Dragons Teeth Problem Deduction by Queen Ellery (23 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Minor blemishes to boards, endpapers foxed, pages toned. 1939 Hard Cover. 325 pp. "After the death of his longtime friend Inspector Rummell, Ellery Queen drops in on Rummell's son, a struggling lawyer named Beau. Before their meal is through, Queen and young Rummell are partners in a newly minted company: Ellery Queen, Confidential Investigations. Rummell promises not to burden Queen with any of the work - he only wants to capitalize on the name of the world-famous amateur sleuth. But when they are hired by an eccentric millionaire who refuses to say just why he wants their services, Rummell has no choice but to turn to Queen for help. And when their client dies at sea, they discover that the wealthy old man had countless enemies who might have put him out of his misery - most of them within his own family.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Tan cl., red lettering to cover and backstr. Dj. flap laid in to ffep. Stamps on pastedown and ffep, clean, commercial ex-lib. 325pp.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Moderately worn; scuffs, light edge wear, age toning, etc. An adequate readable copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Pub by Grosset & Dunlap, 1939. NOT exLib. Good+ or better cond. hardcover now in archival grade Brodart, no dj. Orange cloth over bds w/ black lettering on cover & spine, top edge publisher's blue. Light exterior edgewear, o/w book is complete, intact & unmarked. 325pp + 3pp. Square, straight, tight & clean, overall G+ or better used cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Red cloth with some edgewear and corners a bit bumped. Paper has tanned with age.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Cover has some light edge wear and rubbing. Book.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. NICE LOOKING GRAY COVER, DARK RED DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE WITH PRINT SPINE. JACKET IS FAIR WITH A PIECE MISSING TOP EDGE SPINE AREA AND OTHER WEAR, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, TIGHT AND VERY GOOD SHAPE. Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (October 20, 1905 ż September 3, 1982) and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (January 11, 1905 ż April 3, 1971), 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 police inspector in New York City, solve baffling murders. The Dragon's Teeth (also published as The Virgin Heiresses) is a mystery novel published in 1939 featuring the popular fictional character Ellery Queen, which is also the pseudonym of the book's authors, Daniel Nathan and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky. It is primarily set in New York City, United States. An eccentric millionaire, Cadmus Cole, visits the newly-founded offices of Ellery Queen, Confidential Investigations, in a rare incidence of disembarkment from his yacht. The investigation company is actually the brainchild and sole responsibility of his partner, "Beau" Rummell, an established private eye. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, no jacket, in Good condition, no stamps writing or marks, paper is tanning with age, corner bumps, some edge wear, a good reading copy, Special Printing January 1941,

Condition: Good. 1950. Sixth Impression. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is darkened.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 1945, Blakiston/Triangle Books, light star stamp on fep, sticker residue and pencilling on ffep, pages toned, some torn, cloth boards faded and toned, no dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 325 pages, tall 12mo. Orange cloth boards with gold-embossed title and design of key along spine. No DJ. Shelfwear: light rubbing along cover edges, heavy scuffing and smudge marks to covers and spine, heavy spine fade. Tanned page edges. Previous owner's name in black ink on front free endpaper. Tightly bound with very clean and crisp pages. Volume is in Fair condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. 8vo, tan cloth soiled, inked name on endpaper Ellery Queen opens his first detective agency office. Murder ensues.

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (novelists, fathers and sons, police) 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Contemporary owner name on front pastedown, small dampstain on rear board, toned spine with tiny soil spots, very good, lacking the dust jacket.

1st.ed. Some scattered foxing; spine a little bumped. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dustjacket) Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dustjacket).

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. QUEEN, Ellery. The Dragon's Teeth : A Problem in Deduction. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1950, hardback with dust wraer, Gd/gd, boards red/gilt, 288 . Boards clean and firm, bump to front board, rubs to edges and corners, no inscription or annotations, binding sound, slight lean to the spine, pages tanned, foxing to endpapers Areciable wear to wraps (see scan) with foxing to front and rear, now protected by acid-free archive film, original price .(4'6 net) not clied. CLASSIC CRIME, HARDBACK, ELLERY QUEEN, DETECTIVE STORY. 45368 CLASSIC CRIME/Q £1400 288.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. 325p. A beige cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Spotty blemishes on the cloth, mostly along the top edges and on the spine. Previous seller's sticker on front endpaper. Endpapers are tanned; otherwise clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First published in 1939, this is the 6th impression of 1950. In overall very good condition, there is some light foxing and browning to the block but a nice tight copy. The DJ is in fair condition with general edge wear and some loss to the top of the spine. Other novels by the same author are also available.

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

Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. -- Condition: Near fine, toning to spine, in near fine dust jacket with short tears to spine ends, some soiling to rear panel, and light rubbing to corners and upper flap fold. -- Details: A nice clean first edition of one of the best Ellery Queen mysteries in which Ellery Queen teams up with the son of a former police colleague, the casework begins with the death of a retired munitions magnate, who dies unexpectedly while sailing his yacht in the Caribbean, and ends up in the search for two missing heiresses. Ellery Queen, and later Barnaby Ross, was the pseudonym shared by the writing team composed of cousins Frederick Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. Together, the pair wrote four Drury Lane mystery novels, starring a Shakespearean actor and detective, as well as the Ellery Queen mystery series. The pseudonym pair was all the rage in the 1920s and '30s, with one of the cousins, usually Dannay, donning a mask and appearing in public as Ellery Queen. The cousins carried on a fictional dialogue as Ross and Queen in print and ended the intrigue in 1932 when Ross was revealed to be Ellery Queen. Several years later, when the writers behind the pseudonyms were unmasked, the public was so enamoured of them that their work continued to enjoy great popularity for decades to come. 'After Poe, I think it's true that Ellery Queen was the most significant and important writer of mystery fiction in America.' - Otto Penzler. -- Reference: Reilly, 'Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers' (1980), 1225. Penguin Random House. Julian Symons, 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books, Sunday Times (1957). -- Octavo (book size 21.2x15cm), pp. vi 325 [5]. In publisher's light straw-grey cloth, lettered in orange to spine and upper board, foredge untrimmed others trimmed. Dust jacket priced '$2.00' to upper corner of front panel, all corners with publisher's decorative trim. --.