Third Owl by Casey Robert (9 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: fair. 7.5" tall x 5-3/8"; 128pp; creases to cover; lean to spine; some of the pages are taped in. Paperback.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. No. 9. 128pp. A $2.00 Detective thriller. Slight wear. Photos on request. Size: Digest size-Octavo.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Paperback Ed. Fine in pictorial wraps with white & yellow lettering & cover art picturing a red owl on a tree limb. Hardboiled detective novel featuring a Chicago newspaperman & Chicago cop who go to a weathy suburb to investigate a murder at a mansion. Mystery, Hardboiled Detective Novel, Digest Paperback.

Paperback. first PB. 9 very good -fine, , reading crease mystery novel, digest.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. First Edition. No dust jacket. Fading and wear to boards and spine. Stamp inside front and rear cover and on first page. Binding sound.

Paperback (card covers). Condition: G++. 1st Thus.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. BN2 - A first edition (stated) hardcover book in good condition in fair dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease, tears and open tears on the edges, sides, corners and spine, scattered foxing, stains, smudges, rubbing, scratches and scuffing, tanning, and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners and cover edgewear, wrinkling and few tiny tears on the spine edges, light smudges and stains on the page edges and endpapers, tanning and light shelf wear. Although not marked in any way, this copy comes from the personal collection of Otto Penzler, legendary editor and founder of the Mysterious Press, an award-winning icon in the genre. 7.75"x5.25", 312 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Robert J. (Joseph) Casey was a decorated combat veteran and distinguished Chicago-based newspaper correspondent and columnist. Casey was born March 14, 1890, in Beresford, South Dakota, and attended St. Mary's College in St. Marys, Kansas from 1907 to 1911. Casey enlisted in the Army in 1918 and served at Verdun and Meuse-Argonne as an artilleryman. He earned three citations for bravery in combat before his discharge as a captain in 1919. Casey later wrote (anonymously) The Cannoneers Have Hairy Ears: A Diary of the Front Lines about his wartime experiences, and this book was acclaimed for its gritty and realistic depictions of an American soldier in World War I. In 1920, Casey joined the Chicago Daily News, where he worked as a columnist and foreign correspondent for twenty-seven years. Casey wrote features, chronicled the Chicago gang wars of the era, and compiled "slice of life" stories, which were published in the paper under column titles "Vest Pocket Anthology," "Such Interesting People," and "More Interesting People." During the 1920s and 1930s, Casey traveled through Indochina, Cuba, Pitcairn Islands and Easter Island, and many other sites, and wrote about his adventures in newspaper columns and books. In 1940, Casey covered the blitz in London and its aftermath; he was also in Hawaii and the Pacific right after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December, 1941. After his coverage of World War II in France, Africa, and the Pacific, Casey came back to Chicago to write. He had been married to Marie Driscoll, who died in 1945; in 1946 Casey married Hazel MacDonald, a reporter and fellow Chicago-based foreign correspondent he first met in 1933. After Casey's retirement from the Daily News in 1947, he continued to write books and freelance newspaper articles. In 1955, he was named Press Veteran of the Year by the Chicago Press Veterans Association. After being under treatment for several years for a heart condition and high blood pressure, Casey died of a stroke on Dec. 5, 1962 in Evanston, Illinois at the age of 72. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Modest spotting to the boards, slight foxing to the endpapers, thus near very good in near fine dustwrapper with some tiny tears. Did the Duke of Burgundy commit suicide or was he murdered?

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Original green cloth with letters stamped in brown. Top edge stained yellow. 8vo - 312pp. A very nice copy in all respects. A very warm signed inscription by the author to the front free endpaper. He signed his name "Robert (Machine Gun) Casey." Listed in Hubin. Near Fine / Fine.