Earle Basinsky (34 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hard bound in dust jacket. Minor wear to dust jacket, otherwise very good.

Condition: GOOD. First paperback printing. The author's first book with a cover blurb by dedicatee Mickey Spillane (who was a 'service buddy' of the author) "The kind of book I go for." Signet 1286. cover price 25 cents. Good only (spine slant), but the cover art - a great exampleof the 'good girl' art - is bright and attractive.

Paperback. first edition. 1286 reading copy, many creases, chips paperback,

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. 1st printing, May 1956; #1286. Cover art is uncredited. Creasing; tanning; lean; edge and corner wear; glue-mend at spine heel; dealer's mark on cover. Book.

Paperback. first edition. 1286 very good, creases paperback,

paperback. No Jacket. First Edition. New York. 1956. May 1956. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Paperback Edition. Good in Worn Wrappers With a Piece Coming Off Near The Bottom Spine. 127 pages. paperback. 1286. keywords: Mystery Vintage Paperback. DESCRIPTION - DEADLY ROMANCE: Framed ex-cop thirsting for revenge. Luscious Blonde with a sinister secret. Put them together and watch out for the explosion! Here's a spine-chilling, violent story of a cop kicked off the force and determined to clear his name, and a rich girl who desperately needed his help but wouldn't tell all she knew. inventory #37002 Good in Worn Wrappers With a Piece Coming Off Near The Bottom Spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. DJ has creasing to the front lower portion, edge wear, light foxing, and is now in a mylar cover. DJ spine ends have been taped on the outside. Front cover of book has some scuffing, probably from label removal. Page ends are lightly browned. Owner's name written on DJ front, on top of the white letters of the title.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. AP2 - A first edition (stated with same date) hardcover book in good condition in good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease, some tears and few open tears on the edges and corners, moderate tear with wrinkling and crease on the back top right corner, some chipping on the sides, tanning and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners and dents, some chipping and few small tears on the cover edges and corners, lightly darkened page edges, gap on the hinge between pages 128 and 129, light tanning and shelf wear. A Dutton Guilt Edge Mystery. Although not marked in any way, this copy comes from the personal collection of Otto Penzler, legendary editor and founder of the Mysterious Press, an award-winning icon in the genre. 7.75"x5.25", 192 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Earle Morris Basinsky, Jr. was an American crime novelist and protégé of Mickey Spillane. He wrote two novels, 1955's The Big Steal and 1956's Death is a Cold, Keen Edge, and five short stories. Basinky was born in 1921 in Vicksburg, Mississippi to Earle Basinsky, Sr., and Aline Basinsky. He attended law school at the University of Mississippi in 1939 but left in 1942 to join the Army Air Corps. While stationed in Greenwood, Mississippi for pilot training, he met and befriended Mickey Spillane, who was then in Greenwood serving in the Army. He married Mary Johanna Poehlmann in 1945. After the war, he moved briefly to Brooklyn, New York, where he worked with Spillane. In 1946, apparently during his time with Spillane in New York, Basinsky published two short stories in comic books: "Killer's Choice" in Vic Verity, and "Knife Act" in Don Fortune Magazine. He returned to Vicksburg and worked at his father's printing shop, but was encouraged to return to writing when Spillane visited in 1953. Like Charlie Wells and David A. Gerrity, Basinsky benefitted from Spillane's friendship and advice as a more seasoned author, as well as a connection to publishers. As he did with several other young writers, Spillane supported Basinsky's work with encouragement and cover blurbs praising Basinsky on his novels. Spillane also put in a good word to Basinsky's future publisher E.P. Dutton, writing that "This is my buddy 's book. He was there when I, the Jury was written." Basinsky's first novel was 1955's The Big Steal, about a policeman who spirals down a dark path after being falsely accused of stealing ransom money. After losing both his job and his wife, he tracks down the real villain and gets violent revenge. A 1955 review of The Big Steal in Saturday Review called it an "incredible windup." The Big Steal was translated into French and published by the Serie Noire imprint as Le Magot. In 1956, his second novel, Death Is a Cold, Keen Edge, was released. It follows a psychopathic World War II veteran on a murder spree. The original cover illustrations of Basinsky's novels, done by artist Robert Maguire, have been called some of "the most evocative and memorable of the period" by Lee Server, author of the Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers. Critical appraisals of Basinsky's books ranged from positive to unenthusiastic. Critic Bill Pronzini, in 1001 Midnights: The Aficionado's Guide To Mystery and Detective Fiction, called Basinsky's novels "vivid (and) idiosyncratic." In Pronzini's later book Gun in Cheek: An Affectionate Guide to the "Worst" in Mystery Fiction, he said that Basinsky was better than his fellow Spillane protégés in that he shared his mentor's "knack for raw and stomach-churning violence," but that his writing was also cliche-ridden and narratively clumsy, with "a shameless desire to wax poetic every now and then." Anthony Boucher, writing in the June 26, 1955 New York Times Book Review, noted that The Big Steal's dedication read "For Mickey Spillane, who insisted, and for Nathan Jr., who suffered," and, instead of reviewing the book, simply stated that "personally, I'm on Nathan Jr.'s side." Basinsky also published three short stories in crime-fiction pulp magazines in 1957 and 1958. Critic Peter Enfantino, writing about them for Mystery File: The Crime Fiction Research Journal, said that they were "all short and unremarkable, flawed by outlandish premises and silly expositories." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. Maguire, Robert (cover) (illustrator). First Printing. 1st paperback printing, May 1956. Signet #1286 [.25 cover price]. Vintage Paperback. GGA cover by Robert Maguire according to Wikepedia. Reading crease, small crease at rear corner else a near fine, bright, tight copy of The author's first book. A cover blurb by Mickey Spillane , who had met two younger writers, Earle Basinsky and Charlie Wells, while in the service and who would become his protégés; each publishing two hardboiled-noir novels in the Spillane style in the early 1950s. Spillane's blurb "The kind of book I go for.". Vintage Paperback.

Couverture souple. Condition: Assez bon. Nrf Gallimard Série Noire, 1955. 1 volume format In-12 correct 1 vol in-12 cartonnage éditeur jaune et noir, état d'usage, dos consolidé.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. First US paperback edition. Originally published in hard covers in the US by Dutton in 1955. The front cover has a reading crease down the left side next to the spine. The back cover has some warping - the book has probably been damp at some time as the pages at the back of the book are also a little warped with some loss of colouring to the edges. Otherwise only some light edge wear. Pages browned but otherwise unmarked. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Paperback. Condition: Fine-. #1286, May, First Printing. 127pp. Photos on request. Size: Mass Market.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Light, minor wear.

Paperback. first edition. 1286 near fine paperback,

First edition. Octavo, boards. "The $400,000 ransom on a kidnapping case leaves Steve Conway, a copper, holding the bag- the empty suitcase in which the money was once hidden. Bounced off the force, deserted by his wife, Conway alone has to prove his innocence to his enemies as well as the police, while narcotics needlemark the solution through which he redeems himself and his new girl. Under the spell of "Spillane who insisted" there is the familiar contusion of flesh and violence." - Kirkus review, 6/1/55. Basinsky was a wartime friend of Mickey Spillane's who encouraged his writing. This is the first of his two novels. A nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with mild rubbing to edges and folds. (19719).

hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Ed. 1st edition, so stated. A near fine, tight copy with very light soiling, in dust jacket lightlly chipped at corners, lightly soiled, rubbed and sunned at spine, Inside rear flap lightly soiled.else a very good-near fine copy, not price clipped, $2.75 price intact, in protective mylar cover. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. A cover blurb by Mickey Spillane , who had met two younger writers, Earle Basinsky and Charlie Wells, while in the service and who would become his protégés; each publishing two hardboiled-noir novels in the Spillane style in the early 1950s. Spillane's blurb "The kind of book I go for.". Book.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Hardcover. Minor wear to the covered dust jacket. Little cover wear. Clean unmarked text. Tight binding. ** WE SHIP DAILY (Mon-Fri) ** Free Tracking Information.

first edition. near fine hardcover in an almost near fine dust jacket fold rubbing, bumping.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Some offsetting on endpapers, else near fine in a good rubbed and edgeworn dustwrapper with tape repaired tears on top edge and dime size surface tear on front panel. The author's first book, and only hardcover, featuring somewhat misogynistic marketing on the front cover: a blurb by dedicatee Mickey Spillane next to the illustrated corpse of a dead woman - "The kind of book I go for.".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Mickey Spillane blurb. First edition. Near fine in a near fine (light edge wear) dust jacket. A bright, clean, and well preserved copy. B000NX6PIU.

First edition. Owner name and shallow mechanical tear along the rear panel edge (affecting both book and jacket) else a near fine copy of the author's first book, featuring a blurb on the front cover by dedicatee Mickey Spillane.

Condition: Very Good. Bon état. Sans date. Very Good.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Dust Jacket Condition: Très bon. Edition originale. épuisé.

Condition: EC. Paris, cartonnage de l'éditeur; in-12, 183 pp. N°284.

Condition: BE. Paris, cartonnage de l'éditeur; in-12, 183 pp. N°284.

Condition: EC. Paris, cartonnage de l'éditeur; in-12, 183 pp. N°284.

Condition: BE. Paris, cartonnage de l'éditeur; in-12, 183 pp. N°284.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Original red cloth, stamped in black. 8vo - 192pp. An extremely clean, bright and pleasing copy. Author's first novel. Fine / Near Fine.