Ellery Queen Intro (21 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. This is a Reading Copy. Robert Stanley (GGA) Painted Cover. (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher. 190 pages. >> This is a reading copy. Heavy Cover creasing.; 2" x 1" piece missing from backcover; 1" piece missing from last page, but story is not effected. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: GOOD+. Robert Stanley (GGA) Painted Cover. (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher. 190 pages. >> Cover creasing.; slipped 1" to top corner of first 2 pages. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Vintage copy of this collectible soft cover. Has the map back. 1948 first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Formerly Published as Sporting Blood. 20 stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Ellery Queen, Agatha Christie, G K Chesterton, Dashiell Hammett and many others. Boards are faded. Pages are clean but lightly toned.

Soft cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. GGA - Good Girl Art Painted Cover (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher. 3 1/2 page Introduction Letter by Ellery Queen. 190 pages. "Here are twenty long-unavailable stories by the master who brought us The Maltese Falcon. Laconic coppers, lowlifes, and mysterious women double- and triple-cross their colleagues with practiced nonchalance. A man on a bender awakens in a small town with a dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts a brutal truth about her husband. Here is classic noir: hard-boiled descriptions to rival Hemingway, verbal exchanges punctuated with pistol shots and fisticuffs. Devilishly plotted, whip-smart, impassioned, Nightmare Town is a treasury of tales from America's poet laureate of the dispossessed." >> Wear & creasing to covers; Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Book.

Wraps. Condition: Good+. Mercury Mystery No. 233; Complete and Unabridged; Lacks ffep, age toned textblock, else clean and tight. Usual age toning to the page edges; Very worn edges, creased corners. 128pp. Edited and with Introduction by Ellery Queen. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback.

Paperback. Condition: Good. shows minor wear, tanned pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Jack Gaugham Painted Art! (illustrator). PBO (Paperback Original) True First Ed. The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph / The Brains of Earth both by Jack Vance (Minor creasing to this cover) (Ace Double M-141) >> Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Wraps. Edges worn/rubbed, creasing, chipping, toned pages. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 127 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Wrappers. Spine ends splitting, some creasing/edgewear, inked names to rear cover, crown bumped, book has a mild wave, large number written to title page. Pages toned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 128 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The book has a slightly shifted spine, separation of the binding from the spine plate, a gentle crack in the binding after the last page at the endpages that reveals the webbing of the binding however there are no loose or torn pages, and light spotting to the top edge of the textblock, otherwise the book is in good condition with crisp, unmarked pages and a strong, clean cover. The dustjacket has rubbing and surface scratching, light smudging most notable at the back cover, mild shelfwear to the edges and corners of the jacket including creasing and few small tears, a tear approx 1/4 inch at the bottom edge of the back cover, and uneven toning to the jacket, otherwise the dustjacket is in good condition, intact and attractive, and is in an archival protective mylar.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. #379 In protective sleeve. WIth an Introduction by Ellery Queen.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. #379 In protective sleeve. WIth an Introduction by Ellery Queen.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Red cl., gilt lettering, colophon. Backstr. red with gilt lettering, black lines, black colophon, v. sl. rubbing to top edge. Dj unclipped ($3.95 sticker superimposed), sl. shelfworn, 1" tear to rear hinge. Xviii, 995pp. w. list of Modern Library Giants following.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. December 1980, 1st printing of 1st edition. Fine hardcover in Fine DJ. Bright, clean, square covers and spine are As New; tightly bound; bright, crisp, clean interior. DJ is bright, clean and complete. 8vo, 189 pp. This is a new, unread book. Publisher's review copy presentation slip laid in.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 291 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition 1st printing, Near Fine, unread book that has had the top-stain run at spine and just onto boards, in a Fine minus jacket that has touch of wear top of spine and several very light overwrite impressions to both panels. Ten stories by Woolrich that were published from 1940 to 1964.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8 x 5", hardcover, 230pp, covers lightly rubbed, extremities lightly worn and discolored, spine ends bumped, pp toned, in a rubbed, edge-torn/worn, toned and lightly soiled dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, REVIEW COPY with slip from the publisher.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A paperback original. Mercury # 233. Near fine in digest size printed wrappers. (Paper darkening. Stamps of the Twentieth Century-Fox Research Library on the inside of cover & title page. A few touches of light shelfwear).

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). A signed presentation copy of the second impression of this collection of detective stories by Michael Harrison. A vanishingly scarce edition, with two inscriptions from the author to the front free endpaper.The first inscription, dated 1976, reads 'For George Locker, with the best wishes of the author.The second edition reads 'Stacey, the first edition had been completely taken up when the firm went into liquidation, leaving the second printing (of which this volume is the) to be remaindered as Receivers' stock'. This inscription may be addressed to the publisher himself, Tom Stacey.In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.An excellent collection of short stories about C. Auguste Dupin, the detective created by Edgar Allan Poe. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper in excellent condition, with light edge wear to back strip head and tail. Ink inscription to price at front flyleaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine. signed by author. book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce first edition thus of Dashiell Hammett's crime novella, Jonathan Press Mystery No. 59. The very scarce first edition thus of this crime novella from American hard-boiled detective fiction writer Dashiell Hammett.First published across three 1933 issues of American weekly magazine 'Liberty', this is the first single volume edition of Hammett's story, published under the 'Jonathan Press Mystery' imprint of Lawrence E. Spivak.This is Jonathan Press Mystery no. 59, and features the three part novelette in one volume, and is in the bright publisher's original paper wraps.Hammett's short story was adapted into a crime drama film in 1934. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, bright. Light rubbing to back strip head and tail, with edge wear to wrap perimeters. Internally, firmly bound. Light tide marks to title page. Pages age toned due to paper type, but clean. Very Good. book.