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Condition: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. 36, No. 4 & 5 (whole no. 435 & 436). Cover art by J. K. Potter for "The Last Judgment" (novella) by James Patrick Kelly. Includes "Living in teh Eighties" (novella) by David Ira Cleary; "Something Real" (novelette) by Rick Wilbur; "Bonding with Morry" by Tom Purdom; "Sexy Mom Robot" by Sandra McDonald; "Sensitive, Compartmented" by Gary Rinehart; "Souvenirs" by Ian Creasey; "Greener" by Josh Roseman; "Riding Red Ted and Breathing Fire" by Carol Emshwiller. Poetry: "Book Wyrm" by Robert Borski; "The Music of Particle Physics" by Bruce Boston; "Tachyons" by Geoffrey A. Landis; "Apocalyptic Love Song" by Megan Arkenberg. Departments: "Editorial: Vive la Difference!" by Sheila Williams; "next issue"; "On Books: Alternative Realities" by Norman Spinrad; "The SF Cenventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss. Label pulls from front with bits remaining; creasing; edgewear. Book.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition, Second Printing. This is a fine first edition, second printing paperback copy, black spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Fully illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. A fine copy appears new & unopened - Posting from Cornwall St227 Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Previous owner's signature and date on the first free endpage. Front pastedown, rear pastedown, first couple of pages and last couple of pages show some light foxing. Three consecutive pages in the middle of the book have some corrections, underlines and notes. The rest of the pages are clean and unmarked. Exterior covers and spine are clean. No bumped corners. The book will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Patriotic Covers: Colonel E. E. Ellsworth" by Eugene V. Connett 3rd; "Canada: Dollar Decimal Currency" by Douglas and Mary Patrick; "United States: 10 Cents Jefferson, 1870-1879" by Cyril F. dos Passos; "Greece: Post Offices Abroad, Bucharest" by Alex G. Argyropoulos; "United States: Stamped Envelopes, Official Return Requests" by Thomas Doane Perry; "China: Japanese War Overprints of Occupied North China" by Bernard E. Stoloff; "United States: Early Precancels of Philadelphia" by Richard W. Garlichs; "Brasil: Postal Tax Stamps, 1933 and 1952, 1953" by Alfred J. Hillel; "Literature: Philatelic Handbooks, A List of Libraries in which they may be found" by John Freehafer and Helen K. Zirkle; "Australia: Kangaroos, Georgians, Air Posts" by Frank E. Adams; "Valentines: Rare Postal Usages" by Van Dyck MacBride; "Switzerland: Pre-adhesive Stamp Period" by George W. Caldwell; "United States: Gems of Proofdom, Panama-Pacific Die Proofs, 1915" by Francis J. McCall; "Latvija: Survey of All Issues" by Vincent Domanski Jr.; "Postal History: The Illinois Postal History Society" by Wilbur H. Duncan; "Greece: World War I Charity Issues, 1917; Surcharged Fiscal Stamps" by P. J. Drossus; "United States: Overland and Other Western Mails" by Philip H. Ward, Jr.; "Hungary: The Rogues Gallery" by William Stericker; and "Index, Subject, A. P. C. Congress Books 1-22" by George T. Turner.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 140 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Paperback Printing. A curved spine with light edge rubbings. No store stamp. Stories by : John Dickson Carr, Wilbur Daniel Steele, A.H.Z.Carr, Graig rice &Stuart Ellis, Margery Allingham, Q.Patrick,Philip MacDonald, Viola Brothers Shore, John D.MacDonald, Peter Godfrey, T.S.Starling, J.Cameron Smith.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. MJF Books. xv, 1014 pp. LCC: 97756520 Very good condition; light color toning on extreme top and bottom edges of covers; previous owner's name on inside front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition faux red leather boards with elaborately decorated gold front cover, rear cover and spine decorations. The volume contains a a traditional six- hubbed spine. Includes an Introduction by Ellery Queen. Illustrated with black-and-white author photographs at the beginning of each story plus matching red front and rear endpapers. A former owner bookplate is neatly affixed to the center of the inner front board. First edition thus. "Dear Reader: Annexation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Four Freedoms proclaimed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Atlantic Chaarter announced by Churchill and Roosevelt . Pearl Harbor attacked December 7, 1941. first nuclear chain reaction. race riots in Detroit and Harlem . Yalta Conference . death of President Roosevelt . suicide of Hitler . United Nations . first atomic bomb . Philipine indepedence. Nuremberg trial . Truman Doctrine . Marshall Plan . India and Pakistan independence . Gandhi assassination .Berlin blockade and airlift . Free State of Israel . Alger Hiss trials . North Atlantic Treaty . Tokyo Rose sentenced . The Forties -- the War Years and Post - war Years for the United States, and against this background of momentous events and of struggle for survival, life went on and the detective-crime-mystery story continued to be written - in its own fashion. At the start of the decade in 1941, Philip Van Doren Stern published an article cleverly titled "The Case of the Corpse in the Blind Alley." In it Mr. Stern wrote: "The great need of the mystery story today is not novelty of apparatus but novelty of approach. The whole genre needs overhauling, a return to first principles, a realization that murder has to do with human emotion and deserves serious treatment. Mystery story writers need to know more about life and less about death -- more about the way people think and feel and act, and less about how they die." Mystery story writers listened, and if they didn't actually read Mr. Stern's warning, the strong hint of danger and its consequences was in the air for them to think about and feel and react to. So they turned away from some of the characteristics of The Golden Age -- rather, they modified and changed them, and adopted a new approach, taking Mr. Stern's words to heart. And in the 19 stories in this volume you will see clear evidence of these modifications and changes -- the beginning of a new Golden Age, or perhaps, more accurately, of a Renaissance. Happy reading!" - from the Introduction by Ellery Queen.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Wilbur, Ernest (illustrator). Second Edition Hardbound Good+. Wilbur, Ernest illus. 8vo, 85, Signed on front endpaper. Wwear to corners/edges. Spine has some discolored spots. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Ward, John (panel art and color frontispiece) (illustrator). 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Fine in Black Boards. From the library of the late director, George Schaefer. No jacket, as issued. Interior is pristine. First Edition. This was a gift to George Schaefer from the Producer of the Hilltop Theatre in Ellicott, Maryland. It contains the 10 programs (now bound) from productions at the theatre from June to September, 1948. A one of a kind item for true collectors.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 624 pages. 9.25x7.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Publisher's original period colour illustrated paper wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 9½'' x 6½''. Contains 128 pp. Dusty page edges and in Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Please inquire about pricing. First edition, first printing Limited edition of 235 signed and numbered copies (this being copy number 95). Signed in pencil on the limitation page by Bernard Faucon, Michael Kenna, Luis González Palma, Keith Carter, Holly Wright, Sandy Skoglund, Mark Klett, Jock Sturges, Duane Michals, Ernestine Rubin, Patrick Mailly-Maître-Grand, Willie Middlebrook, John Metoyer, Olivia Parker, Steven Albahari and Leonard Baskin. Hardcover. Fine black Japanese silk-covered boards with title stamped in black on cover, with burgundy quarter Morocco goatskin binding, no dust jacket as issued. The book is contained in a handmade black Japanese silk cloth-covered basswood clamshell box. 218 pp., with 15 hand-pulled bound photogravures by Jon Goodman Photogravure, one bound woodcut and 32 tritone plates exquisitely printed on Mohawk Superfine matte art paper by The Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont. Book measures 15-1/4 x 13-3/4 inches, clamshell box is 16-7/8 x 14-3/4 inches. New (a Mint flawless copy). Hand-pulled bound photogravures by Bernard Faucon, Michael Kenna, Luis González Palma, Keith Carter, Holly Wright, Sandy Skoglund, Mark Klett, Jock Sturges, Duane Michals, Ernestine Rubin, Patrick Mailly-Maître-Grand, Willie Middlebrook, John Metoyer, Olivia Parker and Steven Albahari, and one original bound woodblock print by Leonard Baskin. Essays by John Wood, Steven Albahari, Leonard Baskin, Frederick Turner, Jahn Stauffer, John Bennette, Christopher Mahoney, John Stilgoe, A.D. Coleman, Anne Wilkes Tucker, Paul Zimmer, Duane Michals, Robert Olen Butler, Amy Fleury, Ann Beattie, Daile Kaplan, Dana Gioia, Thomas W. Southall, Rixon Reed, John Stevenson, Denise Bethel and Lance Speer. Poems by Richard Wilbur, Morri Creech, Raúl Peschiera, Kevin Meaux and R. S. Thomas. Conversation with Holly Wright by Ann Beattie. Includes notes on the contributors. Designed by Paul McMenamin. Signed by Author.