Adventures New Problems by Queen Ellery (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Clean gray cloth boards with brown skeleton reading a book on front cover; brown lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean (pages have slight tanning); small return address label at upper right corner of front free endpaper, with small neatly penned inscription on same page. All pages edges clean (top-stained red). 307 pages. Clean bright jacket is unchipped, no tears, very slight edge wear; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good+ dj. Reprint (1st printing thus). [a good sound copy, nicer than often seen with these cheaply-produced editions, with a typical but not severe amount of age-tanning to the pages, a touch of wear to the spine ends, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink on the front endpaper, small ink check-marks next to several titles in the table of contents; the jacket is lightly edgeworn, and the lower rear flap is rather heavily corner-clipped]. The second published collection of Ellery Queen short stories, all of which had previously appeared in various magazines during the 1930s. The short novel, "The Lamp of God," is presented first, and the remaining eight stories are arranged in two groups: "New Adventures" (consisting of "The Adventure of:" "The Treasure Hunt"; "The Hollow Dragon"; "The House of Darkness"; "The Bleeding Portrait"); and "A Unique Group of Ellery Queen Sports Mysteries." The latter group contained these stories, with their theme sports noted: "Man Bites Dog" (baseball); "Long Shot" (horse racing); "Mind Over Matter" (boxing); "Trojan Horse" (football). Originally published by Frederick A. Stokes Company in 1940. Illustrated by (dj) Arthur Hawkins Jr. (illustrator).…

hardcover. 12mo 357pp. collection of 11 short story mysteries by "Ellery Queen" (pen name. used by a number of different writers under one pseudonym) 1. The African Traveler 2. The Hanging Acrobat 3. One-Penny Black 4. The Bearded Lady 5. The Three Lame Men 6. The Invisible Lover 7. The Teakwood Case 8. "The Two-Headed Dog" 9. The Glass-Domed Clock 10. The Seven Black Cats 11. The Mad Tea-Party. #01701. Book VG: age wear to boards and spine, name on FFEP, toning to text block, text clean, binding tight. DJ G: closed tears base of spine, age toning and rubbing, not clipped.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Pages tanned, edges more so, else internally in generally good condition; rear hinge very dodgy, cover rather worn and rubbed, with some corner bumping and uneven fading, mainly to backstrip. No wrapper.