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Published by Harper and Brothers, New York
Seller: Bluff Books, Natchez, MS, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. B000CMPRIG Reading copy only. X-library copy with all the usual markings. Text clean and unmarked. Dust jacket protected in a mylar sleeve. DM-6.
Published by Ballantine Publishing Group, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1979
Seller: Memories Lost and Found, Avondale Estates, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First hardcover edition. Book club edition. Signed without inscription by contributor James Patrick Kelly. bbt3.
Published by Mercury Publications, NY, 1948
Magazine / Periodical
SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good. Vol. 11, no. 50. Cover art by George Salter. Includes "The Third Bullet" (novel) by John Dickson Carr; The Corpse in the Closet" by Q. Patrick; "Observe and Remember" by George Harmon Coxe; "Perkins Finds $3,400,000" by Philip Wylie; "Lost Girl" by William MacHarg; "Death on the Air" by Ngaio Marsh; "Albert Pastor at Home" by Dashiell Hammett; "Message in Code" by Ben Wilson. Two center leaves loose; writing on cover in pencil; some rioll; tanning; corner wear with small tears; scuff to front.
Published by American Mercury Publications
Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Volume 11, No. 50. Cover torn. In polypropylene bag. (Mystery, Adventure, Anthology, Detective Stories).
Published by Harper & Brothers. NY., 1956
Seller: Sperry Books, Rollinsford, NH, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Harper & Brothers 1956 stated first edition hardcover, fine black/red cloth, chipped spine tips and tear top front of rubbed dust jacket, tight binding, clean text Prompt, reliable service, shipped next business day. Int'l mailed via first class or priority.
Published by Harper and Brothers, New York, 1956
Seller: The Second Reader Bookshop, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition, First Printing (Stated). Ex-library with usual stamps and markings. Good with cut-down . JAcket in library mylar glued to boards, no marks to text save library markings. Vintage Mystery ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages.
Published by Harper and Brothers
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Book club edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. The dust jacket is housed in protective mylar for preservation. The binding suffers minor loosening due to age and wear, but remains secure and in-tact; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.65.
Published by Mercury Publications, Inc Joseph W Ferman, New York, NY, 1956
Seller: Lazy S Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 27 # 3, whole # 148 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1956. Pictorial cover variant. Contains a Sir Henry Merrivale locked room novelette by Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) (The Man Who Explained Miracles), and stories Barry Perowne (Jack of Diamonds), Melville Davisson Post (Of More Value Than Sparrows), Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler) (On the Day of the Rose Show), Clayton Rawson (Solution to the Sound Effects Murder), and others. Light wear at the edges and spine hinges. Small loss at the bottom of the spine. Browning to the edges of the front cover. Light browning to the pages. A good or better copy.
Published by Del Rey - Ballantine Books, New York, 1979
ISBN 10: 0345280830ISBN 13: 9780345280831
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (xi) 372 pp. Light rubbing on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: The Barbie Murders - a novelette by John Varley; Black Glass - a novelette by Fritz Leiber; Count the Clock That Tells the Time by Harlan Ellison; The Man Who Had No Idea - a novelette by Thomas M. Disch; Devil You Don't Know - a novelette by Dean Ing; A Hiss of Dragon by Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw; To Bring in the Steel - a novelette by Donald Kingsbury; The Very Slow Time Machine - a novelette by Ian Watson; View from a Height by Joan D. Vinge; The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck - a novelette by Hilbert Schenck; Vermeer's Window by Gordon Eklund; and Death Therapy by James Patrick Kelly. Book.
Published by Ballantine Books, New York, 1979
ISBN 10: 0345280830ISBN 13: 9780345280831
Seller: Nessa Books, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition First Printing. ------Tight square and clean, flat spine, (xi) 372 pages, no names, minor edge wear. Contents includes: Intro by Terry Carr / The Barbie Murders by John Varley / A Hiss of Dragon by Gregory Benford & Marc Laidlaw / Black Glass by Fritz Leiber / To Bring in the Steel by Donald Kingsbury / The Very Slow Time Machine by Ian Watson / Devil You Don't Know by Dean Ing / Count the Clock That Tells the Time by Harlan Ellison / View from a Height by Joan D. Vinge / The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck by Hilbert Schenck / Vermeer's Window by Gordon Eklund / The Man Who Had No Idea by Thomas M. Disch / Death Therapy by James Patrick Kelly / Recommended Reading - 1978 by Terry Carr / The Science Fiction Year by Charles N. Brown. The scan you see is the book you buy.
Published by Methuen Drama, 2013
ISBN 10: 1408152002ISBN 13: 9781408152003
Seller: Taos Books, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Paperback. Condition: As New. First Edition. Near Fine, very tight clean unmarked with bright white pages, no creases no slant, looks unread, former owner last name on first page top corner in PENCIL.
Published by Ace, N. Y., 1950
Seller: William L. Horsnell, Aylesford, NS, Canada
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Paperback Printing. A curved spine with light edge rubbings. No store stamp. Stories by : John Dickson Carr, Wilbur Daniel Steele, A.H.Z.Carr, Graig rice &Stuart Ellis, Margery Allingham, Q.Patrick,Philip MacDonald, Viola Brothers Shore, John D.MacDonald, Peter Godfrey, T.S.Starling, J.Cameron Smith.
Published by Oxford University Press, New York, New York / Oxford, England, 2001
ISBN 10: 0195284844ISBN 13: 9780195284843
Seller: Andover Books and Antiquities, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Third Edition. New Revised Standard Version. xxvii, 1375, 383, 573, Maps pp.
Published by Davis Publications, 1977
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: As New. As new condition faux red leather boards with elaborately decorated gold front cover, rear cover and spine decorations, plus a traditional six - hubbed spine. Includes an Introduction by Ellery Queen. Illustrated with black-and-white author photographs at the beginning of each story plus matching red front and rear endpapers. "This volume of Masterpieces of Mystery . contains 16 stories - about Ellery Queen. Carter Dickson's Colonel March, Anthony Berkeley's Roger Sheringham, David Frome's (Leslie Ford's) Evan Pinkerton, Stuart Palmer's Hildegarde Withers, Patrick Quentin's (Q. Patrick's) Peter and Iris Duluth, Erle Stanley Gardner's Sidney Zoom, Margery Allingham's Albert Campion, Irvin S. Cobb's Judge William Priest, Helen Reilly's Inspector McKee, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe, Nicholas Blake's Nigel Strangeways, Michael Innes's Inspector John Appleby, Clayton Rawson's The Great Merlini, Ngaio Marsh's Inspector Roderick Alleyn, and Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret. Happy detecting!"- excerpt from the Introduction by Ellery Queen.
Published by The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1989
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Ward, John (panel art and color frontispiece) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine unread condition faux navy blue leather boards with a color illustrated front cover paste-down, with gold front cover and spine lettering. Includes Preliminary Page Note by The Editors; Acknowledgments; and About the Authors. The volume also features gilt page edges on all three sides, a traditional 3-hubbed spine, and acid-free paper for permanence and durability. Illustrated with a double-page color frontispiece painting and color illustrated front and rear endpapers. "Great American Mystery Stories of the Twentieth Century presents an impressive array of writers. These literary sleuths - American writers who hail from all over the United States and even abroad - offer stories that reflect the varied experiences of a vast and culturally diverse country. The authors in this collection have garnered innumerable honors, from myriad awards conferred by their own mystery-writing colleagues to the Nobel Prize in Literature; they all share the writer's greatest reward, however, the broad readership and popular acclaim that can only come from creating superb, entertaining tales. Some of these mystery masters have left an indelible mark on the reading public by creating characters that have entered the national consciousness. The Saint, Lew Archer, Travis McGee, Uncle Abner - these names are real to mystery aficionados who know them well and have learned much about life from them. Other writers have given birth to characters who live only in one brief tale, making readers regret that they won't meet them again. Although the modern American mystery story has only recently gained respectability as the subject of academic study, the genre is an integral part of this country's literature. In fact, it stands at the very center of a markedly American literary offering, the short story. Edgar Allan Poe, the creator of the short story form, based the world's first mystery tale on the crime story, a style of fiction that originally appeared in the beginning of the nineteenth century. He enhanced the elements in these negligible stories with such genius that he lifted his own tales to the level of art. Poe's "The Murder in the Rue Morgue," first published in 1841, has been called by one critic "the single most important story in the history of the genre." Subsequent literary detectives may have occasionally felt daunted by following the mystery story's inimitable forefather; still, they have made their own distinctive contributions to this uniquely American literary form. Among them, the twenty-three writers in this anthology of American mystery masterpieces have written hundreds of memorable stories. Choosing the writers - not to mention the stories - from a national treasure of literary excellence was indeed difficult. The sheer number of outstanding American mystery stories offers endless hours of reading pleasure. To this day, superlative writers apply their varied skills to the genre first explored by Edgar Allan Poe. Readers new to this literary terrain will enjoy finding their way to some of mystery's hidden corners - as well as its landmarks. - The Editors" - from the Preliminary Page.
Published by Hamish Hamilton (A Fingerprint Book), London, 1972
Seller: Augustine Funnell Books, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Patrick Millington Synge (dust jacket illustration) (illustrator). Reprint. A Dr. Gideon Fell mystery, this one finding our celebrated sleuth solving the murder of a man who turns out to be the "conclusion of a series of senseless poisonings which have been terrifying the village of Sodbury Cross." First published in Great Britain in 1939 before being published in a second edition in 1969, this being the first reprint of that. Scarlet cloth w/gilt spine lettering/fingerprint design, 237 pages. Previous owner's signature to top of front end paper, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket w/light surface wear. All in all, a pretty nice copy of a not particularly common title. Size: Small octavo. Book.
Published by *). . . SERVED ON EACH ACCUSED BEFORE THE 'INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL FOR THE FAR EAST' AT THE FORMER SITE OF THE IMPERIAL GENERAL HEADQUARTERS IN ICHIGAYA, TOKYO. THE TRIAL WAS ALSO KNOWN AS THE A-CLASS WAR CRIMES TRIAL in contrast to the B and C-Class Trials held in Yokohama.''(1st testsheet). - With explanatory Text to each photograph on half-transparent tissue-guards. - Editor: JAPAN FEDERATION OF LAWYERS (Tokyo 1948), no printer mentioned. - Titlepage in Japanese and English, 20 singleside printed photographic sheets (45 images) on medium-glossy paper, as many sheets of fullpage explanatory texts in English and Japanese. - Publisher's black cloth-binding with vertical calligraphic title-label; small-oblong-4to.(ca. 19 x 26 cm)., 1948
Seller: C O - L I B R I , Bremen - Berlin ; Deutschland / Germany ., Berlin, Germany
- *** [SOMMER-VERKAUF / SUMMER-SALE: um über 30% REDUZIERTER PREIS bis Montag 10.06.2024, 24 Uhr (PRICE REDUCTION of over 30% until Monday, June 10, 2024); vorheriger Preis / previously EUR 1.650,-] --- FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THE RARE PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY OF THE JAPANESE A-CLASS WAR TRIBUNAL which ''. . . was modeled after the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuremberg, Germany, which prosecuted the leaders of Nazi Germany for their war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity. . .''(see wikipedia) though in contrast to Nuremberg here some judges' publicly expressed opinions regarding the sentences against the defendants (7 to death, 16 to life imprisonment, 1 to 20 years' and 1 to 7 years' imprisonment) ranged from 'too soft' to 'much too hard' as well as the undiscovered role of the emperor rose much criticism. . . - SOME EXCERPTS OF THE PHOTOGRAPH'S DESCRIPTIONS: ''On May 3, 1946, at 11:17 A.M., the trial of the century was declared open in a statement by the President of the Tribunal, Sir William F. Webb, Justice of the High Court of Queensland, Australia. . . At the arraignment on May 6 all the defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges made against them. . .'' / ''On June 4 Mr. Joseph B. Keenan, Chief Prosecutor, delivered a three-hour opening statement. During the entire Prosecution case the presentation of evidence by Mr. F.S. Tavenner (U.S.A.) and Mr. Comyns-Carr (Great Britain) was outstanding and remains deeply impressed on those who observed their handling of the case. . .'' / ''On May 4, 1946, the Japanese Defense Panel elected Dr. Somei Uzawa, chairman and Dr. Ichiro Kiyose, deputy chairman, and after daily conferences organized a strong and coordinated defense set-up.'' / ''On May 4, 1946, the accused Okawa was ordered to undergo a mental examination and left the courtroom. On June 27 of the same year the accused Matsuoka passed away. On January 5, 1947, the accused Nagano also passed away. The 28 original accused dropped to 25 and an inexplicable feeling of loneliness seemed to pervade over the defendants' dock.'' / ''On two large panels behind the dock were huge wall maps depicting the national situation of Japan. A motion picture film, 'Japan in Emergency' was projected on the screen . . .'' / ''One hundred nine witnesses were called by the Prosecution. Among those who attracted special interest were Pu Yi, former Emperor of Manchoukuo, Kazushige Ugaki, Reijiro Wakatsuki, Mitsumasa Yonai, Ryukichi Tanaka and other principal Prosecution witnesses such as Ching Teh-chun, Admiral Richardson, Ballantine, Liebert, Hayao Tada, Keisuke Okada and Kijuro Sidehara. The Defense case was opened on February 24, 1947, and ended on February 10, 1948. Witnesses called by the Defense numbered 310, . . .'' / ''On April 11, 1947, the defendant Minami took the witness stand as the first accused to testify on his own behalf. The other accused who followed were Araki, Hashimoto, Itagaki, . . ., Suzuki, Togo and Tojo. The Tojo testimony which continued from December 26, 1947, to January 5, 1948, brought the trial to its climactic stage.'' / ''All testimony as well as all extemporaneous statements and debates in the courtroom were translated from English into Japanese and vice versa . . . on occasion interpretations were also made from and into Chinese, French, Mongolian, Russian and German, . . . The court's transcripts of proceedings reache 48288 pages, while the number of Documents tendered by the Prosecution as evidence was no less than 3.408 and those by the Defense 1.776. . .'' / ''One spectator's pass for the morning session and on for the afternoon were daily issued to the family of each defendant, while each principal defense counsel was given two. . .'' / ''Among the spectators who appeared in the V.I.P. section were Mrs. Douglas MacArthur [and] Lady Webb. . . Much variety and color were lent to the trial by the attendance of Allied school children, Japanese actresses and bemoth Japanese wrestlers. . .'' / ''With the progress of the defense case it appeared that the defendants found some mental relaxation and composure. There were some who chuckled and smacked their lips over delicacies, some who were absorbed in newspapers and some who were engrossed in self made Japanese chess. . .'' / ''The Prosecution summation began on February 11, 1948 and ended on March 2, while the Defense summation beginning with a general summation by Dr. Somei Wzawa continued thereafter until April 14. . . (now, starting with chairman Somei Uzawa, listing ca. 70 Defense Counsel members by alphabetic order of the[ir] defendants)'' / ''By special permission the last group photograph of the defendants was taken on April 15, 1948. The accused are said to have appeared perceptibly strained when the lens of the world were focussed upon them. On the 16th, at 5:11 P.M. when Prosecutor Tavenner announced the completion of the prosecution's reply to the defense summation, the President declared the Tribunal adjourned until the day of judgment.''. --- Corners of the binding slightly used, 1 sharp corner slightly bent; titlepage with humidity-stains in 2 corners of which one disappears quickly on the very following sheets and the other gets weaker and disappears further ahead; OVERA LL A VERY GOOD COPY OF THE FRAGILE PUBLICATION.