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Willeford, Charles Ray. Miami Blues. St Martins Pr, 1984.
Price: US$23.44 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library.
Seller: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Willeford, Charles Ray. Miami Blues. St Martins Pr, 1984.
Price: US$23.44 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Willeford, Charles Ray. Miami Blues. St Martins Pr, 1984.
Price: US$23.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. No DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelving wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Book has a slight musty smell from basement storage.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Charles Willeford. Miami Blues (FIRST PRINTING). St. Martin's Press, 1984.
Price: US$42.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: FIRST PRINTING of the FIRST EDITION with full number line. Hardback ex-library book with dust jacket. ABSOLUTELY NO LIBRARY MARKS OR TAGS ON THE VERY GOOD PLUS JACKET! The jacket is NOT price-clipped and has some rubbing along the edges. The book has a couple of neat library stamps and a spot on the closed page edges. There is no card pocket.
Seller: Foster Books, Board of Directors FABA, Davie, FL, U.S.A.
Willeford, charles. MIAMI BLUES. st martin's press, 1984.
Price: US$53.00 + shipping
Description: fine in a fine dust jacket looks , but an ex-library with flaps glued down, white spine sticker
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.
Willeford, Charles Ray. Miami Blues. St Martins Press, New York, 1984.
Price: US$57.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Withdrawn library copy with markings, stamps and pocket. Dust jacket in mylar cover.
Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.
Willeford, Charles Ray. Miami Blues: A Novel. St Martins Pr, 1984.
Price: US$72.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "First Edition" stated with complete number line - 1st printing, light soiling to edges of text block with a tiny drip spot to upper fore edge, mylar enclosed dj shows light edge wear with a touch of soiling - a little scuffing to top/bottom corners of folds to flaps and top/bottom of spine - a little scattered scuffing to rear panel - no tears, chips, creases and original price intact
Seller: H.S. Bailey, Fort Myers, FL, U.S.A.
Willeford, Charles Ray. Miami Blues. St Martins Pr, 1984.
Price: US$77.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting.
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Charles Willeford. Miami Blues: A Novel. St. Martin's Press, U.S.A., 1984.
Price: US$79.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover is in very good condition (Ex-Library, library stamp on the top and bottom of the text block and on the Title Page, stamped on the FFEP, library card pocket glued to the FFEP, other markings/initials on the inside of the front cover and FFEP, foxing on the insides of the front and back covers and soiled. Unable to see the condition of the front and back covers because the jacket has been glued to the insides of the front and back covers). Dust jacket is in very good condition (multiple tears at the creases and spine, rubbed, faded, scratched and edge wear). Brodart protected. 191 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Perhaps Willeford's best known novel, certainly the one that made him famous. Homicide detective Hoke Moseley is the target of career criminal "Junior" Frenger, who flew into Miami Airport and disappeared leaving a corpse behind.
Seller: Lotsa Books, Fort Smith, AR, U.S.A.
Willeford, Charles. Miami Blues. St. Martins Press (1984), New York, 1984.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 191p octavo, A very good copy in a very good dust jacket
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Willeford, Charles Ray. Miami Blues. St Martins Pr, 1984.
Price: US$100.65 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. Fast Shipping and good customer service
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
Willeford, Charles Ray. Miami Blues. St Martins Pr, 1984.
Price: US$104.27 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Willeford, Charles Ray. MIAMI BLUES. St Martins Pr, 1984.
Price: US$104.69 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.8
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Willeford, Charles Ray. Miami Blues. St Martins Pr, 1984.
Price: US$105.08 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Willeford, Charles. Miami Blues. St Martins Pr, New York, 1984.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. Light edge wear to jacket. else both volume and jacket near fine in all respects.
Seller: James Graham, Bookseller, ABAA, Palm Desert, CA, U.S.A.
Willeford, Charles. Miami Blues. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1984.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NF in a VG- dust jacket. The book cover is black with gold lettering on the spine. Dust jacket is rumpled on the front panel, has scotch tape reinforcement on the back.
Seller: Grove Antiquarian, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Willeford, Charles. MIAMI BLUES`. NY, St, Martin's, 1984, 1984.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo.1st Edition.about Fine in Very Good D.J.with a little rubbing esp. at back crease fold.(L1/7
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Charles Willeford. Miami Blues. St. Martin's Press, 1984.
Price: US$219.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VERY GOOD condition DUST JACKET: Minor wear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, folds and flaps. Very minor scuffs to laminate face in places. BOARDS: Very good condition. BOOK: Very good condition. Very minor staining (vertical) to pastedowns. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. ********************************************************** Here on offer is a very nice copy of Charles Willeford's first novel in the Hoke Moseley crime series, Miami Blues, which was the basis for the 1990 film of the same name starring Alec Baldwin. This copy is a 1st trade edition, 1st printing of the work published by St. Martin's Press in 1984. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve. ****************************************************** "After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room at the un-illustrious El Dorado Hotel and nurses a glass of brandy. With his guard down, he doesnt think twice when he hears a knock on the door. The next day, he finds himself in the hospital, badly bruised and with his jaw wired shut. He thinks back over ten years of cases wondering who would want to beat him into unconsciousness, steal his gun and badge, and most importantly, make off with his prized dentures. But the pieces never quite add up to revenge, and the few clues he has keep connecting to a dimwitted hooker, and her ex-con boyfriend and the bizarre murder of a Hare Krishna pimp. **** Chronically depressed, constantly strapped for money, always willing to bend the rules a bit, Hoke Moseley is hardly what you think of as the perfect cop, but he is one of the the greatest detective creations of all time." ****************************************************** Charles Ray Willeford III (January 2, 1919 March 27, 1988) was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, Willeford is best known for his series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. Willeford published steadily from the 1940s on, but vaulted to wider attention with the first Hoke Moseley book, Miami Blues (1984), which is considered one of its era's most influential works of crime fiction. Film adaptations have been made of four of Willeford's novels: Cockfighter, Miami Blues, The Woman Chaser, and The Burnt Orange Heresy. . . . **** "Nobody writes a better crime novel," Elmore Leonard said of Willeford. Sean McCann credits Willefordalong with Jim Thompson and David Goodisas one of the writers responsible for bringing the "hard-boiled crime story to a new stage in its development during the 'paperback revolution' of the 50s." Centered around criminal protagonists rather than private eyes and "focused on those features of the genre that seemed most grotesque or cruel or uncanny and, extending them to new extremes, [they] remade the hard-boiled story into a drama of psychopathology." According to bookseller Mitch Kaplan, an expert on the South Florida literary scene, "Miami Blues launched the modern era of Miami crime fiction. There's a direct line from [Willeford] through just about everyone writing crime fiction in Miami today." . . . ********** The above text was taken from, respectively, Knopf Doubleday publishing (via Google Books) and Wikipedia. [Willeford, Charles. Miami Blues. United States: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009.]
Seller: Second-handsome Books, College Station, TX, U.S.A.
Willeford, Charles.. MIAMI BLUES.. ST. MARTIN'S., NY, 1984.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in a Nf. dj. (Yellow & red hues on spine of dj. have discolored, otherwise fine in dj.) FIRST Hoke Moseley novel. Basis for a film. (S)
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Willeford, Charles. MIAMI BLUES (1st Edition). St. Martins Press, New York, 1984.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: St. Martins Press. New York. 1984. 191 pages. First edition, first printing, stated with full numberline. Book is nearly fine with exception of gently bumped rear corner. a bookseller's code is written near gutter on front free endpaper. Crisp. clean, unread. 12.95 price intact on DJ. DJ shows rubbing at some corners and an open chip to rear corner. DJ is slightly rumpled under protective acid-free protector. A NF book in a VG- dj.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Charles Willeford. Miami Blues (First Edition). St. Martin's Press, New York, 1984.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. The first Hoke Mosley mystery, basis for the superb 1990 film starring Fred Ward, Alec Baldwin, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. A touch of rubbing at the jacket corners, else Fine in an about Fine dust jacket.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
WILLEFORD, Charles.. Miami Blues.. NY: St. Martin's Press, [1984]., 1984.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Barely perceptible touch of foxing to top edge, else fine in unusually bright dust jacket with trivial fading to yellow spine lettering and a couple of tiny rubbed spots to top of spine. Overall a much nicer copy than usual.
Seller: Skyline Books, Forest Knolls, CA, U.S.A.
Charles Willeford. Miami Blues. St Martin's (1984), New York, 1984.
Price: US$280.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition; First Printing|Very Good +; Very Good|"Morning sun stripes cell.|Five fingers feel my hard heart.|It hurts, hurts, like hell."|- Charles Willeford|(1984). New York: St. Martin's. Hardcover. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 191 pages. A clean copy of a literary critic turned author. Jacket designed by Walter Harper. Slight foxing on outer edges of text. Dust Jacket minimally scuffed, slight fading of color on spine.
Seller: The Next Chapter LI, Huntington, NY, U.S.A.
Willeford, Charles. MIAMI BLUES. St. Martins Press [1984], New York, 1984.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. The first Hoke Moseley novel . Filmed in 1990 starring Fred Ward as Hoke Moseley with Alec Baldwin and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Fine in a near fine dust jacket which is lightly rubbed to corners and spine ends, tiny closed tear to upper front panel. (8890)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
WILLEFORD,CHARLES. MIAMI BLUES.. St. Martins Press, [1984]., New York, 1984.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Fine in dust jacket lightly rubbed at spine ends and fore-edges along with two 1/4" closed tears on back panel. Introduces Hoke Moseley. Fresh out of San Quentin, psychopath Freddy Frenger, mugs three men and steals their wallets . he needs air fare to Miami, supposedly the crime capitol of America and so, the perfect place for Freddy to put down roots. On the plane he looks over the wallets and experiences one of those definitive Willeford moments as he finds himself wondering about their owners. One wallet was eel skin; another was imitation ostrich; and the third was a plain cowhide wallet filled with pictures of children. "Why would any man want to carry around photographs of ugly children in his wallet?" When Freddy lands in Miami, he breaks the finger of a Hare Krishna who made the mistake of shoving a pin into the new leather jacket that Freddy had just bought with one of the stolen credit cards. Behind him on the floor, the Krishna goes into shock and dies . Enter Hoke Moseley. As Hoke investigates the "murder," he gets closer to Freddy, who is busy wreaking havoc on a city that thought it knew crime.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.
Willeford, Charles. Miami Blues. St Martins Press (1984), New York, 1984.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. [10], 191, [5] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $12.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn APG 018a. A beautiful copy of the first Hoke Moseley mystery. Fine in a Fine dust jacket with a tiny crease to the corner of the front flap.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Willeford, Charles.. MIAMI BLUES.. NY: ST. MARTIN'S. 1984, 1984.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Close to fine in a Nf. dj. (Trace of light shelf wear at corners of dj. Spots of rubbing on rear panel of dj. Hint of foxing at top edge) FIRST Hoke Moseley novel. Basis for a film.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Willeford, Charles Ray. Miami Blues. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1984.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Signed by Charles Willeford, inscribed to former owner on front free endpaper. [x], 191 pp. Original black cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with slight crease to front board in Very Good dust jacket, sunned spine panel, slightly scratched back panel. A rare signed copy of the first Hoke Moseley novel, an excellent Florida neo-noir.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Charles Ray Willeford. Miami Blues. St Martins Pr January 1984, 1984.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition with full number line. Mylar wrapped. Lightly bruised at the top of the spine. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper.
Seller: A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Willeford, Charles. Miami Blues. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1984.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. [x], 191 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The first Hoke Moseley novel and the basis for the film starring Alec Baldwin. As Elmore Leonard says, "Miami Blues is the real stuff". Original black cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust jacket. A snazzy copy
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$530.57 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Two vols., Hoke Moseley #1 and #2, beginning with Frederick J. Frenger, Jr., 'a blithe psychopath from California' arriving in Miami . in a tight field, the prolific hardboiled author's best. Review copies with promotional material laid in. Both fine in dustwrappers. The two vols.
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo; dark yellow wrappers printed in black; 190pp. Inscribed by Leonard on the half-title page: "To Ian Clark / from a friend of Chas. Willeford / Elmore Leonard." Trifle wear to extremities, slight upward life to front wrapper, with faint spotting to rear wrapper; Very Good+ to Near Fine. Scarce uncorrected proof copy of Willeford's first Hoke Moseley novel. Though Willeford's career started in the late 1940's, fame came to him later in life, and that fame was brought about by the publication of 'Miami Blues.' Among the highest advance praise for his novel came from Elmore Leonard, who wrote: "Willeford, writing with quiet authority, has the ability to make his situations, scenes, dialogue, sound absolutely real. No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford." A uniquely-inscribed copy by one of Willeford's earliest advocates, and the only proof copy we have seen for this title. Basis for the 1990 George Armitage film starring Alec Baldwin, Fred Ward, and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.