Queen Ellery Nathan Daniel (13 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A few minor blemishes to boards, endpapers lightly foxed, pages toned. 1934 Hard Cover. 300 pp. 8vo. A volume in the uniformly bound series of reissues by International Readers League: orange cloth, gilt titles. A mystery novel by the pseudonymous writing duo of Daniel Nathan and Manuel Lepofsky, whose pen name doubled as a character featured in their stories.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 28 # 2, whole # 153 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1956. Text cover. Contains stories by Orson Welles (Diplomatic Crisis), Paul W. Fairman (The Hills Cried Murder), Nedra Tyre (Tour de Couleur), Jack London (King of the Lepers), Ben Hecht (The Tired Horse), Mignon G Eberhart (Date to Die), Melville Davisson Post (The Great Game), Daniel Nathan (Frederic Dannay/Ellery Queen - The Boy and the Money Box), Michael Innes (The Cellini Saltcellar), Roy Vickers (William Edward Vickers - A Toy for Jiffy), William Lindsay Gresham (Don't Believe a Word She Says), and others. Light wear at the edges. Light soiling along the spine of the rear cover. Small closed tear to the bottom right spine hinge. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. An early 1940s reprint (special printing 1941) of a late 1930s Ellery Queen mystery. No DJ. Blue green buckram boards with black lettering. It appears like the book has been rebound. Light edge wear. .5" closed ear at the top of the spine. The interior is clean and tight. A good to very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Third Printing. (1946) 230+pp. Original pictorial wraps, lightly soiled w/ modest edge wear. Lamination starting to peel at bottom edge of front cover. Small, faint dampstain to top edge of rear cover. Edges of leaves a bit age toned. Still a nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First collected edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of classic Gollancz yellow jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, price clipped, several previous owner's names to prelims, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 338pp. In a successful series of novels and short stories that covered 42 years, 'Ellery Queen' served as a joint pseudonym for the cousins Dannay and Lee, as well as the name of the primary detective hero they created. During the 1930s and much of the 1940s, that detective hero was possibly the best known American fictional detective. Movies, radio shows, and television shows were also based on Dannay and Lee's works. This is a selection of the best crime and mystery stories, by a range of authors, published in their 'Mystery Magazine' in the early 1970s.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Green cloth with dark green lettering. Light edgewear. Text is clean and bright, no marks. DJ shows light rubbing to all edges with chips to corners and head and heel of spine. "Murder in a crowded street car! Many people had reason to hate Longstreet. Many saw him die - yet there was not one witness to name the person in the street car who had jsut committed the most baffling crime ever to tax the wits of the New York police. Inspector Thumm found himself hopelessly snarled in the strange tangle of evidence. So he went to consult Drury Lane, a famous actor who had retired from the stage, lived in a castle on the Hudson and made a hobby of solving crimes." (from the jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First collected edition, first impression. Edge wear, chipping, short closed tears and some loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed with loss, bottom back jacket and folds 'nibbled' by something, spine slightly faded, not price clipped ($4.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 346pp. In a successful series of novels and short stories that covered 42 years, 'Ellery Queen' served as a joint pseudonym for the cousins Dannay and Lee, as well as the name of the primary detective hero they created. During the 1930s and much of the 1940s, that detective-hero was possibly the best known American fictional detective. Movies, radio shows, and television shows were also based on Dannay and Lee's works. This is a selection of the best crime and mystery stories, by a range of authors, published in their 'Mystery Magazine' in the early 1960s.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Minor edge wear to top and bottom of classic Gollancz yellow jacket and spine, corners scuffed, some foxing and time staining to jacket, page fore edges and prelims, price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 248pp. 17 detective stories. Ellery Queen (first created in 1928), was both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two Jewish American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (1905-82) and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (1905-71), to write, edit, and anthologize detective fiction. The fictional Ellery Queen created by Dannay and Lee is a mystery writer and amateur detective who helps his father, a New York City police inspector, solve baffling murders.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. SCARCE TITLE by Frederic Dannay one of the cousins who wrote the Ellery Queen series. Daniel Nathan is a pseudonym. The Golden Summer by Daniel Nathan, 1953 Little, Brown and Company. This is the second printing of the First Edition. PLEASE NOTE: This book is NOT an Ellery Queen story. "The Golden Summer is the story of a forty-six-year-old man looking back to his boyhood-back to the year 1915 in a small town in upstate New York". Hardback book with dust jacket. The jacket is NOT price-clipped ($3.50) and has some chips/tears and rubbing. It is protected under a clear mylar cover. The book is sturdy, clean and complete with no writing. There is light fading at the spine ends and a small brown spot on the final three pages. There is a light red check mark on the top of the closed page edges.

Editions Stock 1968. In-12 broché de 191 pages au format 16,5 x 11 cm. Belle couverture typographique. Dos carré. Plats et intérieur resté frais, malgré d'infimes frottis aux coins. Tête et tranches rouges. Attention, malgré son format, il ne s'agit pas d'un livre de poche. Edition originale de ce bijou du pastiche Holmésien, en assez bel état général.Ce roman est la novélisation du film anglais " Sherlock Holmes contre Jack l'Éventreur ( A Study in Terror ) ", réalisé par James Hill en 1965 sur scénario de Derek Ford et Donald Ford, d'après les personnages créés par Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, avec dans les rôles principaux : John Neville, Donald Houston, John Fraser, Anthony Quayle, Frank Finlay, Judi Dench, Adrienne Corri, Robert Morley.

Berne/Paris, Phoenix Publishing Co./Scherz & Hallwag, (1947), in-16, privo di copertina, pp. 240, (8).

Editions Opta / Club du Livre Policier / Les Classiques du Roman Policier n° 3 de 1958. In-8 cartonnage éditeur pleine toile bleue de 300 pages au format 20 x 3,5 x 13,5 cm. Complet du rhodoïd. Pages de gardes photographiques. Belles illustrations en début d'ouvrage. Carte dépliante du rez-de-chaussée de l'hôpital hollandais de new-york en frontispice. Liste des personnages. Photographie des auteurs avec biographie et bibliographie. Préface de Maurice-Bernard Endrèbe. Tirage à 5000 exemplaires numérotés ( n° 1527 ). Traduction nouvelle de l'Anglais par Catherine Grégoire. Intérieur parfait. Superbe état général, proche du parfait. Edition originale.

Vintage carbon typescript draft on onionskin for the 1958 short story. Originally published in American Weekly magazine on April 27, 1958. A "The Woman in the Case" mystery, part of a series of femme fatale true crime mysteries originally published in American Weekly magazine in 1958 and 1959, and published in the 1967 anthology "The Woman in the Case," Manfred Lee's second true crime book published under the Queen name. 8.5 x 11 inches, six leaves. Stapled with a single staple to the top left corner. With a vertical crease to the far right margin, else Near Fine.