Jimmy Starr (59 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good-. Illustrated black, red, yellow, white, and pink covers with yellow, purple, and black printing; wear on edges and corners; bottom front corner has been bent; rubbed; reading crease on front cover next to spine. Previous owner's name in pencil on front endpaper. 188 pp. plus ads; clean, unmarked, browning.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Reading Copy. [1st printing](1945) #15. Cover art is uncredited. Lower ends has been wet with scarring at lower edges of both covers. Reading copy. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Black letters; red cloth. Text block ends have darkened a little. Free endpapers are foxed; front pastedown is slightly so. DJ: shelf wear soil; foxing; 1/8 in. to 1/4 in. chips on corners; bottom edge has intermittent rubbed spots; 3 closed tears, longest is 5/8 in.; red check mark on front flap. Scans e-mailed upon request. Hubenthal (illustrator).…

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Slightly dampstained. Spine cracked. (Mystery, Fiction, Detectives).

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. MMPB. BART 15. Original cover price 25 cents. Book condition is good. Very minor edge wear to some edges. Minor shelfwear. Spine loose but still attached. Book # 15. Original price 25 cents. 188 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. MYSTERY.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 188pp. laminate peeled off. creases and small v-shaped cut or tear on cover. paper yellowed. otherwise clean and unmarked. binding tight. an attractive copy. Size: 16mo - over 5 3/4 in - 6 3/4 in tall. Year: 1945.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1945. Clean and tightly bound with unmarked contents. Light edge and shelf wear and age-toning to the pages, remains a nice copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Rubbed, o/w Good. Wrappers.

hardcover. First Edition. Good (no Dust Jacket). Author's second mystery: Joe Medford attempts to forstall the murder of a trio of Hollywood midgets.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. The second appearance of Joe Medford - Hollywood reporter, detective and romancer of lovely ladies. Ex-library with stamps to the edges of the text block and internally. Bumped and rubbed with a bit of wear at the edges. Pages tanned and lightly foxed. Jacket trimmed and laminated with the flaps glued to the pastedowns, rubbed with smalll chips and tears. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Vintage Paperback. PBO. Bart House #15. Solid First Paperback Printing. No month, 1945. $.25 cover price. Originaly piublished in hardcover by Murray & Gee earlier the same year. Square, tight and clean throughout with just a hint of interior toning and a touch at the fore-edge. Moderate edge-wear. Front hinge and a few faint surface creases. Still bright with no chipping or tears. A pretty collectable copy of an uncommon title in any condition. (Hubin, p.379).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [nice clean copy, very light wear at extremities]. Second (and last) Hollywood-set mystery novel by this author featuring the "Martini-gargling, cutie-chasing, fast-talking reporter and super-sleuth" Joe Medford, introduced in "The Corpse Came C.O.D." In this story, he investigates the homicides of a trio of midgets. Starr (1904-1990) was a noted Hollywood gossip columnist and radio commentator.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hollywood reporter Joe Medford investigates the murder of a beautiful society girl, whose killer decapitated her and then pinned her head back on. Ex-library with stamps to the end papers. Bumped and rubbed with the edges worn and darkened. Tape shadows to the boards and end papers with a 2" stain to the upper front board. Jacket lightly rubbed and crimped, lower 1/2" trimmed, with tape to the flaps, in Brodart. Ex-Library.…

Paperback. first PB. 15, very good -fine, , reading crease mystery novel, paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition / 1st Printing. First edition / First printing. Good in good- dust jacket. Book : owner's name stamped on inside front cover, offsetting onto front & rear endpapers from dj, and faint tape mark on both inside covers. Jacket : minor chipping at top & bottom of spine and corners, 3 chips on the top edge of the rear panel, 2 inch tear at the top of the front flap hinge, same tape mark on the middle of both flaps. This novel is set in Cinemaland and deals with a detective's exploits in trying to solve the murder of 3 midgets. First edition / First printing. Hard Cover. 232pp. 14 x 21cm. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. First Edition. Previous owner names and gift inscription, DJ edgeworn with small tears and chips, rare with DJ.

Boards. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 8VO, 1ST EDITION, HARDCOVER, THIS BOOK IS IN GOOD CONDITION WITH SOME BUMPING/RUBBING TO EDGES.THE DUST JACKET IS IN POOR CONDITION WITH SHELF-WEAR AND SOILING/RUBBING WITH SOME TEARS ALONG EDGES 1.5". TAN/BROWN BOARDS PHOTO COVER. MATCHING DJ. Size: 8vo. Jimmy Thompson (illustrator). Hardcover. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ VG (spine sunned). A Joe Medford mystery. Red titles on light blue tweed cloth.

Paperback #15 CONDITION: g.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION in dust jacket. The book is near fine with mild sunning to the spine and light foxing to the top of the book block. The front panel of the dust jacket is intact, while there is a large triangular piece missing on the rear panel; paper loss to the spine ends and flyleaf corners. Hollywood news reporter Joe Medford solves a murder that occurs at a prominent movie star's party on the Santa Monica Pier.…

Cartonnage éditeur in-12 ( 18,5 / 12 cm ) jaune et noire.Sous jaquette noire et blanche.( Léger manque de papier en tête de dos ).Collection Série Noire. n° 104.249 pages.Traduit de l'américain par Maurice Tassart. noire Série.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Hollywood mystery. Offset to endpapers and blank side of dust wrapper from old-style jacket protector which has preserved the jacket with bright fresh appearance, not price clipped. Note wrapper is trimmed about 1/4" shorter than the book. …

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 128pp. No date c1944. Or pictorial card. Spine chipped, covers rubbed, old price written on front, the usual toning to page edges and margins. Nice older Australia pulp murder mystery. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Blue cloth with red printing. The covers and spine show some staining and discoloration, but the contents are bright, clean, and complete. Near Very Good in a whole dust jacket with some chipping and nibbling at the crease of the dust jacket flaps and the top and bottom edges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Heads You Lose by Jimmy Starr (First Edition) Discoloration to spine and extremities. Moderate wear. Tearing and chipping. Stated, "First Printing, March 1950." Blue cloth, red lettering to cover and spine. BOOK.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. The third mystery featuring Hollywood reporter Joe Medford. Gently bumped, spine slightly cocked and sunned. Jacket lightly rubbed with small chips and tears, plus a 3" closed tear and crease up the lower front spine fold. Rear panel a bit darkened, in mylar. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION in dust jacket. The book is almost fine. The dust jacket has minor edge wear, with shallow chipping to the spine ends; faint sunning at the spine. Hollywood news reporter Joe Medford solves a murder that occurs at a prominent movie star's party on the Santa Monica Pier.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Digest size paperback in red wraps. Very good or better with soiling and a few minor corner creases; no part of the cover is missing. Hollywood news reporter Joe Medford solves a murder that occurs at a prominent movie star's party on the Santa Monica Pier. An interesting reprint of this Hollywood novel from the Australian noir publisher, Invincible Press. 0.0.…

128 pp, pages browned, upper wrapper creased, top and base of wrapper spine taped, else good copy in illustrated, limp wrappers.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. First edition.