Erle S Gardner (138 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelving wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. See photos for condition details. Hardcover with dust jacket. The original price of $4.95 is still present on the front flap. DJ shows scuffing and soiling along with edge bumps/small tears. The front of the jacket has a small glue spot near the upper left corner where a price sticker once was. Black cloth boards underneath are clean with only very minor spotting. Internal binding is good and text pages are tight. The front end page has a last name written in the upper corner, no other handwriting found, no library markings, no bookplates, no remainder marks. At the time of this listing we have multiple copies - each one has been listed separately with their own set of photos. Arnold Roth (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 20 # 104 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1952. Contains stories by John W Vandercook (The Challenge), Arthur Train (Monsieur Donaque), Erle Stanley Gardner (In Round Figures), Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler), (The Pigeon Woman), John Steinbeck (The Poor Pirate), Selwyn Jepson (Letter of the Law), J S Fletcher (Mr Mann of London), and others. Light edge wear with browning to the covers & pages. Rubbing at the edges of the spine. A very good copy. …

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. 15, No. 78. Cover art by Salter. Includes "Lester Leith, Impersonator" (novelette) by Erle Stanley Gardner; "The Murder in the Fishing Cat" by Edna St. Vincent Millay; "The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby" by Stanley Ellin; "An Infringment of the Decalogue" by Donn Byrne; "The Rustling Tree" by J. Cameron Smith; "The Initialed Case" by Lawrence G. Blochman; "The Model Murder" by Allen F. Reid; "The Mystery of the Personal Ad" by T. S. Stribling; "The Absent-Minded Coterie" by Robert Barr; "The Best Mysteries of the Month" by Anthony Boucher; "Queen's Quorum: Part Eight" by Ellery Queen. Wrpas re-glued; creasing; spien tears with minor loss at heel; tanning; bumsp and dings. Magazine.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 24 # 128 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1954. Contains stories by Erle Stanley Gardner (The Case of the Irate Witness), Phyllis Bentley )The Tuesday and Friday Thefts), Bechhofer Roberts (Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts - The Persistent House-Hunter), A H Z Carr (, A Case of Catnapping), Charles B Child (Claude Vernon Frost - The Long, Thin Man), Margaret Millar - wife of Kenneth Millar (The Couple Next Door), John Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar - Wild Goose Chase), Ward Greene (Boy for Tea), , Melville Davisson Post (The New Administration), T S Eliot (Macavity: The Mystery Cat), and others. Light wear at the edges. Light browning to the edges of the front cover and the pages. Light creases to the lower right of the front cover. A good very good copy. George Salter (cover) (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (mystery, crime, vintage) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The May 1950 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Vol 15 # 78. Contains a stories and articles by Erle Stanley Gardner (Lester Leith, Impersonator), Edna St Vincent Millay (The Murder in the Fishing Cat), Stanley Ellin (The Orderly World of Mr Appleby), Donn Byrne (Brian Oswald Patrick Donn-Byrne - An Infringement of the Decalogue), Lawrence G Blochman (The Initialed Case), Pulitzer Prize winner T S Stribling (The Mystery of the Personal Ad), Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White - Best Mysteries of the Month), Robert Barr (The Absent Minded Coterie), and others. Light wear at the edges with a little rubbing to the spine hinges. Light crease to the top corner of the pages. Light browning to the pages and the covers. A very good copy. George Salter (cover) (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 20 # 104 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1952. Contains stories by John W Vandercook (The Challenge), Arthur Train (Monsieur Donaque), Erle Stanley Gardner (In Round Figures), Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler), (The Pigeon Woman), John Steinbeck (The Poor Pirate), Selwyn Jepson (Letter of the Law), J S Fletcher (Mr Mann of London), and others. Light edge wear with rubbing at the edges of the spine. A very good copy. …

paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company Publisher. Good. 1934. First Edition. Softcover. First edition. Pulp magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 6.75" x 9.75"], 144 pages, illustrated. Includes the fourth of four parts of "The Ledger of Life" by J. U. Giesy and Junius B. Smith, "The Spy at Charleville" by Ared White, "Sand Blast" by Erle Stanley Gardner, "Double Option" by Owen Atkinson, "Political Hay" by John H. Thompson, etc. A Good copy with tearing to the rear edge of the toned spine, scattered creasing and the usual edgewear to the cover, Text paper tanned. See Photos mag12. Cover art by Paul Stahr (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good in wrappers with mild wear to extremities, 2" closed tear to top edge of cover near spine, typical fading. Gardner's contribution is the novelette "White Rings". Complete issue.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Condition: acceptable. Ausreichend/Acceptable: Exemplar mit vollständigem Text und sämtlichen Abbildungen oder Karten. Schmutztitel oder Vorsatz können fehlen. Einband bzw. Schutzumschlag weisen unter Umständen starke Gebrauchsspuren auf. / Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. (which must be noted). Binding, dust jacket (if any), etc may also be worn.…

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 20 # 104 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1952. Contains stories by John W Vandercook (The Challenge), Arthur Train (Monsieur Donaque), Erle Stanley Gardner (In Round Figures), Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler), (The Pigeon Woman), John Steinbeck (The Poor Pirate), Selwyn Jepson (Letter of the Law), J S Fletcher (Mr Mann of London), and others. Light wear at the edges with rubbing to the spine hinges. Very small loss at the bottom of the spine. Script "c" written in black at the top left of the front cover. Vertical crease toward the left of the rear cover. Browning to the pages. A good copy. George Salter (cover) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. DJ WRAPPED IN PROTECTIVE SLEEVE. ARNOLD ROTH (illustrator).

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 24 # 128 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1954. Contains stories by Erle Stanley Gardner (The Case of the Irate Witness), Phyllis Bentley )The Tuesday and Friday Thefts), Bechhofer Roberts (Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts - The Persistent House-Hunter), A H Z Carr (, A Case of Catnapping), Charles B Child (Claude Vernon Frost - The Long, Thin Man), Margaret Millar - wife of Kenneth Millar (The Couple Next Door), John Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar - Wild Goose Chase), Ward Greene (Boy for Tea), , Melville Davisson Post (The New Administration), T S Eliot (Macavity: The Mystery Cat), and others. Light wear at the edges. Sharp corners & bright color. Creamy white pages. A very good or better copy. George Salter (cover) (illustrator).…

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Condition: acceptable. Ausreichend/Acceptable: Exemplar mit vollständigem Text und sämtlichen Abbildungen oder Karten. Schmutztitel oder Vorsatz können fehlen. Einband bzw. Schutzumschlag weisen unter Umständen starke Gebrauchsspuren auf. / Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. (which must be noted). Binding, dust jacket (if any), etc may also be worn.…

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pulp magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 6.75" x 9.75"], 144 pages, illustrated. Includes "The Big Circle" by Erle Stanley Gardner, the first of three parts of "The Diamond Specter" by Herbert L. McNary, the third of six parts of "The Lost Land of Atzlan" by Fred MacIsaac, the sixth of six parts of "Railroad" by T. S. Stribling, "Tarantula Tower" by Theodore Roscoe, "Congo" by Paul Annixter, "The Search Party" by Tom Curry, "Little Duke" by Hapsburg Liebe, "One Punch McGuire" by E. J. Burke, etc. Good copy tape across the spine heel, creasing and edgewear to the cover, text paper tanned. See photos mag11E. …

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First UK edition. Paperback Original. Gold Medal Number 561. Anthology of stories edited by Prather who also provides an introduction and one of the stories. Originally published in the US by Fawcett Gold Medal in 1960. The front cover has a small mark in pen across the price at the top right corner. The spine has a little edge rubbing and a small surface tear at the top. Slight discolouration to the back cover. Page edges browned. Ticks in pen against eight of the titles in the contents pages and the pages are browned but they are otherwise unmarked. Cover art by Barye Phillips. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed. Phillips, Barye (illustrator).…

187 pp., brossura, ottimo 920 E337.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. First Edition. PRESENTATION COPY from OrvilleSchaleben of The Milwaukee Journal to the William Allen White School of Journalism, with a 10-line inscription on the ffep.

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First UK edition. Paperback Original. Gold Medal Number 561. Anthology of stories edited by Prather who also provides an introduction and one of the stories. Originally published in the US by Fawcett Gold Medal in 1960. The covers have only some light surface and edge wear. Browning to the top edges of the pages which have some small chips to a number of the corners. Browning along the top edges of the insides of the covers and the pages are browned but they are otherwise unmarked. Cover art by Barye Phillips. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed. Phillips, Barye (illustrator).…

Pulp fiction magazine. This issue features novelette The Big Circle by Erle Stanley Gardner, plus numerous other stories, serials, and other features. Clean tight copy. 7 x 10, 144 pp, b/w illus & ads. Good unmarked, fairly bright wraps, light edgewear incl 1/2 x 2 edge chip, yellowing pages. Paperback in color wraps, inside stapled. …