Thomas Kersh (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of 14 short stories. Featured are Mutiny at Patton Street by Michael Gilbert, Last Rendezvous by Jean L. Backus, The Glory Hunter by Brian Garfield, The Death of the Bag Man by Stephen Wasylyk, In the House Next Door by William Bankier, Raffles and the Sweet Taste of Revenge by Barry Perowne, Trip Out on Red Lizzie by Gerald Kersh, The Other Pistol by john Rosinski, Why It Happened by Martina Thomas, The Landlady Journal by Sonora Morrow, Two Turkey's in a Snowdrift by John Vineyard, Inspector Ghote and the Film Star by H.R.F. Keating, A Glowing Future by Ruth Rendell, The Problem of the Country Inn by Edward D. Hoch. Light edge wear. Slight reading creases. In very good condition.…

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. 40, no. 1 (Whole No. 224). Includes "Introducing Ellery's Mom" by Margaret Austin; "The Other Shoe" by Charlotte Armstrong; "To Die at Midnight" by Michael Fessier; "The Caller After Death" by Charles B. Child; "Adventure of the Missing Prince" by Robert L. Fish; "The Man With the Two Watches" by Harry Kemelman; "What Happened in Act One" by William Bankier; "An Accident of Time" by Catharine Boyd; "A Deal in Overcoats" by Gerald Kersh; "Nobody Would Believe It' by William E. Barrett; "Go Play With Your Sister" (First) by Herb Goldstein; "A time for Tea" (First) by Thomas P. Stonen; "Mystery Hardcovers of the Month"; "Mystery Paperbacks of the Month"; "Best Mysteries of the Month" by Anthony Boucher. Rubbing; creasing; edge and corner and spine end wear with small losses and heel tears; name on cover and first page in pencil. Book.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 13 # 66 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May 1949. Contains stories by Nicholas Blake (A Study in White), Cornell Woolrich (Momentum), Roy Vickers (Wit's End), Miriam Allen deFord (Beyond the Sea of Death), Raoul Whitfield (Red Dawn), Thomas Flanagan (The Fine Italian Hand), Gerald Kersh (Adventures of Karmesin), David X Manners (Killer's Keeper), Pierre Boileau (Monsieur Lucian, Burglar), R Austin Freeman (The Missing Mortgage), Barry Pain (The Problem Club), and others. Light wear at the edges. Light browning to the covers and the pages. A very good copy. George Salter (cover) (illustrator).…

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. Vol. 40, no. 1 (Whole No. 224). Includes "Introducing Ellery's Mom" by Margaret Austin; "The Other Shoe" by Charlotte Armstrong; "To Die at Midnight" by Michael Fessier; "The Caller After Death" by Charles B. Child; "Adventure of the Missing Prince" by Robert L. Fish; "The Man With the Two Watches" by Harry Kemelman; "What Happened in Act One" by William Bankier; "An Accident of Time" by Catharine Boyd; "A Deal in Overcoats" by Gerald Kersh; "Nobody Would Believe It' by William E. Barrett; "Go Play With Your Sister" (First) by Herb Goldstein; "A time for Tea" (First) by Thomas P. Stonen; "Mystery Hardcovers of the Month"; "Mystery Paperbacks of the Month"; "Best Mysteries of the Month" by Anthony Boucher. Rubbing; lean; tear at heel with loss; tanning; minor soiling. Book.…

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. 32, No. 3. Pulp magazine. [Edited by Alexander Samalman & Herbert D. Kastle.] Cover art by Ed Valigursky for "Audrey's Moon" by Thomas Kersh. Includes "The Snows of Ganymede" (complete novel; includes 'Future History' map) by Poul Anderson; "More Stately Mansions" (novelet) by Robert F. Young; "Only With Thine Eyes" by Winston Marks; "Human Is" by Philip K. Dick; "Have You Read Your Past, Mister?" by Robert Zacks. Features: "The Ether Vibrates"; "The Soul of a Robot" by Gotthard Gunther; "Astro-Radio" (verse) by A. Kulik. Letters from Edward E. Smith, Gotthard Gunther, and others. Illustrated by Paul Orban, Dick Francis, Emsh, Virgil Finlay, and Hunter Barker. Edgewear with chips and mild stains; creasing; rubbing; tanned; rusty staples; bumps to front. Book. …

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 16 # 81 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1950. Contains stories by Margery Allingham (One Morning They'll Hang Him), Mary Roberts Rinehart (The Papered Door), A E W Mason (The Ginger King), Miriam Allen deFord ("I Murdered a Man"), William J Locke (Adventure of the Kind Mr Smith), Lillian de la Torre (The Viotti Stradivarius), Gerald Kersh (Karmesin, Racketeer), Allan Vaughan Elston (The Perfect Secretary), James M Cain (Citizenship), Gilbert Thomas (Natural Selection), and others. Light wear at the edges. Slight spine roll. Browning to the pages and the edges of the covers. Corner crease at the bottom of the rear cover. A good to very good copy. George Salter (cover) (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Tapa blanda. Condition: Muy bien. Primera edición. Contents in photograph. Patrick Chase; Len Deighton; James Baldwin, Budd Schulberg; Robert Ruark; Mackinlay Kantor; Judith Wax; Kingsley Amis; Rooks Atkinson; Gerald Kersh; Pearl Buck; Gustave Flaubert; Harry Golden; Garson Kann; Stirling Moss; Malcolm Muggeridge; Thomas Mario; lucious beebe; John Gunther; Shel Silverstein; Poggio . MUY BUEN ejemplar. 346ppFiorentino; Arthur C. Clarke; Frederik Pohl; Thomas M. Disch; Kenneth Tynan; Arthur Knight & Hollis Alpert; Don Addis; Harvey Kurtzaman & Will Elder. MUY BUEN ejemplar. 354pp. …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 70 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: Photo of Darby Donnelly inside front cover; A Clash of Symbols - story by Ed Sauk; 3 Dates in New York for $5, $25, and $75 - Bob Ritterbush and Mary Lynn Mason live it up - article with photos; Behind the Velvet Rope - article about headwaiters by Jack Keating; The Top Prime Rib - The Old Homestead on Ninth Ave. in Manhattan; Sex vs. Censorship - Between the Post Office's trials of Lady Chatterly's Lover and Freud's discovery that the primal appetite to couple far exceeds our procreative needs there lies a gulf of confusion and dispute dating back to the prejudices and superstitions of the Dark Ages; Photos of Darby Donnelly - A Dilly of a Dallier; The Secret History of a Hero - story by Gerald Kersh; The Sensible Martini; Photos of lovely Shirley, part Irish and part Pawnee, from Dallas; Comic writer Jack Douglas; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Chip from back cover at top of spine. PLEASE NOTE: Pages 41-42 missing - They contained a photo(s) of Darby and the first page of the George Shearing article, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Aguilera; McAnnally, James; Corrigan, Paul; Parent, Robert; Smith, Paul Morton; Geller; Myers, Lou; Buelow (illustrator).…