Pseudonym Millar Kenneth (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated first edition, near fine in a very good+ dust jacket. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on spine. Just a touch of fading at edges of boards; page edges slightly darkened. The jacket is darkened at the top of the rear panel and at the top edge of the flaps. $5.95 price on jacket flap; no names or other marking in or on the book. A tight, square copy of the penultimate Lew Archer novel.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: FINE. 5th printing (just 3 months after the first). An attractive early copy of this Lew Archer novel, by this master of the hard-boiled noir detective story, set in Southern California. 243 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (original price of $4.95 on dj flap).

Condition: FINE. First printing. A Lew Archer novel, by this master of the hard-boiled noir detective story, set in Southern California and involving the theft of a valuable painting and the disappearance of a famous artist. 270 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First UK edition, fine in a near fine dust jacket. The jacket has minor edgewear and small creases on both flaps. The white background of the jacket is clean and bright. A Lew Archer novel. Publisher's price on jacket flap; no names or other marking in or on the book. 0.

First edition of this collection. Octavo, cloth. Collects THE WAY SOME PEOPLE DIE, THE BARBAROUS COAST, THE DOOMSTERS and THE GALTON CASE. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (24702).

Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This Allison & Busby first UK edition (1986) is of interest to collectors of Ross Macdonald, the Lew Archer series, crime fiction firsts, and scarce 1980s literary hardcovers in original dust jackets. About: A good-plus copy in a good dust jacket. Boards sound and clean beneath jacket; spine slightly tanned at top edge. Dust jacket bright and striking with the bold black, dark red and green Lew Archer face design; notable wear and chipping to the head of the spine panel with some loss; minor rubbing to corners; rear panel with author photograph and ISBN barcode clean and intact; flaps clean with critical blurbs. Text block clean and fresh throughout; half-title page present. A solid and collectable copy of the scarce first UK edition of the first Lew Archer novel.

Full-Leather. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. #210 of 250 copies signed on the limitation page by the author and by Eudora Welty, who provided the Foreword. Fine in black leather with gilt lettering on spine, without dust jacket or slipcase as issued. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. New edition (first UK publication 1953). Hardback copy in burgundy boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 192pp. Library copy - usual remains of stickers and ink stamps, rubbing to spine and board edges, wear to dustjacket. Ross Macdonald was the pseudonym of Kenneth Millar who was born in California and educated in Canada and at the University of Michigan, where he also taught. In 1938 he married the writer Margaret Millar. He served in the United States Naval Reserve from 1944 to 1946. He published his first novel, The Dark Tunnel, in 1944 and his first Lew Archer story, The Moving Target, in 1949. He became a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America in 1973. (5/2).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Blue patterned boards, navy topstain. Stated first edition. Spine ends and points lightly rubbed, textblock and spine lightly toned, trace foxing to boards. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hard Cover. Hard Cover. First Edition. HBDJ, Red & Blue Cloth, ,bookplate, 1964, few chips DJ & small crease, stated 1st edition, VG+/VG, AS-IS.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's red and white patterned boards with black titles on white to the spine, in the Jean Carlu designed dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh with a touch of rubbing at the spine tips and corners. The contents, with a small oval bookseller's paper label to the lower edge of the rear pastedown, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with lightly rubbed dustwrapper that has a few tiny nicks to the lower edge. Not price-clipped ($2.95 net to the upper front flap). An attractive example. The sixth Lew Archer detective novel. (Hubin). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition. Unpublished "Manuscript Edition." Folio. One of 221 numbered copies (the entire edition), this copy being unnumbered and marked "Out of Series." The unnumbered copies were used as review copies (a publisher's prospectus for the book is laid-in). According to publisher Matthew Bruccoli: "The printer spoiled the copies, and I destroyed them. I decided not to start over because by that time Ken (i.e. Ross Macdonald) was unable to sign copies." Through the years only a literal handful of copies, all unnumbered, have been encountered. Bound in patterned paper over boards with a giltstamped leather spine. Fine, unread copy with one leaf of the author's draft affixed to a preliminary page. This edition includes a final chapter that was not present in the original 1965 novel published by Knopf.

Signed Limited Edition. Limited to 250 number signed copies, signed by Kenneth Millar. Bound in original publishers cloth, binding in excellent fine condition. Plastic dust jacket in excellent condition. Internally, no loose pages, no writing/marking, pages bright and clean. Housed in original publishers slipcase. A71 Size: 8vo.