Search Results: nothing more than murder by thompson

New York: Harper & Brothers, [1949]., 1949. First edition. First edition. Author's third hardcover book. Fine in dust jacket with light professional internal restoration to spine ends and corners and some minor light rubbing to front fore-edge. An attractive copy with no loss and the last to be published during his lifetime. Joe Wilmot and his wife Elizabeth own a small movie house. Not being particularly fond of her husband, when Elizabeth catches Joe kissing another woman, she tells him that she is willing to "disappear" if Joe agrees to pay her $25,000. The three decide they will murder a stranger, leave the woman's body in Joe's garage, set the garage on fire, and then, pretending that the dead woman is Elizabeth, collect the $25,000 from the insurance company. This is a tale of fraud, murder, and adultery ... a powerful tale of suspense that leads to a shuddering, disturbing conclusion.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 234, (1) pp. Original light green cloth lettered in black. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with light edge wear with a bit of rubbing to front panel, unclipped and unfaded. A very neat, clean, unsophisticated copy. The crime author's third novel, his last published in hardcover, rare in such a lovely dust jacket.

New York: Harper & Brothers, [1949]. First edition. A near fine copy, previous owners signature in a near fine dust jacket, light shelf wear and rubbing to corners, top edge and spine ends; closed tear and crease to upper rear right corner at spine fold, some light rubbing to black background color. A very nice example of this title. (8270). Octavo, cloth. The author's third novel and first mystery.

First Edition, First Printing. In very good condition, clean and unmarked, cloth boards with light wear at spine ends, in a good dust jacket, chipped at spine end with tape repairs, $2.50 publisher's price intact on flap.

Harper & Brothers. First Printing. Stated First Edition with A - Y code on copyright page. Lending library stamps on inside front cover and ffep, with stamp along bottom edge of pages. Toned on inside covers and end pages due to previous tape strips. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, bottom 1" missing. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1949.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. First Edition (stated). 1st Printing. Cloth. About Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition stated, FIrst Printing (A-Y). Hard cover 8vo in green cloth w/black medallion and spine titles. About Fine book in Very Good unrestored original unclipped DJ, now in clear protective cover. Front bottom edge worn, else book Fine and unmarked; jacket has edgewear and creasing, 1" tears to front corners. Author's THIRD BOOK and FIRST mystery. 234pp.

NY: Harper & Brothers. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1949. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. DJ is rubbed at the edges, with light surface rubbing/soil. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 234 pages .

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. First Edition. A little musty; very good in a dust jacket with interior tape mends.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. Thompson's first mystery in the scarce original jacket. There is a stamp on the front pastedown from a book & library service, a scuff on the front free end paper from sticker removal, and a typewritten blurb glued to the rear free end paper. No other library indications. The spine ends are bumped with a bit of rubbing to the edges of the green boards. Light tape residue to the boards and end papers where an old jacket protector had been attached. Previous owner's name stamped on the front pastedown. The binding is square and solid. The jacket has internal stiff paper reinforcement to the spine and flap folds as well as the upper and lower edges. Jacket is rubbed with small chips at the corners and spine ends, flaps are corner clipped with a crease to the rear flap, in newer mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Ex-Library.

Mexico City: Editorial Novaro-Mexico, 1958. Softcover. Very Good. First Mexican edition, and probably the first Spanish language edition. Pages a bit browned, spine slightly sunned, spine edges a little rubbed, still a handsome, very good plus copy in wrappers as issued.

Hillman Books. New York: Hillman Periodicals, Inc. , 1949 first edition. 38 very good -fine, reading crease paperback,

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 234 pages; VG-/None; contemporary full green cloth binding; spine yellow, with black lettering; mild shelf wear and soiling; corners bumped; some wear to crown and tail of spine; pages clean; shelved Case 6. 1355405. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Slight sunning at the spine, very good or better lacking the dust jacket. The third and last of Thompson's three hardcover novels published in his lifetime. Wife of the owner of the only motion picture theater in town hires an unattractive woman to help around the house, but she begins to grow on her husband.

Mexico: Editorial Novaro-Mexico. Coleccion Nova-Mex 115. First Mexican, and perhaps first Spanish, edition. Translated byJorge Peon Bolio. Handsome vintage paperback that looks, at a glance, like a Lion book from the same period. . Near Fine. Paperback. First Thus. 1958.

New York: Hillman Periodicals, 1949. First Paperback Edition. Thompson's third novel, centered around a murderous plot by a small-town theater owner, his wife, and his lover. The Hillman edition precedes the more common Dell paperback by several years. Preceded by the hardcover first published by Harper & Brothers the same year. Octavo (16cm); illustrated wrappers; magenta edge-staining; 192pp. Vertical creasing to spine, pinpoint wear to extremities, with tanning to text edges and a few faint stress creases; Very Good+.

Dell, 1953. Dell #738. This is the first Dell paperback printing (after the hardcover and Hillman paperback edition). Nice copy, minor wear, flat corner crease on rear cover. Very presentable copy.. First Thus. Paperback. vg/vg+.

1st Dell paperback edition. Dated 1949 but actually issued 1953. Dell Books - New York.. Dell Books #738. 1st printing with 25c cover price. Fine. .

Dell, 1949. 1st Ed thus. softcover. Very Good+. mass market paperback, Dell 738, book is clean and straight, pages yellowing, a crime novel, 191 pages" .

[New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1953]., 1953. First edition. First Dell paperback edition. Author's first book originally printed by Harper & Brothers in 1949. The first paperback edition was published by Hillman in 1949. Lightly rubbed at spine ends, else fine in pictorial wrappers with 25 cent price mark. This Dell paperback is difficult to find in fine condition. Joe Wilmot and his wife Elisabeth jointly own and run a profitable smalltown movie house. Their marriage is empty and passionless and made more complicated when Carol Farmer, a business student, comes to live with them. Despite Carol's unattractiveness, Joe has an affair with her. Elisabeth discovers the affair and blackmails the couple to fix an insurance scam in which she supposedly dies (substituting an innocent victim in her place) and nets the lucrative pay-off. Murder, arson, blackmail and suicide combine to make an exciting thriller. A difficult title from an important writer.

Harper. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. No Dust Jacket Boards dampstained. (Detectives, Mystery)