Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

FINE condition in NEAR FINE covers. NY. Carroll & Graf. SOFTCOVER. 1987. REPRINT of original 1946 Edition. AS NEW, bound in maroon glossy pictorial paper wraps. Square and tight, UNREAD, NO spine crease. Light rubbing and edge wear to covers, see images. Very light toning to pages. Shades of James M Cain. Stored in Archival sleeve. No additional shipping… Read more about this item

London: Nicholson and Watson, 1940. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First UK Edition. The earliest edition of one of the rarest film noir sources-we have never seen a jacketed copy of the first edition that followed it, and a jacketless copy only once. Excessively rare. A crime novel from an author known better for weird fiction, basis for the… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1946). First U.S. edition of the author's first novel, which was first published in 1940 in England by Jarrolds shortly before they were bombed out in the blitz (from dust jacket). Red cloth boards speckled, slight offset from boards to endpapers but otherwise about very good in good, lightly soiled and somewhat scraped/rubbed dust… Read more about this item

New York City Ny: Farrar & Rinehart, 1946. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 216 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. First American Printing, With Fr Logo On Copyright Page. Wear, Some Fading To Spine Cloth, Spine Gilt Darkened But Clear, No Fraying, $.49 Price Stamped On Rear Endpaper.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1946]. First edition. A very good copy in a good to very good dust jacket with shallow loss at the corner tips and spine ends, rubs marks to jacket have been touch up with blank ink, closed tear at the lower left front edge at spine fold and a small closed tear… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1946. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Light sunning, near fine in very good dustwrapper with a little rubbing and light wear on the spine. Inscribed by screenwriter Mel Dinelli to columnist Louella Parsons. Butler's first novel (first published in England in 1940), a reduced-size wartime book. A scarce, hardboiled mystery,… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1946]. First U. S. edition. A nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with rubbing and light wear to the spine ends, mild edge rubbing and a tiny closed tear to the base of the front panel. (23570). Octavo, cloth. A dark mystery. The violent protaganist kills a… Read more about this item

Jarrolds Publishing. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (Mystery, Fiction, Thriller) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Dell, 1947. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Ed. First paperback ed. Good condition, over all wear, laminate peeling, spine wear. Dell #197..

World Distributors (Manchester) Limited 1961. Paperback (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

Dell, 1946. Softcover. Good. #197, mapback

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