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

Condizione: 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.

Hardcover. Condizione: 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. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First Edition. The dust jacket is soiled and discolored. The book has signs of age. We ship fast.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good.

paperback. Condizione: 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. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Clean Tight And Square. No Markings. With Little Shelf Wear.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition 2nd printing stated of a very good softcover, with no jacket as issued. This is an ex-library copy with the usual stamps and stickers, but barely read, if at all. Six short stories collected here for the first time, including one new story published here for the first time celebrating 70 years of Ellery Queen books. The contents are on the copyright page in the seller images.

Condizione: NEAR FINE. Book club edition. Omnibus volume with five shorter works originally published between 1956 and 1965. 173 pp. Near fine in yellow boards, lacking the dj.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Reprint. Reprint, First Printing; orig. c.r. 1942. Hard cover 8vo in black paper covered boards. As New and unread book in Fine DJ, now in clear protective cover. 357pp. inc. About the Author. Part of the series, "The Best Mysteries of All Time". Book.

Condizione: NEAR FINE. Early book club edition. When Dane McKell discovers his father having an affair, he attempts to break it up, only to fall in love with the woman himself - and when she is found murdered, he is the prime suspect. 183 pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket (toning to the spine of the dj).

Condizione: VERY GOOD. Early book club edition. This is Ellery Queen's "25th and most unusual mystery novel." It opens with Queen standing by the window, sipping rum from a frosted glass, a still squirming corpse at his feet. The deceased? the Hollywood movie business. The cause of death: television? 219 pp. Very good in red boards (light toning to pages), no dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus (preceded by the 1951 hardcover release among others) first printing of a fine softcover with no jacket as issued. the 21st or 24th novel (depending on what list you look up) in the Ellery Queen mystery series, a mystery author working in Manhattan NY USA, usually aiding his father Inspector Queen of the N.Y.P.D. This series has been adapted many times for radio, films and TV.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Stain on the top point of the book. Text is clear of markings and notations. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition thus, first printing; mass-market paperback. "First printing November 1970" statement to the copyright page, code T4422 and .75c to the front cover. Originally published in 1938, this edition shows a distinct 1970s style with fun girly cover photo-art. Set in Hollywood, Ellery Queen is hired to write a screenplay. A decently presentable collectible. Elusive with this cover art. Mild hairline creases to the spine, minor surface stain spots to the upper rear cover, faint pressure-bend crease to the lower front cover, else very good in stiff-card wraps with cover photo art comprising a posed modern female wearing nothing but earrings and high-heel shoes and holding a giant, skull-and-cross-bones adorned 4 of Hearts playing card; original printed .75c price and code T4422 still intact to the front cover. Mass-market paperback; 223 pages.

Condizione: VERY GOOD. Early book club edition. Mystery novel featuring NY Police commissioner Richard Queen and his son Ellery Queen - unlike the other books in this series, it was writtn by the noted scrience fiction author Theodore Sturgeon. 213 pp. Very good in grey boards with red lettering on the spine (light toning to pages), in a very good dust jacket.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Pocket Books Paperback Edition. Chips at spine on front cover and at bottom of back cover plus two short closed tears . 166 pages. Despite her name, Princess O'Shea is not a spoiled brat. When her father's death leaves her an orphan, she goes to live with her old uncle, Slater, and is horrified by what she finds. She knew the O'Sheas were a family of scoundrels, but Slater and his awful brood are the laziest bunch of nitwits she has ever met. From her moronic cousin Twig to the daffy Peet, every one of Princess's new relations is driven by greed, lust, and a desperate fear of work. The only thing holding them together is the promise of their father's fortuneand Uncle Slater is not long for this world. When Princess finds Slater lying facedown on his bedroom floor, she assumes he's sleeping off a bender. In fact, he will never wake again. His bourbon was poisoned, and if Princess isn't careful, she'll be the next O'Shea to die.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Acceptable. George Salter (cover) (illustratore). Pages unmarked. Paper tanning. Covers discolored along edges. Rusty staples. Saddle-stitched. Binding firm.

Couverture souple. Condizione: Très bon. 98 pages, traduction de l'anglais par Alain Glatigny. Livre.

Couverture souple. Condizione: Très bon. 98 pages, traduction de l'anglais par Alain Glatigny. Livre.

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

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Reprint. Gently bumped and rubbed with a touch of wear at the edges, pages tanned. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, tanned at the edges, in mylar. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition thus, first printing; mass-market paperback. "1st printing February 1954" to the copyright page, code 1459 and .25c to the front cover. Originally published in 1939 in hardcover, and then in paperback in 1947 under the title THE DRAGON'S TEETH. Set mainly in New York City, Queen sets up a detective agency office in this mystery and has a veteran private eye friend Beau Rummell, who he enlists for help. Both the detective office and friend never appear in book form again. A paperback collectible. Mild bend-creases to the covers, rubbing to the lower spine edge's rear corner, bookshop address stamped to the inside front cover, tiny nick to the front cover's lower shelf-edge, else very good and fairly tight in glossy stiff-card wraps with cover photo-art by Silver Studio, all page edges red; original printed .25c price and code 459 code still intact to the front cover. Mass-market paperback; 249 pages; plus chapter headings contents, plus cast of characters, plus 1 page of ads to the rear.

paperback. Condizione: 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!

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Ellery moves to a small New England town where a man, who had disappeared just before his wedding, has returned and appears to be planning to poison his new wife. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Bumped with light wear at the edges, spine sunned. Light foxing to the end papers and edges of the text block, previous owner's name on the front pastedown, hinges slightly loose.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. Vintage Hardcover with Scarce DJ, 1941 Triangle Books 318 pages. Very Good+, in a VG+ DJ. Just a hint of shelf/edge wear to tan tweed cloth boards with red titles and accents - corners sharp. Just a touch of shelf/edge wear to original unclipped DJ - now in mylar. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean, unmarked and lightly toned (due to cheap wartime paper). Endpapers are clean and unmarked. This the 12th Ellery Queen mystery. Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1929 by American crime fiction writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee and the name of their main fictional character, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murders. Dannay and Lee wrote most of the more than thirty novels and several short story collections in which Ellery Queen appeared as a character, and their books were among the most popular of American mysteries published between 1929 and 1971. A very handsome wartime copy in DJ. LOC SSS-03.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Book Club edition early unknown printing of a near fine hardcover with one small bump on the top front corner, and pages toning in a very good dustjacket with wear to the extremities, and a bit of loss at the top of the spine. The 25th 29th or 30th book (depending on which list you use) in the Ellery Queen mystery series, a mystery author working in Manhattan New York City NY USA, usually aiding his father, Inspector Queen of the N.Y.P.D. This series has been adapted many times for radio, films and TV.

First U.K. edition, first printing. Signature and Xmas date to the front endpaper, else very nearly fine; in a nearly fine yellow printed dust jacket with the price-clipped from the front flap. A nicely presentable vintage first edition mystery. Alas, the last Ellery Queen novel. The dust jacket will be placed in a clear protective, removable sleeve after scanning for this entry.