Hogarth emmett (5 risultati)

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. An Inner Sanctum mystery. "Detective Marty Cohen, a combination of Sherlock Holmes and Clark Gable, short circuits a murderer who likes to play with lightning!" Ex-library with internal markings. Bumped with wear at the edges, front hinge cracked but still pretty solid. Jacket has been trimmed and affixed to a stiff paper backing with the flaps glued to the pastedowns. Rubbed with small chips and tears, spine a bit sunned, price clipped. Ex-Library.…

Reprint. Octavo (19cm); blue pictorial paper wrappers; 128pp. Wrappers creased and lightly soiled, with rubbing about the extremities; stray pencil mark on front. Textblock edged and preliminaries foxed; date penciled on title page (January 12, 1942); mild reading wear, else Very Good overall, very scarce. The third entry in Hillman's "Detective Novel Classics" series, this humorously lurid mystery pulp tells the tale of an "electrical wizard" who is found dead in his personal electrocuting chamber (every house needs one). Our range of suspects include the usual dames and dodgy guys, all to be investigated by our chain-smoking detective, Marty Cohen. Published under a joint pen name used by ecclectic writer and filmmaker Abraham Polonsky, who was blacklisted by the HUAC in 1951; this story is actually a reissue of his 1940 The Goose is Cooked, written in alternating chapters with novelist Mitchell A. Wilson. Don't miss the hilarious "dead giveaway" on page 89 with the two real authors referring to themselves by name.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Good dj. First Edition. [good sound copy with some light dust-soiling to the top edge of the text block; the jacket is heavily edgeworn, scuffed and rubbed, with some internal brown-tape reinforcement/repair along the top and bottom edges, a bit of paper loss at the top of the spine, and some soiling to the rear panel]. First adventure (and last?) for detective Marty Cohen, "who had made Law Review at Columbia and who had his eye on the office of District Attorney," and who is described on the jacket copy as "a combination of Sherlock Holmes and Clark Gable." The pseudonymous writing duo soon went their separate ways, Wilson as a novelist and Polonsky as a screenwriter/director whose career was eclipsed by the Hollywood blacklist.…

Hardcover. 8vo. Original publishers red cloth lettered black on spine. pp [x] 277 with 24pp of first 2 chapters of Sing a Song of Homicide by James R. Langham at rear. From the Donald Rudd collection of detective fiction. Neat name on endpaper; Very good plus.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good Plus. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Book is crisp and basically clean in red boards but has owner's name written several times inside. Covered with a bright jacket with chips at spine ends (not affecting title). A Marty Cohen ("a combination of Sherlock Holmes and Clark Gable") mystery.…