MYSTERY & CRIME from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005. First Edition, Stated. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 248p. Signed by author on title page. Jacket edges lightly worn. (9-1/4"x6-3/8")

Garden City, New York: Crime Club, Doubleday & Co., 1963. First Edition, Stated. Cloth. Good +/good. 183p. Pages 70 & 71 and name on front endpaper, cover spotted with corners worn, jacket edges chipped with 1" creased tear on bottom front near spine fold and inside of jacket stained. Jacket design by Arthur Shilstone. [Hubin; p.61] (8-1/2"x5-3/4")

New York: Dell Publishing, 1963. Mass market paperback. Very good. 192p. 1st printing. Bottom of pages damp stained, inside covers toned, no creases on spine. Dell 5932. Cover illustration by Robert McGinnis.

New York: Bantam Books, 1953. Mass market paperback. Good +. 184p. 1st printing. Pages and inside covers toned especially on first and last pages, cover edges and front scraped. Bantam Book 1133.

New York: Dell Publishing, 1946. Mass market paperback. Fair. 192p. First page loose, pages toned, cover edges scraped. Dell Mapback 186. Cover illustration by Gerald Gregg.

New York: Dell Publishing, 1964. Mass market paperback. Very good. 174p. 1st printing. Inside covers toned, bottom front corner creased, no creases on spine. The best from Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine, 1st annual edition. Dell 5642. Cover illustrations by Robert McGinnis.

New York: Dell Publishing, 1928. Mass market paperback. Fair. 238p., 2 pages of Dell mystery titles. Name on front, cover very creased with tears along spine folds. Dell Mapback no. 49. Cover illustration by Gerald Gregg.

New York: Berkley Publishing, 1964. Mass market paperback. Very good. 144p. Pages and inside covers toned and cover creased with corners worn. From the cover: A mystery begins in San Francisco's Chinatown. Berkley Highland Book, C898.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1978. First Edition, Stated. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 384p. 1st printing. Name on front endpaper, bottom corner of front jacket clipped, jacket corners lightly worn. Reconstruction of the 1968 murder trial of ex-cop Alan Palliko by the former Los Angeles District Attorney. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. (9-1/2"x6-1/2")

New York: Walker & Co., 1971. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 265p. Pen mark on title page, jacket edges have small chips. A London rare book dealer, once of British Military Intelligence, travels to Italy to purchase a rare and expensive volume for a mysterious customer. [Hubin; p,142] Jacket design by Leonora Box. (8-1/4"x5-3/4")

New York: William Morrow, 2000. First Edition, Stated. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 230p. 1st printing. Price clipped jacket edges lightly scraped. Third mystery featuring Matsuyama Kase, a 17th century samurai in rural Japan. (8-1/2"x5-3/4")

Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1981. Cloth. Very good/No Jacket. xviii, 157p. (8-3/4"x5-5/8")

Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1993. Cloth. Very good/No Jacket. [xii], 376p. Supplement to: What about Murder?, 1981. (8-3/4"x5-5/8")

New York: MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 412p. 1st printing. Gattis details the world of street gangs and the justice system in the Los Angeles area. A gritty fictional story told in first-person monologues revealing the characters' motivations and manipulations of each other and the system. Includes glossary. (9-1/4"x6-1/4")

New York: MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 275p. 1st printing. Drugs, money, safecracking, and cancer motivate the characters in this novel of criminal life in the Los Angeles area during the 2008 financial crisis. "The criminal life is carefully rendered, the stakes are clear, and the characters’ humanity is rich and refreshing..this… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan; St. Martin's Press, 1971. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. 250p. Jacket flaps clipped with edges scraped and small tears to edges. History of the development of the forces to fight criminals in London from the 16th to 19th century. Includes select bibliography. B&w illustrations and 4 b&w plates. (9-3/8"x6-3/8")

New York: Walker & Co., 1990. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 119p. Blind stamp on front endpaper, endpapers toned, price clipped jacket. Includes further reading. Jacket design by Amy Becker. "Examines the life of the detective who founded his own agency and introduced a system of recording criminals to help track them down and tie them to crimes." [WorldCat]… Read more about this item

[Charleston, South Carolina]: Self-published, 2010. Softcover. Very good. xii, 429p. Signed by author on title page. Cover corners lightly worn. Peabody Award winning television news producer and investigative journalist Noyes relates the infamous crimes and criminals of the late 20th century in Los Angeles including corruption in City Hall. Noyes is rumored to be the model for TV… Read more about this item

New York: Delta Trade Paperback, 2005. (1st Edition). Trade Paperback. Very good. [xii], 287p. Signed by author on title page. Cover corners worn, creases on spine. Second Mas Arai mystery. (8-1/4"x5-1/8")

New York: Penguin , 2014. Mass market paperback. Good. viii, 292p. 1st printing. Signed by author on title page. First Ellie Rush Mystery. Creases on spine. light edge wear.