Arthur Lyons Second Coming Satanism in America (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages without any extraneous marks. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.2.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: vg. First Edition. Hardcover book is in very good condition. Clean text, no markings. Tight binding, light general handling wear. No loose or missing pages. Dust jacket is mylar protected. Price clipped. Former seller wrote price on flyleaf. Tulsa's largest used bookstore. Located on South Mingo Road since 1991. No-hassle return policy if not completely satisfied.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clean text, solid binding, light age toning to pages. Dust jacket free of major tears, light edgewear, a few creases, now in a new archival dust jacket protector. B/w illustrations, Index, 211 pp. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a mild skew to the binding, bumps to the spine ends, foxing and some mild smudging to the edges of the text block and some pages, faint sunning to the head, and a thin cross crease to the front pastedown. Overall, this is a solid, Very Good copy in a price-clipped, Near Very Good dust jacket, which has bumps with creasing to the spine ends and corners, light rubbing to the covers, wear with short creased tears to the edges, faint sunning to the spine, and foxing to the interior.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A beautiful copy of the authors first book Book is in tight unread condition without a mark inside or out. DJ is price clipped, clean and bright without fading and one minor closed tear at the top of the bank panel. Photos on request.

Printed Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Proof. Nice, tight clean copy of the Advance Uncorrected Proof Copy of the author's scarce first book. "Satanism in America" is marked over on both cover and title page. 217 pp. For the Lyons completist. Advance Uncorrected Proof.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Tom Brewster (Author photograph) (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. The format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. [10], 214 pages. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads For Stan Stirman--Best wishes, Arthur Lyons Oct. 14, 1987. DJ has minor wear and soiling. Small ink notation on rep. This is a Jacob Asch mystery. Los Angeles private investigator Jacob Asch investigates the murder of Walter Cairns, a noted film director whose enemies were numerous. Arthur Lyons co-founded the Palm Springs Film Noir Festival and was a former Palm Springs city councilman. Lyons had published a nonfiction work in 1970, a study of Satanism and cult development in America called The Second Coming. However, it was his first novel, The Dead Are Discreet, in 1974 that made his mark. He delved into California cults, rebellious youth, pornography and other seedbeds of criminal activity. Critics admired "the pungency of his style, the neat planning and the avoidance of hokum," according to a 1975 article about Lyons' novels in the New York Times. The New York Times called Jacob Asch "one of the more convincing private eyes in the business, thanks to Mr. Lyons's skill at characterization." Arthur Lyons wrote 11 novels about a Southern California private eye named Jacob Asch. It introduced readers to 34-year-old Asch, an embittered but nonetheless witty and compassionate, half-Jewish former investigative reporter for the (fictional) Los Angeles Chronicle who drifted into a gumshoeing career, and found that it fit him. Jacob Asch was a cynic with a sense of integrity and a genuine concern for others. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: Lori Norris asks private detective Jacob Asch to prove that director Walter Cairns is really William McVey, the man who deserted her 16 years ago, but the filmmaker's true identity is only the first puzzle in this well-plotted and intricate page-turner. When Asch shows up in Palm Springs, where Cairns is shooting Death in the Desert, he finds the set in turmoil; the situation becomes even more chaotic when Cairns's body is discovered, dressed in women's underwear and covered with obscene lipstick scrawls. As Asch searches for Cairns's killer, he finds that not only was the director generally hated, but that everybody involved in the film benefited from his death. In Lyons's fine mystery, the characters are well defined, the dialogue genuine, the situations believable and the narration first rate. The story moves along at a fast clip with few distractions or tangents, which is just as well, given the plot's many twists and layers. In his ninth adventure, Asch continues to be an engaging narrator.