Death Claims.    New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1973].

First edition.

Octavo. [vi], 1-166, [4, blank] pp. Publisher’s grey cloth backstrip over red textured paper boards, front cover has publisher’s motif blindstamped, spine lettered in red, dust jacket. Jacket spine sunned and browned, jacket browned and foxed, with some chipping and several closed tears at top, some rubbing to book and foxing to edges of text block. Overall, a very good copy.

First edition of the second Dave Brandstetter novel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title: “For Sandy Garret/with thanks for/her grace and/good will-/Joseph Hansen.”

Joseph Hansen (1923-2004), was a successful mystery writer, whose great innovation was the creation of Dave Brandstetter, a hard-boiled, tough, no-nonsense detective who was also a homosexual. Hansen himself was a homosexual, but was married to a woman for over fifty years (the woman was a lesbian, but they truly had a loving, open relationship).

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