Fools Friday by Fair (34 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

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

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dell #2670. First printing. Square spine with light creasing, light edge-wear.

Paperback. first thus. 939 good, many creases Cover by Victor Kalin. paperback.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. first thus. 939 very good, creases Cover by Victor Kalin. paperback.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Paperback (No jacket). paperback Used Book.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Used - Acceptable. sticker on spine, cannot remove without damaging.

softcover. Condition: Very good+. first. Very good copy of Erle Stanley Gardner, AKA A. A. Fairs, fools die on friday. Some foxing of light colored cover and tanning pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) of the 2nd Dell PB edition from mid 1950s of a Donald Lam/Bertha Cool mystery from the late 1940s. Dell Book 939. Reprints Dell 542. Light edge wear. Mild spine lean. Book store stamp (Will D Miller & Son Cigar - Tobacco - Magazine 122 W 6th Street Austin, Texas) on the last page. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy. Victor Kalin (cover) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Vintage book club edition offering three novels in one volume. Tan offsetting to the endsheets, minor shelf wear, otherwise a very good copy in "tweed" boards.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair to Good, Reading Copy. First Edition By This Publisher. 256 pages. Goodread notes = "twelfth entry in A. A. Fair's (Erle Stanley Gardner's) Donald Lam and Bertha Cool series. A young woman--"a nice number, brunette, trim, with nice curves"--claims to be Beatrice Ballwin. She offers the partners $500.00 to prevent her uncle, Gerald, from being poisoned by his wife, Daphne." >> This is a reading copy; Heavy Cover creasing & scuffing; spine slant; wear to paper spine; moisture damage, staining to upper right corner of book. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Robert Stanley (GGA) Painted Cover. (illustrator). Book. …

Paperback. first edition. 542 very good -fine, reading crease Cover by Robert Stanley. paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear and tear on the covers. Minor stain on the spine. Text is clean. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Soft cover. Condition: VERY GOOD Minus. First Edition By This Publisher. 256 pages. Goodread notes = "twelfth entry in A. A. Fair's (Erle Stanley Gardner's) Donald Lam and Bertha Cool series. A young woman--"a nice number, brunette, trim, with nice curves"--claims to be Beatrice Ballwin. She offers the partners $500.00 to prevent her uncle, Gerald, from being poisoned by his wife, Daphne." >> Minor cover rubbing; surface scratching to front cover; backcover creasing; spine slant; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Krauss GGA - Good Girl Art - photo Cover (illustrator). Book.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Sehr gut. 6. Aufl., 44. - 51. Tsd. 218 S. ; 18 cm Zustand: etwas gebräunt, sehr gut --- Inhalt: Carlotta Hanford ist bereit, 500 Dollar zu zahlen, um zu verhüten, daß der Grundstücksmakler Gerald Ballwin umgebracht wird. Das Detektivgespann Bertha Cool und Donald Lam übernimmt den Auftrag. PS7-9 ISBN: 9783442022595 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 200.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. First printing of this edition. Good condition. Spine is creased but straight; pages slightly age darkening; binding tight and firm. Dell mass paperback, Nov. 1961 printing, Dell R105, 256 pages. Cover art by Bob McGinnis. 12mo (6.5" x 4.25") The 11th Bertha Cool - Donald Lam mystery. Donald Lam tries to put "psychological handcuffs" on a potential poisoner, but things do not work out the way he planned. Raymond Chandler (now presumably aware of the true identity of A.A. Fair) wrote to Gardner in 1948, "Fools Die on Friday is about the best of the series since the first two. Perhaps since the very first.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition. 204pp - black cloth - previous owner's name to first blank page - preliminary pages and edges of text block slightly foxed - minor lean to spine - dustwrapper is slightly rubbed and soiled/foxed - wear and chipping to edges with several small losses and tears - SCARCE.…

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

first edition 204pp, octavo hardcover VG (sl.rubbed and stained, sl.browned/foxed,sl.cocked) in VG- d/w (moderate chipping to spine extrems and flap corners, closed tears to flap hinges, light rubbing, soiling and tanning, spine sunned).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Orange boards, lacking the dust jacket. Stains to the boards and pages. A nick to the top of the spine. Ownership signature to the front pastedown endpaper, and creasing to the corners of the free endpaper and half-title page. A Bertha Cool/Donald Lam mystery.; 247 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Corgi Books 1965. Binding firm. Pages clean and bright, no markings. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing with no mention of subsequent printings (First Printing for Morrow at the time); A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing and chipping to the spine ends and edges and a tiny chip to the top of the back panel. An exceptional copy of this Fair novel, Erle Stanley Gardner's pseudonym; Gardner wrote as A.A. Fair when writing the Cool and Lam mysteries. This title uncommon in this condition. Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Scarce edition. Black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Tight and tidy, just faint toning in foredges. Dust jacket is price unclipped, toning to top edges of flaps, small edge gaps, over half inch gap at foot of spine, protected in a removable clear film sleeve. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Fair, A.A. FOOLS DIE ON FRIDAY New York, NY: Dell Publishing Co., Inc. 1947 FIRST PRINTING Good 256pp. 12mo. Cover does show shelf wear and light age toning with creasing along both sides of the spine. Edges are worn and both top and bottom edges of the front cover have small tears along the spine. Spine is also slanted forward. Side edge of text block is dyed green but has slightly faded over time and has spotted water damage along the side edge which does not continue onto the pages. Text is age toned but clean otherwise. Binding has cracked inside the front and back covers but remains tight throughout the text. Overall book has easily withstood the test of time and has a rare cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ] First Edition hardback, 12mo, 5 1/8 x 7 5/8 inches, black titling (spine only) on light red-orange covers, pp [viii], 247, [i], VG to VG+/no dj (stiff clear acetate dustwrapper provided to preserve condition). Tight square binding, hinges intact, very clean covers w/ only very minor bit of rubbing corners and ends. A little tanning edges, endpapers, margin areas within o/w text pages crisp and clean. FFEP upper corner area very small dept. store price sticker, original owner's name, another owner's name/city/1971 date. RWR5 Crime Fiction Mystery.…

No Binding. Condition: Not Specified. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Fools Die On Friday by A.A. Fair Erle Stanley Gardner Dust Jacket Only First Edition William Morrow Company 1947. New York. A VG example. Price clipped. No creasing and showing only light signs of wear.

Hardcover. dj. First Edition. 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Very good with slight page toning, hint of wear to corners and spine tips, rubbing and yellowing to jacket, which is a bit chipped at spine ends, original price of 2.50 intact.