George worthing yates (12 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st thus of an early 1950s PB edition of a late 1930s mystery. Dell Book 645. Light edge wear with creasing toward the spine. Corner crease to the covers. Spine lean. Light browning to the pages. A good to very good copy. James Meese (cover) (illustrator).…

softcover. Zustand: Good. dell map # 159.

Mass market paperback. Zustand: Very good. Mass market paperback. First printing. Wraps slightly darkened and rubbed, else very good with a straight, uncreased spine.

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (Mystery, Fiction, Detectives) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. First Edition. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [shelfworn book, with some external soiling, bumping and fraying at several corners, one-time owner's inked initials plus date & place of purchase along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath jacket flap)]. The author's first mystery novel published under his own name (following a handful of earlier collaborative efforts with Charles Hunt Marshall as "Peter Hunt"), and the introduction of his amateur detective character, "the ancient and august Lord Broghville." While visiting friends in America, Lord B. gets involved in solving a baffling murder, as one does. (The jacket blurb declares that the creation of this character "will endear him to mystery-story fans" and that "you will meet him again in other mysteries by Mr. Yates," but the character apparently turned out to be a one-off. Yates himself turned out just a few more mystery novels before devoting himself primarily to screenwriting.) NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket, to serve the dual purpose of protecting the book from further wear and enhancing its appearance on the shelf; its presence has not been factored in to our pricing.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Good dj. Reprint. [a good sound copy, very slight bumping to lower tips, one-time owner's ink notes regarding date & place of purchase plus brief comment at top of front endpaper, on which there also appears the signature of a previous owner; NOTE also that the pages have a kind of brownish striation lines; the jacket is edgeworn, faded at the spine (but all text still readable), with light soiling and tiny bits of paper loss at several corners, a couple of closed tears internally tape-repaired]. "An Alan Miller Mystery," as were all three books by this admittedly psudonymous author, all of which were published in 1933 and 1934. (This title was originally issued by The Vanguard Press.) Alan Miller is described in the jacket blurb as "that oddity among detectives, a Chief of Polie in a suburban town whose wholesomeness and normalcy are a refreshing contrast to the prevalent crop of supersensitive sleuths." The book itself is described as a "somewhat unusual book -- an intelligent mystery story which has a considerable degree of urbanity and humor intermingled with an exhilarating series of thrilling and puzzling events." (For all those claims, though, it does follow a kind of Philo Vance-y style, by presenting the reader with detailed floor plans of the scene of the crime.) Co-author Yates, who was also quite active as a Hollywood screenwriter, later wrote a few additional mysteries under his own name; his collaborator Marshall apparently did not. The rear jacket flap biography of "Peter Hunt" is pretty funny: while admitting that the name is a pseudonym, it presents a long laundry list of the author's vitae -- schools, jobs (dozens!), etc. (I would tentatively assume these to be Yates's details -- "scenario writer" is buried in the middle of the list of jobs -- but haven't researched this.) It's possible this might have been some sort of book club edition: there is no printed price on the jacket, and the rear-panel blurb announces another title, "Coming Next Month," and in the fine print stating its availability "to members exclusively.".…

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1958 film. A rural community is terrorized by a giant, mutated arachnid. The last of noted exploitation producer and director Bert I. Gordon's giant monster movies of the 1950s. Shot on location in Vail, Arizona, and in Carlsbad, New Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Faintly toned on the margins, else Near Fine. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 8 x 5", cloth, 307pp, covers quite rubbed, spine ends bumped, extremities a bit worn, spine a little cocked, front fly and blank creased at top forecorner, pp toned, in a rubbed, darkened, edge-worn/chipped/torn/creased, price-clipped dustjacket with ink writing on front flap.…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical Description: 307 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects: Fiction; Meurtre Enque?tes Romans, nouvelles, etc.; Murder Investigation; Murder Investigation Fiction. 1 Kg.…

Vintage reference photograph from the 1945 film, showing actors Paul Henreid and Maureen O'Hara. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of RKO Radio Pictures photographer John Miehle, along with a manuscript ink annotation noting No. 211. A Dutch captain turns to piracy after being wronged by Caribbean marine authorities. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.…

Draft script for the 1958 film. Copy belonging to actress Lyn Thomas, with annotations throughout relating to her character in the film, Laura. A space probe returns to earth bearing an unusual extraterrestrial fungus which, when accidentally mixed with human blood, turns into space rust. The rust expands rapidly, threatening to consume the entire planet. Produced on a tight budget, $125,00 with $25,000 for the screenwriters, and rushed to production so that the release would coincide with the Explorer launch. Shot on location in California. Red untitled wrapper, lacking front wrapper. Title page present, dated March 7, 1958, with credits for screenwriters Daniel Mainwaring and George Worthing Yates. 108 leaves, with last page of text numbered 102. mechanical duplication, with blue, pink, and yellow revision pages throughout, dated variously between 3/4/58 and 3/13/58. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, lacking front wrapper. Bound with two gold brads.…