Ellery Queen Pseud Frederic Dannay (29 results)
The New Adventures of Ellery Queen: Including Eight New Problems in Deduction and One Amazing Short Novel ["The Lamp of God"]
Queen, Ellery (pseud. for Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee)
Published by Triangle Books 1941 (c.1940), New York, 1941
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good+ dj. Reprint (1st printing thus). [a good sound copy, nicer than often seen with these cheaply-produced editions, with a typical but not severe amount of age-tanning to the pages, a touch of wear to the spine ends, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink on the front… endpaper, small ink check-marks next to several titles in the table of contents; the jacket is lightly edgeworn, and the lower rear flap is rather heavily corner-clipped]. The second published collection of Ellery Queen short stories, all of which had previously appeared in various magazines during the 1930s. The short novel, "The Lamp of God," is presented first, and the remaining eight stories are arranged in two groups: "New Adventures" (consisting of "The Adventure of:" "The Treasure Hunt"; "The Hollow Dragon"; "The House of Darkness"; "The Bleeding Portrait"); and "A Unique Group of Ellery Queen Sports Mysteries." The latter group contained these stories, with their theme sports noted: "Man Bites Dog" (baseball); "Long Shot" (horse racing); "Mind Over Matter" (boxing); "Trojan Horse" (football). Originally published by Frederick A. Stokes Company in 1940. Illustrated by (dj) Arthur Hawkins Jr. (illustrator).
The Adventures of Ellery Queen: Problems in Deduction
Queen, Ellery (pseud. for Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee)
Published by Grosset & Dunlap / Madison Square Books [1940] (c.1934), New York, 1940
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good dj. Reprint. [a good sound copy, tiny fraying and very slight exposure of boards at lower tips but no other significant wear, bookplate on front pastedown, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase and brief comment (all in ink) at top of front endpaper, small ink check-mark n…ext to each title in the table of contents; the jacket has some wear along the top and bottom edges, with shallow chipping along top edge (mostly at top of spine), light scuffing/soiling, one small closed tear and associated short crease at bottom right corner of front panel]. The first "Ellery Queen" book that wasn't a novel, originally published by Frederick A. Stokes in 1934. The contents, "a veritable banquet of thrills for all lovers of Problems in Deduction" (a reference to the subtitle on all of EQ's early mystery novels), were stories that had appeared in various magazines (some under different titles than here) during 1933 and 1934. The tales, all of which had "The Adventure of" prepended to their titles for purposes of this collection (probably a conscious nod to the original Sherlock Holmes stories, which employed the same titling practice), are: "The African Traveler"; "The Hanging Acrobat"; "The One-Penny Black"; "The Bearded Lady"; "The Three Lame Men"; "The Invisible Lover"; "The Teakwood Case"; "'The Two-Headed Dog'"; "The Glass-Domed Clock"; "The Seven Black Cats"; and "The Mad Tea-Party." A feature carried over from a number of the early novels was the book's Preface by the mysterious "J.J. McC.," a friend of the Queens, who here relates conversations he had with both Ellery and his father Richard, on the topic of his being asked to write this very foreword! It's interesting to note that for this edition, G&D employed the same "silhouetted crook with a gun" jacket art that they had used for a couple of Raoul Whitfield novels in the early 1930s.
The Adventure of the Murdered Moth, and Other Radio Mysteries
Queen, Ellery (pseud. for Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee)
Published by Crippen & Landru Publishers, Norfolk VA, 2005
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. [no significant wear, essentially as-new but with a previous owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along the edge of the inside rear cover; NOTE that this book was acquired with a plastic cover protector, which I have left in place but which…can be easily removed if desired]. Trade PB (B&W photo frontispiece) Fourteen "ingeniously plotted" radio scripts for the mystery program "The Adventures of Ellery Queen," which ran from 1939 to 1948. These scripts, however, are all from the 1939-1945 period, when both the authors -- cousins from Brooklyn, who by that time had built up the "Ellery Queen" name to be almost synonymous with mystery fiction, through novels, short stories, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, which launched in 1941 -- were still collaborating on the radio show. (After 1945, Anthony Boucher took Dannay's place in the radio writing.). Illustrated by (cover design) Deborah Miller (illustrator).
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First collected edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of classic Gollancz yellow jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, price clipped, several previous owner's names to prelims, internally clean tight and square, overall…a vg+ copy for its age. 338pp. In a successful series of novels and short stories that covered 42 years, 'Ellery Queen' served as a joint pseudonym for the cousins Dannay and Lee, as well as the name of the primary detective hero they created. During the 1930s and much of the 1940s, that detective hero was possibly the best known American fictional detective. Movies, radio shows, and television shows were also based on Dannay and Lee's works. This is a selection of the best crime and mystery stories, by a range of authors, published in their 'Mystery Magazine' in the early 1970s.
Language: Spanish
Published by Punto de Lectura, 2007
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Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Good. Vendo El misterio de los hermanos siameses de Ellery Queen. Es una novela de intriga donde el detective aficionado Ellery y su padre se quedan atrapados en una mansión aislada debido a un incendio forestal. Ahí, encuentran a un cirujano y a un par de gemelos siameses, y pronto se desata un a…sesinato. Entre el peligro del fuego y los secretos de los personajes, la tensión va en aumento. Es un libro que mezcla misterio y un toque de terror clásico, perfecto para los que disfrutan de los enigmas. Lo envío a donde necesites. Si te gusta el género, este es un must-read.
More imagesThe Roman Hat Mystery: A Problem in Deduction
Queen, Ellery (pseud. for Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee)
Published by Grosset & Dunlap [1931] (c.1929), New York, 1931
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Reprint (stated 6th printing). (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of the first edition jacket; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [a nice-looking copy with only light shelfwear, faint age-toning to edges of text blo…ck, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase and brief comment written in ink on front endpaper]. The first mystery novel by "Queen," which also marked the debut of the authorial team's eponymous protagonist, a writer and bibliophile, who was forever being enlisted to assist his father, Inspector Richard Queen, in the solving of some baffling crime -- in this instance, the murder of a sleazy lawyer in the audience during a theatrical performance. Barzun and Taylor, in "A Catalogue of Crime," pronounce this book "a landmark rather than a cornerstone, perhaps," and are somewhat disdainful of the father-son duo's "immense thoroughness and almost fatiguing pertinacity" as well as their "egregious bonhomie," while still allowing as how "the neatness of the plot involving a missing hat in a theater murder cannot be denied." Per the jacket blurb, the book had been "chosen from more than 100 selected manuscripts to represent the [original publisher's] contribution to the mysterio-detective literature of 1929," and by any measure it was an auspicious debut -- and for once justified an enthusiastic jacket-blurb writer's declaration that "Ellery Queen bids fair to join that immortal group to which Sherlock Holmes, Lupin and few others belong." Indeed Ellery Queen did become a household name -- even if it was not so much due to the quality of the authors' prodigious output as for the ubiquity of the EQ imprimatur throughout the mid-20th century: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, innumerable mystery fiction anthologies under their editorship, "Queen's Quorum," the Queen's Awards, etc.) NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE of the first edition dust jacket, to serve the dual purpose of protecting the book from further wear and enhancing its appearance on the shelf; its presence has not been factored in to our pricing. A further NOTE about the dating of this book: although Grosset & Dunlap printing statements (e.g. "Sixth printing, September 16, 1930" in this book) are not always to be taken as accurate -- often their editions were reprinted from the original publisher's plates, and whatever printing information appeared there was simply carried over -- in this case I believe the printing of this book quite likely was very close from early 1931. This is based primarily on the fact that of the many books advertised in the nine pages of ads at the back of the volume, I didn't see any title that was published any later than 1929, and also because this title was advertised in a book distributor's catalogue as newly-available in a "Popular Copyright" edition (this one, basically) for the 1931-1932 season. At any rate, it's a very nice copy and will not disgrace your shelves while you're saving up your pennies to buy a true first in jacket.
More imagesThe Dutch Shoe Mystery: A Problem in Deduction
Queen, Ellery (pseud. for Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee)
Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1931
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. 7th printing. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [a good sound copy with only minor wear to a few points at the edges and extremities, the original (1931) owner's name (in… pencil) on the front endpaper, along with a later owner's name plus date & place of purchase and a brief comment (all in ink)]. An early printing (from the original publisher, not a reprint house) of the third Ellery Queen mystery, in which Inspector Richard Queen and his mystery-writing son Ellery are called upon to solve the murder of an eccentric millionaress who has been murdered while in a diabetic coma in a hospital, about to undergo surgery. The printing history on the copyright page reveals that the book had already had two printings before its September 1931 publication date, and had already gone into its seventh printing (this one) by the beginning of December -- testament to the enormous success achieved by the Queen mysteries pretty much right out of the gate (and justifying the publisher's blurb quoting the London Times's assessment of Ellery Queen as "the logical successor to Sherlock Holmes." (It's also interesting to note that the publisher was still presenting the author as a man of mystery: their jacket blurb begins "Who is 'Ellery Queen'?" I guess it was a better marketing ploy than acknowledging that EQ was a pair of twentysomething cousins from Brooklyn.) This book was loosely adapted for the 1941 Columbia film ELLERY QUEEN AND THE MURDER RING, one of a series of programmers in which Ellery was played by Ralph Bellamy (later by William Gargan) and his father Richard by Charley Grapewin. NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket, to serve the dual purpose of protecting the book from further wear and enhancing its appearance on the shelf; its presence has not been factored in to our pricing.
The Player on the Other Other Side
Queen, Ellery [Pseud. Frederic Dannay and Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky, with Theodore Sturgeon]
Published by Victor Gollancz, London, 1963
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. First Edition. VG-/VG-. 12mo. original red boards gilt (ex-library with rsms, pocket etc. to outer leaves only, some leaf edge spotting) in dustwrapper (a little rubbed, some fraying at spine ends, label ghost to spine, flaps glued to pastedowns); pp. 240, with a plan. A go…od reading copy.
Published by Random House Books, New York, 1963
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First collected edition, first impression. Edge wear, chipping, short closed tears and some loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed with loss, bottom back jacket and folds 'nibbled' by something, spine slightly faded, not price clipped…($4.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 346pp. In a successful series of novels and short stories that covered 42 years, 'Ellery Queen' served as a joint pseudonym for the cousins Dannay and Lee, as well as the name of the primary detective hero they created. During the 1930s and much of the 1940s, that detective-hero was possibly the best known American fictional detective. Movies, radio shows, and television shows were also based on Dannay and Lee's works. This is a selection of the best crime and mystery stories, by a range of authors, published in their 'Mystery Magazine' in the early 1960s.
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, New York, 1961
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Minor edge wear to top and bottom of classic Gollancz yellow jacket and spine, corners scuffed, some foxing and time staining to jacket, page fore edges and prelims, price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean… tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 248pp. 17 detective stories. Ellery Queen (first created in 1928), was both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two Jewish American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (1905-82) and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (1905-71), to write, edit, and anthologize detective fiction. The fictional Ellery Queen created by Dannay and Lee is a mystery writer and amateur detective who helps his father, a New York City police inspector, solve baffling murders.
Published by Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1943
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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. First Printing. Octvao (20cm); tan boards titled in brown on the cover and spine; dustjacket; 321pp.; spots of soil to the lower fore edge of textblock; faint foxing to upperedge; former owner's bookplate inside front cover; minor scuff to spine; tiny soil mark at rear; still Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket. "I…n their third period, the cousins [QUEEN] used complex deductive puzzles with in-depth characterization, finely detailed evocation of place and mood, occasional ventures into topsy-turvy Alice in Wonderland otherworld ." PRONZINI & MULLER; p.656; HUBIN, p.335.
Published by Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1943
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Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA
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First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); tan cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in dark brown on spine and front cover; vi,[3],4-321,[1]pp. Hint of sunning to spine, trivial wear to extremities, with contemporary owner's name to upper front endpaper; Near Fine, lacking the dustjacket. Hubin, p.326.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1948
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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); light grey cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in dark green on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [vi],265,[1]pp. Some offsetting to pastedowns, small ink owners name to front endpaper, with a faint stain affecting the lower 2.5" of the spine; contents fresh; Very Goo…d. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently sunned, showing modest wear, a few tiny nicks and tears, and a corresponding faint stain to lower spine and rear panel; Very Good. HUBIN, p.335.
The Spanish Cape Mystery: A Problem in Deduction
Queen, Ellery (pseud. for Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee)
Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1935
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine dj. First Edition. (with a Triangle Books (reissue) dust jacket) [a nice clean copy with no significant wear, just a one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase and a brief comment (all in ink) on the half-title page; the jacket is also in beautiful condition, with only some ver…y minor edgewear, all the more remarkable because Triangle Books editions were not known for their production quality]. (illustrated endpaper map) First edition of the ninth Ellery Queen novel (actually the tenth EQ book if you count the 1934 short-story collection "The Adventures of Ellery Queen"), in which a one-eyed giant kidnaps a young heiress and her uncle. This was the final novel in Queen's first period, all books of which shared the "Challenge to the Reader" feature, henceforth abandoned (as were the "Problem in Deduction" subtitles); it was also the first of his works to be adapted for a film (in 1935, with Donald Cook in the role of Ellery). The mismatched jacket (which was on the book as we received it) is probably from a relatively early (pre-1940) Triangle reprint, which retains the same artwork as the first edition jacket (later Triangle printings used different art). (A facsimile of the actual first edition jacket is available (not from us), however, should you wish to dress it up a bit more properly.).
The Greek Coffin Mystery: A Problem in Deduction
Queen, Ellery (pseud. for Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee)
Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1932
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Good+ dj. First Edition. (with a Triangle Books (reissue) dust jacket) [a good sound copy with a touch of fraying at several corners, modest external soiling, slight fading to spine cloth, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase and a brief comment (all in ink) on the front endpaper;… the jacket is a bit worn and soiled]. First edition of the fourth Ellery Queen mystery (generally regarded as one of the best of his first-period works; also one of the more uncommon), in which Inspector Richard Queen and his mystery-writing son Ellery are called upon to solve the mystery of the missing will of an elderly Greek man who was an internationally famous art dealer and collector, after his death. Their investigation leads them to believe that the will is hidden in the man's coffin, but when they dig it up and open it they discover a second body within, that of a strangled ex-convict, but no will. The mismatched jacket (which was on the book as we received it) appears to be from a relatively early (late 1930s) Triangle reprint, which accounts for the fact that (a) it fits the first-edition book nicely (1940s Triangle printings tended to be thinner and more cheaply-produced), and (b) that the artwork matches that of the first-edition jacket (later Triangle printings of books often used completely different jacket art). (A facsimile of the actual first edition jacket is available (not from us), however, should you wish to dress it up a bit more properly.).
Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1940
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1940. First Edition. Octavo; 307pp. Blue cloth boards stamped in maroon; lacks dust jacket. Boards worn along edges with minor fraying and brief loss to base of spine; faded along edges and spine. Binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good.
The French Powder Mystery: A Problem in Deduction
Queen, Ellery (pseud. for Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee)
Published by Grosset & Dunlap [1932] (c.1930), New York, 1932
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Good dj. Reprint (stated 7th printing). [a nice-looking copy with only modest shelfwear to the lower edges, faint age-toning to edges of text block, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase and brief comment written in ink on front endpaper; the jacket shows some mild external soiling…, but NOTE that although it puts up a good external appearance, the verso reveals a previous owner's home-grown "restoration" treatments, consisting of tape-reinforcement of all edges and folds plus quite a bit of black-ink "touch-up" of worn spots, mostly at the folds and extremities; it's not a badly-done job, though, and encased in new mylar the jacket is quite attractive (with artwork identical to that of the first edition jacket)]. Early reprint of the second Ellery Queen mystery, in which Inspector Richard Queen and his mystery-writing son Ellery are called upon to solve the murder of the wife of the owner of a fancy New York department store ("French's"), whose corpse is discovered in a ground-floor furniture window display. A NOTE about the dating of this book: Grosset & Dunlap printing statements (e.g. "Seventh printing, May 19, 1931" in this book) are not always to be taken as accurate -- often their editions were reprinted from the original publisher's plates, and whatever printing information appeared there was simply carried over -- in this case I believe the printing of this book quite likely was from early 1932. (Of the books advertised in the four pages of ads at the back of the volume, I didn't see any title that was published any later than 1931.).
The Chinese Orange Mystery: A Problem in Deduction
Queen, Ellery (pseud. for Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee)
Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1934
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- First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Very Good dj. First Edition. (with a Grosset & Dunlap (reissue) dust jacket) [spine slightly turned, a bit of wear and minor fraying at spine ends, some dust-soiling to top edge of text block, moderate fading to spine, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase and a brief comment (all…in ink) on the front endpaper; the jacket shows some wear at the edges and extremities, and is internally reinforced along the top and bottom edges]. First edition of the eighth Ellery Queen mystery, a notable "locked-room" tale in which a mysterious and anonymous little man is murdered inside the luxurious hotel suite of a wealthy publisher and collector of precious stones and Chinese postage stamps. (Per Wikipedia, this book "was the only Ellery Queen novel to be included in a list of the top ten 'impossible crime' mysteries of all time (created by noted locked-room mystery writer Edward D. Hoch).") It was also the basis for a movie adaptation, THE MANDARIN MYSTERY (1936), which starred Eddie Quillan as EQ. Again from Wikipedia: "Some elements of the novel were used as the basis for the 1941 film ELLERY QUEEN'S PENTHOUSE MYSTERY, which was then novelized as 'The Penthouse Mystery' by a ghost writer and published as by Ellery Queen." The list of EQ books on the rear jacket flap (which also employs the "masked man" portrait photo of the author) ends with "The Spanish Cape Mystery," thereby helping to date this mismatched dust jacket as circa 1937; notably, it employs the same artwork as the original Stokes jacket. (A facsimile of the actual first edition jacket is available (not from us), however, should you wish to dress it up a bit more properly.).
The American Gun Mystery [Death at the Rodeo]: A Problem in Deduction
Queen, Ellery (pseud. for Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee)
Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1933
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Good+ dj. First Edition. (with a Triangle Books (reissue) dust jacket) [a nice clean copy with just a touch of fading to the spine cloth, no significant wear, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase and a brief comment (all in ink) on the front endpaper; the jacket looks nice, but the… verso displays a previous owner's home-grown "restoration" treatments, consisting of tape-reinforcement along the top and bottom edges and the spine, and some black-ink "touch-up" (not too excessive) mostly to the spine ends; there is also a long vertical crease along the right edge of the front panel]. First edition of the sixth Ellery Queen mystery, in which a down-on-his-luck ex-movie cowboy star is shot to death in full view of a crowd at a "wild west show" in New York -- the crowd, naturally, including Ellery Queen himself. The mismatched jacket (which was on the book as we received it) is probably from a circa 1940 Triangle reprint, which has replaced the original playing-card-motif jacket art with a photographic cover featuring a masked man -- which (although it doesn't say so on the book itself) is "Ellery Queen" himself, using the same head shot that was used on several of the original Stokes jackets, back when the publisher was still promoting the author as an unknown man of mystery (instead of a pair of cousins from Brooklyn). (A facsimile of the actual first edition jacket is available (not from us), however, should you wish to dress it up a bit more properly.).
Published by Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1951
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First Printing. Publisher's review slip loosely laid-in. Octavo (20.25cm); red cloth titled in black on cover and spine; dustjacket; 245pp. Minor dampstain to the heel of spine; mild spots of toning to gutters; Very Good+. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50) with tiny nicks and short tears to the extremities; evidence… of dampstaining to the heel, most prominent on the verso; thin strip of toning to the edge of the rear flap; Very Good.
Published by Little, Brown & Co, boston, 1952
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Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. First Printing. Ocatvo (20.5cm); red paper-covered boards titled in black on the cover and spine; dustjacket by John O'Hara Cosgrave, Il; 250pp. Spine ends lightly pushed; faint soil marks mostly to to upper front board, else Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75) with light rubbing to spine ends; m…inor nicks and a few tiny short tears; faint finger soil to rear panel; Very Good+ or better. "Armed men invade the Queen apartment. At their head is Abel Bendigo, brother of one of the world's most powerful men, King Bendigo of Bodigen Arms, industrial monster whose tentacles embrace the planet. Someone is threatening to kill King Bendigo, and Ellery must undertake to save that hated life!" (from the dustjacket); HUBIN, p.335.
Drury Lane's Last Case: The Tragedy of 1599: A Drury Lane Mystery
Ross, Barnaby (pseud. for Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, aka "Ellery Queen")
Published by Grosset & Dunlap (c.1933), New York, 1933
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Very Good dj. Reprint. [a very nice copy with no significant wear, just a touch of soiling to the bottom edge of the text block, and a one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink on the front endpaper, tiny vintage bookseller's label (Stewart & Co.) on rear pastedown; the jacket is… nice-looking with only modest edgewear and some light soiling, although the verso reveals a previous owner's home-grown "restoration" treatments, consisting of tape-reinforcement along the top and bottom edges and a small amount of black ink "touch-up"]. The fourth and final volume in this tetralogy of mystery novels set in New York, featuring Drury Lane, "famous actor and criminal investigator, who, after retiring from the stage, lived in medieval splendor in his 'ancient' caste on the Hudson, and worked out his own theories of crime detection." This one is blurbed as "far and away [Lane's] best case," involving clues that "go back over three hundred years [and present] one of the most ingenious deductive problems that ever confronted a sleuth." Although it wasn't yet publicly known that "Barnaby Ross" and "Ellery Queen" were one and the same author (two cousins from Brooklyn), attentive readers would have picked up on the fact that "Ross" employed the same "Challenge to the Reader" narrative device as "Queen" used in his early novels, that of presenting readers with all the known facts necessary for them to solve the mysteries themselves in advance of the book's protagonist. (As the jacket blurb puts it: "Exciting, baffling but absolutely fair. The facts are here for you to solve.") Reportedly, Dannay and Lee had some fun with their dual-dual pseudonyms at the time these books came out, appearing in a series of public debates in which Dannay impersonated "Ross" and Lee portrayed "Queen," both wearing masks to preserve their anonymity. (Although I've not seen it stated anywhere, it's possible that the character of Drury Lane and his "castle" may have been inspired by the actor William Gillette (1853-1937), famous for his stage portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, who constructed and lived in his retirement just such a dwelling, located on the Connecticut River.) Some years later, after the "Ross"/"Queen" masquerade was revealed, the four books in this group were reprinted under Queen's name; jacketed copies of the original "Ross" versions (even the G&D reprints) are exceedingly scarce. (The publisher of the first editions was the Viking Press, perhaps a calculated choice to further distance "Ross" from "Queen," who was published at that time by the Frederick A. Stokes Company.) NOTE that although this book bears only the 1933 copyright date, this particular printing likely dates from the late 1930s.
The Tragedy of X: A Drury Lane Mystery
Ross, Barnaby (pseud. for Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, aka "Ellery Queen")
Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1932
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Good+ dj. Reprint. [nice copy with no significant wear but a slightly weak front hinge, very slight bump to upper rear corner, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase and brief comment on front endpaper, just below a previous owner's signature dated 1941; the jacket is nice-looking,…but has a bit of surface wear and has been rather extensively tape-reinforced on the verso, with a few small bits of amateur paper "restoration" and a small amount of black-ink "touch-up" (still looks great in new mylar)]. The opening installment in this tetralogy of mystery novels set in New York, featuring Drury Lane, "famous actor and criminal investigator, who, after retiring from the stage, lived in medieval splendor in his 'ancient' caste on the Hudson, and worked out his own theories of crime detection." Although it wasn't yet publicly known that "Barnaby Ross" and "Ellery Queen" were one and the same author (two cousins from Brooklyn), attentive readers would have picked up on the fact that "Ross" employed the same "Challenge to the Reader" narrative device as "Queen" used in his early novels, that of presenting readers with all the known facts necessary for them to solve the mysteries themselves in advance of the book's protagonist. Reportedly, Dannay and Lee had some fun with their dual-dual pseudonyms at the time these books came out, appearing in a series of public debates in which Dannay impersonated "Ross" and Lee portrayed "Queen," both wearing masks to preserve their anonymity. (Although I've not seen it stated anywhere, it's possible that the character of Drury Lane and his "castle" may have been inspired by the actor William Gillette (1853-1937), famous for his stage portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, who constructed and lived in his retirement just such a dwelling, located on the Connecticut River.) Some years later, after the "Ross"/"Queen" masquerade was revealed, the four books in this group were reprinted under Queen's name; jacketed copies of the original "Ross" versions (even the G&D reprints) are exceedingly scarce. (The publisher of the first editions was the Viking Press, perhaps a calculated choice to further distance "Ross" from "Queen," who was published at that time by the Frederick A. Stokes Company.) NOTE that although I've dated this book as 1932 (the date that appears on the title page), that seems to have been a carry-over from the original Viking edition; this particular printing likely dates from the mid-1930s.
The Tragedy of Z: A Drury Lane Mystery
Ross, Barnaby (pseud. for Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, aka "Ellery Queen")
Published by Grosset & Dunlap (c.1933), New York, 1933
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Very Good dj. Reprint. [a lovely copy with no significant wear, would be Fine but for a couple of very slightly scrunched lower page corners and a one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase and brief comment on front endpaper; the jacket is nice-looking with only modest edgewear and some… light soiling, although the verso reveals a previous owner's home-grown "restoration" treatments, consisting of extensive tape-reinforcement and a small amount of black ink "touch-up"]. The third entry in this tetralogy of mystery novels set in New York, featuring Drury Lane, "famous actor and criminal investigator, who, after retiring from the stage, lived in medieval splendor in his 'ancient' caste on the Hudson, and worked out his own theories of crime detection." This one concerns a double murder which takes place in a milieu of political corruption and prison graft. Retired Inspector Thumm (a recurring character in the series) has been looking into some of the fraudulent acitivities of one of the principals, and in turn called in Drury Lane, who for this case finds himself "partnered" with "an attractive and ingeniously deductive young girl," who happens to be Thumm's daughter. In a preface, the author explains that while the first two books ("X" and "Y") took place close together in time, more than ten years had elapsed between then and the events of "Z." Although it wasn't yet publicly known that "Barnaby Ross" and "Ellery Queen" were one and the same author (two cousins from Brooklyn), attentive readers would have picked up on the fact that "Ross" (in "X" and "Y" but apparently not here) employed the same "Challenge to the Reader" narrative device as "Queen" used in his early novels, that of presenting readers with all the known facts necessary for them to solve the mysteries themselves in advance of the book's protagonist. Reportedly, Dannay and Lee had some fun with their dual-dual pseudonyms at the time these books came out, appearing in a series of public debates in which Dannay impersonated "Ross" and Lee portrayed "Queen," both wearing masks to preserve their anonymity. (Although I've not seen it stated anywhere, it's possible that the character of Drury Lane and his "castle" may have been inspired by the actor William Gillette (1853-1937), famous for his stage portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, who constructed and lived in his retirement just such a dwelling, located on the Connecticut River.) Some years later, after the "Ross"/"Queen" masquerade was revealed, the four books in this group were reprinted under Queen's name; jacketed copies of the original "Ross" versions (even the G&D reprints) are exceedingly scarce. (The publisher of the first editions was the Viking Press, perhaps a calculated choice to further distance "Ross" from "Queen," who was published at that time by the Frederick A. Stokes Company.) NOTE that although this book bears only the 1933 copyright date, this particular printing likely dates from a few years later.
The Tragedy of Y: A Drury Lane Mystery
Ross, Barnaby (pseud. for Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, aka "Ellery Queen")
Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1932
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Very Good+ dj. Reprint. [a lovely copy with no significant wear, would be Fine but for a couple of very slightly scrunched lower page corners and a one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase and brief comment on front endpaper, just below which is a rubber-stamped name of a previous owne…r; the jacket is bright and attractive, showing very slight edgewear and a little ink-smudging on the front flap]. The second book in this tetralogy of mystery novels set in New York, featuring Drury Lane, "famous actor and criminal investigator, who, after retiring from the stage, lived in medieval splendor in his 'ancient' caste on the Hudson, and worked out his own theories of crime detection." This one concerns the Hatter family -- the "mad Hatters" -- whose "home on Washington Square came to be as famous in New York as the Wendell house or the home of Hetty Green. Then suddenly, just as the Hatter legends began to abate, there started a series of sinister attempts on the lives of members of the doomed family and concurrent publicity that spattered their names across the front pages of every newspaper." Enter Drury Lane, to solve the case. Although it wasn't yet publicly known that "Barnaby Ross" and "Ellery Queen" were one and the same author (two cousins from Brooklyn), attentive readers would have picked up on the fact that "Ross" employed the same "Challenge to the Reader" narrative device as "Queen" used in his early novels, that of presenting readers with all the known facts necessary for them to solve the mysteries themselves in advance of the book's protagonist. Reportedly, Dannay and Lee had some fun with their dual-dual pseudonyms at the time these books came out, appearing in a series of public debates in which Dannay impersonated "Ross" and Lee portrayed "Queen," both wearing masks to preserve their anonymity. (Although I've not seen it stated anywhere, it's possible that the character of Drury Lane and his "castle" may have been inspired by the actor William Gillette (1853-1937), famous for his stage portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, who constructed and lived in his retirement just such a dwelling, located on the Connecticut River.) Some years later, after the "Ross"/"Queen" masquerade was revealed, the four books in this group were reprinted under Queen's name; jacketed copies of the original "Ross" versions (even the G&D reprints) are exceedingly scarce. (The publisher of the first editions was the Viking Press, perhaps a calculated choice to further distance "Ross" from "Queen," who was published at that time by the Frederick A. Stokes Company.) NOTE that although I've dated this book as 1932 (the date that appears on the title page), that seems to have been a carry-over from the original Viking edition; this particular printing likely dates from the mid-1930s.
THE SIAMESE TWIN MYSTERY: A PROBLEM IN DEDUCTION
Queen, Ellery (pseud. of Frederic Dannay & Manfred Bennington Lee)
Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1933
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Reprint. Octavo (21cm); red cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in black on spine and front cover; dark brown topstain; dustjacket; x,[2],3-325,[1]pp. Usuall tanning to text, with a faint, tiny splash mark to lower front joint; Near Fine. Dustjacket is lightly edgeworn and dust-soiled, with a few tiny nicks and te…ars, and a corresponding splash mark to base of spine panel; Very Good+. Cheap reprint edition of the seventh Ellery Queen novel. Hubin, p.326. 8465.
Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1958
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Add to basket8vo, pp. 244. Original blue quarter boards, lettered in blue on pale green to spine. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket, authors' photographic portrait to rear panel. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some wear to corners and spine ends. First edition. HUBIN, p.335.
Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1929
- First Edition
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good+. First Edition. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1929. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); 325pp. Lacking jacket. Boards in red cloth with black stamping. Boards rebacked with original spine material pasted on and corners repaired; scuffed and rubbed overall with mild bumping to margins. Modern headbands; b…inding cocked but tight from repair. Page edges lightly toned. Modern endsheets with original free endpapers. Minor tear repair to title page and small staining to top corner of pages 173-189, otherwise pages clean and untouched. A Very Good or better, albeit repaired, copy of Ellery Queen's first novel.
More imagesThe Memoirs of Solar Pons [Signed by Derleth]
August Derleth; Ellery Queen [pseud. of Frederic Dannay & Manfred Bennington Lee] [intro.]; Frank Utpatel [jacket illus.]
Published by Mycroft & Moran Publishers, Sauk City, WI, 1951
- First Edition
- Signed
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1951. First Edition, printed in a run of 2000 copies. Octavo (19cm); black boards in illustrated dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; 245pp. Dust jacket rubbed and toned; small tear along top edge of front panel. Boards bumpe…d. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages lightly toned. Very Good or better. Signed by the author in purple ink at first free endsheet. Derleth's second collection of stories about the detective Solar Pons, an affectionate pastiche of Sherlock Holmes. Signed.
