Starrett charles vincent (11 risultati)

Cloth and Paper Covered Boards. Condizione: G to G+. No Jacket. 253 pp, the copyright page states this title is limited to 625 copies, but is not numbered. the book and contents are clean and solid, the covers are tight and have some wear on the corners and light soil.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good to Fine. First Collected Edition, PBO thus.. **CONTENTS(1) The Question by Stanley Ellin (2) The Old Barn on the Pond by Ursula Curtiss (3) The Hearts House by Mary McMullen (4) The Phonograph Murder by Helen Reilly (5) Testimony of a Witness by McGarry Morley (6) The Night Calhoun was Off Duty by Thomas Walsh (7) The Missing Mortagee by R. Austin Freeman (8) The Beauty In That House by Florence V. Mayberry (9) Man in Hiding by Vincent Starrett (10) Mrs. Kendalls Trunk by Robert Twohy (11) Franz Katka, Detective: The Bird of Ill Omen by Charles West, Jr. (12) Falling Object by William Brittain (13) The Mysterious Death in Percy Street by Baroness Orozy (14) The Good Times Always End by David Morrell (15) The Men in Black Raincoats by Pete Hamill (16) Monday Is Quiet Place by Marjorie Carleton (17) The Shop That Exchanged Evils by Lord Dunsany (18) The Bag Man by Brooke Weld (19) The Neighbours by John Galsworthy (20) A Question of Neighborliness by David Ely (21) Whos the Blonde? by John D. MacDonald (22) In A Country Churchyard by Robert L. Fish (23) Deja Vu by Mary Barrett (24) Fishing Can Be Fatal by Stephen Wasylyk (25) Rear Window by Cornell Woolwich >> Cover scuffing Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Painted Front Cover (illustratore). Book. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. "First edition" statement to the copyright page, 1929 to the title page. By the bibliophile, journalist, and prolific author of THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, and his mystery adapted to the1935 film 'The Great Hotel Murder'. The first of three clue-filled, well-plotted mysteries featuring Walter Ghost, a scientist, psychologist, explorer, and former intelligence officer. Set on board an ocean liner. A decent copy with clipped & internally saved, striking mystery jacket art. Rub-wear to the upper and lower spine edges and corner tips, minor rubs and soils to the covers, dust jacket panels and flaps neatly cut and pasted to the front and rear end-papers and preliminaries, paper residue left from a former attachment, (now removed), to the inside front cover, very mild small spots to the upper page edges, else about very good, square and sound in black linen, with brick-red titles and the Crime Club's gun-pointing man insignia to the front cover and with brick-red titles to the spine; lacking a dust jacket, except as clipped and attached internally.…

Modern Library first edition (as stated upon copyright page). i-viii, [2], 9-336, [6] pages. H 17cm x L 11.25cm. Dust jacket toned particularly at spine; front panel illustration of woman in front of saloon; large chip at top of front panel; other smaller chips/nicks and short tears along with some soiling and foxing; front flap has 95 cent price. Semi-flexible reddish-brown cloth binding; slender fraying at front board's top edge. Muted red top edge; slight foxing/toning to bottom edge and fore-edge. Ink ownership-gift inscription dated "Xmas, 1935" on front free endpaper; interior pages mostly remain clean. Binding is firm.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Decorative cloth, hard covers in tidy condition, slightly browned at the edges, colour illustrations, 263pp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Shinn, Everett (illustratore).

499 of 625. Chicago, IL: Pascal Covici. Good condition; worn; staining/No Dustjacket. 1924. 499 of 625. 8vo., 253 pp. . Good condition; worn; staining/No Dustjacket. Not Illustrated (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. This edition is limited to 450 numbered and signed copies - this is book #1, and has the author's initials following the number on the limitation page. This book is in Very Good + condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book cover has a linen spine and marbled paper covered boards. The linen has some generalized darkening / toning, especially to th spine end. The paper covered boards are in clean, bright condition. The endpapers have a different set of marbled endpapers. The text pages are clean and bright. "In 1920, he wrote a Sherlock Holmes pastiche entitled The Adventure of the Unique "Hamlet". Starrett on at least one occasion said that the press-run was 100 copies, but on others claimed 200; a study of surviving copies by Randall Stock documents 110. This story involved the detective investigating a missing 1602 inscribed edition of Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Starrett's most famous work, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, was published in 1933. Following that, Starrett wrote a book column, "Books Alive," for the Chicago Tribune. He retired after 25 years of the column in 1967. He often mentioned Sherlock Holmes in these columns, which appeared in the book section of the Sunday newspaper. These references were collected and annotated by Karen Murdock and published under the title "Sherlock Alive" in 2010. Starrett was one of the founders of The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic) , a Chicago chapter of The Baker Street Irregulars. Starrett's horror/fantasy stories were written primarily for the pulp magazine Weird Tales, and are collected in The Quick and the Dead, (Arkham House, 1965). His story "Penelope," published in the May 1923 issue of Weird Tales, was also featured in the anthology The Moon Terror (1927) anonymously edited by Farnsworth Wright, and published by the magazine. " (from Wikipedia).…

First Edition. Shaking Hands with Immortality; Encomiums for Vincent Starrett, 1886-1974, The Printery, Kirkwood, Mo., 1975, first edition, several small faint tan spots to the lower margin of the f.e.p., else a fine copy bound in decorated boards and cloth spine. 1/225 copies with contributions by Carl Sandburg, Christopher Morley, Charles Honce, August Derleth, Burton Rascoe, et.al.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Good only dust jacket. The book is in generally clean, bright condition, with black cloth covers and red lettering and decoration to the spine. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There are two small spots of rubbing / wear to the front book cover and a slight slant to the spine. The text pages are clean and bright. Both endpapers have generalized toning, and the foredges of the text block are uncut. The top edge of the text block is stained reddish orange, and both the foredge and bottome edges of the text block have spots of foxing. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and spots of wrinkling and rubbing, along with small chips missing. The original price of 2.00 dollars is on the top front flap of the dust jacket. The reverse of the dust jacket has a previous owner's taped repairs to the spine ends and flap edges. This book was originally published in Red Book Magazine under the title of "Recipe for Murder". "Starrett landed a job as a cub reporter with the Chicago Inter-Ocean in 1905. When that paper folded two years later he began working for the Chicago Daily News as a crime reporter, a feature writer, and finally a war correspondent in Mexico from 1914 to 1915. Starrett turned to writing mystery and supernatural fiction for pulp magazines during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1920, he wrote a Sherlock Holmes pastiche entitled The Adventure of the Unique "Hamlet". Starrett on at least one occasion said that the press-run was 100 copies, but on others claimed 200; a study of surviving copies by Randall Stock documents 110. This story involved the detective investigating a missing 1602 inscribed edition of Shakespeare's play Hamlet. " (from Wikipedia).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. An excellent, very good plus copy of the first edition. Vincent Starrett's copy, signed by him on a front free endpaper, and with his bookplate tipped onto the front pastedown. (Vincent Starrett, bibliophile, author, newspaperman and Sherlock Holmes afficionado, had several different bookplates. This one was designed by the illustrator Gordon Browne, son of H.K. "Phiz" Browne, English artist and illustrator.) Light red cloth-covered boards with beveled edges, gilt front board lettering/decoration (bright), 6 7/8 x 5 inches, 59 pp. + one page of ads in rear, b/w illustrations (drawings) by Sol Eytinge, Jr. (American illustrator of newspapers, journals and books by authors that included Charles Dickens and Alfred, Lord Tennyson). Very good plus (sunning of spine; slight edgewear; mild patchy superficial erosion of sizing of cloth; pages clean and binding tight and square). C. H. Webb was the first publisher of Mark Twain, and in fact, Twain's first book, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, was published the same year as this book written and published by Webb). The page of ads in the rear lists Twain's book: "The Jumping Frog, and Other Sketches; by Mark Twain; 12mo, English cloth, beveled edges, $1,50; This is the first published book of this celebrated and rising humorist. Abounding with the quaintest and rarest wit, which never degenerates into coarseness, it can not fail to have an extensive sale." As noted, Webb was both the author and publisher of St. Twel'mo, and the dedication page states, tongue in cheek, "To my best friend and nearest relative, the publisher, I dedicate this little book. The author." "Charles Henry Webb (January 24, 1834 May 24, 1905) was an American poet, author and journalist. He was particularly known for his parodies and humorous writings. Webb worked as both a whaler and a war correspondent. He spent three years at sea, and was then taken on by The New York Times where he covered the front lines of the Civil War. When his friend Mark Twain had difficulty finding a publisher for his first collection of sketches, Webb offered to take on the project himself. Webb served as both editor and publisher for The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches. When it was released under the American News Company imprint in 1867, Twain reported to a newspaper, '[Webb] has gotten it up in excellent style, and has done everything to suit his own taste, which is excellent. I have made no suggestions. In 1867, Webb wrote St. Twel'mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga, a parody of the novel St. Elmo by Augusta Evans Wilson which had sold over a million copies within four months of its publication the year before." "Augusta Jane Evans (Wilson) wrote nine novels about southern women that were among the most popular fiction in nineteenth-century America. Her most successful novel, St. Elmo (1866), sold a million copies within four months of its appearance and remained in print well into the twentieth century. The sexual tensions between the book's cynical Byronic hero, St. Elmo, and its beautiful Christian heroine, self-made writer Edna Earl, inspired the christening of villages, plantations, steamboats, railway carriages, male infants, a punch, a cigar, and one infamous parody, St. Twel'mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga (1867). Edna Earl also later became the namesake of Eudora Welty's heroine Edna Earle Ponder in The Ponder Heart (1954)." (K082). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Limited Edition of 225 copies and this copy "like all the other copies, being number 221B." 6.75 x 9.75in. 42pp. Publisher's quarter cloth over decorative paper-covered boards. Gilt titling and stamping. A jam packed association copy of Starrett and his Sherlockiana circle of friends. Signed and lengthily inscribed by the publisher and editor of the volume, Michael Murphy, himself a friend and devotee of Starrett's, to Charles Honce, who was Starrett's bibliographer, close friend and to whom the present publication is dedicated (a photo of the lengthy inscription is attached). The publisher announcement for the book is laid in with a note from Murphy to Honce. A facsimile on hand-made paper of a drawing and note sent to Starrett by Frederic Dorr Steele. And last, but most extraordinarily, is a Christmas card sent to the Honces from the Starrett's and signed by Vincent: "My dear Watsons! Ray & Vincent Starrett." The Christmas card, facsimile letter, and publication announcement are in NEAR FINE condition. The book itself is VERY GOOD showing a nasty splash of ink to the cloth binding, otherwise remains Fine/As New. As pictured.…