Butler Walter C Faust Frederick (7 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition in Dust Jacket. Bound in dark cloth and printed in red, the volume is cocked, internally quite nice and clean if a bit mellowed. DUST JACKET is bright (unfaded) and clean with 3/8" chips to head and tail of spine and is Not Price Clipped. Frederick Faust wrote as Max Brand and, for two mystery novels, as Walter Butler. A prodigious writer and a clever mind filled with stories, Faust seldom wrote or placed his stories in California. Although growing up in the Central Valley and working in San Francisco, his stories tell little of his roots in the Goledn State. Cross Over Nine and Night Flower are two of his elusive Mystery thrillers. Size: Octavo.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners, toned tape repairs on reverse of jacket spine head and foot, minor scuff on front board. 1935 Hard Cover. 255 pp. First mystery, and one of only two using this pseudonym, by Frederick Faust, who also wrote under the pen name Max Brand. From the half-title page: "It is the tale of John Witherby, physical superman, in a contest of strength and racing, smashing, violence with a man called the Doctor, and his gorillas, for possession of John's inheritance and for the fancy of the Doctor's female decoy. Savage and brutal without let-down, it casts a rare spell." From the jacket flap: "It is a favorable sign in a murder mystery if the author has refrained from the use of any secret underground passage and of any sly and slinking Orientals. That means a suspicion that the mystery has originality. And originality is the feature that first flashes at you out of the pages of Cross Over Nine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Small octavo. Chips and moderate stains along the edges and spine, endleaves stained, front fly with remains of an old label, rear gutter partially cracked, very good in a rubbed, about very good dust jacket with chips and small creased tears along the edges most notably at the spine ends, chipping along the flap folds, light interior spotting. The first mystery by Faust, and the first of two written under this name. Faust was probably best known for the books written under his other pen name, Max Brand.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Slight foxing to the endpapers, just about fine in attractive, near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with very shallow loss at the crown and a couple of tiny tears. The first mystery by Faust, and the first of two written under this name. Faust was probably best known for the books written under his other pen name, Max Brand. Very scarce in this condition.…

255 pp. 8vo, publisher's black cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Cloth darkened at joints; endsheets tanned; tight and sound in a price-clipped jacket with a chip at the top of the spine just touching the lettering; rubbing and other small chips and tears.

First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-255 [256: blank], original beige boards, front and spine stamped in orange. From the rear panel calling it a mystery-horror story. "It is the tale of John Witherby, physical superman, in a contest of strength and racing, smashing violence with a man called the Doctor, and his gorillas, for possession of John's inheritance and for the fancy of the Doctor's female decoy." The first mystery using this pseudonym. [Reference: Hubin, p. 123]. Some darkening to paste downs, note on front free end paper with the date and title of the magazine serial appearance, a fine copy in a bright, nearly fine dust jacket with a small closed tear and crease to the upper front panel , some mild rubs to edges and folds. A nice copy of an uncommon book. (23550).…

First edition. Octavo, pp. [1] [1-4] 5-7 [8] 9-311 [312-318], jacket art by Edward D'Ancona, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in red. After an armored car robbery in which guards are murdered, Charles Pursivant, a reformed criminal, is enlisted to recover the money and capture the criminals. E. C. Beckwith in the NY Times (16 August, 1936) wrote "This reviewer confidently chooses this book - as the best written, most artfully constructed and thoroughly interesting crime-adventure novel published thus far within the year." Second and final mystery using this pseudonym. [Reference: Hubin, p. 123]. Previous owner inscription on front free end paper, some mild darkening to edges of text block, dustiness to top edge in a nearly fine copy in a bright, nearly fine price clipped dust jacket with some light shelf wear and rubbing to edges, light rubbing to spine ends with very light chipping to head of spine panel, small closed tear to lower front panel. (8233).…