Bill Pronzini Midnight Specials First and similar items

MIDNIGHT SPECIALS: An Anthology For Train Buffs And Suspense Aficianados Edited with commentary by Bill Pronzini. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., (1977). First edition, first printing. "First printing" statement to the copyright page, $10.95 to the jacket's flap. Illustrated. A collection of eighteen richly described train mystery stories sequestered into three sections that each illuminate train travel for that time period: 1870-1925, 1930-1950, and 1951-tomorrow. The superior authors include James M. Cain, Edith Wharton, Robert Bloch, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, John Lutz, Cornell Woolrich, Charles Beaumont, Ellery Queen, and more. Lower corner tips bumped, light fading at the cover edges, else very tight and about near fine in dark-blue linen over sky-blue boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine, blue-and-white headband and tail-band, railway coach interior illustrated end-papers; in a very nearly fine dust jacket with minute crimps to the lower corner tips; original printed $10.95 price still intact to the front inner flap. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS! Created by Seller's Assistant Basic.