Keeper Keys Charlie Chan Story by Earl Derr Biggers (30 results)

Grosset and Dunlap. New York. 1932. Reprint. Hardback, no DW. Original black cloth with red lettering to front cover and spine. Shelfwear to extremities, minor white mark to back cover and spine sunned. Pages slightly browned, otherwise a clean and sound copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. cks (illustrator). 1st Edition. The cover has black cloth with orange lettering. The endpapers have a b/w illustration of an airplane, moon, mountains, and evergreen trees. 20 chapters. A fourth of the back board has spots of light fading. The front board is less thus and has a 1/2 in. dented line. The top end of the text block is orange; the other two ends have tanned. Scans e-mailed upon request.

mass market paperback. 16mo. 238pp. Dell map back edition. Dell Book 47. #03730. Book G: age wear and creasing to wraps and spine, damp stain, text clean, binding intact. reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Rubbed boards, front end page taped, foxing, hinge cracked with webbing showing at front end page and rear end page; synopsis glued to front paste down; missing rear end page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Jacket is severely worn and torn. Otherwise in good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No dust jacket. Cover a little rubbed; bottom of spine ripping a bit. Name written on page before title. Pages 85 + 87 dog-eared. A few stains here and there, but still Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Cover is in excellent condition, save for minimal corner bumping and rubbing. Text is otherwise tight in binding. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout, save for prior ownership indications on FEP. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Reprint edition. 8vo. 307 pp. Cloth binding in dustwrapper, unclipped, minor edgewear, very good copy. (84730).

First edition. Black cloth stamped in orange red. The stamped lettering is very bright and unfaded. Edge of front flap of jacket attached to front pastedown. Rear flap of jacket present but not attached. Rest of jacket missing. Top page edges stained red. 307 pages. 8vo. A few small bubblings of the cloth at base of front cover. Just a little fraying at head and tail of spine. Worn to boards at the very tips of the corners. Lending library stamp on one of the many blank pages at the back with 19 stamped dates - no other evidence of library marks and otherwise clean. Tight. Cloth and text pages bright. Fair or better/ Poor.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good plus with bumping or rounding to corners. No prior owner markings or bookplate. Usual toning to paper. No jacket. Stated First Edition. Black cloth with red lettering.

Condition: Very Good. no jacket. NOT an ex library book. Book with bright orange binding, print in black. 307 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo. 307 pages, plus publisher's adverts. Black cloth, red titles; red, yellow and black dust jacket. Lower corners lightly bumped, negligible wear to extremities; interior clean; light rubbing, mild chipping to jacket extremities, scattered small blemishes. A very good plus copy in a very good jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Very attractive inside and out. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 307 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with no DJ. Black cloth over boards with red and black lettering on front board, red lettering on spine. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1932. Stated First Edition. 307 pages. Boards are tidy. Very light shelf wear at top and bottom edges of spine. Lettering on front board and spine remains neat and legible. Illustration of a plane in flight over a forest on front and rear endpapers. "Gift Book Prints" sticker on rear attached endpaper. Shelf cocked. Pages have been well maintained with legible text. Binding strong and secure. Very Good condition. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket Short gifter's inscription on front pastedown. (Mystery, Charlie Chan).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Cover. Very Good Hardcover, no dustjacket, illustrated endpapers, previous owner's signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo. Orig. black cloth, orange lettering. Top edge orange. Pictorial endpapers. 307 pp. Spine cocked, light bruising to spine ends and fore edges of boards. First state dust jacket is chipped to spine ends with loss of bottom third, edge worn, several long tears with creasing, sunning to spine, some repairs with acidified tape. Bookplate of John C. Dobson.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Biggers wrote six Charlie Chan books between 1925 and 1932; this was the last in his series of detective novels of a fictional Honolulu police dectective name Charlie Chan. Nearly fifty movies were made based on his character. This is a first edition in the publisher's original black cloth covers with orange spine and cover lettering. Decorated end papers of an airplane in flight on a moonlit night--there is a short split toward the top of the front inner hinge. There is light wear to the covers, especially at top of spine; the spine also has vertical creasing. This copy has been read is slightly loose. Previous owner gift inscription and on the opposite blank frontis paper, in penci,l is a handwritten transcription of "Who Loves the Rain" a poem by Francis Dawes. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 307 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 307 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Previous owner's bookplate and signature on the flyleaves and ffep. Page edges are darkened. Fading orange publisher's stain on the head edges. Bound in black cloth with red titles. Lightly worn around the edges. 1ST EDITION. VG/- -. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. VG original red cloth, gift inscription to ffep, mild foxing to edges & prelims, else clean throughout, in GD+ edgeworn DW, with price cut out of spine panel, now protected in Brodart sleeve. Jacket front panel features a b&w photo of Warner Oland starring as Charlie Chan.

Cloth. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. This work is a mystery novel involving the super-sleuth Charlie Chan and is set in Lake Tahoe, California. The author's Chan novels were eventually licensed and produced as films. Stated First Edition. This HARDCOVER copy is clean and solid.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Ships same or next business day. Book's spine is slightly skewed and loose, light bumps on ends of spine. Pages are tanned but clean. Protected in archival plastic cover. No dust jacket. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 307 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback. No dust jacket. Cover edges and corners in good shape. Spine is worn but tight. Pages are clean, no markings, notes or stains. Ships from Friends bookstore to benefit Beaverton (Oregon) library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Vintage reprint. 307p. A fine hardcover book in a like dustjacket. Old signature of former owner on front endpaper. BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS VINTAGE CHARLIE CHAN MYSTERY. G&D reprint issued in the same year and same format as the first edition. A gorgeous example which appears virtually new despite being almost a century old!

Hardcover. Condition: nf. Dust Jacket Condition: f .Facsimile DJ. beautiful copy WITH A FACSIMILE DJ with a gift inscription from prior owner.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "First Edition" on copyright page, bound in black cloth lettered and decorated in red, pages clean and unmarked, binding slightly canted; dust jacket protected in mylar, light chips along top edge and top of spine, not price-clipped; the mail fault is some rodent nibbles in upper outer corner of final 60 pages, never touching the text, priced accordingly.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 307 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with red lettering to spine and cover with pictorial end papers in original jacket. First edition. Earl Derr Biggers is remembered primarily for his novels, especially those featuring the fictional Chinese American detective Charlie Chan, from which popular films were made in the United States and China. Derr Biggers was born in Warren, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard University in 1907. He worked as a journalist for The Plain Dealer before turning to fiction. His novel Seven Keys to Baldpate was popular in 1913, and George M. Cohan quickly adapted the novel as a hit Broadway stage play of the same name. Cohan starred in the 1917 film version, one of seven film versions of the play, and a 1935 revival. More than 10 years after Baldpate, Derr Biggers had even greater success with his series of Charlie Chan detective novels. The popularity of Charlie Chan extended even to China, where audiences in Shanghai appreciated the Hollywood films. Chinese companies made films starring this fictional character. Derr Biggers publicly acknowledged the real-life detective Chang Apana as the inspiration for the character of Charlie Chan in his letter to the Honolulu Advertiser of June 28, 1932. Keeper of the Keys (1932) is the sixth and last mystery in the Charlie Chan series of Earl Derr Biggers; Biggers was planning on continuing the series, but died in 1933 before he could. The films continued the series for him. Once again, the setting of the novel is rural California, where Chan has been invited as a houseguest. He meets a world-famous soprano, Ellen Ladona, who is murdered not too long after the meeting. Chan does not have far to look for suspects the host is her ex-husband, as are three of the other house guests. Her servants, entourage and husbands all come under suspicion. Once again, Chan is expected to solve the murder, which he does by understanding the key clues the actions of a little dog named Trouble, two scarves, and two little boxes. When he understands how the murder is committed, he learns the role of elderly house servant Ah Sing the keeper of the keys. This was the only one of Biggers' Chan novels never to be adapted into a film, while some of the others were used more than once to create films. However, it was adapted into a short-lived Broadway play in 1933, with William Harrigan playing Charlie Chan. Condition: Previous owner's name on lightly on front paste down. Jacket with edge chips and closed tears with creases, front fold over edge chipped with tear at heal, spine ends chipped, lightly soiled, previous owner's name at edge of front fold over edge, stabilized with archival backing else a bettering than good copy in about a very good jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover bound in black cloth with red lettering on spine and front cover FINE clean and unmarked; dust jacket has chips to spine ends with 1/4 inch missing at base, mild edge rubs, and a couple very short fold separations, is NOT price-clipped, and is protected in plastic cover, orange portion of spine is mildly sun-faded; apparently a later issue of the first edition -- no date on title page, no "First Edition" on copyright page, but $2.00 price on jacket flap.

Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDFirst Canadian edition. Good fray head and heel of spine, spine slanted, name in ink front free end paper no dust jacket. Tips lightly bumped. *.