James Helvick (23 results)

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good. Vol. 40, no. 2 (Whole No. 225). Includes "A Kind of Murder" by Hugh Pentecost; "The $1,000,000 Bond Robbery" by Agatha Christie; "Needle in a Haystack" by Frederick Nebel; "Strictly a Neighborhood Problem" by Norman Daniels; "Cop With a Conscience" by William Fay; "The Curious Quints" by Don Knowlton; "The Mysterious Sketch" by Erckmann-Chatrian; "Do You Believe in Astrology?" by Arthur Porges; "Total Recall" by James Helvick; "Monday Is a Quiet Place" by Marjorie Carleton; "On teh Road to Jericho" (First) by L. E. Behney; "The Red Eggs" (First) by Magnus Ludens; "The Old Woman Upstairs" by Dylan Thomas; "Mystery Hardcovers of the Month"; "Mystery Paperbacks of the Month"; "Best Mysteries of the Month" by Anthony Boucher. Stone tears wioth losses; corner chips and wear; tanning; rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Rough. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Good. 1961. 214 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Soft cover. Condition: Poor. Mass market paperback; considerable age tanning and cover wear but in readable condition. 160 pages.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This is a lightly written and amusing novel set in the Ireland of today - a pocket of Europe which has successfully survived the modernisation of her neighbours. Townsend is a young man seeking a quiet life after having survived with distinction first the Second World War and then Korea. He gets a job helping to compile a "definite history" of the Second World War for the Ehrenwalder Foundation of Chicago and in the course of his researches comes across "the horses" . Red cloth hardback with black lettering on spine, clean tight copy in good condition Illustrated Dust Jacket (design by Jozef Gross) small tears on edges, otherwise also in good condition, price unclipped (16s net) First published by MacGibbon & Kee 1961. Book#102908.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + Jacket. 1st Edition. 320 Pp. Red And Grey Cloth Stamped In Black And White. First Edition Stated. Book Near Fine, Appears Unread. Dust Jacket Priced $3.95, Light Rubbing.

Condition: Good. 1961. 214 pages. Black pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges.

DVD. Condition: Near Fine. Color (illustrator). 2003 release of the 1954 film.A quartet of international crooks meet up with an innocent couple & head to Africa, presumably to sell vacuum cleaners but actually they are going to buy land supposedly loaded with uranium. 1 disc in orignal box Size: Run time 93 Minutes.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1955 1st edition red spine, gray boards silver lettering on book title on spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth, hardback book with black title impressions running along the spine. Comes with dust jacket. The book is in good condition, normal wear and marks apply consistent with use and age. Some shelf-life wear and marks to edge of papers from use. Please see image. First published by Macgibbon & Kee in 1961, First Edition, Printed in Great Britain by The Thanet Press, Margate. 214 pages all intact, all pages, and text are in ok condition (some bruising wear to top of pages.) This is a lightly written and amusing novel set in the Ireland of today, a pocket of Europe which has successfully survived the modernisation of her neighbours. Townsend is a young man seeking a quiet life after having survived with distinction, first the Second World War and then Korea. He gets a job helping to compile a "definitive history" of the Second World War for the Ehrenwalder Foundation of Chicago and in the course of his researches come across "the horses". There were £47,000 worth of the them sent to Turkey by the British Government, which at the same time as improving the Turkish bloodstock would also increase the British Government's value in the eyes of this important neutral country. A really good read.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., 320pp. Sharp First Printing. Square, tight and clean throughout. Perhaps a touch of wear at the spine ends. Equally attractive unclipped wrapper is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A very pretty collectable copy.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. as new, 1961 1st edition. dj has minor wear smudges. very good +.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. Nice copy of first printing wtih First ediition stated. Tight and square with no markings. No flaws. Jacket has faint rubbing to tiny spot near front fold, else fine. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: VG-. 1st Edition. Supplement to the August 1953 issue of Lilliput. Contains four stories: "The Paper House" by Norman Mailer, "The Balloon Went Up" by James Helvick, "The Fly in the Coffin" by Erskine Caldwell, and "Ward Thirty-Nine" by Niall MacGinnis. Staples rusty.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R160046481: 1954. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos frotté, Intérieur acceptable. 283 pages. 1ère de couverture illustrée en noir et blanc. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 330. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1955 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 330.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A first Edition very good condition hard cover in a good dust jacket gently read clean pages. 2 inch section missing to spine of jacket spine folds worn almost separated Basis for the Humphrey Bogart film of the same name.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First Edition stated. Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lorre and Gina Lollobrigida film. VG+/VG- in woven blue cloth stamped in black on the front boards and the spine. Light wear to the top and bottom of the spine ends and a touch of light browning to the bottom 1/4" of the spine. In a colorful pictorial dustjacket with a splendid front panel of a cafe scene. Very charming. With a light touch of dampstaining to the rear panel at the left-hand top corner. Also light chipping to the top and bottom of the spine. Wear to the corners and light edge-rubbing and a touch of rippling along the top of the front panel. Original price of "$3.00" at the bottom of the inside front flap. First Edition stated.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated first edition corner bumped dust jacket missing small piece some edge wear.

First Edition. HELVICK, James. Beat the Devil. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott, (1951). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $400.First edition of this novel, which was adapted by Truman Capote and John Huston into the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones."Crooks and adventurers and two lovely women in a racy, witty story of tension and excitement." The 1954 movie version of Beat the Devil is a cult favorite and "has come to define the genre of spy movie spoofs" (American Movie Classics). Faint glue residue to front endpapers. Bright dust jacket near-fine.

First Edition. First American edition. 256 pp. Original blue cloth lettered in black. A Very Good copy with foxing to edges and endpapers, slightly musty, a few tiny stains to top edge, in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket, a little short for the book (as appears to be typical), foxed, a little edge-worn and scuffed. The basis of the 1953 film directed by John Huston. The author was a British journalist caught up in the Red Scare, and father of journalists Andrew, Patrick, and Alexander Cockburn, the latter of whom borrowed this book's title for the title of his opinion column.

First edition. A REVIEW COPY with slip laid in. Helvick was the pseudonym of Claud Cockburn, a noted British radical journalist. Born in Peking, China, in 1904, he was the scion of an aristocratic family--one of his ancestors was the British commander who ordered the burning of the White House during the War of 1812 and his cousin was the novelist Evelyn Waugh. The book was made into a 1953 film directed by John Huston, with the screenplay by Huston and Truman Capote, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones and Gina Lollobrigida. Huston intended it to be a tongue-in-cheek spoof of "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), also directed by Huston, and other films of Film Noir-style that Huston himself had pioneered (Wikipedia). Near fine with light rubbing to the cover, light bump to top front cover, and faint offset to the endpapers. In a dust jacket which is about an eighth-inch short. We've informed that at least one other copy with a little shorter jacket has been cataloged, so perhaps publisher produced (Graham Gateson reported cataloged by Bauman Books) Also minor edge rubbing and soiling, and a few shallow chips to the spine ends and corners. Cover art still clear and bright.