Frederic Dannay Manfred Bennington Lee (72 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. DJ: abv avg, BOOK: as new minus faint dust to pg edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Ex-library edition with stickers, stamps and an inside back cover check out sleeve; the jacket has a mylar sleeve; there is wear around the edges of the book and jacket;

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fair-Good. No Jacket. Dirone Photography (cover photo) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 24 # 129 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1954. Contains stories by Rov Vickers (William Edward Vickers - Find the Innocent), , Stuart Palmer & Craig Rice (Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig - Autopsy and Eva), Pat Frank (Harry Hart "Pat" Frank - On Edge), Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay & Manfred Bennington Lee - , GI Story), James M Ullman (James Michael Ullman - , Anything New on the Strangler?), Ring Lardner (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner - Claude Diphthong, Student of Crime), Don Marquis (Donald Robert Perry Marquis - The Iron Hand in the Velvet Glove), Ellis Parker Butler (The Silver Protector), Arthur Conan Doyle (How it Happened), and others. GGA cover. Light wear at the edges. Some waviness to the front cover and top edges of the first few pages that suggest moisture exposure, however there aren't any stains. Initials (DJ) written in the upper right of the front cover.Light browning to the edges of the front cover and the pages. Rubbing to the spine that has worn off most of the writing. The interior is clean and tight. A good very good copy.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. New York, 1938; covers not as pictured in stock photo; gray cloth covered boards; mild edge and corner wear; no jacket; 12mo, 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; end papers toned; interior is clean and unmarked; 303 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. A 3rd print (stated) from the mid 1940s of a Pocket Book edition of an Ellery Queen mystery from the early 1940s. PB 283. "It all starts when Ellery Queen goes to a small town, disguised as Ellery Smith, to write a novel." Light edge wear with some closed tears at the bottom of the spine. Good color to the front cover. Lightly browned pages that are clean, crisp and tight. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Silver Studio (cover photo) (illustrator). First Thus. A 1st print (stated) from the early 1950s of a Pocket Book edition under a new title of a mystery from the late 1930s. PB 459. Light edge wear. Lightly browned pages that are clean, crisp and tight. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) from the early 1950s of a Pocket Book edition of a mystery from the late 1940s. PB 740. Light edge wear. Mild spine lean. Lightly browned pages that are clean, crisp and tight. A good to very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) from the mid 1950s of a Pocket Book edition of a mystery from the mid 1940s where neither Ellery Queen nor Inspector Queen appear. PB 1082. "Lynch law takes over as a town goes mad with vengeance". Light edge wear. Small damp stain to the bottom corner of the pages that starts at the back and gradually diminishes towards the front. Lightly browned pages that are clean, crisp and tight. A good to very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. ? (cover) (illustrator). Reprint. A 9th print (stated) from the mid 1940s of a Pocket Book edition of the 3rd Ellery Queen mystery from the early 1930s. PB 202. The cover art is signed but it's too small and indistinct to decipher. Light edge wear with a little more to the spine. The spine is a little faded. The binding is starting to split at the dedication page but still holding together. The is some loss at the bottom of the pages at the spine (insect damage?). The white pages are a little browned but clean, crisp and tight. A good to very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Art Sussman (cover) (illustrator). Reprint. A 22nd print (stated) from the mid 1950s of a Pocket Book collection of Ellery Queen stories from the mid 1930s. The stories were originally published in various magazines including Red Book, Mystery, Great Detective and Mystery League. PB 99. GGA cover. Contents include: The Adventure of - 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 & The Mad Tea-Party. Light edge wear. Light damp stain to the lower third of the pages that shows faintly throughout. Lightly browned pages that are clean and tight. A good to very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. A 2nd print (stated) from the mid 1940s of a Pocket Book edition of an Ellery Queen mystery from the late 1930s. PB 270. Light edge wear with some rubbing to the spine. Good color to the front cover. The creamy white pages are a little browned but clean, crisp and tight. A very good copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some light bumping and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is a small nick / tear to the bottom edge of the front spine joint. The text pages are clean, though there is noticeable toning to the pages. "Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1929 by American crime fiction writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee and the name of their main fictional character, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murders. Dannay and Lee wrote most of the more than thirty novels and several short story collections in which Ellery Queen appeared as a character, and their books were among the most popular of American mysteries published between 1929 and 1971. In addition to the fiction featuring their eponymous brilliant amateur detective, the two men acted as editors: as Ellery Queen they edited more than thirty anthologies of crime fiction and true crime, and Dannay founded and for many decades edited Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, which has been published continuously from 1941 to the present. From 1961, Dannay and Lee also commissioned other authors to write crime thrillers using the Ellery Queen nom de plume, but not featuring Ellery Queen as a character; several juvenile novels were credited to Ellery Queen, Jr. Finally, the prolific duo wrote four mysteries under the pseudonym Barnaby Ross. " (from Wikipedia).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The duist jacket is generally clean and bright, with some light toning to the white portions. There are a couple of small edge nicks and tears. "Daniel Nathan, professionally known as Frederic Dannay (b Brooklyn October 20, 1905 d New York September 3, 1982) , and Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky, professionally known as Manfred Bennington Lee (b Brooklyn January 11, 1905 d Roxbury, Connecticut April 3, 1971) , were American cousins from Brooklyn, New York. In addition to writing most of the novels and short stories featuring the brilliant amateur detective Ellery Queen, Dannay and Lee edited more than thirty anthologies of crime fiction and true crime, which were published under the Ellery Queen pseudonym. Dannay was the founder and longtime editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, which has been published continuously from 1941 to the present. " (from Wikipedia).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. George Salter (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 24 # 129 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September 1954. Contains stories by Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay & Manfred Bennington Lee - Diamonds in Paradise), John F Suter (When Are the People Going to Learn?), Michael Gilbert (The Customer is Not Always Right), Philip MacDonald (The Man Out of the Rain), Hugh Pentecost (Judson Pentecost Philips - Murder Plays Through), Jack London (The Unexpected), Hodding Carter (William Hodding Carter II - Bad Check), Zenna Henderson (You Know What, Teacher?), Helen Simpson (Helen de Guerry Simpson - A Posteriori), Norbert Davis (Do a Dame a Favor?), Babette Rosmond (Best of Friends), and others. Light wear at the edges. The color on the cover and spine is exceptionally bright. Very small horizontal closed tear to the fore edge of pages 137 through the end. The interior is clean and tight. Light browning to the pages. A very good or better copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st thus from the early 1950s of an Avon Books edition of a mystery novel from the late 1930s. Avon 509. GGA cover. Light edge wear with a couple of light creases to the covers. The lightly browned pages are clean, crisp and tight. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 3rd print (stated) from the mid 1940s of a Pocket Book edition of a mystery from the early 1930s published under their Barnaby Ross pseudonym featuring Drury Lane and Inspector Thumm. PB 355. Light edge wear. Mild spine lean. Lightly browned pages that are clean, crisp and tight. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. An early 1940s reprint (special printing 1941) of a late 1930s Ellery Queen mystery. No DJ. Blue green buckram boards with black lettering. It appears like the book has been rebound. Light edge wear. .5" closed ear at the top of the spine. The interior is clean and tight. A good to very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. vi, [2], 303 p.; 19 cm. Off-white cloth with red-stamped spine and cover titles. No dust jacket, but the flaps from the dust jacket have been attached to the fixed endpapers. This was the first Ellery Queen mystery to take place in Hollywood. In Good Condition: cover is lightly soiled; light stain on upper spine and part of back cover; ends of spine fraying; scattered soiling throughout.

Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. 34th Mystery Annual. In protective mylar cover. (Short Stories, Detectives, Mystery).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Im-Ho (cover) (illustrator). First Thus. A 1st print (stated) from the early 1940s of a Pocket Book edition of the 4th Ellery Queen mystery from the early 1930s. PB 179. Light edge wear with a couple of creases to the front cover. Mild spine lean. Book store stamp ("Libby's Used Book Store .") on the FFEP. The creamy white pages are clean, crisp and tight. A very good or better copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This is a mass market paperback book. Pocket Books number 50493, priced at .50cents. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping and wear, and some light creasing to the bottom rear corner. The text pages are generally clean, but there is some light generalized toning.

Condition: FINE. First printing. An anthology containing 22 short stories from the Ellery Queen magazine - "stories with just ambiguity to tease your wits. Included are The Cloud Beneath the Eaves by Barbara Owens, The Sacrificial Goat by Thomas Walsh, Dover Goes to School by Joyce Porter, Dream House by Kathryn Gottlieb, Charlie's Shell Game by Brian Garfield, The Forgotten Murder by E. X. Ferrars, The Krowten Corners Crime Wave by Stephen Wasylyk, One Thing Leads to Another by Harold Q. Masur, I Can't Help Saying Goodbye by Ann Mackenzie, The Spy and the Cats of Rome by Edward D. Hoch, Cout me OUt by Ernest Savage, Milady Bigamy by Lillian de la Torre, The Writing on the Wall by Patricia McGerr, Born Victim by Ruth Rendell, Installment Past Due by Robert Twohy, No Wider than a Nickel by Jack Ritchie, When in Rome by Patricia Highsmith, The Other Runner by John Lutz, This is Death by Donald E. Westlake, Going Backward by David Ely, Caught in the Act by Bill Pronzini, and Reasons Unknown by Stanley Ellin. Introduction by Queen. 287 pp. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (small date stamped on front endpaper).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Third Printing. (1946) 230+pp. Original pictorial wraps, lightly soiled w/ modest edge wear. Lamination starting to peel at bottom edge of front cover. Small, faint dampstain to top edge of rear cover. Edges of leaves a bit age toned. Still a nice copy.

Small Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Spine leans forward slightly, pages a bit toned. 1940 Small Hard Cover. 424, [4] pp. 4 1/2 x 3 5/8. A scarce installment in the Better Little Book series, by the well-known pseudonymous author of crime fiction (actually two male writers, Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Spine leans forward slightly, pages a bit toned. 1942 Hard Cover. 424, [4] pp. An installment in the popular Better Little Book series, by the mystery-writing duo who pseudonymously published under the name Ellery Queen. Includes a flip-book style action sequence with frames on the top corner of each page.

Original cloth. Condition: Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. 8 x 5 1/4 (full)". viii, 562pp. Original cloth. Stain on fore-edge affecting covers. FIRST EDITION. Sound copy. Collated and complete. Murderers, thieves, confidence men, "criminal" lawyers, and assorted crooks.

Hardcover. 8vo., 195 pp. Index. A collection of fifty anecdotes, personal reminiscences and reflections regarding writing crime fiction. Contains the essay 'Who Shall Ever Forget?,' the famous chronicle of his introduction to Sherlock Holmes. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., 284pp. Beautiful Stated First Printing of this anthology with stories by Rendell, Stout, Queen, Innes, and many others. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. A bit of off-setting to gutters. Very attractive unclipped dust jacket, ($8.95), has some light wear and surface tubbing but is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A very pretty collectable copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Original publisher's red paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Included is the yellow paper dust jacket with red and black lettering on front panel and black lettering on spine. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. 5" x 7 1/2." 240 pages, complete. Pages are very clean and intact except for small spots of foxing (most noticeable on edges of text block), offsetting on back endpaper, two small booksellers' tickets tipped in on front pastedown, and light age toning. Covers are virtually pristine and intact. Dust jacket is virtually pristine and intact. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket. This is another installment in the series of mystery fiction featuring the detective, Ellery Queen. "Ellery Queen" also happens to be the pseudonym of authors and cousins Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred Bennington Lee (1905-1971). Dannay and Lee are perhaps better-known by their professional names, Daniel Nathan and Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky, respectively. They specialized in detective fiction and wrote about forty novels and short story anthologies featuring the character of Ellery Queen. The Ellery Queen series was one of the most popular and successful mystery fiction series in the twentieth century. The Player on the Other Side was written by Dannay, Lee, and ghost-writer Theodore Sturgeon. This title features Ellery Queen embarking on solving another murder mystery. The character of Queen is the son of police inspector in New York City who began his foray into detective work by helping his father solve murder cases.

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.