Oakland: the Program, 2002. Handbill. Folder with label logo, includes the 1st place winner of the Chester Himes Black Mystery Writing contest ("Mystery of the Smoked Herring" by 11th Grade Skyline High School student John Lo), a Himes chronology, a profile of Hugh Holton reprinted from the Sept. 29, 2000..... More

Cat.No: 199000

Hollywood: United Artists & Nat. Screen Service Corp. 1980. Poster. Eight 14x11.25 inch color lobby cards from stills in very good condition. Numbered 1-8. Thriller starring Elizabeth Ashley & Talia Shire. One roommate is obsessed with the other. More

Cat.No: 344328

Vallejo, CA: Adrolite Press, 2004. Trade Paperback. 341p., very good first edition in wraps. Novel centering on a young Oakland woman by the Vallejo-based African American novelist. More

Cat.No: 198221

London: Stanley Paul, [1932]. Hardcover. 287p. + 29p. backlist, personal Christmas gift inscription from the author and his wife,[Lorna D. Margrave] short closed tear on page 166, otherwise very good first edition hardcover bound in pink cloth boards. A murder mystery and romance set in the Arctic Circle. Adams was..... More

Cat.No: 330576

New York: Ballantine, 1984. Paperback. 182p, 4x6.5 inches with illustrated wraps; minor scuff marks, otherwise in very good condition. McDowell was best-known as the author of the horror series "Blackwater." Both authors died of AIDS-related illnesses and lived near Boston. Gunn page 118-119. Dan Valentine & Clarisse Lovelace mysteries. More

Cat.No: 337082

Macon, GA: Masonic Home Print Shop, 1925. Paperback. 94p., wraps. Presentation inscription on title page, dated December 28, 1953. Covers age toned; ink mark at foot of spine, extending to front. Amateur mystery fiction which began as an entry for a contest sponsored by a local newspaper. More

Cat.No: 312205

New York: Star Dist. 1992. Paperback. 149p., very good first printing PBO in explicit pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Young Stallions YS-166. Undercover cops abducted by Paramilitary forces. Not in Gunn but less mystery than cops-and-soldiers. More

Cat.No: 129464

Mesilla, NM: Titan Publishing Co., 1977. Hardcover. 304p., long author's inscription, signed, very good first edition in black cloth boards and slightly edgeworn unclipped dj. The New Mexican writer contends that his book is the "first mystery-suspense novel by a Chicano writer" (dj); it is also his first book. More

Cat.No: 33692

Tallahassee: The Naiad Press, 1993. Paperback. 235p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. African American lesbian mystery writer. More

Cat.No: 33767

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. Hardcover. 239p., very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Mystery featuring gay black detective Pharoah Love. Gunn page 124. More

Cat.No: 109099

New York: International Polygonics, 1988. Hardcover. 224p., very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Humorous murder-mystery in which various people die horrible deaths befitting their professions. A baritone loses his 'voice' a choreographer loses his legs etc. More

Cat.No: 269576

Baltimore: Central Sales, 1969. Paperback. 145p., good first printing thus PBO in original green wraps. Gay cop pulp fiction. Vibra Books VB 101. Rewritten version of Glory Hole by Evans with Bender authorship. A closeted vice squad cop defends a vice officer who resigns after accepting that he is gay..... More

Cat.No: 16546

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. Hardcover. 292p., first edition, beige cloth boards with a brown pictorial plate decorating the cover, endpapers somewhat toned, boards lightly soiled, corners bumped, else in very good condition. This work of fiction dissects the mind of a murderer, meanwhile the story of..... More

Cat.No: 276596