Michael Creasey (132 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this double issue of 16 pieces of writing including a novella, novelettes, short stories and poetry. Featured are The Sea of Dreams by William Barton (novella), Blood Dauber by Ted Kosmatka and Michael Poore (novelette), Wife-Stealing Time by R Garcia Y Robertson (novelette), Flowers of Asphodel by Damien Broderick (novelette), Flotsam by Elissa Malcohn (novelette), The Ghost Hunter's Beautiful Daughter by Christopher Barzak (novelette), Where the Time Goes by Heather Lindsley (short story), Erosion by Ian Creasey (short story), Before My Last Breath by Robert Reed (short story), Deadly Sins by Nancy Kress (short story), Derivative Work by Elissa Malcohn (poetry), For Ye, of Very Little Faith by W Gregory Stewart (poetry), Monsters by Geoffrey A Landis (poetry), Unghost Stories by Greg Beatty (poetry), The Hedge Witch's Upgrade by Sandra Lindow (poetry) and Edgar Allan Poe by Bryan D Dietrich (poetry). In Fine Condition. …

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of eleven pieces of writing including novelettes, short stories and poetry. Featured are Plus or Minus by James Patrick Kelly (novelette), Warfriends by Tom Purdom (novelette), Libertarian Russia by Michael Swanwick (short story), Sins of the Father by Sara Genge (short story), Freia in the Sunlight by Gregory Norman Bossert (short story), Variations by Ian Werkheiser (short story), Excellence by Robert Reed (short story), The Prize Beyond Gold by Ian Creasey (short story), Xenoaethetics by FJ Bergmann (poetry), Sailor by Mark Rich (poetry) and Blueprint for a Domed City by Jessica Taylor (poetry). In Fine Condition.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD. Pages tanned. Binding is square and tight. 18 cm. 191 pages. Hodder 803. Additional info or photos on request.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD. Pages are tanned. Spot of sticker removal damage to lower corner of front cover. Spine is not creased. No writing/markings. 18 cm. 189 pages. Additional info or photos on request.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The February 1971 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Vol 57 # 2 whole # 327. Contains stories by J J Marric (John Creasey - Gideon and the Pigeon), Nicolas Freeling (Nicolas Davidson - Van Der Valk and the Two Pigeons), Lawrence Treat (Lawrence Arthur Goldstone - An Accident in Hudson Heights), Michael Harrison (A Study in Surmise), Carole Rosenthal (A Specialist in Still Lifes), Phyllis Bentley (Miss Phipps Exercises Her Metier), William Brittain (Falling Object), Edward D Hoch (End of the Day), and others. Also includes an article by John Dickson Carr (The Best Mysteries of the Month). Light wear at the edges. A very good copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First US edition, first printing of the third novel in the "Fane Brothers" series. Originally published in the UK in 1953 under the Michael Halliday name. Light tape stains to the first and last free end-pages. In near fine / near fine condition.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD. Pages are tanned. Spine crease. 18 cm. 189 pages. Additional info or photos on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First US edition, first printing of the fourth book in the "Fane Brothers" series. Light moisture stain to the top edge of the book. Price clipped. In very good / very good condition.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. ----------paperback. 3/6 cover price. Small crease and tear to front cover top edge, some edgewear, a VG+ copy. Photo Cover (illustrator).

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good-. Vol. 57, no. 2 (Whole No. 327). Edited by Eleanor Sullivan. Includes "Gideon and the Pigeon" by J. J. Marric [John Creasey]; "Van der Valk and the Two Pigeons" by Nicholas Freeling; "An Incident at Devil's Rock" by Trevor Black; "An Accident in Hudson Heights" by Lawrence Treat; "The Nylon Stocking Bandits" by Talmage Powell; "Mug's Game" by E. E. Roberts; "A Study in Surmise" by Michael Harrison; "Aren't All Cops Dumb?" by Hermine Hoffman; "A Specialist in Still Lifes" by Carole Rosenthal; "MacDougal Street Blues" by Dante Stirpe; "Death Out of Season" by Mary Barrett; "Showdown" by Richard O. Lewis; "Miss Phipps Excercises Her Metier" by Phyllis Bentley; "Falling Object" by William Brittain; "End of the Day" by Edward D. Hoch; "The Jury Box" by John Dickson Carr. Adhesions to front; large A in pencil on front; erasures and minor soil to front; date (2x) and name and erasure on rear, which is also a little soiled; tanning; first page has a tape mend; corner wear. Book. …

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Hodder Pbk Edition. VG, Edgewear, creases, scuffing, browning. Psychological crime novel, featuring Dr. Cellini. Photo on request.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. Vol. 33, No. 10 & 11 (whole no. 405 & 6). Edited by Shiela Williams. Cover by Dominic Harman. Includes "The Sea of Dreams" (novella) by William Barton; "Blood Dauber" (novelette) by Ted Kosmatka & Michael Poore; "Wife-Stealing Time" (novelette) by R. Garcia Y. Robertson; "Flowers of Asphodel" (novelette) by Damien Broderick; "Flotsam" (novelette) by Elissa Malcohn; "The Ghost Hunter's Beautiful Daughter" (novelette) by Christopher Barzak; "Where the Time Goes" by Heather Lindsley; "Erosion" by Ian Creasey; "Before My last Breath" by Robert Reed; "Deadly Sins" by Nancy Kress. Poetry: "Derivative Work" by Elissa alcohn; "For Ye, of Very Little faith" by W. Gregory Stewart; "Monsters" by Geoffrey A. Landis; "Unghost Stories" by Greg Beatty; "The Hedge Witch's Upgrade" by Sandra Lindow; "Edgar Allan Poe" by Bryan D. Dietrich. Departments: "Editorial: True Confessions"; "Reflections: Building Worlds: Part II" by Robert Silverberg; "On the Net: The People's Telescope" byb James Patrick Kelly; "Thought Experiments: Almost Possible" by Mary Robinette Kowal; "Next Issue"; "On Books: The Folk of the Fringe" by Norman Spinrad; "The SF Conventional Calendar" by Edwin S. Strauss. Label mostly remains (see scan); standard glue-shrink; light wear; minor bumps, corner creasing and wear. Book.…

Paperback. Condition: Good+. Light creases to the spine. Signs of sticker removal from the front cover.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Light creases to the spine and the corners of the cover. Foxing to the inside of the cover.

New edition. 1st Hodder Paperbacks printing. pages yellowed, with some foxing; cover worn & creased; spine faded, creased, worn & slanted Used - Acceptable. Fair paperback Used - Acceptable. Fair paperback.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Ellery Queen's Mystery Anthology Fall/Winter 1976 vol 32 . Contains stories by Erle Stanley Gardner (The Clue of the Runaway Blonde), Q Patrick (Patrick Quentin - Hugh Callingham Wheeler )The "Laughing Man" Murders)), Cornell Woolrich (Only One Grain More), J J Marric (John Creasey (Gideon and the Pigeon)), Nicholas Freeling (Nicolas Davidson (Van der Valk and the Two Pigeons)), Lawrence Treat (Lawrence Arthur Goldstone (R as in Rookie)), Michael Gilbert (Mouse in a Trap), Patricia Highsmith (The Nature of the Thing), Julian Symons (The Sensitive Ears of Mr Small), Ellery Queen (Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay (Payoff)), Clayton Rawson (Miracles - All in a Day's Work), and others. Light wear at the edges. Light soiling to the back cover with small creases to the bottom corner and a small scrape near the spine. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy. Fredric H. Kirberger (cover) (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition By This Publisher. 206 pages. "The first thing Gordon Craigie did was to hide the body. As head of Bridain's Department Z, Craigie knew that the cold-blooded murder of the Ambassador from the small nation of Shovia might well lead to war. So while the government and the police screamed for news of the missing diplomat, leading agent James Burke was assigned to track down his killer. Meanwhile tension was building between Britain and Shovia. Burke couldn't understand why Shovia was so hundry for war, but as he came closer to finding the answer, he would also find his life in danger and - his country's survival in peril ." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. PHOTO Cover! (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ.Little wear to hard back book/dust jacket. D/j still has price corner and is protetced.190 pages,Pages are clean,bright and tight. Ex library with two stamps.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition By This Publisher.. 190 pages. "A psychological thriller, steeped in shattering realism, that jerks its way to a really terrifying climax." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. PHOTO Cover! (illustrator). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. As New! 3 complete Detective Novels.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Ellery Queen's Mystery Anthology Spring/Summer 1976 vol 31. Contains stories by Rex Stout (Fourth of July Picnic, "The Labor Union Murder", "The Fourth of July Murder"), Ruth Rendell (The Fall of a Coin), Lawrence Treat (Lawrence Arthur Goldstone - B as in Bride) J J Marric (John Creasey - Gideon and the Innocent Shoplifter), Michael Innes (J I M Stewart - A Matter of Disturbing Incidents), Michael Gilbert (Return of the Hero), Ellery Queen (The Adventures of Abraham Lincoln's Clue), and others. Light edge weaar. Light browning to the pages. A good copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. Creasey called this book, one of more than 600 crime-thrillers he wrote under more than 20 pseudonyms, his "first American book" because, although it was first published in England in 1957, it was largely written in the U.S. in Hollywood and in Lake Placid, NY. It features a young American, Robert Curran, who has come to England to learn about his "roots" and finds murder instead. A small, narrow chip missing from the bottom edge of front cover and top edge of text is foxed, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The price-clipped dustjacket shows a small, half-inch tear on the fold between the back panel and back flap; minor surface and edgewear. A collectable copy of a typical Creasey.…

Condition: Good. 1962. First Edition. 191 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over green cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Notable scuffing to front endpaper. Mild water staining to pages throughout. Boards are assumed in good condition as are covered with taped on jacket. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Heavy tanning to surfaces. Notable rubbing and marking all over.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing octavo hardback. 190 pp. Very Good condition in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket (now in transparent protective sleeve). No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Thus. First thus edition hardcover in very good condition, with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is marked, worn and scuffed, and edges are creased and nicked. Page block is lightly blemished, and bump to rear pastedown has travelled into the REP. Boards are clean, bindings is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.…

Soft cover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this complete novel. Published in 1956 and has "Never Before Published in Book or Any Other Form" on the front cover along bottom edge. An 8-inch closed-tear to the front panel has been tape repaired. Light edge wear. Light age toning. In poor condition.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Printing. An uncreased spine with very light edge rubbings. No store stamp.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Printing - First Thus. 304 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the front cover and some creasing on the spine; slightly wrinkled along the edges of the last few pages. This anthology contains: It Only Takes a Minute to Die by Cornell Woolrich; The Greyling Crescent Tragedy by John Creasey; Life in Our Time by Robert Bloch; Inspector Maigret Deduces by Georges Simenon; The Splintered Monday by Charlotte Armstrong; Death of the Sun by Michael Innes; If You See This Woman by Dolores Hitchens; Death of an Old-Fashioned Girl by Stanley Ellin; Sleep Is the Enemy by Anthony Gilbert; In Compartment 813 by Arthur Porges; The Inner Voices by Jean Potts; The Adventure of the Widow's Weeds by Robert L. Fish; Dr Coffee and the Philanderer's Brain by Lawrence G. Blochman; The Seasons Come, the Seasons Go by Fletcher Flora; Jericho and the Nuisance Clue by Hugh Pentecost; The Simpcox Miracle by William Shakespeare; Good Neighbor by Ursula Curtis; The hkzmp gsv bzmp Case by James Cross; The Game's the Thing by Holly Roth; Mom Sings an Aria by James Yaffe; M As in Mugged by Lawrence Treat; and The Friends of Hector Jouvet - best first story of the year - by James Powell. Book.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good Condition.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Paperback Edition. A near fine copy.