Johns Veronica Parker (34 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Small 8vo. Soft cover. Pictorial wrappers. Covers edge-worn. Previous owner's name. Pages age-yellowed. Fair.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing # 12292 of 15 of this collection of short stories. All the stories were published previously in separate magazines. Featured are The Bottled Wife by Michael Fessier, A Coffin for Mr. Cash by Robert Arthur, The Faith of Aaron Menefee by Stanley Ellin, My Queer Dean by Ellery Queen, Your Cake and Eat It by Berkely Mather, Squeakie's Second Case by Margaret Manners, First Man at the Funeral by Dion Henderson, The Strange Tale of Mr. Elsie Smith by Dana Lyon, The Live Ones by Richard Prather, The Gentleman Caller by Veronica Parker Johns, Mr. Portway's Practice by Michael Gilbert, Fin De Siecle by William O'Farrell, Kiss Me, Dudley by Evan Hunter, To Strike a Match by Erle Stanley Gardner, It Wouldn't Be Fair by Jack Finney. Light edgewear. Slight spine slant. Light reading creases to the spine. Faint moisture stain to the bottom edge of the first five pages. In very good condition.…

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

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). A BCE from the early 1950s of a collection of first murder stories by noted mystery writers originally published from the early 1910s through the early 1950s. Contents include Room Number Twenty-three (Hugh Pentecost - (Judson Pentecost Philips)), The Fifty-Carat Jinx (Lawrence G Blochman), Bezique of Death (Veronica Parker Johns), The Little House at Croix-Rousse (Georges Simenon), The Riddle of the Dangling Pearl (Stuart Palmer), Shoes for Breakfast (Lawrence Treat), Find the Woman (Kenneth Millar (Ross Macdonald)), Marksman (William Campbell Gault), Victim No. 5 (Harry Stephen Keeler), The Man in the Velvet Hat (Jerome and Harold Prince), The Adventure of the Black Narcissus (August Derleth), And on the Third Day (David Alexander), Too Many Brides (Ruth Wilson), The Fourth Degree (Jerrome Barry), The Second Sight of Dr Sam: Johnson (Lillian de la Torre), Old Calamity Tries a Bluff (Joseph Fulling Fishman), A Great Whirring of Wings (Day Keene), Thenody (Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White)), The Adventure of One-Penny Black (Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee)), and The Specialty of the House (Stanley Ellin). Light edge wear with a 1" triangular piece missing from the bottom of the spine. Light fading to the spine. The internals are clean and tight. A very good copy. Leo Monso (DJ design) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Pages unmarked. No jacket. Beige binding square & firm. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Paperback. Text unmarked. Covers show edge wear with creases and soiling.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Stated First edition. Hardover with black cloth backing and heather blue paper over boards -- light edge wear, more so to the lower cover corners, clean, spine not sunned with still bright white lettering, tightly bound, contents clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Experienced full-time bookseller since 1994. Images may be added by request. Questions welcome. …

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Mercury Mystery 197, unabridged. Slight wear to the edges. Crease to the top corner of the cover and the first few pages.

Paperback. first edition. very good, creases paperback.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Thus. Euclid Publishing , NY 1944 First Thus 128 page Digest sized Paperback. Vintage murder Mystery . A fair to good copy with edge wear, chipping to foot of spine, text toned, small hole in top outer corner margin of first 20 pages, but bad but there so mentioned here. See Photos whb13E.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First UK edition. Paperback Original. Gold Medal Number 561. Anthology of stories edited by Prather who also provides an introduction and one of the stories. Originally published in the US by Fawcett Gold Medal in 1960. The front cover has a small mark in pen across the price at the top right corner. The spine has a little edge rubbing and a small surface tear at the top. Slight discolouration to the back cover. Page edges browned. Ticks in pen against eight of the titles in the contents pages and the pages are browned but they are otherwise unmarked. Cover art by Barye Phillips. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed. Phillips, Barye (illustrator).…

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good+. Vol. 19, No. 103. Cover art by Salter. Includes "Homecoming" by Veronica Parker Johns; "His Eyes Bloodshot and red" by MacKinlay Kantor; "The Bishop of Hell" by Joseph Shearing [Marjorie Bowen]; "Papa's Going Bye-Bye" by Kitty Harwood; "Death of an Old Man" by Arthur Miller; "Adrian Mulliner, Detective" by P. G. Wodehouse; "The Cosy Nook Murder" by Roy Vickers; "Mom Knows Best" by James Yaffee; "The House That Was" by Jacques Futrelle; "The Grinning God" by May Futrelle; "Casanova's Alibi" by Rafael Sabatini; "The Maggot" by Anthony Armstrong; "Detective Directory" by Robert P. Mills. Glue-mended tear at spine heel; corner wear with minor creasing; mild tanning. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing.. 189 pages. Synopsis: despite Mortimer Rutherford's efforts to fireproof his home, he has died in a fire. His butler Webster Flagg becomes a sleuth.>> Cover creasing & scuffing; spine slant; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Painted Cover (illustrator). Book. …

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First UK edition. Paperback Original. Gold Medal Number 561. Anthology of stories edited by Prather who also provides an introduction and one of the stories. Originally published in the US by Fawcett Gold Medal in 1960. The covers have only some light surface and edge wear. Browning to the top edges of the pages which have some small chips to a number of the corners. Browning along the top edges of the insides of the covers and the pages are browned but they are otherwise unmarked. Cover art by Barye Phillips. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed. Phillips, Barye (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Mercury Mystery #197. 126pp. Lower right corners chipped, pages yellowed, some wear, about very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. Reprint. Jacket has light wear over a fine book. Three mysteries in one. A terrific copy.

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Paperback Printing. Good softcover, wear to spine.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Undated gift inscription on inside front cover. Browning of page margins. No other marks in book. A Mercury Mystery No. 197.

Paperback. first edition thus. 537 very good - fine, crease, slight slant paperback.

-. 197 almost near fine Unabridged.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine, never opened ,first edition, tiny bump and tiny scattered edge rubbing.

Paperback. first edition. near fine, unread paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Bottom half of spine is missing. Small college library stamp and gift inscription dated 1954.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Never opened medium slant, AS 537 ,small check mark on cover and first blank page.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Cracked in several places, webbing exposed, pages secure. Aget-oned, some foxing and staining, name and sketch on front endpaper. Library stamp inside front cover, dates stamped on back endpaper, price stamped inside back cover. Cover heavily scuffed, bumped corners, exposed boards. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st printing of 1st edition of author's first book. Good+ hardcover, no DJ. Green cloth over boards, white titles on spine. Clean, square covers and spine appear to have been lightly grazed by insects; tightly bound; owner name on front free end paper; clean interior with some age darkening along cover edges; leaves remain supple. 8vo, 292 pp.…

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO60067742: 1962. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 189 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Enc. Tapa dura. Forro transparente de editorial.Cinta de lectura. 13.50 x 20 cms. 435 pp. REF-030338. Muy buen estado. Diríamos que sin leer. Libro.

Condition: Very Good Plus. Pictorial Dustwrapper. First Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. All dustwrappers are film protected. Paypal accepted. A mystery starring Webster Flagg. Original black cloth, white titling to spine. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn and creased head and foot of spine. Complete with original price.…