First Edition. A children's picture book. This is one of 100 signed and number copies, each with an original watercolor illustration by Franklin. Ernest Franklin was a Navajo artist who liked embellishing Hillerman's books with drawings reflecting Native culture. 31 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no.....

First British edition. Stephen King's fourth book (originally published in 1977), a school shooting thriller that he no longer allows to be republished. It was published as a massmarket paperback original in both the US and the UK. The British version is much scarcer than the American. According to the.....

First Edition. One of 26 lettered copies (of an edition of 376), signed by the author of the introduction, Stephen King. Thompson's novel, first published as a paperback original in 1952, is a grim story about police corruption, sexual abuse, and violence against women. In his introduction, King calls this.....

First Edition. In Derleth's introductory note, he says these may be the last Solar Pons stories he would write. That planned pause didn't last very long and these stories were republished in The Return of Solar Pons in 1958 along with other new installments in this Sherlock Holmes pastiche series.....

First Edition. A Sherlock Holmes pastiche recovered from FBI evidence as befits a collection of ten crime stories. 4176 copies. Jacket by Frank Utpatel. The last Solar Pons title published by Arkham House (two later collections were licensed to a Canadian publisher). Introduction by Allen J. Hubin. x, 237, [3].....

First Edition. A Perry Mason mystery. First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings and the same date on the title and copyright page). A near fine copy in black cloth in a very good dust jacket with a one-inch snag at the base of the front panel.....

First Edition. A paperback original noir novel featuring Parker, a cold, pragmatic thief. 159, [1:ad] pages. Massmarket; Pocket Book 50149. First edition (first printing stated). Very minor wear, else a fine, unread copy with a bit of waviness to the front cover. This copy comes from the collection of James.....

First Edition. A Parker novel, featuring one of Westlake's enduring characters. 144 pages. Massmarket; d1849, 50 cent cover price. First edition (first printing with no indication of later printings). Very minor wear, else a fine, unread copy. Mild waviness to front cover. This copy comes from the collection of James.....

First Edition. A collection of short essays about mystery writers and their detectives. x, 197, [1:blank] pages. First edition (stated first printing). A fine copy in a jacket with some wear at the top of the spine and a shallow snag on the bottom edge of the front panel. Provenance.....

First US edition. The first Nigel Strangeways spy thriller, centering on the character's wife Georgia's discovery of a fascist plot to overthrow the British government. Uncommon in any edition. Orson Welles stopped work on an adaptation of Heart of Darkness to produce a film version of The Smiler with the.....

First US edition. Twenty-six stories, translated from the French by Alys Eyre Macklin. Introduction by Henry B. Irving. The book was published later in England as Crises. 303 pages. First edition (first printing, stating "First Published, 1920" on the copyright page). Very good; lacking the jacket. From the library of.....

First US edition. A mystery orginally published in the UK as Two for Inspector West. 183 pages. First American edition (first printing with an "A" code on the copyright page). A fine, tight copy in a very near dust jacket with a couple of short tears. From the collection of.....

First Edition. The last Mr. Moto novel, a series featuring a Japanese secret agent operating in China. The novel was filmed in 1957, starring Robert Wagner and Joan Collins; the adaptation was loose—Mr. Moto was cut entirely. The US edition preceded the UK edition, published the first week of January;.....