Aiken Michael Editor (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. First Edition. 1cm tear to upper spine end. Stamp to upper pp & slight shelfwear/thumbing to lower pp. 540 #ed pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Herbert Harris(Editor) (illustrator). First U.S. Edition. John Creasey's Crime Collection 1985, edited by Herbert Harris (1st U.S. Ed) A sharp, tight, square copy. Not price clipped. First U.S. Edition (stated), First Printing (full number line). Collects 15 crime / mystery stories from authors such as Joan Aiken, Michael Gilbert, Christianna Brand, Herbert Harris, and many more. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 204 pp. Red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Annual Anthology of the Crime Writers' Association, this contains: Time to Laugh by Joan Aiken; The Killing of Michael Finnegan by Michael Gilbert; The Whispering by Christianna Brand; Detective's Wife by Herbert Harris; Business Lunch by Celia Dale; Great Aunt Allie's Flypapers by P. D. James; To Have and To Hold by Clare Dawson; Inspector Ghote and The Noted by H . R. F. Keating; Little Knives by Madelaine Duke; Arabella's Answer by Peter Lovesey; Boots by Antonia Fraser; Love Affair by Julian Symons; Business Laugh by Celia Fremlin; Joe by Penelope Wallace; and Skeleton in the Cupboard by Tony Wilmot. Size: 8vo. Book.

First printing (per publisher's statement upon copyright page). xvi, 473, [3] pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 15cm. Dust jacket rubbed with a few minor nicks at edges, several small shallow slender stains at top of rear panel. Blue cloth with vibrant stamping to front board and spine. Muted yellow top edge; deckle fore-edge. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. With Introduction by editor Raymond W. Mack and Index. Features nine chapters titled as: "Violence and Civic Responsibility: Combinations of 'Fear' and 'Right'" by Troy Duster; "Tokenism in the Delta: Two Mississippi Cases" by Michael Aiken and N.J. Demerath III; "The Savannah Story: Education and Desegregation" by Ruth P. Simms; "Integration in Newark, Delaware: Whatever Happened to Jim Crow" by Herbert R. Barringer; "Segregation and Suburbia" by Rosalind J. Dworkin; "Desegregation in the Midwest: The Case of Kalamazoo" by John Pease; "Chicago Voices: Tales Told Out of School" by Charles and Bonnie Remsberg; "No Siesta Manana: The Mexican-American in Los Angeles" by Anthony Gary Dworkin; plus "Summary and Conclusions" by Raymond W. Mack.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 400 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 400 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.