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New York: Knopf, 1959., 1959. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to spine ends, and with two tiny closed tears to top edge of rear panel. Lew Archer is hired by an elderly woman to find her son, Anthony Galton. Anthony disappeared twenty-three years before along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. All Archer's investigation turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be Galton's son, and a con game whose stakes are so high that someone is still willing to kill for them. Beautiful copy housed in a black, cloth slipcase with three red leather labels on spine with titles stamped in gold gilt.

A NEAR FINE FIRST EDITION IN DUST JACKET. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE.

Knopf Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). FIRST. A FINE FIRST IN DJ. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Pink/white decorative boards. Inscribed to ffep by Kenneth Millar in Santa Barbara, Feb. 1967, to Oscar winning screenwriter Daniel Fuchs. Spine ends/points lightly frayed/softened. Edges lightly rubbed. A few pencilled notations to front pastedown. Sound binding and joints. The DJ in mylar is near fine, with a hint of handling. Flap price $3.00.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First edition. A near fine copy, some dustiness to top edge with some light fade to top stain, some light foxing to end papers, light shelf wear in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear, touch of color fade to pink color in design on spine panel and very light foxing to flaps. A very nice copy. (8537). Octavo, boards. Signed by Millar. A Lew Archer novel. "Cumulatively exciting, beautifully plotted and written with taste, perception and compassion." - Anthony Boucher. "...a mystery that turns upon multiple questions of inheritance and identity." Nolan, Ross Macdonald: A Biography, p. 198. [Reference: Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 676-678].

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Inscribed by Macdonald on the front endpaper. Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), soiled at the back panel, rubbed and with a few creases and small chips at the edges. Red patterned paper on the boards, rubbed at the edges. Firmly bound with a forward lean, green top stain, clean internally. The eighth Lew Archer novel, considered by Tom Nolan to be one of the first of Macdonald's serious works.

Knopf Book. Fine. Hardcover. FIRST. A FINE FIRST IN DJ. SIGNED ON LAID IN CARD.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1970. First edition stated. Signed by Dorothy B. Hughes on front endpaper. She is the famed author of IN A LONELY PLACE, THE BAMBOO BLONDE, AND THE SO BLUE MARBLE. It appears to be from her library. There is no inscriiption. She lived in Southern California at the time of her death and this was purchased in North Holllywood. Slight twist to spine but otherwise clean and bright. In mylar. . Signed by Dorthy B. Hughes . First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1973., 1973. First edition. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. This is copy 93. Fine in decorated paper over boards as issued.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. Pp. 45, [1] colophon. Illustrated paper boards, lightly bowed and the spine a touch sunned. Edition of 250 copies, this is no. 48, signed by Ross Macdonald.