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Published by Publications International, Ltd., 2008
ISBN 10: 1412715180ISBN 13: 9781412715188
Seller: BookHolders, Towson, MD, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: First ] Publisher: West Side Publishing Pub Date: 8/15/2008 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 382 First edition.
Published by Dell, 1951
Seller: Avalon Books, Stockton, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Poor. First Printing. Dell 510. Well creased. Spine-slant. Tear along edge of spine.
Published by Dell Books. New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1951
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. first edition. 510 reading copy, many creases Cover by Victor Kalin. paperback,
Published by Black Lizard Books, 1986
ISBN 10: 0887390064ISBN 13: 9780887390067
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. book has moderate shelf wear/toning across cover, light wear to corners, ends of spine, and edges, slight wear mark or so to spine, otherwise solid clean shape.
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Published by Pharos Editions / Dark Coast Press, Seattle, WA, 2013
ISBN 10: 098817250XISBN 13: 9780988172500
Seller: Rosario Beach Rare Books, Mill Creek, WA, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. *Veteran-Owned, Family-Run, Small Business in the Pacific Northwest*.
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Published by Berkeley: Black Lizard Books, 1986., 1986
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition thus: a paperback. Fine, unread copy in illustrated wraps with artwork by Kirwan. Introduction by David Feinberg. Only crime novel by the pen-named Brit Eric Knight is a high water mark in depression-era hard-boiled fiction and earns Hallas a seat alongside McCoy, Anderson, and Cain in the tough-guy pantheon; oddly, Knight's other work of note is LASSIE, COME HOME.
Published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014
ISBN 10: 1503074986ISBN 13: 9781503074989
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
Book Print on Demand
Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.
Published by Little Wizard Ltd/Splash! Pub Ltd, 1996
ISBN 10: 1900207907ISBN 13: 9781900207904
Seller: PAPER CAVALIER US, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: as new. Hallas, Lesley (illustrator). Appears unread. May have a retail sticker on back cover or remainder mark on the text block.
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Published by Black Lizard Books. Berkley, CA: Creative Arts Books Company., 1986
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Paperback. 006-4 fine, unread paperback,
Published by Gregg Press, Boston, 1980., 1980
ISBN 10: 0839826532ISBN 13: 9780839826538
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Book
8vo, 213pp. A very good hardback copy in faded dust jacket with insect damage to spine.
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Ed. First paperback ed. Good condition, over all wear, spine lean and creases, reader's crease. Dell #510. Book.
Published by Lindau, 2022
ISBN 10: 8833538281ISBN 13: 9788833538280
Seller: Libro Co. Italia Srl, San Casciano Val di Pesa, FI, Italy
Book
Condition: new. Traduzione di Zaniboni F. Torino, 2022; br., pp. 208, cm 12x24. (Crimini e Misteri). Dick gestisce insieme alla moglie Lois un ristorantino in una città mineraria dell'Oklahoma, sulla strada per Dallas. Una sera scopre che lei l'ha piantato e, portando con sé il piccolo Dickie, è andata a Hollywood per inseguire il suo sogno, quello di diventare una stella del cinema. Solo e senza un soldo, Dick salta su un treno merci per raggiungerla. Arrivato a Los Angeles, si perde nel dedalo della metropoli e rimane invischiato in una falsa rapina, durante la quale un uomo viene ucciso. Per Dick, è l'inizio di una serie di avventure che lo portano a incontrare registi, star del cinema, criminali, la possessiva Mamie, che lo accoglie a casa sua, e la misteriosa ragazza-sirena, Sheila, conosciuta una notte vicino all'oceano. Rapine, tradimenti, omicidi, alcol e sesso: "Punti sul nero ed esce il rosso" è un romanzo in pieno stile hard-boiled, il genere reso famoso dalle opere di Raymond Chandler e Dashiell Hammett. Ma è anche un ritratto crudo e spregiudicato di una società allo sbando, disposta a tutto pur di sopravvivere, giorno dopo giorno, nell'incertezza economica generata dalla crisi del '29.
Published by Gregg Press; Boston; 213 pp.; DJ; F/F-; 1938/1980/FP, 1980
Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. The first printing of this reissue edition. _____ Appears to be an unread copy._____No remainder marks._____No prior owner's marks of any kind. _____ The spine is somewhat faded. _____ Gregg Press books were targeted to the library market and this example never had a price on the jacket. _____.
Published by Generic
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.
Published by Dell Publishing, 1938
Seller: SatelliteBooks, Burlington, VT, U.S.A.
Book
paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover. Very Good condition. Free of any markings and no writings inside. Clear Text. Minor shelf-wear. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.
Published by Published by Collins 48 Pall Mall, London First Edition . London 1937., 1937
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original raspberry paper covers, navy title and author lettering to ivory cloth spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 6''. Contains 72 printed pages of text with humorous monochrome illustrations throughout. Ownership name to the front free end paper. Very Good condition book, in Good condition dust wrapper with tanning to the paper, shallow rubs to the spine tips and corners, not price clipped 5s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. HUMOUR (Satire, Cartoon).
Published by BLACK LIZARD., BERKELEY, 1986
ISBN 10: 0887390064ISBN 13: 9780887390067
Book First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First Black Lizard paperback edition. Close to fine in pictorial printed wrappers. (Slight shelf wear at edges. ) Cover art by Kirwan.
Published by Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1986
Seller: Tree Frog Fine Books and Graphic Arts, Beaverton, OR, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Thus. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Printing Thus. Bound in grey cloth with title information to spine in siver. 213 pages. This edition is a complete photographic reprint of a work first published in 1938. AS NEW. Alas, not read. All corners pointed. Binding tight, without stress creasing and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked and very clean and bright. Dust Jacket same. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed.
Published by Carnegie Mellon University Press, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A., 1986
ISBN 10: 0887480586ISBN 13: 9780887480584
Seller: Books Plus, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.
Book
Hard Cover. Condition: BOOK NEW. Dust Jacket Condition: JACKET FINE. First Thus. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT, BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. This edition is a complete photographic reprint of the scarce first edition published in 1938 written by the author of Lassie, Come Home using the pseudonym Richard Hallas. GIFT GIVING CONDITION.
Published by William George Brown, 1966
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual markings. Clean copy in good condition. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Published by Robert M. McBride & Company, New York, 1938
First Edition
First edition. Presentable first edition of this classic of hardboiled detective fiction set in Southern California. 8vo, 213pp. Red cloth lettered in black. Staining to boards, worn at corners and spine ends, spotting to page edges, page block toned. A very good copy in facsimile jacket.
Published by McBride
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Minor bumping to bottom edge. Tiny tears to bottom inside corner of pages 117-120. No notes, inscriptions or underlining to text. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.
Published by Robert M. McBride, New York, 1938
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Red linen boards, titled in black on spine and front cover; yellow top-stain; 213pp. Bit of soiling to upper edge of text-block, with consequent dulling to top-stain; very minor thumb-soil within; in all a tight, straight copy, VG+ to Near Fine. Lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Classic hard-boiled, hard-luck tale of the Thirties, long-forgotten but revived in the Eighties and given a new cult following by Black Lizard Press. Though generally discussed as a crime novel, You Play The Black has many great proletarian elements, including a drifter protagonist who thumbs his way out of the Oklahoma dustbowl to Los Angeles at the height of the Great Depression. Author Eric Knight is best known as creator of the juvenile classic Lassie, Come Home; the present work is his only venture into the hard-boiled genre, though his first novel (Sound on Your Bugles, 1936) was a straightforwardly proletarian depiction of British working-class life.
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Eds thus. Set of 41 paperback volumes published by Black Lizard between 1980 and 1989. All volumes are in near fine condition with very slight over all wear, most have bookstore price labels on the back cover. Titles include Cropper's Cabin and Wild Town by Jim Thompson; The Black Mass of Brother Springer, Pick-Up; Cockfighter and The Burnt Orange Heresy by Charles Willeford; Violent Saturday and Ill Wind by W. L. Heath; Sing me a Murder and Detour by Helen Nielsen; Street of no Return; and Cassidy's Girl by David Goodis; I wake up Screaming by Steve Fisher; You Play the Black and the Red Comes up by Richard Hallas; Strongarm; The Name of the Game is Death, The Vengeance Man and Never Live Twice by Dan J. Marlowe; Swamp Sister and Carny Kill by Robert Edmond Alter; The Out is Death; Kill the Boss Good-By and Dig my Grave Deep by Peter Rabe; Seven Slayers and Fast One by Paul Cain; The Far Cry and His Name was Death by Fredric Brown; A Ticket to Hell, A Moment to Prey, The Devil Wars Wings, Fires that Destroy and Forgive me Killer by Harry Whittington; The Root of His Evil, Sinful Woman and Jealous Woman by James M. Cain; Port Tropique by Barry Gifford; Masques by Bill Pronzini; Dead Meet by Roger L. Simon; Only in L.A. and Tough Luck L. A. by Murray Sinclair; Coffin & Co. by Njami Simon; The Truth of the Matter by John Lutz. Book.
Published by McBride, 1938., 1938
Seller: Monroe Stahr Books, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION in red cloth with printing in black; lacking the dust jacket. The book is very good with some bumping to the spine ends and a small spot of wear to the front edge of the front cover; large sticker mostly removed from the front pastedown, (possibly from a rental library); two-inch square ownerÕs label also on the front pastedown; rear endpaper missing; A guy from Oklahoma follows his runaway wife to Hollywood. Once there he falls in with an alcoholic film director. He takes up a life of petty crime and ends up convicted of murder. Even as he is saved from the gas chamber Considered an under-appreciated noir novel in the vein of James M. Cain and Horace McCoy.
Published by McBride, New York, 1938
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. A lost classic of hardboiled fiction; when it came out it was compared to *The Postman Always Rings Twice* and *They Shoot Horses, Don't They?* An Oklahoma man comes home and finds his wife and child gone, perhaps to California, and he sets out after them. The only mystery novel written by Eric Knight, an excellent and very versatile writer (he also wrote *Lassie, Come Home*) who died in a plane crash during WWII.
Published by McBride, New York, 1938
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Attractive bookplate of L.C. Perry on the front fly, else fine, lacking the dustwrapper. A lost classic of hardboiled fiction, when it came out it was compared to *The Postman Always Rings Twice* and *They Shoot Horses, Don't They?* An Oklahoma man comes home and finds his wife and child gone, perhaps to California, and he sets out after them. The only mystery novel written by Eric Knight, an excellent and very versatile writer (he also wrote *Lassie, Come Home*) who died in a plane crash during WWII.
Published by Robert H McBride, 1938
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First printing. Original red cloth with titles in black. Former owners name rubbed stamped on fixed end paper, title page and at end of text on pg 213. Else a VG bright copy in chipped dust jacket lacking piece at spine head, smaller piece out at lower tip, other small edge chips. A scarce book, rarely found iin dust jacket. Photos on request.
Published by Robert M. McBride and Company, NY, 1938
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Octavo, [1-8] 1-213 [214-216, blank], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. Classic hardboiled mystery novel set in Southern California. From a new essay on the book by Woody Haut at the online Los Angeles Review of Books (7/29/11) -"The book does read like James Cain filtered through Thomas Pynchon. Although Knight's first person narrative begins in typical tough-guy fashion, with Dick Dempsey, an Oklahoma-born AWOL Marine hopping a freight in Texas for Southern California in pursuit of his wife and son, it soon moves off in another, wilder direction - more like a noir Alice in Lotus Land than a cool and conventional hardboiled novel." The author's only mystery novel, best known for creating the character Lassie the dog. Stamp "Property of Vangaurd Films, Inc." at endpapers and title page, touch of shelf wear to spine ends and corners, a little soiling at edges, a bright nearly fine copy, without the dust jacket. (13990).
Published by Robert M. McBride and Company, New York, 1938
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-213 [214-216, blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Classic hard-boiled mystery novel set in Southern California. "The book does read like James Cain filtered through Thomas Pynchon. Although Knight's first person narrative begins in typical tough-guy fashion, with Dick Dempsey, an Oklahoma-born AWOL Marine hopping a freight in Texas for Southern California in pursuit of his wife and son, it soon moves off in another, wilder direction - more like a noir Alice in Lotus Land than a cool and conventional hard-boiled novel." - Woody Haut, the online Los Angeles Review of Books (29 July 2011). The only mystery novel by Hallas who is best known as the creator of Lassie the dog. "Property of Vanguard Films, Inc." stamped on endpapers and title page. Touch of shelf wear to spine ends and corners, a little soiling at edges, a bright, nearly fine copy, lacking the dust jacket. (#137046).