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In 1977 Don Herron began leading The Dashiell Hammett Tour, now the longest-running literary tour in the nation. On this site you’ll find information on current walks — dates, where to meet, arranging tours by appointment — plus a hard-boiled blog with news, reviews of books and film, and a dash of noir.
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Tag Archives: Book Collecting
Rediscovered: More on Mme. Adista
Terry Zobeck reports from behind the scenes on the recent auction of Lawrence Block’s — until recently unknown — second book: The winning bidder is one of the horde of satisfied readers of my Block bibliography. Once he’d read it … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Block Off the Block
Our man on the eBay beat, Brian Leno, reports in on the sale of Lawrence Block’s second book, nabbing the minimum bid of merely $500: The “Rodney Canewell”-Lawrence Block book ended up with only one bidder. It ended at 3:32a.m. … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Hawkwood
Autograph Hound Saturday jumps me! Already? Yep. Via the offices of that maniacal collector Brian Leno, who tells me he has “a Francis Lederer coming today. Remember him as the Count in Night Gallery‘s version of Manly Wade Wellman’s ‘The … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged Adventure, Autographs, Book Collecting, Brian Leno, Doug Ellis, Marion Polk Angellotti
Rediscovered: C. L. Moore
For this Autograph Hound Saturday the noted book and pulp collector Kevin Cook has chosen to spotlight C. L. Moore, who died on this date in 1987. His half-shelf of Moore hardcover titles appears above courtesy the intrepid Victoria Cook … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged Autographs, Book Collecting, C.L. Moore, Henry Kuttner, Kevin Cook, World Fantasy Convention
Rediscovered: The Writings of Lawrence Block, Item by Item, Book by Book
You may have been thinking, hey, I wonder, What has Terry Zobeck been up to lately? A guy like that, who knows what he’s been digging around in. You got that right. One of the most prolific Guest Bloggers for … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged Book Collecting, Gene Bilbrew, Lawrence Block, Madame Adista, Terry Zobeck
Rediscovered: More on Collecting Haefele
Ah, my mention last October of Lloyd Currey not having seen the true first of John D. Haefele’s A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos has shaken up the valuation on the title and seems to have pried a couple of … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Arkham House Ephemera Back on the Block
In the last month or so bidding on items of Arkham House ephemera on eBay has been hot and heavy. The other day I popped a note to my ephemera collecting bud John D. Haefele and reported: “To my surprise … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged Arkham House, August Derleth, Book Collecting, Donald Sidney-Fryer, Firsts, Frank Belknap Long, Harry Morris, John D. Haefele, The Arkham Collector
Rediscovered: E. Charles E. Vivian
Autograph Hound Super-Sunday (Revisited), and the noted book and pulp collector Kevin Cook returns to one of his favorite authors, “Viv.” The shots of the dustjacketed books were taken by Victoria Cook in the wilds of Kevin’s library. Take it, … Continue reading
Hammett: Working the Electronic Morgue
Speaking of the epic sale of Otto Penzler’s mystery library, you may recall that I used Evan Lewis as my man on the street covering the events, since he was interested in hunting down the auction lists and putting up … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, News
Tagged Book Collecting, Evan Lewis, John D. Squires, Lillian Hellman, Otto Penzler, Terry Zobeck
Hammett: More Zobeck v. Otto
Terry Zobeck popped in a micro review related to the sale of Otto Penzler’s mystery library a few months ago, which sucked all the oxygen out of the room for awhile. The word, from Terry: My copy of Otto Penzler’s … Continue reading
