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Hard-boiled Crime Fiction

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Love's Lovely Counterfeit (First Edition in paperback, inscribed to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch)
Love's Lovely Counterfeit (First Edition in paperback, inscribed to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch)
James M. Cain
1957
Signed by Author(s)
1st Edition
The Executioners (Signed First Edition, presentation copy)
The Executioners (Signed First Edition, presentation copy)
John D. MacDonald
1958
Signed by Author(s)
1st Edition
The Wycherly Woman (First Edition, Presentation Copy inscribed by the author to Marshall McLuhan)
The Wycherly Woman (First Edition, Presentation Copy inscribed by the author to Marshall McLuhan)
Kenneth Millar writing as Ross Macdonald
1961
Signed by Author(s)
1st Edition
Everybody Does It (First Edition in paperback, inscribed to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch)
Everybody Does It (First Edition in paperback, inscribed to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch)
James M. Cain
1949
Signed by Author(s)
1st Edition
Inherent Vice (First Edition)
Inherent Vice (First Edition)
Thomas Pynchon
2009
1st Edition
Detour (First Edition, association copy, inscribed in the year and month of publication)
Detour (First Edition, association copy, inscribed in the year and month of publication)
Martin M. Goldsmith
1939
Signed by Author(s)
1st Edition
The Moth (First Edition in paperback, inscribed to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch)
The Moth (First Edition in paperback, inscribed to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch)
James M. Cain
1950
Signed by Author(s)
1st Edition
Serenade (First Edition in paperback, signed, from the collection of Penguin Books founder Kurt E...
Serenade (First Edition in paperback, signed, from the collection of Penguin Books founder Kurt E...
James M. Cain
1947
Signed by Author(s)
1st Edition
The Barbarous Coast (First Edition, Association Copy, inscribed to Otto Penzler)
The Barbarous Coast (First Edition, Association Copy, inscribed to Otto Penzler)
Kenneth Millar writing as Ross Macdonald
1956
Signed by Author(s)
1st Edition
The Chill (First Edition, inscribed by the author to Paul Nelson)
The Chill (First Edition, inscribed by the author to Paul Nelson)
Kenneth Millar writing as Ross Macdonald
1964
Signed by Author(s)
1st Edition
The Drowning Pool (Signed First Edition)
The Drowning Pool (Signed First Edition)
Kenneth Millar writing as John Ross Macdonald
1950
Signed by Author(s)
1st Edition
The Drowning Pool (Signed First Edition, dedication copy, inscribed to Anthony Boucher)
The Drowning Pool (Signed First Edition, dedication copy, inscribed to Anthony Boucher)
[John] Ross Macdonald
1950
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1st Edition
Serenade (Hardcover, inscribed in 1938)
Serenade (Hardcover, inscribed in 1938)
James M. Cain
1937
Signed by Author(s)
The Far Side of the Dollar (First UK Edition, signed by the author)
The Far Side of the Dollar (First UK Edition, signed by the author)
Kenneth Millar writing as Ross Macdonald
1965
Signed by Author(s)
1st Edition
The Blue Hammer (Signed First Edition)
The Blue Hammer (Signed First Edition)
Kenneth Millar writing as Ross Macdonald
1976
Signed by Author(s)
1st Edition
The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance (Original Manuscript with author's corrections)
The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance (Original Manuscript with author's corrections)
Stuart Kaminsky
1986
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Archer in Hollywood: The Moving Target, The Way Some People Die, The Barbarous Coast (Signed Firs...
Archer in Hollywood: The Moving Target, The Way Some People Die, The Barbarous Coast (Signed Firs...
Ross Macdonald
1967
Signed by Author(s)
1st Edition
Cockfighter (First Hardcover Edition, inscribed in 1973)
Cockfighter (First Hardcover Edition, inscribed in 1973)
Charles Willeford
1972
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1st Edition
Poontang (First Edition, inscribed in the year of publication)
Poontang (First Edition, inscribed in the year of publication)
Charles Willeford
1967
Signed by Author(s)
1st Edition
The Maltese Falcon (First Edition)
The Maltese Falcon (First Edition)
Dashiell Hammett
1930
1st Edition
Once Too Often (First Edition)
Once Too Often (First Edition)
Whitman Chambers
1938
1st Edition
Nightfall (First Edition)
Nightfall (First Edition)
David Goodis
1947
1st Edition
Serenade (First Edition)
Serenade (First Edition)
James M. Cain
1937
1st Edition
The Perfect Frame (First Edition)
The Perfect Frame (First Edition)
William Ard
1951
1st Edition
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (First Edition)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (First Edition)
Cornell Woolrich writing as George Hopley
1945
1st Edition
Phantom Lady (First Edition)
Phantom Lady (First Edition)
Cornell Woolrich writing as William Irish
1942
1st Edition
Cockfighter (First Edition)
Cockfighter (First Edition)
Charles Willeford
1972
1st Edition
Nightfall (First UK Edition)
Nightfall (First UK Edition)
David Goodis
1948
1st Edition
The Chair for Martin Rome (First Edition)
The Chair for Martin Rome (First Edition)
Henry Edward Helseth
1947
1st Edition
The Dain Curse (First Edition)
The Dain Curse (First Edition)
Dashiell Hammett
1930
1st Edition
I Should Have Stayed Home (First Edition)
I Should Have Stayed Home (First Edition)
Horace McCoy
1938
1st Edition
The Little Sister in Cosmopolitan, April 1949 (Volume 126, issue 4)
The Little Sister in Cosmopolitan, April 1949 (Volume 126, issue 4)
Raymond Chandler
1949
The Asphalt Jungle (First Edition)
The Asphalt Jungle (First Edition)
W.R. Burnett
1949
1st Edition
High Wall (First Edition)
High Wall (First Edition)
Alan R. Clark
1936
1st Edition
Find a Victim (First Edition)
Find a Victim (First Edition)
Kenneth Millar writing as John Ross Macdonald
1954
1st Edition
Texas by the Tail (First Edition)
Texas by the Tail (First Edition)
Jim Thompson
1965
1st Edition
Snarl of the Beast (First Edition)
Snarl of the Beast (First Edition)
Carroll John Daly
1927
1st Edition
One Lonely Night (First Edition)
One Lonely Night (First Edition)
Mickey Spillane
1951
1st Edition
Original photograph of James Ellroy, circa 1992
Original photograph of James Ellroy, circa 1992
James Ellroy (subject)
1992
The Embezzler (First Separate Edition)
The Embezzler (First Separate Edition)
James M. Cain
1944
1st Edition
The Asphalt Jungle (First Edition, MGM vault file copy)
The Asphalt Jungle (First Edition, MGM vault file copy)
W.R. Burnett
1949
1st Edition
Behold This Woman (First Edition)
Behold This Woman (First Edition)
David Goodis
1947
1st Edition
The Alfred Hitchcock Murder Case (Original Manuscript with author's corrections)
The Alfred Hitchcock Murder Case (Original Manuscript with author's corrections)
George Baxt
1986
Original photograph of Mickey Spillane and his second wife, Sherri Malinou, in 1967
Original photograph of Mickey Spillane and his second wife, Sherri Malinou, in 1967
Mickey Spillane, Sherri Malinou (subjects)
1967
Archer: The Turkish Connection (Original screenplay for the 1975 television episode)
Archer: The Turkish Connection (Original screenplay for the 1975 television episode)
Brian Keith, Marjoe Gortner, John P. Ryan (starring); Ros...
1974
Rogue Cop (First Edition)
Rogue Cop (First Edition)
William P. McGivern
1954
1st Edition
Sans mobile apparent [Without Apparent Motive] (Three photographs from the 1971 film)
Sans mobile apparent [Without Apparent Motive] (Three photographs from the 1971 film)
Philippe Labro (director); Ed McBain (novel); Pierre manc...
1971
"A Man Called Spade": first appearance in The American Magazine, July 1932
"A Man Called Spade": first appearance in The American Magazine, July 1932
Dashiell Hammett
1932
"Too Many Have Lived": first appearance in The American Magazine, October 1932
"Too Many Have Lived": first appearance in The American Magazine, October 1932
Dashiell Hammett
1932
Strangers on Friday (First Edition)
Strangers on Friday (First Edition)
Harry Whittington
1959
1st Edition
Behold This Woman (First Edition)
Behold This Woman (First Edition)
David Goodis
1947
1st Edition
The Writing on the Walls [Off the Wall] (Original typescript with profuse holograph corrections)
The Writing on the Walls [Off the Wall] (Original typescript with profuse holograph corrections)
Charles Willeford
1979
Nothing More Than Murder (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
Nothing More Than Murder (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
Rupert Birkin (screenwriter); Jim Thompson (novel)
1990
Bressio (Photocopied corrected novel proof for an unproduced film)
Bressio (Photocopied corrected novel proof for an unproduced film)
Richard Sapir
1970
The Dark Tunnel (First Edition)
The Dark Tunnel (First Edition)
[Ross Macdonald] Kenneth Millar
1944
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