Pocket Book Mysteries - Vintage 1940s 1950s Hardboiled Detective Thriller Books

Description: Take your pick from the drop down menu above, and thanks for your interest!All books in Fair to Good+ condition, with light wear to corners, edges, spines and covers. Buy 2, 3, or more, and get a bulk discount.Prices are based on condition & scarcity.Books ship via media mail, with tracking numbers. Let me know if you have any questions, I'll just keep listing more and more of these from a vast reservoir.Take a moment to peep our other vintage paperback listings, I am slowly uploading them by publisher and genre. In this listing:White Collar Girl by Faith Baldwin - good condition - #311 1945 3rd PrintingThe Naked Eye by Henrietta Martin and Gita Lewis - fair condition - #770 1950 1st PrintingDr. Whitney's Secretary by Dorothy P. Walker - fair condition - #583 1949 1st PrintingDiagnosis: Homicide by Lawrence G. Blochman - fair condition - #793 1951 1st PrintingThe Crooked Frame by William P. McGivern - poor condition - #961 1953 1st PrintingNight Extra by William P. McGivern - fair condition - #1193 1958 1st PrintingShield For Murder by William P. McGivern - good condition - #870 1952 1st PrintingBeyond A Reasonable Doubt by C.W. Grafton - good condition - #752 1951 1st PrintingLast Seen Wearing by Hillary Waugh - fair condition - #988 1954 1st PrintingFast Company by Marco Page - poor condition - #222 1943 1st PrintingA Time To Die by Hilda Lawrence - very good condition - #439 1947 3rd PrintingThe Double Take by Roy Huggins - fair condition - #524 1948 1st PrintingThe Man With My Face by Samuel W. Taylor - good condition - #639 1950 1st PrintingExperiment Perilous by Margaret Carpenter - poor condition - #278 1944 1st PrintingBehind That Curtain by Earl Derr Biggers - poor condition - #191 1942 1st PrintingMy Dead Wife by William Worley - good condition - #774 1951 1st PrintingThe Other Body In Grant's Tomb by Richard Starnes - good condition - #917 1953 1st PrintingThe Hollywood Hoax by Robert Caine Frazer - good condition - #6064 1961 1st PrintingThe Case Of The Journeying Boy by Michael Innes- fair condition - #741 1950 1st PrintingAbove Suspicion by Helen MacInnes - very good condition - #186 1942 1st PrintingHaving A Wonderful Crime by Craig Rice - good condition - #289 1954 1st PrintingThe Fourth Postman by Craig Rice - poor condition - #651 1950 1st PrintingThe Mystery Of Batty Ridge by Alan Gregg - good condition - #J-47 1950 1st Printing Jr. EditionA Most Contagious Game by Samuel Grafton - good condition - #1102 1956 1st PrintingKill And Tell by Howard Rigsby - good condition - #934 1953 1st PrintingThe Murder Of My Aunt by Richard Hull - good condition - #381 1946 1st PrintingThe Benson Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine - good condition - #333 1st PrintingExit For A Dame by Richard Ellington - fair condition - #941 1953 1st PrintingPuzzle For Puppets by Patrick Quentin - fair condition - #420 1946 1st PrintingLove Is A Deadly Weapon by Patrick Quentin - poor condition - #614 1949 1st PrintingNever Kill A Cop by Lee Costigan - very good condition - #1256 1959 1st PrintingRebecca by Daphne du Maurier - good condition - #205 1943 1st Printing About the Publisher (from wiki):Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books. Pocket Books produced the first mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in the United States in early 1939 and revolutionized the publishing industry. The German Albatross Books had pioneered the idea of a line of color-coded paperback editions in 1931 under Kurt Enoch, and Penguin Books in Britain had refined the idea in 1935 and had one million books in print by the following year. Pocket Books was founded by Richard L. Simon, M. Lincoln ("Max") Schuster and Leon Shimkin, partners of Simon & Schuster, along with Robert de Graff.[3] Penguin's success inspired entrepreneur Robert de Graff, who partnered with publishers Simon & Schuster to bring it to the American market. Priced at 25 cents and featuring the logo of Gertrude the kangaroo (named after the mother-in-law of the artist, Frank Lieberman), Pocket Books' editorial policy of reprints of light literature, popular non-fiction, and mysteries was coordinated with its strategy of selling books outside the traditional distribution channels. The small format size, 4.25" by 6.5" (10.8 cm by 16.5 cm) and the fact that the books were glued rather than stitched, were cost-cutting innovations.

Price: 3.95 USD

Location: Olympia, Washington

End Time: 2024-11-02T17:07:35.000Z

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