Robert Fulman
08-29-2011, 06:49 PM
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/5792/009fx.jpg
I probably discovered Lawrence Block 10 years ago, completely by accident. I found one of his Burglar books in a used bookstore and fell in love. I've read all of the Burglar books, and a handful of others. His "Small Town" is probably the smuttiest mainstream book I've ever read, but back in the sixties he wrote quite a few scandalous books using pen names. I started collecting LB sometime in the last year, and I have found that even though he is big time writer (a "Grand Master" of the mystery genre, no less), it is relatively cheap to collect some very nice limiteds. He also offers books for sale on his website (http://www.lawrenceblock.com) and signs his name to anything he can get his hands on, so signed firsts are no problem as well. Anyway, here is a list of his books I borrowed from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Block). I don't have collectible copies of all of the books, but I will provide details on the ones I do have, and I will pursue the ones I don't.
All images posted by me in this thread are pictures or scans of books I personally own.
Matthew Scudder novels
The Sins of the Fathers (1976) (Dark Harvest S/L (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637214&viewfull=0#post637214))
In the Midst of Death (1976) (Lawrence Block Library S/L (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=654037&viewfull=1#post654037))
Time to Murder and Create (1977)
A Stab in the Dark (1981)
Eight Million Ways to Die (1982)
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (1986) (Arbor House ARC (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648321&viewfull=1#post648321))
Out on the Cutting Edge (1989)
A Ticket to the Boneyard (1990) (First Morrow Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=642318&viewfull=1#post642318))
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse (1991) (First Morrow Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=638591&viewfull=1#post638591))
A Walk Among the Tombstones (1992) (First Morrow Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=638593&viewfull=1#post638593))
The Devil Knows You're Dead (1993) (First Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648212&viewfull=1#post648212))
A Long Line of Dead Men (1994) (First Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648214&viewfull=1#post648214))
Even the Wicked (1997) (First Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648215&viewfull=1#post648215))
Everybody Dies (1998) (First Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648216&viewfull=1#post648216))
Hope to Die (2001)
All the Flowers Are Dying (2005) (First Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=654036&viewfull=1#post654036))
A Drop of the Hard Stuff (2011)
Bernie Rhodenbarr novels
Burglars Can't Be Choosers (1977) (First Random House Edition S/L (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=638588&viewfull=1#post638588); Uncorrected Dutton Proof (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637325&viewfull=1#post637325))
The Burglar in the Closet (1978) (Random House First Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=652904&viewfull=1#post652904))
The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (1979) (Random House First Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=646077&viewfull=1#post646077), Mystery Guild 1999 (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=640896&viewfull=1#post640896))
The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza (1980) (First Random House Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637359&viewfull=1#post637359))
The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian (1983) (First Arbor House Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637366&viewfull=1#post637366))
The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams (1994) (Dutton S/L Advanced Reading Copy (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=642316&viewfull=1#post642316), First Dutton Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648224&viewfull=1#post648224))
The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart (1995) (Dutton S/L Advanced Reading Copy (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=652902&viewfull=1#post652902), First Dutton Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648226&viewfull=1#post648226))
The Burglar in the Library (1997) (Scorpion Press Signed/Limited (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=638585&viewfull=1#post638585))
The Burglar in the Rye (1999) (First Dutton Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648229&viewfull=1#post648229))
The Burglar on the Prowl (2004) (First Morrow Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648221&viewfull=1#post648221))
"The Burglar Who Dropped In On Elvis" (Some Days You Get the Bear First Trade (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648231&viewfull=1#post648231))
"The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke" (Short Story (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637324&viewfull=1#post637324))
Evan Tanner novels
The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (1966) (1966 Fawcett Gold Medal Paperback Original (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=651377&viewfull=1#post651377))
The Canceled Czech (1966)
Tanner's Twelve Swingers (1967)
The Scoreless Thai (a.k.a. Two for Tanner) (1968) (Subterranean Press S/L (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637358&viewfull=1#post637358))
Tanner's Tiger (1968)
Here Comes a Hero (a.k.a. Tanner's Virgin) (1968)(1968 Fawcett Gold Medal Paperback Original (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=652899&viewfull=1#post652899))
Me Tanner, You Jane (1970)
Tanner on Ice (1998) (First Dutton Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648219&viewfull=1#post648219))
Chip Harrison novels/stories (as Chip Harrison)
No Score (1970)
Chip Harrison Scores Again (1971)
Make Out With Murder (a.k.a. The Five Little Rich Girls) (1974)
The Topless Tulip Caper (1975)
"As Dark As Christmas Gets" (1997), a Chip Harrison short story written specifically for customers of the Otto Penzler-owned Mysterious Bookshop, printed in booklet format for the 1997 holiday season.
Keller novels
Hit Man (1998) (Philatelic Paperback Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637747&viewfull=1#post637747))
Hit List (2000) (First Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648217&viewfull=1#post648217), Philatelic Paperback Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637748&viewfull=1#post637748))
Hit Parade (2006) (Philatelic Paperback Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637749&viewfull=1#post637749))
Hit and Run (June 2008)
Paul Kavanagh (Pen Name) novels
Such Men Are Dangerous (1969)
The Triumph of Evil (1971)
Not Comin' Home to You (1974)
Other fiction
$20 Lust (1961) (reissued as Cinderella Sims)
Death Pulls a Doublecross (1961) (reissued as Coward's Kiss)
Mona (1961) (reissued as Sweet Slow Death and Grifter's Game)
Markham (1961) (reissued as You Could Call It Murder)
Pads Are for Passion (1961, as Sheldon Lord) (reissued as A Diet of Treacle)
Fidel Castro Assassinated (1961, as Lee Duncan) (reissued as Killing Castro)
The Girl with the Long Green Heart (1965)
Deadly Honeymoon (1967)
After the First Death (1969)
The Specialists (1969) (1996 Hardcover Release (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637357&viewfull=1#post637357))
Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man (1971)
Ariel (1980) (1980 Arbor House S/L (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=639519&viewfull=1#post639519); 1996 Lawrence Block Library S/L (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637327&viewfull=1#post637327))
Random Walk (1988) (1988 TOR First (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=642317&viewfull=1#post642317); PS Publishing Slipcased S/L and Trade Hardcover S/L, 2008 (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=638151&viewfull=1#post638151))
Enough Rope: Collected Stories (2002)
Small Town (2003)
My Blueberry Nights (2007)
Lucky at Cards (2007)
Getting off, A novel of Sex and Violence (2011)
Books for writers
Writing the Novel From Plot to Print (1979)
Telling Lies for Fun & Profit (1981)
Write For Your Life (1986)
Spider, Spin Me a Web (1987)
The Liar's Bible (2011)
Memoirs
Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir (2009)
I probably discovered Lawrence Block 10 years ago, completely by accident. I found one of his Burglar books in a used bookstore and fell in love. I've read all of the Burglar books, and a handful of others. His "Small Town" is probably the smuttiest mainstream book I've ever read, but back in the sixties he wrote quite a few scandalous books using pen names. I started collecting LB sometime in the last year, and I have found that even though he is big time writer (a "Grand Master" of the mystery genre, no less), it is relatively cheap to collect some very nice limiteds. He also offers books for sale on his website (http://www.lawrenceblock.com) and signs his name to anything he can get his hands on, so signed firsts are no problem as well. Anyway, here is a list of his books I borrowed from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Block). I don't have collectible copies of all of the books, but I will provide details on the ones I do have, and I will pursue the ones I don't.
All images posted by me in this thread are pictures or scans of books I personally own.
Matthew Scudder novels
The Sins of the Fathers (1976) (Dark Harvest S/L (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637214&viewfull=0#post637214))
In the Midst of Death (1976) (Lawrence Block Library S/L (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=654037&viewfull=1#post654037))
Time to Murder and Create (1977)
A Stab in the Dark (1981)
Eight Million Ways to Die (1982)
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (1986) (Arbor House ARC (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648321&viewfull=1#post648321))
Out on the Cutting Edge (1989)
A Ticket to the Boneyard (1990) (First Morrow Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=642318&viewfull=1#post642318))
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse (1991) (First Morrow Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=638591&viewfull=1#post638591))
A Walk Among the Tombstones (1992) (First Morrow Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=638593&viewfull=1#post638593))
The Devil Knows You're Dead (1993) (First Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648212&viewfull=1#post648212))
A Long Line of Dead Men (1994) (First Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648214&viewfull=1#post648214))
Even the Wicked (1997) (First Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648215&viewfull=1#post648215))
Everybody Dies (1998) (First Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648216&viewfull=1#post648216))
Hope to Die (2001)
All the Flowers Are Dying (2005) (First Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=654036&viewfull=1#post654036))
A Drop of the Hard Stuff (2011)
Bernie Rhodenbarr novels
Burglars Can't Be Choosers (1977) (First Random House Edition S/L (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=638588&viewfull=1#post638588); Uncorrected Dutton Proof (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637325&viewfull=1#post637325))
The Burglar in the Closet (1978) (Random House First Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=652904&viewfull=1#post652904))
The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (1979) (Random House First Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=646077&viewfull=1#post646077), Mystery Guild 1999 (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=640896&viewfull=1#post640896))
The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza (1980) (First Random House Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637359&viewfull=1#post637359))
The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian (1983) (First Arbor House Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637366&viewfull=1#post637366))
The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams (1994) (Dutton S/L Advanced Reading Copy (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=642316&viewfull=1#post642316), First Dutton Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648224&viewfull=1#post648224))
The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart (1995) (Dutton S/L Advanced Reading Copy (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=652902&viewfull=1#post652902), First Dutton Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648226&viewfull=1#post648226))
The Burglar in the Library (1997) (Scorpion Press Signed/Limited (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=638585&viewfull=1#post638585))
The Burglar in the Rye (1999) (First Dutton Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648229&viewfull=1#post648229))
The Burglar on the Prowl (2004) (First Morrow Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648221&viewfull=1#post648221))
"The Burglar Who Dropped In On Elvis" (Some Days You Get the Bear First Trade (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648231&viewfull=1#post648231))
"The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke" (Short Story (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637324&viewfull=1#post637324))
Evan Tanner novels
The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (1966) (1966 Fawcett Gold Medal Paperback Original (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=651377&viewfull=1#post651377))
The Canceled Czech (1966)
Tanner's Twelve Swingers (1967)
The Scoreless Thai (a.k.a. Two for Tanner) (1968) (Subterranean Press S/L (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637358&viewfull=1#post637358))
Tanner's Tiger (1968)
Here Comes a Hero (a.k.a. Tanner's Virgin) (1968)(1968 Fawcett Gold Medal Paperback Original (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=652899&viewfull=1#post652899))
Me Tanner, You Jane (1970)
Tanner on Ice (1998) (First Dutton Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648219&viewfull=1#post648219))
Chip Harrison novels/stories (as Chip Harrison)
No Score (1970)
Chip Harrison Scores Again (1971)
Make Out With Murder (a.k.a. The Five Little Rich Girls) (1974)
The Topless Tulip Caper (1975)
"As Dark As Christmas Gets" (1997), a Chip Harrison short story written specifically for customers of the Otto Penzler-owned Mysterious Bookshop, printed in booklet format for the 1997 holiday season.
Keller novels
Hit Man (1998) (Philatelic Paperback Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637747&viewfull=1#post637747))
Hit List (2000) (First Trade Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=648217&viewfull=1#post648217), Philatelic Paperback Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637748&viewfull=1#post637748))
Hit Parade (2006) (Philatelic Paperback Edition (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637749&viewfull=1#post637749))
Hit and Run (June 2008)
Paul Kavanagh (Pen Name) novels
Such Men Are Dangerous (1969)
The Triumph of Evil (1971)
Not Comin' Home to You (1974)
Other fiction
$20 Lust (1961) (reissued as Cinderella Sims)
Death Pulls a Doublecross (1961) (reissued as Coward's Kiss)
Mona (1961) (reissued as Sweet Slow Death and Grifter's Game)
Markham (1961) (reissued as You Could Call It Murder)
Pads Are for Passion (1961, as Sheldon Lord) (reissued as A Diet of Treacle)
Fidel Castro Assassinated (1961, as Lee Duncan) (reissued as Killing Castro)
The Girl with the Long Green Heart (1965)
Deadly Honeymoon (1967)
After the First Death (1969)
The Specialists (1969) (1996 Hardcover Release (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637357&viewfull=1#post637357))
Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man (1971)
Ariel (1980) (1980 Arbor House S/L (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=639519&viewfull=1#post639519); 1996 Lawrence Block Library S/L (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=637327&viewfull=1#post637327))
Random Walk (1988) (1988 TOR First (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=642317&viewfull=1#post642317); PS Publishing Slipcased S/L and Trade Hardcover S/L, 2008 (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?13205-The-Collectible-Lawrence-Block&p=638151&viewfull=1#post638151))
Enough Rope: Collected Stories (2002)
Small Town (2003)
My Blueberry Nights (2007)
Lucky at Cards (2007)
Getting off, A novel of Sex and Violence (2011)
Books for writers
Writing the Novel From Plot to Print (1979)
Telling Lies for Fun & Profit (1981)
Write For Your Life (1986)
Spider, Spin Me a Web (1987)
The Liar's Bible (2011)
Memoirs
Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir (2009)