Editore: Rand McNally, 1957 1st ed., 1957
Da: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover and edges shows shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.
Editore: A Signet Book / New American Library [1957], [New York], 1957
Da: biblioboy, North Providence, RI, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Fair. First Edition Thus. [New York]: A Signet Book / New American Library [1957]. Fair. 1957. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. First edition thus. Signet S1424 with 35 cents cover price. "Here is the thrilling saga of America's fabulous frontier and the daring men and women who carved an empire out of the wilderness". Pictorial wrappers, 240 pages. Reading/filler copy [tearing to the spine heel corners, cover creasing, owner's label and initials to the first page, binding starting at the front portion of the book, cheap text paper tanning]. .
Editore: Editions du Masque, 1998
ISBN 10: 2702428789 ISBN 13: 9782702428788
Da: Ammareal, Morangis, Francia
Softcover. Condizione: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Petite(s) trace(s) de pliure sur la couverture. Traces d'humidité sur les pages. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Slightly creased cover. Traces of humidity on the pages. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.
Editore: Popular Publications, Toronto, 1944
Da: Scene of the Crime, ABAC, IOBA, St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Black Mask August 1944 Canadian Variant. Contains the stories Richard Sale "No Time for Mercy," Arthur Leo Zagat "Taps at Eleven," Joseph Fulling Fishman "Death in the Heart of New York," J. Lane Linklater "Golden Ghosts," Stuart Towne "The Man With the Radio Mind," Clive F. Adams "Decoy (part V)," Fredric Brown "Little Lost Boy," Paul Ernst "Larceny Gesture." Some of these stories appeared earlier in Detection Weekly in 1941. Light edge wear. In very good condition.
Editore: Coward-McCann: NY, 1941
Da: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 7.5 x 5", pict black cloth, 280pp, covers heavily rubbed and stained, extremities bumped and fraying, spine cocked, old bookstore inkstamp on front fly, pp toned and used. SWAF, but FIRST EDITION (NAP). Expensive in nice condition.
Editore: Cassell & Company, 1947
Da: PONCE A TIME BOOKS, SANTA BARBARA, CA, U.S.A.
1 Very good. light shelf wear, mild spine lean.
Editore: Wiegers Publishing Company (Yogi Mysteries), New York, NY, 1940
Da: Lazy S Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Fair-Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A collection of short stories by one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America published under the pseudonym Stuart Towne. The main flaw is a large piece (2" x 2") is missing from the top right corner of the front cover affecting the TH and ERE of the title. Light wear to the spine but the text is readable. The cover illustrations is bright and unaffected. Overall a good or somewhat better copy. Rare book.
Editore: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box: (Shelburne, ON), 2004
Da: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 8.5 x 5.5", gilt-pict cloth, 437pp, very minor shelf wear else a nice, clean copy in a lightly edge-worn dustjacket. First Printing of this collection of stories from Red Star Mystery Magazine. Magic (stage, sleight of hand).
Editore: Wiegers: NY, 1948
Da: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 7 x 5", pict stapled wraps, 128pp. Covers have creasing, soiling and edge tears, toned, last two pages have edge tears else good. Colorful front cover shows a leopard attacking a man. Yogi Mysteries. SCARCE.
Editore: First edition, published by Coward-McCann, New York, 1941., 1941
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Binding is mildly cocked. Spine tips and cover corners are lightly bumped and rubbed. Some light discoloration at top front edge. 280 pages.
Editore: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1941
Da: Avol's Books LLC, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Black cloth with red lettering on spine, figure of magician on front. Pronounced spine slant. Name stamped on bottom edge and inside front cover. Some light water spotting and dust soiling to last blank page and inside of back cover. edges of text lightly yellowed. Dust jacket shelf rubbed on edges, with wear to spine head, heel, and tips. Stress crease on front near upper edge, short tear at spine heel, top of rear fold, and top edge on back panel. Jacket in mylar. Clayton Rawson was an American mystery writer, editor, and amateur magician. He was one of the four founding members of the Mystery Writers of America.
Editore: Coward-McCann [1941], New York, 1941
Da: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
First edition. Octavo, cloth. Two novelettes featuring Don Diavolo, The Scarlet Wizard-magician detective. These were first published in separate issues of the pulp Red Star Mystery in 1940. This is the first of two books published with the Towne pseudonym (and the only one in hardcover). A very good plus copy, some mild soiling to cloth, tear to cloth (mendable) at upper rear cover in a very good dust jacket with some edge wear, wrinkling to upper front panel stain marks to upper rear panel. Uncommon in jacket. (9869).
Editore: Coward-McCann, [1941]., New York, 1941
Da: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
First edition. First edition. 0riginally published serially in Red Star Mystery magazine under the titles GHOST OF THE UNDEAD and DEATH OUT OF THIN AIR. A pseudonym of Clayton Rawson and the first appearance using this pseudonym. These two pulp novelettes feature a magician-sleuth called Don Diavolo and the titles are DEATH FROM THE PAST and DEATH FROM THE UNSEEN. In the story DEATH FROM THE PAST, Diavolo must solve a murder of a frightened female medium, committed in his own backstage dressing room, apparently by a vampire conjured up during a seance. In DEATH FROM THE UNSEEN, an inventor claims to have invented an invisibility machine. A few weeks later an invisible man murders a detective at police headquarters and then challenges Diavolo to find him. If you are unfamiliar with Don Diavolo, he is an illusionist who gets involved in crimes only a magician could commit. The stories are thoroughly entertaining and readable. Fine, tight copy in a bright, un-faded dust jacket with light professional restoration to the spine ends, corners and extremities.
Editore: Coward-McCann, New York, 1941
Da: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First Edition. Death Out of Thin Air by Stuart Towne (First Edition) Firm, square copy. Bright cloth. Clean text block. Bright jacket. Mild rubbing to front corners and spine ends. Writing to back cover. Not price-clipped. Clear protective cover. First Edition. Classic Don Diavolo mystery, originally serialized as two stories in Red Star Mystery, which ran for only four issues: June, August, October, and December 1940. Separated into two acts, the first, Act 1: Death From the Past, appeared as "Ghost of the Undead" and the second, Act 2: Death from the Unseen, appeared as "Death Out of Thin Air". Stuart Towne was the pseudonym of Clayton Rawson who also created another famous pulp-era magician, The Great Merlini. Rawson was himself an accomplished magician, illustrator, writer, and editor. Orange cloth with black debossed magician image to front cover and black lettering to spine. SCARCE. BOOK.