Fine Books and Manuscripts

Hansen, Joseph. Eight Volumes by Joseph Hansen, most signed or inscribed. First editions, first printings. Most signed or inscribed on the half-title page by Hansen. Titles include Fadeout (1970; signed; author’s first work); Death Claims (1973); Nightwork (1984; signed); Gravedigger (1982; inscribed and signed); A Country of Old Men (1991; inscribed and signed); The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of (1978; signed); The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning (1990; signed on title-page); and Early Graves (1987; signed). Publisher’s cloth, unclipped dust jackets. 8vos. Fine. Eight titles from the ground-breaking series of crime novels featuring the investigator, Dave Brandstetter; who was one of the first openly gay detective protagonists and was written during a time when homosexuality was still classified as a disease.