Jonathan Latimer: First Edition (170 results)

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Prtg. 1st pbk ed. Oversize wraps., spine slant else very good. Originally published in 1937 as by Peter Coffin. A classic country-house mystery written by one of the masters of the hard-boiled genre. The novel opens with a scholarly professor arriving at a remote Michigan…

Soft cover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. First MacFadden-Bartell edition, first printing # 50 221 of the second novel in the "Bill Crane" series. Originally published but used as the basis of the 1937 movie "The Westland Case" and republished in 1938 under the title "The Westland Case". Spine slant. Light reading creases. Black…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Dell edition, first printing # D196 of the second novel in the "Bill Crane" series. Originally published under the title "Headed for a Hearse" but used as the basis of the 1937 movie "The Westland Case" republished in 1938 under the title "The Westland Case". Number 6 in the "…

Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Robert Westland's date with the executioner is just around the corner when he finally decides to fight the murder rap sending him to the electric chair. Framed for his wife's grisly demise, Westland is in a bind, and his last hope is Bill Crane, a booze-soaked detective who's a…

Soft cover. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) of a 1st thus of an abridged edition of a mystery from the mid 1930s. Dell Book D196. # 6 of the Dell Great Mystery Library. Light wear at the edges of the covers with some rubbing to the spine hinges. Light browning to the pages. A good to very…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) of a 1st thus of an abridged edition of a mystery from the mid 1930s. Dell Book D196. # 6 of the Dell Great Mystery Library. Light wear at the edges of the covers. Light browning to the pages. Clean and crisp. A very good copy. Push-Pin Studios (cover desig…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing Thus. First Pocket Books printing, mass market paperback, has a moderate lean to the binding with minor reading creases to spine, light bumps to spine ends and cover corners, tiny cross creases to spine, very slight edgewear to covers and along hinges, and a hint of wear…

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. Oversize trade pbk. Fine. Latimer wrote 9 detective novels. He also wrote or co-wrote 20 film scripts, including such noir classics as the secon version of Dashiell Hammett's "The Glass Key", Kenneth Fearing's "the Big Clock", and Cornell woolrich's "The Night Has…

Spiral bound. Condition: Poor. FIRST EDITION.THUS. POOR CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID TEXT BLOCK, BUT LACKS BACK COVER. cover has sticker removal scar -took off "Colonel Jona" from cover. OW book is quite nice.Includes blank "Special Recipes page at end of book, so all text is present.Inner cover has gift note from" Sincerly Your frie…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. by Jonathan [Wyatt] Latimer. New York: Random House, (1959). First edition, first printing. "First printing" statement to the copyright page. By the prolific screenwriter of 'The Glass Key', and 'The Big Clock' and hard-boiled mystery author of the m…