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Trade Paperback. Condition: Fair-Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 22 # 121 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1953. Contains stories by Roy Vickers (The Frame Up), David From (Leslie Ford - Zenith Jones Brown - The Man on the Iron Palings), Erle Stanley Gardner (Bird in the Hand), Richard Deming (Open File), Don M Mankiewicz (Two Rolls, No Coffee), C P Donnel, Jr (The Fourth Degree), Rhys Davies (Vivian Rees Davies - The Trip to London), William Abrahams (The Poison Typewriter), W R Burnett (Nobody's All Bad), Mel Dinelli (The Man), Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White - Out of Patience . ), and others. GGA cover. Light wear at the edges with a crease and small closed tear along the spine. The front cover is loose. . Light browning to the pages. A fair to good or better copy. Dirone Photography (cover photo) (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing of this Double Issue 21 Short Stories. Featured are Secrets by June Thomson, My Dear Dead Dope by Thomas Adcock, The Touch of a Vanished Hand by John F Suter, Money in the Bank by Jeffry Scott, Cloud of Smoke by Morris Hershman, Beat Your Neighbor Out of Doors by Jiro Akagawa, The Truth by Michael Z Lewin, The Theft of the Barking Dog by Edward D Hoch, Dead Ringers by Barbara Owens, The Jury Box by Jon L Breen, A Will is a Way by Steven Saylor, The Killer Instinct by Betty Rowlands, Pool of Discontent by Scott Mackay, The Perfect Victim by William Bankier, The Threat to the Cathedral by Terry Mullins, The Witness by Jo Bannister, I Hate Aaron Cane by Phyllis Diller, The Dinosaur Season by Steven Utley, Somewither Cold and Strange by Donald Olson and Crossed Wires by Jeremiah Healy. In Near Fine Condition.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fair-Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 24 # 129 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1954. Contains stories by Rov Vickers (William Edward Vickers - Find the Innocent), , Stuart Palmer & Craig Rice (Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig - Autopsy and Eva), Pat Frank (Harry Hart "Pat" Frank - On Edge), Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay & Manfred Bennington Lee - , GI Story), James M Ullman (James Michael Ullman - , Anything New on the Strangler?), Ring Lardner (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner - Claude Diphthong, Student of Crime), Don Marquis (Donald Robert Perry Marquis - The Iron Hand in the Velvet Glove), Ellis Parker Butler (The Silver Protector), Arthur Conan Doyle (How it Happened), and others. GGA cover. Light wear at the edges. Some waviness to the front cover and top edges of the first few pages that suggest moisture exposure, however there aren't any stains. Initials (DJ) written in the upper right of the front cover.Light browning to the edges of the front cover and the pages. Rubbing to the spine that has worn off most of the writing. The interior is clean and tight. A good very good copy. Dirone Photography (cover photo) (illustrator).…

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.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 22 # 121 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1953. Contains stories by Roy Vickers (The Frame Up), David From (Leslie Ford - Zenith Jones Brown - The Man on the Iron Palings), Erle Stanley Gardner (Bird in the Hand), Richard Deming (Open File), Don M Mankiewicz (Two Rolls, No Coffee), C P Donnel, Jr (The Fourth Degree), Rhys Davies (Vivian Rees Davies - The Trip to London), William Abrahams (The Poison Typewriter), W R Burnett (Nobody's All Bad), Mel Dinelli (The Man), Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White - Out of Patience . ), and others. GGA cover. Light wear at the edges. .75" closed tear at the top left spine hinge with an associated one that also goes across the spine creating a loose flap. 2" closed tear at the bottom right spine hinge. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy. Dirone Photography (cover photo) (illustrator). …

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 27 # 2 (#147), February 1956, of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. All type cover variant. Contains stories by Agatha Christie (Find the Cook), Edmund Crispin (The Lion's Tooth), Martin Gardner (The Missing Walnuts), Michail Gilbert (Every Monday, A New Letter), Rex Stout (A Dog in the Daytime later published as Die Like a Dog in the Three Witnesses novella collection), Roy Vickers - William Edward Vickers (A Woman of Principle), and others. Light wear at the edges with some browning at the edges of the pages. Light damp stain to the bottom corner of the pages. 1.5" closed tear from the middle of the right spine hinge into the front cover. Light pencil annotations in the margins throughout. A good copy.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 14 # 70 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September 1949. Contains stories by Leslie Charteris (The Arrow of God), , Clayton Rawson (Off the Face of the Earth), Louis Golding (Question No. 3), Frank Gruber (Cat and Mouse), A H Z Carr (The Man Who Played Hunches), Georges Simenon (Stan the Killer), Charles Francis Coe (Bars), Roy Vickers (The "Try-Out" Murder), Walter Duranty (Only the Fools Get Caught), T M McDade (Let Me Help You With Your Murders), Arnold Bennett (The Fire of London), and others. Light wear at the edges. Fading to the spine. Small bumps at the top center of the front cover and along the spine. Browning to the covers and the pages. A good copy. George Salter (cover) (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 54 # 2 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Anthology vol. 16, August 1969. Contains stories by Erle Stanley Gardner(TCOT Murder's Bride), Ngaio Marsh (Death on the Air), Cornell Woolrich (Goodbye, New York), Hugh Pentecost (Judson Pentecost Philips - Murder de Luxe), Lawrence Treat (Lawrence Arthur Goldstone - , C as in Clue), George Harmon Coxe (A Neat and Tidy Job), Roy Vickers (William Edward Vickers - A Toy for Jiffy), Eric Ambler (The Case of the Pinchbeck Locket), Ellery Queen (Another Pair of Queens), and others. Light wear at the edges. Price ($12.50) faintly written (not by me!) in black marker on the front cover. A good copy.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 16 # 80 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1950. Contains a novelette by Philip Wylie (Ten Thousand Blunt Instruments), and stories by Wilbur Daniel Steele (The Lady Killer), Roy Vickers (The Knitted Silk Scarf), Viola Brothers Shore (The Case of Karen Smith), A A Milne ( It was a Long Time Ago), G K Chesterton (The Oracle of the Dog), George Harmon Coxe (Invited Witness), Damon Runyon (The Old Doll's House), F R Buckley (No Errors), and others. Light wear at the edges with rubbing to the spine. Spine roll. Browning to the pages and the edges of the rear cover. A good to very good copy. George Salter (cover) (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 22 # 121 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1953. Contains stories by Roy Vickers (The Frame Up), David From (Leslie Ford - Zenith Jones Brown - The Man on the Iron Palings), Erle Stanley Gardner (Bird in the Hand), Richard Deming (Open File), Don M Mankiewicz (Two Rolls, No Coffee), C P Donnel, Jr (The Fourth Degree), Rhys Davies (Vivian Rees Davies - The Trip to London), William Abrahams (The Poison Typewriter), W R Burnett (Nobody's All Bad), Mel Dinelli (The Man), Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White - Out of Patience . ), and others. GGA cover. Minimal wear at the edges. Light browning to the page edges. A nice, sharp copy. A very good or better copy. Dirone Photography (cover) (illustrator). …

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. 98, No. 3, Whole No. 587. Cover photo of Natalia Nogulich, Rupert Holmes, and Pamela Brull. Edited by Eleanor Sullivan. Includes "If It's Got Your Number" by Celia Fremlin; "The Devil and His Due" by Dorothy Salisbury Davis; "Slowly, Slowly in the Wind" by Patricia Highsmith; "The Empress of the Sea" by Milt Rosen; "Arms and the Woman" by Karen M. Sine; "Events at Drimaghleen" by William Trevor; "The Jury Box" by Jon L. Breen; "The theft of the Lucky Cigar' by Edward D. Hoch; "EQMM 50th Anniversary Contest"; "Snapping Out of It" by Bruce Holland Rogers; "Brass Knuckles" by Rupert Holmes; "A Sense of Justice" by Donald Olson; "The Misfit" & "Fore!" by Phyllis Diller; "Dpuble Image" by Roy Vickers. Label ghost; tanning; creasing; standard glue-shrink. Book.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The January 1949 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Vol 13 # 62. Contains stories by Dashiell Hammett (This King's Business), Margery Allingham (The Case is Altered), O Henry (Thimble, Thimble), Roy Vickers (William Edward Vickers - Dinner for Two), Edgar Saltus (The Grand Duke's Rubies), Maurice Level (The Maniac), and others. Light wear at the edges. Light crease to the top corner of the front cover and following pages that gradually decreases. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy. George Salter (cover) (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 26 # 3, whole # 142 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September 1955 15th Anniversary Issue. Contains stories by Roy Vickers (For Men Only), Nedra Tyre (Murder at the Poe Shrine), Cornell Woolrich (The Most Exciting Show in Town), Ellery Queen (Double Your Money), Michael Innes (A Very Old Case Indeed), Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry Mark Van Doren (The Man Who Made People Mad), Mary Roberts Rinehart (The Splinter), Fredric Brown (The First Time Machine), Mark Twain What Did Poor Brown Do?), and others. Light wear at the edges. Sharp corners & bright color. Light browning to the front cover along the edge of the spine. Light red date stamp on the front cover ("Aug 23 A."). Very light browning to the pages. A very good or better copy. George Salter (cover) (illustrator).…

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).…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 14 # 72 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 1949. Contains stories by Edgar A Poe (The Black Cat), Roy Vickers (The Million-to-One Chance), Wilbur Daniel Steele (Dust to Dust), Jacques Futrelle (?), Barry Perowne (Forget-Me-Knot), Hugh Walpole (The Etching), Melville Davisson Post (The Forgotten Witness), Richard Sherman (He Will Never Know), Oliver La Farge (Haunted Ground), I J Jay (The Gewgaw Murder), Maurice Leblanc (The Twelve Little Pickaninnies, and others. Light wear at the edges. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy. Bill Stone (cover photo) (illustrator).…

dj. [Crime/thriller anthology] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.191 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket. Occasional light spotting/marking throughout, mostly internally clean. Jacket price-clipped to front flap. Some soiling to bottom of cloth/jacket. Edges toned. Jacket moderately toned and marked. Mild shelfwear. Very good. With contributions from Julian Symons, Michael Gilbert, Berkely Mather, and more.…

First printing. Ex W.H.Smith 'Day by Day Service' library. Colonel Crisp is summoned to Watlington Lodge by a mysterious caller to investigate the murder of Lord Watlington. Lord Watlington, a self-made millionaire, elevated into the Peerage, decided that the woman his nephew and sole heir plans to marry is not a suitable mate. But it is this decision that eventually sets the stage for his death. Sleuth, Colonel Crisp investigates. Pp.254/ 2 (publishr's catalogue), slight toning to pages, W.H.Smith library bookplates to front pastedown, owner's details to front free endpaper, loosening to inner hinge next to title page (but holding). Orange cloth lightly soiled with wear to spine edges and bumps to corners. Scarce. Good.** "William Edward Vickers (18891965) was an English mystery writer better known under his pen name Roy Vickers, but used also the pseudonyms Roy C. Vickers, David Durham, Sefton Kyle, and John Spencer. He is the author of over 60 crime novels and 80 short stories." (wiki).…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of these mystery short stories with selections from the author's highly-regarded, The Department Of Dead Ends, inclusive of his first, The Rubber Trumpet. 8vo. 256 pp. A near fine copy in blue cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a near fine, bright, fresh, pictorial dustwrapper with some very light soiling. Barnes, Murder In Print. Pronzini & Muller, 1001 Midnights.…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. An excellent first edition of this thrilling detective novel by Roy Vickers. The first edition, first impression of this detective fiction novel by Roy Vickers, the penname of English mystery writer William Edward Vickers. In the publisher's original dust wrapper, price clipped. Featuring Detective-Inspector Peter Curwen, Vickers presents a traditional procedural style murder mystery, in which three scientists are the suspects in the murder of their employer, Mr. 'WillyBee' Brengast, who refused to grant them royalties on their inventions. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. A touch of discolouration to back strip, with slight loss to back strip head, and two small closed tears to head of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Early reprint. Early reprint. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6. An attractively jacketed edition of this crime thriller, originally published in book form under the pseudonym David Durham in 1925. Some foxing; cloth spotted and sunned at spine; dust-jacket a little trimmed or possibly a marriage [?], but overall very good. Book.…

Condition: Very good. First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial boards. Dust-jacket, priced 2/. VG+; VG+. An early dust-jacket, with wonderful jacket artwork. Giuseppe Orlando (bookplate & stamp to front pastedown and ownership inscription to head of title-page). Book.

First edition in book form, first printing. Publisher's original orange cloth, with black titles and illustration to the spine, in dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping to the spine ends and corners, the cloth is bright and fresh. The contents, with a previous owner's bookplate and shelf stamp to the front pastedown and his ownership name and date at the top of the title page, are toned to the endpapers and foxed to the text block edge. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper, that has a few short closed tears and light fading to the spine, but is otherwise bright and free from loss. Correctly priced 7/6 net to the spine. An attractive example. A scarce Hubin listed mystery novel from the prolific author and [later] Detection Club member. Previously serialised in magazine form between 26 November 1928 and 14 January 1929 under the title 'If Love Should Change'. Widower Adela Carvel, discovers that Jackson, of Jackson's night club, is in fact her husband who she thought had drowned. (Hubin) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition thus. First edition thus. 8vo. Original grey cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6. This is a first thus and the first to use the author's preferred pen name. The very rare first edition was published in 1924, under his less used pseudonym 'David Durham'. The Newnes edition is itself rare, particularly in the jacket. Vickers was known for his Department of Dead Ends stories, which were early examples of inverted detective stories. Very minor foxing; cloth slightly softened and dulled at head of spine; jacket with some wear and loss to spine head and lower panel. Book.…