richard sted (8 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. First Edition. A good book in a fair dust jacket. The pages of the book are tanned.Jacket has chips and tears. It is price-clipped but the clipper left the $ sign so you know it is not a book club jacket married to a first edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. A VG tight copy in a VG bright dj , 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First edition. Jacket illustrated by Frank Lieberman. Tan cloth with black stamping. Pages age-toned, very good in a good only dust jacket with large chip on rear panel, edges chipped. An Inner Sanctum Mystery.

Hardcover. First Edition, First printing. First printing Near fine in bright yellow cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and a black band on the spine and front board. A small octavo measuring 7 1/2" by 4 1/2" with the pages tanning. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. 209 pages of text. The author's first book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. The author's first book. First printing. Pages a bit age darkened, previous owner's (?) name on front free endpaper, else very good in a good (edge worn and age darkened - especially along the spine) dust jacket.

Cloth. Condizione: Good +. No Jacket. Ex-library.

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-Near Fine. Leiberman, Frank (illustratore). First Edition. 1st edition, 1954, so stated. Publishers yellow cloth on boards with black lettering. Very monor soiling, pages age toned in dust jacket with some edge-wear and a tiny nicks at the foot of spine and at bottom of folds. Light soiling on rear panel. Unclipped dust jacket with $2.50 price, in protective mylar cover. His first and only mystery. Until the half-naked girl with the blue hair clawed and almost stabbed him, Ike O'Hara thought he was involved in a friendly little expose of the meat racket in order to make headlines to sell more papers. When Ike started asking some of his shadier friends for information, he got more than he bargained for. There was the matter of a grenade that just missed exploding in his lap. And, as if that weren't enough, four hoods with nothing but his death on their minds took him for a wild ride up the West Side Highway. But what really gave Ike O'Hara a nasty feeling in the pit of his stomach was reading his own obituary in a rival newspaper. Book.

First edition. Octavo, pp., 209. Publisher's peach cloth with title blocked in black to spine in a price-clipped, pictorial dust-jacket bearing the image of a man hiding behind a gravestone. Dust-jacket illustrated by Dennis McLoughlin. Unobtrusive 3cm tear and general edgewear to dust-jacket with some tanning to page 27. Crime novel written by journalist Theodore Olin Thackrey under the pseudonym Richard Sted. Number 99 of the American Bloodhound Detective collection. Cover art by Dennis McLoughlin, the well regarded British illustrator, who is said to have illustrated around 550 dust-jackets for American Bloodhound.