John Evans Howard Browne (44 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good Plus. Clean mass-market paperback in good plus condition; mild shelf wear and rubbing.

Paperback. 1729 good, many creases new edition paperback,

Paperback. first PB. 709, reading copy, damaged cover hardboiled mystery, paperback,

Paperback. 1729 very good , crease, store stamp inside new edition paperback,

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. 1st printing, July/Aug. 1950; #800. Cover art is uncredited. Creasing; tanning; stress with rear hinge nicks; stray pen mark inside cover. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque avec équipements. Couverture différente. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Different cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Paperback. first thus. near fine, unread paperback,

Paperback. first PB. 709, very good , creases hardboiled mystery, paperback,

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. cover by Walter Popp (illustrator). First Edition. Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company 1952. First edition Pulp magazine in Pictorial wrappers [about 6.75" x 9.75"], 130 pages, illustrated. Includes "The Man Who Lived Twice" by Rog Phillips, "All Flesh is Brass" by Milton Lesser, "The Yellow Wind" by Dean Evans, "Tomorrow's Shadow" by Arthur G. Stangland, "Mars Invites You" by Don Wilcox, etc. A very good copy with light dust soiling, edge wear as shown. text lightly toned. See photos bx504.

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Macanga, Steve (illustrator). First Edition Thus. First Quill Mysterious Classic Edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Paperback. Light reading crease else a fine tight copy with paper age toned as is usuall with these Quill Classics. Series editor Otto Penzler. "Another razor-sharp, cynical, Chandleresque detective novel by author Browne, in which by now legendary Chicago detective Paul Pine is summoned by a Bishop McManus to his chambers and tasked with locating a man named Raymond Wirtz. It seems Wirtz, a paleographer from California, had approached the Bishop with the offer of a manuscript that he claimed to possess that was written by "Our Lord, Jesus Christ." The asking price is twenty-five million dollars. But now Wirtz has up and disappeared, and the Bishop hires detective Pine to find him. This leads on a sort of wild goose chase through the streets of Chicago. Beautiful dames abound, murders and bodies pile up, and at least two of the major characters are not who they appear to be. Browne keeps his detective protagonist cynical, weatherworn and tough, and keeps the dialogue and action sharp, right down to the startling denouement that will shock and surprise the unsuspecting reader. A solid read." -- Ron2BSure on Amazon. Book.

First Printing. Bantam 1727. Very Good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Servello, Joe (illustrator). Second Paperback Edition. Second Paperback edition. Originally published in hard covers in by Bobbs-Merrill in 1949 and then in paperback by Pocket in 1950. Both of these editions were published under the name John Evans. This edition includes a new one page foreword and also a one page biographical note by Browne. Heavy four inch crease to the top right corner of the front cover also affecting the top corners of the pages at the front of the book a little. Otherwise just light edge and surface wear to the covers and page edges but the pages are clean and unmarked. Cover illustration by Joe Servello.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Inscribed and signed 'Howard "John Evans" Browne.' A Quill Mysterious Classic, Series Editor: Otto Penzler. Reprint [1984] of title originally published in 1948. Condition is "Good only." Significant handling wear, with covers badly rubbed, with a scratch to the title on the front cover, and a faint crease on lower corner. **Spine is creased and shaky.** Reading crease front cover. Spine leans a bit as well. Pages toned. First printing of the Quill edition with number line.

Paperback. first PB. 709, very good -fine, reading crease hardboiled mystery, paperback,

Paperback. first thus era. fine, unread paperback,

Paperback. first PB. 709, almost near fine, hardboiled mystery, paperback,

Paperback. first edition. 74 very good - fine, reading crease paperback,

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Servello, Joe (illustrator). Second Paperback Edition. Second Paperback edition. Originally published in hard covers in by Bobbs-Merrill in 1949 and then in paperback by Pocket in 1950. Both of these editions were published under the name John Evans. This edition includes a new one page foreword and also a one page biographical note by Browne. Slight edge and surface wear to the covers. The pages are clean and unmarked. Cover illustration by Joe Servello.

First paperback edition. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Pocket Book 709. A Paul Pine detective novel. Rubbing to spine edges, crease to lower front right corner, stress creases to covers, a very good copy. (26681).

Paperback. first edition. 74 almost near fine paperback,

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. First US paperback edition. Originally published in hard covers by Bobbs-Merrill in 1946. The spine is a little discoloured with a little rubbing and chipping to the edge. Several surface creases over the front and back covers. Slight discolouration to the page edges. Small stain affecting the bottom left corner of the inside of the front cover and the bottom right corner of the first page where there is also a small pen mark. Small creases and chips to the top corners of a few pages, a small tear to the edge of two pages and the pages are browned but otherwise unmarked. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Very good second paperback printing. Square, tight, internally clean. Some fading to spine and wear to spine ends. Previous owner's name in pen to title page. Old price sticker shadow to front cover. Signed by Howard Browne on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. 245p., ownership stamp on f.e.p., otherwise a good shelfworn first edition stated hardcover bound in red cloth boards with gilt titles. The first Paul Pine mystery. Set in Chicago. Browne was a science fiction editor [Amazing Stories] who wrote mysteries under several pseudonyms. He also wrote for TV.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First English edition, hardcover issue. Pages browned as usual else fine in fine dustwrapper.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. 5, No. 3. Edited by Raymond A. Palmer. Cover art by Arnold Kohn "Halo in Blood" (novel) by John Evans [Howard Browne]. Includes "Black of the Moon" by Merle Constiner; "The Undetective" by Frances M. Deegan; "Somebody Has to Die!" by J. J. Cliff; "One Reward Too Many" by Harold Francis Sorenson. Features: "Off the Blotter"; "The Truth About Hypnotism" by Sandy Miller; "Crime Laboratory" by Leslie Anderson; "Gunlegging", "Mexican Justice", & "The Cop Is My Friend" by Rosetta Livingston; "No Hunting Allowed" by R. Clayton; "Solution to Back Cover Mystery" by A. R. Steber; "The Borden Murder Case" by Alexander Blade; "Famous American Murders". Illustrated by Robert Fuqua, Brady, William Juhre, Julian S. Krupa, and William Marsh. Losses at lower edges; standard wear and tear at overlaps; a little dusty; minor tanning; pencil mark on cover. Book.

Paperback. First Edition. First editions from this publisher. Halo in Blood is near fine with two faint creases to front cover. Halo for Satan is fine. Both feature private eye Paul Pine. ; Small octavo.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Macdonald (illustrator). 1st Edition. The third Paul Pine novel written by Howard Browne under this pen name. Boards have some bumping to the corners - quite a heavy bump to the bottom right corners of the front panel - and two tiny dark marks near the top right corner of the front panel. Page edges are browned. The pages are slightly browned but are otherwise unmarked. Jacket has chipping to the spine with some loss at the top and a one inch piece missing from the bottom. There is also a three inch narrow vertical white mark on the spine - paint? There is chipping to the corners, some light edge wear and the rear panel is lightly browned. Cover illustration by Macdonald. First printing.