My Gun is Quick by Spillane, First Edition (32 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good+. #791, 11th Printing, Dec. 191pp. Cover by Lou Kimmel. Light wear, small closed tear to foreedge of front cover. Photos on request. Size: Mass Market.

Paperback. first edition. 791 good, creases Cover by Lou Kimmel. , paperback,

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First softcover printing stated. A good copy with surface wear and corner crease and the glue is coming loose on spine. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. More available upon request. This book is in my possession and will be packed in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #PB3.

Paperback. first edition. 812 good - very good paperback,

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Paperback in fair condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First paperback edition of Spillane's second book and second mystery featuring Mike Hammer, "tough, persistent, lusty detective." A sound very good copy, with slanting to spine, moderate wear and rubbing to covers, usual tanning to pages, neat owner name on front endpaper.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This is the September 1952 Signet books first edition 18th printing. This book is almost like new. It is nice. Tight binding clean pages only minor shelf wear. Yes that grade is spot in.

Softcover. Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition. First edition, mass market paperback, has a slight lean to the binding, which is popped at the rear hinge but remains solid. The book also has chipped bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, mild wear to the cover edges, and rubbing to the covers and hinges. Overall, a Near Very Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st edition. 1st edition, 1950. A Fair copy lacking dust jacket. 8vo., 250 pp., bound in publishers tan cloth. Ex-library with all faults. Spine is faded with loss at top of spine. Spine has old tape repairs. Dust jacket panels glued inside front cover. Library stamp on title page as well as other pages. Black marker lines inside front and rear covers. A Fair copy of this classic.

Paperback. first thus cheap edition. very good paperback,

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signet 791 Spine lean; wear at edges of spine; bumped corners; upper corners creased; some soiling. Please see photos. Interior has some foxing and a price written in ink.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by (cover design) Jae Song (illustrator). First Edition. [faint bits of wear to edges and extremities]. Trade PB SIGNED by Spillane (no inscription) on the inside front cover. Paperback anthology of the first three Mike Hammer novels, published in 1947, 1950 and 1950, respectively. Introduction by Max Allan Collins, who would later continue the Hammer saga following Spillane's death in 2006. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Later Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: very good plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good plus with slight rubbing to edges and ownership name and address at top of front pastedown, otherwise clean and tight. In a dust jacket that presents as very good ($2.50 price attached) albeit with interior tape repairs to the edges and folds, plus four corresponding tape repairs to the exterior (see photos). INSCRIBED BY MICKEY SPILLANE on the front pastedown: "Hi Ron--from Mike and me--hello! Mickey Spillane." The Mike he refers to is Mike Hammer, his famous detective and the protagonist of this and many future novels. An excellent signed copy of Spillane's second book. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. uneceessary tape around the outside edge of the rear panel of the dw. Previous owner has written in ink the titles of the 1st and 3rd book on the title page.Address label of previous owner on front free endpaper with the number two written in ink. Tape ghosts on the endpapers and dw flaps where the dw was probably taped to the book. Book.

Condition: Near Fine. illustrated Wrappers (illustrator). Fourth Printing. Fourth printing. Original illusrated wrappers, near fine with a small stain on the fore-edge. Flat-signed on the title page, "Mickey Spillane.". By Mickey Spillane.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition of Mickey Spillane's classic second novel, 'a major opus of hard-boiled literature'. It features private investigator Mike Hammer. It was the basis for the 1957 film noir mystery film of the same title. You can see the covers of the book in the photographs provided. They are very clean, and the burgundy design and lettering is still quite bright. There isn't much wear on the covers, just some of the color fading which you can see particularly on the spine. The corners, the edges, and the spine ends are in very good condition. This book is very solidly bound. The pages are tight. There aren't any cracks or spaces. The front inside cover and first front end paper have some spotting. The rear inside cover and rear end paper have almost none. There is some dust soiling on the top and middle page edges. You will see (if you look carefully) occasional instances where the dust soiling has just managed to reach on to the actual page. As you might imagine, the effect is extremely minor (I've provided a photograph, the last one, which has a little more of this than most of the others). There are two other pages (162 and 163) that each have a half-dozen very small similarly light colored stains unrelated to the edge soiling. Even so, I think it is accurate to say that the pages are exceptionally clean. The fourth photo will give you a good idea how the typical page looks. The condition of the pages is excellent. I saw only a few very thin light creases. I saw one crease from a corner being turned down. No one has written their name or anything else anywhere in this book. There are no markings and there are no attachments. I saw only two unsigned (like mine) copies of this first edition that sold in auction. Unlike mine, both had dust jackets. One sold for $840.00. The other with a poor jacket (tears, small chips, and tape reinforcement on the inside) sold for $777.00. 'The story starts with Mike Hammer meeting a red-headed prostitute in a diner. She is hassled by a man she appears to know and fear but Mike deals with him swiftly. Despite little conversation, he gives her some money to get a real job and leaves. The next day she is found dead, the victim of an apparent hit-and-run accident. Mike does not believe this and proceeds to hunt down her murderers. In the process he uncovers a massive and powerful prostitution ring in New York.'.

Hardcover. Condition: Good++ condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. First Edition (so stated). New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1950. Good++ condition. A tight copy. Cover lightly rubbed, with a little finger soil. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Interior is FINE -- fresh, crisp, and unmarked. Bound in the original, light brown textured-paper covered boards, with maroon lettering and decoration. Second Mike Hammer mystery. By the author of I, THE JURY. From Dutton's GUILT EDGED MYSTERY series. Both the spine and front cover feature the publisher's device for this series, a man wearing a fedora with his hands reaching for the sky. From the publisher: "You had better buy this one right now, while you're standing here. This way you have it. If you start to read it here you won't be able to put it down and the chances are you don't have the time to spare right now to finish it here. When you get home you're still going to be thinking about it; by the time you get back in tomorrow to pick it up it may be gone. You may never have heard of me before so I'll tell you I'm Mike Hammer, a private eye, or detective (it depends on how you look at those things), and I don't operate in what is generally known as 'the better places.' But I am a guy of action, and I DO have ideas of my own, try as some people will to do me out of them. I don't make a habit of hanging around the not-so-fancy houses, the bars and the other joints down in the Bowery and the dirty little side streets and alleys off Third Avenue but my work does take me down there quite a lot. I don't make a steady diet of rescuing dames on the loose, either, but I even have to do that once in a while, too. I know my way around in this world, particularly in the less generally well-known parts of it. If you want to take the nite off from some of your own more routine activities, buy this, come on with me and I'll take you down there below Delancey Street and introduce you to some of my acquaintances (a lot of them don't live long enough to become real friends) and I promise I'm not giving you a bum steer. And remember, MY GUN IS QUICK.". First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Good++ condition/No dust jacket. 8vo. 250pp.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. STATED FIRST EDITION, NEW ENDPAPERS, THE DUST JACKET IS CROPPED AT EACH END, PROBABLY AN EX-LIBRARY COPY, NO MARKINGS AT ALL TO THE BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. New York, 1950, First Edition (stated), E. P. Dutton; Fair Hardcover in Good Dust Jacket; ex-library with usual markings; dust jacket (in protective clear plastic wrap) is adhered to interior boards; a little over 1/4" piece neatly removed from along lower edge of dust jacket (with price of $2.50 mostly visible at lower edge of front flap) and dust jacket (in protective clear plastic wrap) is adhered to interior boards causing the exterior boards to be visible at the top and bottom edge of the dust jacket; some darkening to part of top and bottom edge of front and rear blank front free end page; several small to tiny page stains affecting several words all of which are readable; several bumps and very, very small to tiny board edge tears; colors on dust jacket are mostly bright and distinct; tight copy.

Cloth. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. 1st Edition. 8vo. Grey cloth with maroon decoration in pictorial price clipped dust jacket. Spillane 2nd book and second Mike Hammer. Chipping to extremities and tape marks to rear panel of dj. Still a decent copy.

[Detective novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.50; [6], blank. Publisher's tan cloth with red blocking to the spine and upper, photographic dust-jacket priced at $2.50. Contents clean, some dampstaining to wrapper with some offsetting to the endpapers, used jacket has been carefully restored. Shows well. The second Mike Hammer murder mystery, which was read by the future James Bond novelist Ian Fleming in March 1950. Gilbert p.63 'James Bond Source Books'.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine (Facsimile DW). First Edition. Book is bound in patterned (faux-cloth looking) tan boards, stamped in dark brown. Some scuffing to extremes, but book is still tight and clean. Basis for the 1957 movie of the same title that starred Robert Bray as Mike Hammer. 250 pp. Inscribed and Signed by Mr. Spillane on a bookplate affixed to the half-title page. Fitted with a facsimile dust jacket that fits the book perfectly. Inscribed and Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. My Gun is Quick by Mickey Spillane; (First Edition) A firm square copy. Light bumping to corners. Moderate sun tanning to spine and panels. Clean text block. Pictorial dust jacket. Moderate edgewear, including some loss to spine head and corners. Crease running through front panel. Now preserved in clear, protected cover. Stated First Edition. Second Mike Hammer mystery. Tough and violent, in New York?s mean streets. Filmed starring Robert Bray. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. My Gun is Quick by Mickey Spillane; (First Edition) Tight sharp copy Nice jacket; slight chipping on top and bottom of spine Second Mike Hammer mystery. Tough and violent, in New York?s mean streets. Filmed starring Robert Bray. BOOK.

First edition. First paperback edition. Signet Books 791. Inscribed by the author on the inside front cover to founder and publisher of Penguin Books and The New American Library, Kurt Enoch, and from his personal collection. "Here's a big grin and a hello from Mike and his gang (and me) -- Hope you enjoy his problems enough to keep up with him in the future -- Sincerely, Mickey Spillane." Light wear to the spine ends, lightly rubbed along the spine, corners and extremities, and a faint crease to the top edge of the rear cover, else a bright, near fine copy in color pictorial wrappers. "Kurt Enoch (22 November 1895 ? 15 February 1982) was a German-born publisher who co-founded Albatross Books in Germany and Penguin Books Inc. and New American Library in the United States, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market in those countries." ---- Wikipedia. A tremendous association copy. A letter of provenance is included with this title.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. FIRST. A NEAR FINE FIRST IN DJ. SIGNED ON A BOOKPLATE. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good- dustjacket. Gray boards. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in red. Octavo. 250pps. Stated First Edition. The spine is slightly sunned and there is a small abrasion, as of a price-erasure, in the upper corner of the ffep. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text is immaculate; absolutely no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has moderate chipping at the spine-ends (and a small one at the top of the rear panel), a tear extending upward about 1 1/2" from the bottom of the front flap-fold, and modest touches of rubbing and soiling; the original price is intact. Quite a nice, presentable copy -- scarce in jacket -- of Spillane's second novel (following 'I, The Jury'). Filmed in 1957 by United Artists, starring Robert Bray as Hammer. "You had better buy this one right now, while you're standing here. This way you have it. If you start to read it here you won't be able to put it down and the chances are you don't have the time to spare right now to finish it here. When you get home you're still going to be thinking about it; by the time you get back in tomorrow to pick it up it may be gone. "You may never have heard of me before so I'll tell you I'm Mike Hammer, a private eye, or detective (it depends on how you look at those things), and I don't operate in what is generally known as 'the better places.' But I am a guy of action, and I DO have ideas of my own, try as some people will to do me out of them. "I don't make a habit of hanging around the not-so-fancy houses, the bars and the other joints down in the Bowery and the dirty little side streets and alleys off Third Avenue but my work does take me down there quite a lot. I don't make a steady diet of rescuing dames on the loose, either, but I even have to do that once in a while, too. I know my way around in this world, particularly in the less generally well-known parts of it. "If you want to take the nite off from some of your own more routine activities, buy this, come on with me and I'll take you down there below Delancey Street and introduce you to some of my acquaintances (a lot of them don't live long enough to become real friends) and I promise I'M not giving you a bum steer. And remember, My Gun Is Quick. -- Signed, Mike." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision, photos can be emailed upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing, SIGNED by Mickey Spillane. A beautiful copy of this original dustjacket that is still rich in color with slight wear to the edges. The book is in nice condition with some light rubbing to the panels and endpapers. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean and there are no marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a sharp copy of this true first edition INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good Plus. illustrated Wrappers (illustrator). First Edition. First paperback edition. Original illustrated wrappers, very good plus. Author's second book. Signed on the inside of the front cover.: "Hi Barry, another 'golden oldie'! Mickey Spillane.". By Mickey Spillane.