Karl Detzer (108 results)

Magazine. Condition: Good. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. some soiling to covers, cover spine split. tanning to pages. dampstain on the corner.

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.…

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

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the spine; no interior markings. Edited with Martin Harry Greenberg and Isaac Asimov, this anthology contains: Introduction: Show Business by Isaac Asimov; Mystery Tune by Isaac Asimov; The Confrontation Scene by William Bankier; What'sisname by George Baxt; Sock Finish by Robert Bloch; The Acting of a Dreadful Thing by Lionel Booker; Bad Actor by Gary Brandner; The Lithuanian Eraser Mystery by Jon L. Breen; On Different Tracks by Michael Scott Cain; Cliffhanger by Georgiana Eidukas; Murder in the Movies by Karl Detzer; The Decline and Fall of Norbert Tuffy by Ron Goulart; Just a Gag by Tex Hill; The Spy Who Stayed Up All Night by Edward D. Hoch; The Kumquats Affair by Francis M. Nevins Jr; The Adventure of the Hanging Acrobat by Ellery Queen; Ten Percent of Murder by Henry Slesar; Credit to Shakespeare by Julian Symons; and Death at the Opera by Michael Underwood. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 343 pages; 17 stories; Pages yellowed; moderate page wear; prevvious owner name on book label pasted on front inside cover. string binding; Faded maroon hard cover with beige lettering on front and spine. Several areas of discoloration especially on top front corner area. Some fraying of spine ends and corners. Story titles include: The girl of the Star-Bright Eyes; The Music of Robert the Devil; A Matter of Evidence; The Magic cloak; Camouflage; The Deadly Hobnail; Come among Friend; through Bolted Doors; Neglect of Duty; Number 52 Rue Nationale; The Guilty party, etc. VERY RARE VINTAGE COPY.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. This is a nice old classic fiction mystery called The Broken 3, copyright 1930, hard cover, dust jacket, written by Karl W. Detzer. The books dust jacket has some inside cover stains, chips and tears, otherwise in good condition in a new archival mylar wrap. The book itself has some cover stains, bumped corners, pages beginning to brown due to aging, otherwise in good condition with firm binding and 318 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Withdrawn library book with usual markings and pocket. 287 pages, illustrated with photographs. This is the story of bringing entertainment and culture to rural america in the fashion of the traveling circus. Except for library markings, in good shape. REading copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. G+ as minor scuffing to front cover rubbing a bit of the title; also ex library copy, 1st edn, ill, 469pps.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. original wraps show minor wear and chipping, pages tanned and clean.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The North American Review Vol. 228 No. 2 August 1929. Various (illustrator).

Pulp. Condition: Poor. This copy is missing its back cover. Chip and tears to front cover. Upper front hinge it torn. Cover still intact as is the spine paper. Pages are clean and free of marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition First Printing. Following the armistice that ended WWI in Nov. 1918, the author was placed in charge of one of the areas under the purview of the newly established Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), a brand of the US Army tasked with fighting crime in Europe among the US servicemen who were still stationed there & waiting to go home, or those who had gone AWOL (absent without leave) & had to be tracked down. These are some of his true cases, in 343 pages. An unknown printing from 1925, this hardcover has brown cloth-covered boards lettered in yellow to front & spine. Condition is just Good: generally clean & completely unmarked inside, but with staining to bottom outside edges of text block, a stain that narrowly travels up some pages parallel to spine side, looking like a faint dampstain--does not impact text at all. Binding straight & strong. Exterior shows moderate rubbing to extremities, with heavier bumping & fraying to corners & spine tips. NO DJ. Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on orders placed Weekdays by 2 pm (Pacific time); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hastings House New York 1958 8vo. 287 pages. beige cloth boards. corners lightly bumped. previous owner small stamp to ffep. binding secure. chipping to top and bottom of dust jacket. dust jacket in mylar.

Condition: Good only wraps. paperback. 4to. 168pp. 1 1/2" and 3/4" tears top spine, moderate edgewear.

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: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st prt. MINIATURE BOOK. 16 pages. Red leather biding with elaborate gilt design on cover. 1 1/2" x 2". 100 copies printed. Scarce limited ed. Four intial woodcuts - one for each chapter heading. Printed & bound by A.C.WIRTH.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in original wrpapers with edgewear, a short closed tear, and soiling on the first page.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Good in original wrappers with edgewear and sunning. Paul Stahr, cover (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 58 pp. Light edge and corner wear; address label on the front cover; no interior markings. Cover art by Harold Anderson. This issue contains writing by: Wilbur M. Philpott; Scott Littleton; Walter Brooks; Karl Detzer; Rosamond DuJardin; Frederick L. Collins; Samuel Hopkins Adams; Max BRand; Eugene Lyons; EDward Doherty; Frederick Lewis; Jean W. Godsell; Geraldine York, along with Stumble-Backs - Does Football Make Players Stupid? by Frank Scully; and all the usual features, including an unmarked Crossword Puzzle. Size: 4to. Harold Anderson; (illustrator). Book. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 54 pp. Light edge and corner wear with an address label on the lower right of the front cover. Cover art by Robert G. Harris. This issue contains writing by: Wilbur M. Philpott; Edward Tyndall; Robert E. Pinkerton; Karl Detzer; Elmer Davis; George B. Raymond; Harold G. Hoffman; John Erskine; Elsie Robinton; along with The Courts Disapprove and the People Approve by Franklin D. Roosevelt; Bright Sayings of the Dionne Quintuplets by Marguerite Moore Marshall; and all the usual features. Size: 4to. Robert G. Harris; (illustrator). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good . Gray cloth covered boards with stamped orange titles oncover and spine. illustrated dj has some chipping to lower spine and corners H1F.

Condition: New.

1st edition. This pulp fiction magazine was publshed under this title beginning about 1930 (previously was Argosy All-Story Weekly). This issue contains three serials (featured is The Lost Land of Atzlan by MacIsaac), two novelettes, five short stories, features. Good solid copy of scarce item. 7 x 10, pp 1-144 + ads, b/w illus. Good unmarked, fairly bright wraps, backstrip intact, pink dampstains to inside of front wrap & title page, light edgewear. Magazine in color-illus wraps (art by Paul Stahr), side-stapled.…

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. B&w ils. Slightly bumped, rubbed; small stains on top edge; inside clean. Dj chipped & rubbed; 1.5" chip, several small closed tears.; 8vo; 287 pages.

Staple Bound. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Printing. 2" by 3" booklet published by the Pennsylvania Railroad for members of the Armed Forces traveling on military trains. Story was originally published in The Saturday Evening Post for May 13, 1933. Scarce giveaway printed on thin paper, dated November 1943. An unread copy.…

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company Publisher. Good. 1933. First Edition. Softcover. First edition. Pulp magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 6.75" x 9.75"], 144 pages, illustrated. Includes the second of six parts of "The Lost Land of Atzlan" by Fred MacIsaac, the fourth of four parts of "Alarm!" by Karl Detzer, the fifth of six parts of "Railroad" by T. S. Stribling, "Isle of the Meteor" by George F. Worts, "Reckless Wings" by Eustace L. Adams, "The Last Bullet" by Jack Allman, etc. Good copy [some creasing and the usual edgewear to the cover, 1" triangular chip to the bottom edge of the rear cover with progressively smaller triangular chips to the bottom edge of the last several pages, text paper tanned. mag10E.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company. 1935. First Edition; First Printing. Pulp magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 7" x 10"], 144 pages, illustrated. Includes "North Star" by Allan Vaughan Elston, "Hot Water" by Cornell Woolrich, the first of five parts of "Ladders Up!" by Karl Detzer, "Blinkers in Bermuda" by Harold de Polo, the third of six parts of "Perique" by Dennis Lawton, "Wrecker's Luck" by Will McMorrow, "Sheriff o' Sunday Creek" by Hapsburg Liebe, the fifth of six parts of "Flying Circus" by George Bruce, etc. Good copy creasing and edgewear to the cover, light top edge chipping and a fore-edge tear to the front cover, inner portion of the front cover affixed to the inner portion of the contents page, paper tanning.bx13.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. First Edition. With four full-page plates by Edward Steichen.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. A wartime look at the US Army, its formation, history and exploits in the Second World War. Includes numerous b/w and colour photographs. 168pp. Missing front wrap and much of the paper over the spine. Rear wrap chipped at edges and not firmly fixed. Text-block is fragile but complete.…