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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. About fine in near fine dustwrapper that is trimmed about .25" shorter than the book. Suspense novel about black private eye Toussaint Moore in dicey circumstances as he investigates in Southern Ohio and Kentucky. The 1958 Edgar Award winner for Best Novel. Ed Lacy was the pseudonym of Leonard S. Zinberg, who was white (but married to a black woman). Some of his work was published as being by a black man. He is credited with creating Moore as "the first credible African-American PI" character in fiction. The first edition is very uncommon.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1957. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. [vi], 175, [1] pp. Original gray cloth backstrip and red paper-covered boards, spine lettered in black and red. Near Fine with light wear, small bookplate remnant to front free endpaper faint tidemark to rear paste down. In Very Good unclipped dust jacket with dampstaining visible on back panel, otherwise only on verso, spine sunned. A hard-boiled Edgar-winning crime novel that features a protagonist who has been called "the first credible African-American private eye," Toussaint Moore. Rare in hardcover, especially with jacket.

New York: Harper & Brothers, [1957]., 1957. First edition. First edition. Fine in dust jacket with trivial wear to the spine ends and corners and lightly soiled on the white rear cover. Features Toussaint Moore, the first Black private eye in mystery fiction. An historically significant book and rare in collectors’ condition. Winner of the Edgar for Best Novel of 1957.

New York: Harper, 1957. First. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Small 8vo, cloth backed boards, very light wear at the corners; neatly mended short tear on the spine; d.w. New York: Harper, (1957). First edition. Near fine.<br/> <br/> Edgar Award winning novel. "If you're a Negro private eye from up North, you find it tricky sledding in a small Ohio town, close to the Kentucky border."<br/> <br/>

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. Very Good/Very Good. The 1957 stated 1st edition of this Edgar Award-winning detective novel, purportedly the first work of detective fiction starring an African-American lead private eye, in this case Toussaint Moore. A solid, prefectly serviceable copy. Tight and VG, with light lean at the spine and the removal of a bookplate at the rear endpaper, showing the remnants of glue. And in a crisp, price-intact ($2.95), VG dustjacket, with very light chipping and creasing along the spine ends and the panel edges, light rubbing to the front panel and a bit of soiling at the rear panel. Still though, an appealing copy. Octavo, the stylish jacket design by Boill Hughes. From the front dustjacket flap: "If you're a Negro private eye from up North, you find it tricky sledding in a small Ohio town, close to the Kentucky border."

New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1957. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket, first printing as stated on copyright page, book has an ownership stamp on the inside of the front cover and on the bottom outer edge of the pages, some tanning/soiling to the blank end-papers along with a small asterisk in ink on the front end-paper, several tiny areas of wear along the bottom edge of the cloth and top corners, the binding is clean and tight with some softening to the spine-ends and the contents are fine, the jacket, which is 1/8 of an inch shorter than the book has tanning, mainly on the rear panel, some tan soiling on the front panel along with a few small areas of surface-wear, a large piece of clear tape has been placed on the front flap and a small label is present at bottom of spine, the original price (2.95) is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, please see our photos to supplement this description .

Poisoned Pen Press, 2022. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Printing. A whisper of spine-slant. First printing thus.