Doom Maker by Sanborn (9 results)

Condition: Good. 1959. First Edition Thus. 189 pages. Illustrated jacket over cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Cloth. Condition: About Fine. First Edition (stated). First Edition stated, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo in black cloth w/lilac spine titles. About Fine book in Near Fine unclipped DJ. Small ink notation front endpaper, else Fine and unmarked; jacket has short tears at crown (taped on inside) of sunned spine. 188pp. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-Very Good. First Edition. A 1st edition of a Dutton novel of suspense from the late 1950s. Light wear at the edges with some creasing & a small closed tear t the rear panel of the DJ. Overall a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition stated first printing of a near fine hardcover with foxing to the upper textblock and a slight lean, in a very good dustjacket with wear to the extremities, a bit of spine fade and a sticker pull on the spine. Featuring John Perseus, an artist living in a boarding house in Greenwich Village, New York City NY USA, looking into three deaths at the boarding house and how they may be connected. Also published as "The Blonde On Borrowed Time".

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Ed. VG+ to Fine in pictorial wraps with red & black lettering & cover art picturing a blonde honey sitting on a brass bed as she looks at a suit with a gun in his hand. Mystery about a guy who investigates the murder of a once-innocence girl who sold her virtue & body to break into the bigtime. Mystery, Vintage Paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Originally published in hardcover in 1959 by E.P. Dutton & Co. A woman who has wasted her beauty and her youth trying to make the big time believes that her break has finally come, but ends up murdered, instead. Light rubbing, thin crease to top left tip of back cover, dusty edges, tanning. An appealing copy. Book.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG- DW. 1st Edition. Very clean tight book has some signs of label removal to endpapers but looks hardly read. Entire dw has a minor label mark (glue residue) across spine and slight crease marks to edges. Else clean and bright. (Looks as if book was prepared for library use but never issued).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 189 pages + iii. First edition. Condition Orange hardback binding Good, minor dirt & some spine fading. Contents Very Good, clean & tight copy. Written by Willian Sanborn Ballinger, known as Bill S Ballinger under the pen name of B. X. Sanborn, an American writer and screenwriter.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this thrilling mystery from American writer B. X. Sanborn. First edition. A curious mystery novel following an extraordinary and sinister man with powers of prophecy who uses his powers for the financial gain of those around him. But John Perseus, an artist who lives nearby, and benefits by the man's powers, becomes uneasy around him. Written by Willian Sanborn Ballinger, under the pen name of B. X. Sanborn, an American writer and screenwriter. In the original black cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is very smart with light sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine. book.