Fredericks Ernest Jason (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Publication of Both Books. VG to VG+ in pictorial wraps with blue & yellow lettering & cover art on Shakedown by Verne Tossey picturing a car pinning a frightened suit against a brick wall. Shaedown is a mystery about an insurance investigator in Chicago on the hotel racket who is framed for murder. Mystery, Vintage Paperback.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 'Someone had some information to sell the insurance people on the big Chicago hotel racket. But no sooner had investigator Sam Cates hit the Windy City, than he was slugged and left for dead' front flap blurb. 189 pages. First UK edition, first printing. Black cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket with cover art by 'Fox' (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to jacket, small closed tear bottom edge, damp staining to bottom edge of rear endpaper and back cover of dust jacket, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging. …

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ace Double D273. Both novels are paperback originals. Reading creasing, chipping at the ends and edge rubbing to the spine. Light edge rubbing and surface creasing to the covers. Browning to the page edges and the pages are browned but otherwise unmarked. The cover illustration for the Fredericks novel is by Verne Tossey. First printing. Tossey, Verne (illustrator).…