Missing Persons by Goodis David (19 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Book Club edition. Three books in one. (mystery, crime, vintage) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

hardcover, Condition: Good, Detective Book Club, NY, c.1950, 8vo., cloth, (131,123,213)pp., foced foredges, G in worn dj $.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. App, Roy (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. First paperback edition. Pocket Book No.833. Originally published in hard covers in the US by Morrow in 1950. The front cover has small tears at the top right corner which have been carefully repaired to the reverse. The rear cover is a little discoloured with two small surface chips at the left side. The spine has three small surface cracks and some edge rubbing. The top edges of the pages are a little discoloured. Browning to the insides of the covers. Browning to the pages with a small chip to one top corner but the pages are otherwise unmarked. Cover illustration by Roy App. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Undated UK printing,spine creased, front hinge taped, page edges tanned.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. App, Roy (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. First paperback edition. Pocket Book No.833. Originally published in hard covers in the US by Morrow in 1950. There is a tiny surface chip at the bottom left corner of the back cover but the covers are otherwise clean and unmarked. Browning to the insides of the covers. Light browning to the pages which are otherwise unmarked - the book is crisp and feels unread. Cover illustration by Roy App. First printing.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. first PB. 833, very good + hardboiled suspense novel, paperback,

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO90071811: 1965. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 190 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 843.0872-Le roman policier.

Paperback. first PB. 833, very good -fine, , reading crease hardboiled suspense novel, paperback,

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st Printing. Pocket 833 a beautiful copy from my own collection never read. Book.

Paperback. first PB. 833, near fine, unread hardboiled suspense novel, paperback,

First Edition. Very good copy with a thin split to the front hinge and some minor edge wear and spotting to the boards in an excellent facsimile dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG++. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine (Facsimile DW). First Edition. Previous owner's small ownership label on front pastedown (completely hidden by front flap of dust jacket). Small four digit number written on top corner of ffep. Overall, a tight, clean copy of this early Goodis first edition bounf in boards, stamped in red. 186pp. Included in the price is a facsimile dust jacket that fits the book perfectly.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Immerman Studios(Cover Artist) (illustrator). First Edition. OF MISSING PERSONS by David Goodis FIRST Slight lean, otherwise firm. Light offset toning to endpapers. No markings. Spinefade, back cover darkened, small chips, a few short closed tears (taped underside). Spotting to flap folds. Penciled '5/3' on flap below 2.50 price. First edition, 1950. No other dates or printings indicated. Black cloth, red lettering to spine. 186 pp. Original Dust Jacket. Based on a screenplay he wrote. The last of his novels to first be published in hardcover. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Tips of corners show some pinpoint wear, previous owner initials on endpaper. otherwise a fabulous copy, super clean and bright, with a tight binding and clean pages. Dust jacket has light wear to bottom corners, more modest wear to top corners (with a small chip at head of spine), light toning and a few light smudges to back. otherwise quite clean and attractive, now protected in an archival cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 12mo Pp. 186. Black cloth boards with red lettered spine. Spine ends lightly rubbed and bumped, book clean throughout and the binding tight and square. Price clipped dust jacket, without any tape or repairs, but with two closed tears, short one at top edge of front cover, and another one about 3 cm up along the front panel right at the spine, with a faint crease and some light nicks along the spine. Nice copy in jacket.

Condition: Very Good. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1950. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's black boards, red spine titling; [6],186pp. Moderate scuffing to board extremities, spine a bit cocked, scattering soil to textblock, else a Very Good, sound copy, albeit lacking scarce dust jacket. Noir crime novel by the author best known for his 1946 mystery Dark Passage, adapted into the film of the same title the next year starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

First edition. Near fine in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners, a small crease to top edge and bottom edge of front cover and lightly soiled on the back panel. Author's fifth mystery novel. Paul Ballard is the head of Missing Persons Bureau, and his customers are the people of the city who have lost other people and want Ballard to bring them back. But Ballard's prize customer is found dead, and this particular murder tears City Hall wide open. It left him with one crazy thousand-to-one chance of saving all the things he stood for, and his boss was not fooling when he said, "It's your funeral!".

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in red on spine; dustjacket; 186pp. Some pinpoint wear to spine ends, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50) and unfaded, lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny nicks and short tears and one small skinned area at crown; an attractive, Very Good+ example. Goodis's fifth novel, his last one in hardcover before churning out a dozen of the finest paperback originals ever written. Basis for the 1956 Pierre Chenal film 'Section des Disparus' starring Guillermo Battaglia and Amalia Bernabé. Hubin, p.173.