Macdonald Robert R Ed (35 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of eleven short stories. Featured are All In the Way You Read It by Isaac Asimov, The Switcheroo by Robert Edward Eckels, The Last Word by Marie DiGioia, Show 'Em Chick! by S.S. Rafferty, Day of Reckoning by Patricia Highsmith, Undue Influence by E.X. Ferrars, Killing by Inches Peter Molding, The Sinister Habit by Ross MacDonald, Torture Chamber by H.R.F. Keating, Kuzaki the Entertainer by MacLean O'Spelin. Light edgewear. Small corner chip which affects the pages. In good condition.…

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Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:9780415158305. …

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Book contains pen markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:9780415158305.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No DJ. First Edition. 343 pps. Titles: frt. & sp. Illust. w/ colour & b/w portraits, prints, photos & facsimile docs. Minor shelfwear to the wrps. Printed on heavy glossy stock. Moderate handling wear. Interior leaves are clean and tight. Glossy exhibition catalog for the Louisiana State Museum and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Includes index of authors, artists and makers. Historical essays and artwork on the material culture of the age of Louis XIV, the French Sun King. A clean copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Hardcover Edition. (xii) 386 pp. Quarter-bound in black cloth on black boards; lettered in silver on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Sj art by Savio Mizzi. This anthology contains: Introduction: Sport by Isaac Asimov; Diamond Dick by Jon L. Breen; A Game of Chess by Robert Barr; Coffin Corner by Anthony Boucher; The Great Rodeo Fix by Leo R. Ellis; The Sailing Club by David Ely; The Season Ticket Holder by Joyce Harrington; The Last Downhill by Clark Howard; The Other Runner by John Lutz; Storm by Ed McBain; Dead on the Pin by John D. MacDonald; The Affair of the Avalanche Bicycle and Tyre Co. Limited by Arthur Morrison; Tomorrow's Murder by Stuart Palmer; Trojan Horse by Ellery Queen; The Return of Cardula by Jack Ritchie; This Won't Kill You by Rex Stout; Murder on the Race Course by Julian Symons; The Hustler by Walter S. Tevis; Without the Option by P. G. Wodehouse; and The Man Who Pretended to Like Baseball by Isaac Asimov. Size: 8vo. Savio Mizzi; (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) of the 2nd Dell edition of a late 1950s collection of stories edited by Alfred Hitchcock. Dell Book F206. Reprints Dell D231. Includes Being a Murderer Myself by Arthur Williams, Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White, A Woman Seldom Found by William Sansom, The Perfectionist by Margaret St Clair, The Price of the Head by John Russell, Love Comes to Miss Lucy by Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler), Sredni Vashtar by "Saki" (H H Munro), Love Lies Bleeding by Philip MacDonald, The Dancing Partner by Jerome K Jerome, Casting the Runes by M R James, The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hudson, and How Love Came to Professor Guildea and by Robert S Hitchens. Light edge wear. Very light browning to the pages. A very good or better copy.…

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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Stain on right corner of jacket. Light wear on jacket. Keywords: Marriage, Women, Slavery, Territorial Court, Steamboats, Slaughterhouse, Plesy V. Ferguson. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition faux navy blue leather boards with a color illustrated front cover paste-down, with gold front cover and spine lettering. Includes Preliminary Page Note by The Editors; Acknowledgments; and About the Authors. The volume also features gilt page edges on all three sides, a traditional 3-hubbed spine, and acid-free paper for permanence and durability. Illustrated with a double-page color frontispiece painting and color illustrated front and rear endpapers. "Great American Mystery Stories of the Twentieth Century presents an impressive array of writers. These literary sleuths - American writers who hail from all over the United States and even abroad - offer stories that reflect the varied experiences of a vast and culturally diverse country. The authors in this collection have garnered innumerable honors, from myriad awards conferred by their own mystery-writing colleagues to the Nobel Prize in Literature; they all share the writer's greatest reward, however, the broad readership and popular acclaim that can only come from creating superb, entertaining tales. Some of these mystery masters have left an indelible mark on the reading public by creating characters that have entered the national consciousness. The Saint, Lew Archer, Travis McGee, Uncle Abner - these names are real to mystery aficionados who know them well and have learned much about life from them. Other writers have given birth to characters who live only in one brief tale, making readers regret that they won't meet them again. Although the modern American mystery story has only recently gained respectability as the subject of academic study, the genre is an integral part of this country's literature. In fact, it stands at the very center of a markedly American literary offering, the short story. Edgar Allan Poe, the creator of the short story form, based the world's first mystery tale on the crime story, a style of fiction that originally appeared in the beginning of the nineteenth century. He enhanced the elements in these negligible stories with such genius that he lifted his own tales to the level of art. Poe's "The Murder in the Rue Morgue," first published in 1841, has been called by one critic "the single most important story in the history of the genre." Subsequent literary detectives may have occasionally felt daunted by following the mystery story's inimitable forefather; still, they have made their own distinctive contributions to this uniquely American literary form. Among them, the twenty-three writers in this anthology of American mystery masterpieces have written hundreds of memorable stories. Choosing the writers - not to mention the stories - from a national treasure of literary excellence was indeed difficult. The sheer number of outstanding American mystery stories offers endless hours of reading pleasure. To this day, superlative writers apply their varied skills to the genre first explored by Edgar Allan Poe. Readers new to this literary terrain will enjoy finding their way to some of mystery's hidden corners - as well as its landmarks. - The Editors" - from the Preliminary Page. Ward, John (panel art and color frontispiece) (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 50 pp. ; 28 cm color pictorial wrappers ; cartoons by Harry Lambert, Dan Kilgo, Paul Carruth, Sivic, Dearmer Keller, Saxon, MacDonald, Norment, R C Dell, Lundberg, Cramer, Ponce De Leon, Dick Ericson, Ed reynolds, Edwin Kunz, Leo Salkin, Donotto, GNG, Norment, David Pascae, Vanselow, Henry Boltinoff, Ben Roth, Fred Balk, Lariar, George Reckas, George Wolfe, Salo, R C Dell, Graham Hunter, Wenzel; stories by Larry Neill, Robert Fontaine, Webb B. Garrison, Jay Worthington, Bill Goodwin, George Amon, Hammer Schmidt, Gerald Green, Reuven Frank, Al Steen, S H Dewhurst, Norman Anthony, Dolph Sharp, Gerald Mosler, Parke Cummings, ; pages very brittle and foxed ; scarce FINE. Magazine. …

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Selected and Edited by William MacDonald. xxviii, 220 pp. With Illustrations by W. Russell Flint and R. Purves Flint. 8vo, publisher's red gilt-decorated cloth. Sunning and slight bumping to cloth at the extremities of the spine; clean, tight and sound.

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