiece; new intro by Daniel Handler), f no dj as issued (pictorial boards) 9.00
Lesser, Milton THE STAR SEEKERS, Winston ('53), 1st edn, g-vg 12.00
London, Jack STORIES FOR BOYS, Cupples & Leon,nd, (©'36; omnibus of three collections: Love of Life, Moon Face & Lost Face; Schaare frontis), vg+ 15.00
MacDonald, George THE LIGHT PRINCESS and Other Fairy Tales, Johannessen, 3rd('01), (photoreprint of 1893 edition), handbound, f no dj (as issued) 25.00
MacLeod, Charlotte THE CURSE OF THE GIANT HOGWEED, Crime Club '85, 1st edn, INSCRIBED, (the Hercule Poirot of turnip fields triumphs again), vg-f in dj 25.00
Manson, Cynthia (ed) MURDER BY THE BOOK: Literary Mysteries from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Carroll & Graf '95, 1st edn, (stellar line-up of insternationally famous mystery authors takes you into the worlds of publishing, book collectors, rare book dealers, libraries, and the writers themselves), vg-f in dj 6.00
Monaghan, David SMILEY'S CIRCUS: A Guide to the Secret World of John le Carré, St. Martin's '86, 1st US edn, (detailed essay, Who's Who biographical entries, evocative photographs, etc.), vg-f in dj 10.00
Moore, Barbara THE WOLF WHISPERED DEATH, St. Martin's ('86), 1st edn, (A Gordon Christy, D.V.M., Mystery; dog mystery), vg-f in dj 7.00
Porter, Joyce DOVER AND THE UNKINDEST CUT OF ALL, Scribners '67, 1st, (Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover mystery), vg in dj 12.00
Robeson, Kenneth DOC SAVAGE: Death In Silver, Golden ('75), (#2 in series; orig: 1934), vg+ (pictorial boards) 8.00
Sceurman, Mark & Mark Moran WEIRD N.J.: Your Travel Guide to New Jersey's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets, Barnes & Noble, 8th, (coffee table book; things that make the Garden State the truly bizarre place that it is, compiled from the pages of Weird NJ magazine), f in dj 12.00
Schulz, Charles M. WAY BEYOND THERAPY, Packaged Goods/HarperCollins '96, (Peanuts At Work & Play; cartoon collection), remainder mark, f in dj 6.00
misc. softcovers:
Baxter, Glen THE BILLIARD TABLE MURDERS: A Gladys Babbington Morton Mystery, Avon, 11/91, review slip, vg+ 4.50
Brode, Douglas SINEMA: Erotic Adventures In Film, Citadel, 8/02, 1st, (lavishly illustrated guide; eye-candy for the voyeur and open-minded cinephile alike), remainder mark, f 7.50
Bruccoli, Matthew J. & Richard Layman (eds) HARDBOILED MYSTERY WRITERS: Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald, Carroll & Graf '02, (A Literary Reference; a rich and wide variety of engaging resources by which to view afresh a singularly American literary phenomenon; abundantly illustrated), remainder mark, f 8.50
Cox, Simon CRACKING THE DA VINCI CODE, Sterling, 4th, (The Unauthorized Guide to the Facts Behind Dan Brown's Bestselling Novel; an invaluable resource), f 5.00
Frantz, Ron FANDOM: CONFIDENTIAL, Midguard ('00), 1st edn, SIGNED, (behind-the-scenes peek at the heroies and villains of comics collecting; Robert Sampson intro), f 12.00
Fraser, George MacDonald FLASHMAN AND THE TIGER, Anchor, 11/01, (at once meticulously faithful to fact and wildy fanciful; splendid addition to the series), f 8.00
Le Carré, John A MURDER OF QUALITY, Pocket, 2/02, (British Secret Service Agent George Smiley; author's second novel; 1989 intro by author), f 6.00
Le Carré, John CALL FOR THE DEAD, Pocket, 2/02, (British Secret Service Agent George Smiley; author's first novel; with a 1992 author’s intro), f 6.00
Lincoln, Henry THE HOLY PLACE: Saunière and the Decoding of the Mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau, Arcade ('91), 1st US edn, (reveals the existence of a vast Christian architectural masterpiece, an immense geometric temple in the south of France with possible ties to the Holy Grail; hundreds of photos, illustrations, and diagrams), f 6.50
Lovesey, Peter THE LAST DETECTIVE, Soho Crime, 4th, (A Peter Diamond Mystery; first in series, it won the 1992 Anthony Boucher Award for Best Mystery Novel), f 7.00
Rice, Craig HOME SWEET HOMICIDE, Rue Morgue ('02), (A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone mystery by the creator of John J. Malone; first published in 1944), vg-f 8.00
Robinson, Frank M.THE POWER, Tor, 3/00, (50's tale of a mutant superman in hiding and the terrifying search to find him), f 5.00
Scherf, Margaret THE GREEN PLAID PANTS, Rue Morgue ('05), (A Henry and Emily Bryce mystery comedy; first published in 1951), f 8.00
van de Wetering, Janwillem JUDGE DEE PLAYS HIS LUTE, Wonderly '97, 1st edn, (a play and selected mystery stories; by one of the masters of the form), f 12.00
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