I took Katy antiquing up in Wisconsin for her birthday last
weekend. While she looked for Fiestaware, I, of course,
haunted the bookstalls and found some unexpected
treasures.
A Dell mapbook of Dashiell Hammett's BLOOD MONEY for a buck.
A BUCK! I've seen those go for fifty dollars or more!
A hardback of my favorite Mike Shayne, A TASTE FOR VIOLENCE,
for only three dollars, with the DJ completely intact. It was
a Book Club edition, but still, it WAS a hardback.
A hardback of Thomas Walsh's second novel, THE NIGHT WATCH,
for three dollars, with the DJ in pretty good shape. This was
Walsh's second book, after the Edgar-winning NIGHTMARE IN
MANHATTAN, and one of his comparatively rare procedural
novels (best-known for cop stories due to the hundreds of
short procedurals he wrote, only four of his novels fit that
category). THE NIGHT WATCH was the partial basis for the '50s
noir PUSHOVER, with Fred MacMurray as a crooked cop.
I've generally found that the best book prices tend to be
found in antique malls rather than book dealers. Has that
been the case with any of you?
JIM DOHERTY
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