Challenge Reader by Queen Ellery (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

hardcover. Condition: Good. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Type: Hardback 1940 edition of Ellery Queen Mysteries in a Hardcover Book with a binding in Poor Condition, Internals moderately toned. clean, unmarked, no creases. Black cloth binding is quite worn. Binding is solid; backstrap loose from crash. Rear hinge cracked. Former owner names on endpapers, front and back. A worn, used book with much reading left in it! Mystery lovers must love Ellery Queen's mysteries. 26 mystery stories. 502 pages. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 1940, Blue Ribbon Books, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. In sturdy, lightly worn black boards. Mystery collection of short stories.

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (mystery, crime, vintage) 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: VG/Good only (see notes). reprint. 12mo. 502pp. Spine cocked a bit. Spine of DJ has 3 slices in it, some edgewear and. soiling. Uncommon in jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: A little rubbing, else good +. Reprint. HB 502 +, The reader is challenged to identify the detective. The story is "The Disappearance of Lady Francis Carfax.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. No edition or printing statement. Bound in black boards with red lettering on the spine; top page edges tinted red. Queen here challenges the reader by changing protagonists' names and not revealing the story authors until the end. The book is square and unmarked; corners and spine ends bumped. The dust jacket is not priced; heavily chipped and edgeworn; fading to the spine; Brodart protected.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Blue Ribbon Books, 1940. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with light toning to the page ends. Dust jacket is good with a large tear to the left flap, chips out of the spine and back cover, and with edgewear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later. Very good hardcover. Inside cover and pages slightly brown. Missing endpaper. Shelf rubbing. Corners rubbed. Edges of spine rubbed.

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket Slightly dampstained. (Mystery, Detective, Short Stories, Anthology).

68 very good + to near fine.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Pages unmarked. Paper tanning. Edgeworn & moderately shelfworn with some tattering at top of spine. Binding firm. Book.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (Detectives, Mystery) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 502pp., [1]. Bottom edges of boards scuffed, corners bumped, about very good being Donald James Stubblebine's copy with his name and address and date penned on the front pastedown, in a near very good rubbed dust jacket with short tears and nicks along the extremities, sticker price glue residue on front flap. Stubblebine was a notable stage and film collector who amassed one of the largest music collections in the United States. An early reprint of the first of many anthologies edited by Queen, with first appearances of 25 short stories by authors including Arthur Conan Doyle, Dashiell Hammett, Agatha Christie, and others.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A Good or slightly better copy of the 1938 hardcover first edition. Tanning at the outer edges of the text block, sound binding, clean within, with little cover wear. Not ex-library. No dust jacket. Book.

Hardcover. First edition. Very good minus hardcover. First edition. Pages light brown, clean text. Spine browned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Binding somewhat shaken, spine darkened, very good lacking the dustwrapper. A series of short stories where you the reader identify the great detective.

Hardback. Condition: Good. 1938 US edition .faded spine and no D/J otherwise very good.

Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Abridged from the 1938 hardcover edition. Anthology of stories in which the detective's name is changed and the reader must deduct their identity from reading the story. A near fine copy with a little edge rubbing. (#84470).

First paperback edition. Wrappers. Abridged from the 1938 hardcover edition. Anthology of stories in which the detective's name is changed and the reader must deduct their identity from reading the story. A near fine copy with a little edge rubbing, in wrappers. (7289).

Hardcover w/ DJ. Condition: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED: Good hardcover with acceptable dust jacket. Dust jacket has tears, weraing and creasing alon edges, spine and corners. Stain on dust jacket. Pages tanned, otherwise clean pages. 8vo, 502pp.

First Edition. Unusual anthology where the detectives names have been changed and you have to guess not only 'whodunit?' but 'whodetectedit?'. With an introduction by Queen. Just a little wear to covers otherwise VG.

Condition: DISCRETO USATO. INGLESE Volume rilegato in tela editoriale con titoli in oro su tasselli colorati al dorso, coperta maggiormente imbrunita al dorso stesso e con ordinari segni del tempo. Tagli regolari, imbruniti e con il superiore spruzzato a colori, pagine ben salde alla costa e con naturale imbrunitura. Libro completamente fruibile, contenente una raccolta di 25 storie poliziesche a cura di Ellery Queen, numero pagine 510 (VII, 503).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st. Bound in publisher's original tan cloth with spine stamped in black, red and gilt. 1st edition of Queen's first anthology.

First edition. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] 1-502 [503: acknowledgments] [504: blank], original gray cloth spine stamped in black, red and gold. Anthology of 25 detective stories not previously collected in a U. S. anthology, the "Challenge to the Reader" is that the detectives in the stories names are changed and it is left to the reader to identify them and the author. Includes the work of A. Conan Doyle, H. C. Bailey, Agatha Christie, Ernest Bramah, Dashiell Hammett and others. The first anthology edited by Queen. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with shelf wear to spine ends and corner tips, closed tear repaired on the verso to the upper right front corner, several closed tears to the upper spine panel with tape repair to the verso. Uncommon in the jacket. (22533).