Kyd Thomas Harbage Alfred (6 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fair-Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 22 # 119 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, October 1953. Contains stories by Thomas Kyd (Alfred B. Harbage - High Court), Michael Gilbert (Back in Five Years), Lillian de la Torre (Lillian de la Torre Bueno McCue - The Stroke of Thirteen), Thomas Walsh (Before the Act), Charlotte Armstrong (Laugh it Off), Steve Fisher (Day Never Came), Fredric Brown (Cry Silence), Will Scott (William Matthew Scott - A Wish for a Cigar), Frank Swinnerton (Ms. In a Safe), Faith Baldwin (Night of the Execution), Rex Stout (The World Series Murder), and others. GGA cover. Minimal wear at the edges. The cover is complete but loose from the binding glue. 1.75" closed tear at the bottom right spine hinge. Light browning to the page edges. A fair to good copy that presents well. Fred Kirberger (cover) (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 22 # 119 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, October 1953. Contains stories by Thomas Kyd (Alfred B. Harbage - High Court), Michael Gilbert (Back in Five Years), Lillian de la Torre (Lillian de la Torre Bueno McCue - The Stroke of Thirteen), Thomas Walsh (Before the Act), Charlotte Armstrong (Laugh it Off), Steve Fisher (Day Never Came), Fredric Brown (Cry Silence), Will Scott (William Matthew Scott - A Wish for a Cigar), Frank Swinnerton (Ms. In a Safe), Faith Baldwin (Night of the Execution), Rex Stout (The World Series Murder), and others. GGA cover. Light wear at the edges. The front cover has some small dents along the top, some rubbing at the top right corner, and lightly written initials (DL?) just above the center. there is a .75" closed tear at the bottom left spine hinge. Light browning to the page edges. A good to very good copy. Fred Kirberger (cover) (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 22 # 119 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, October 1953. Contains stories by Thomas Kyd (Alfred B. Harbage - High Court), Michael Gilbert (Back in Five Years), Lillian de la Torre (Lillian de la Torre Bueno McCue - The Stroke of Thirteen), Thomas Walsh (Before the Act), Charlotte Armstrong (Laugh it Off), Steve Fisher (Day Never Came), Fredric Brown (Cry Silence), Will Scott (William Matthew Scott - A Wish for a Cigar), Frank Swinnerton (Ms. In a Safe), Faith Baldwin (Night of the Execution), Rex Stout (The World Series Murder), and others. GGA cover. Minimal wear at the edges. A nice, sharp copy. A very good or better copy. Fred Kirberger (cover) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Good DJ. First edition. First edition, very good black cloth hardcover shows mild rubbing and soil to covers including bit of rubbing to publisher name at spine tail, bit of soil at page edges, and with previous owner name and date, ink stamp and scotch tape blemishes at front enpaper, in good + dust jacket (price at flap) that shows heavy toning along spine that includes heavy fade to white title letter, wrinkle to rear inner flap, edgewear that includes small open chipping and closed tears with couple of scotch tape mends at reverse, along with chipping, tearing and tape remnants along fore edge of front inner flap. 212 pages. Still a solid copy in jacket of this last installment in the series of mysteries written by the academic Harbage under the pseudonym Thomas Kyd that feature detective Sam Phelan.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Near Very Good. First edition. 8vo. [6], 7-212, [2] pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Hubin 479. Pseudonym of Alfred Bennett Harbage. Harbage, a well-known Shakespearean scholar, wrote four mystery novels of which this is the fourth. An academic mystery in which a literary scholar turned detective is searching for the first published words of Samuel Johnson in an English village. Scarce. Very good book with some mild foxing to textblock in a Near Very Good dust jacket with noticeable edge wear including a chip to the corner of the front panel, moderate fading to the spine panel.…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. First Edition. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1946. First Edition Stated. Octavo (19cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket by George Salter retaining original price ($2.00); 256pp. Moderate chipping and wear to jacket margins, rear panel quite heavily foxed and dust-soiled, corners bumped; About Very Good overall. The first of a series of four pseudonymous crime novels by the Shakespeare scholar Alfred B. Harbage, who combined "the essence of the hard-boiled school with a tone of academic persiflage" (St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, p. 617).…