Mace merlda (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. Book Good. No dust jacket. 3 books in 1 (Mystery, Detective, Collection) 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. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. This softcover digest is in Very Good condition. Spine is cockedwith a one inch split to the top and a tiny chip to the foot. Cover edges show minor wear. . The interior is clean and unmarked.story is an abridged edition of a $2.00 Mystery. Black Cat Detective Series Number 28.…

Zustand: VERY GOOD. Original book club edition. An omnibus edition containing three complete mystery novels - "The Case of the Buried Clock" by Erle Stanley Gardner, a classic Perry Mason novel; "Headlong for Murder" by Madeleine McCoy (under the Merlda Mace pseudonym) is the first novel featuring Christine Anderson, a young blonde Scandinavian from Minnesota, struggling to get by in New York City who isn't going to let anything get in the way of a promised vacation on the Connecticut coast; and "To Catch a Thief" by Craig Rice (under the Daphne Sanders pseudonym), the story of a man who turns to robbery to right the wrongs done by several wealthy stock market manipulators during the Depression. This is considered one of her best novels and is also among the most difficult to find. One of the pleasures of these omnibus volumes, which combine three very different works in one book, is the opportunity they create of discovering authors or novels which might be unknown to you. Published in compliance with the conservation orders of the War Compliance Board, it is surprising that the pages appear to be acid free, and are still white and supple, unlike many wartime books. 622 pp. Very good+ in tan cloth in a very good dust jacket (bookplate on front pastedown, some discoloration from the binding process on endpapers, a faint "old book" musty odor in a dustjacket with a few chips, some toning to the spine). These vintage book club editions are becoming hard-to-find in dustjacket.…

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Poor dust jacket. 3 Stories in 1 book. Dust jacket in pieces. Whole book warped. (story collection, mystery).

Softcover. Zustand: Good. No. 25. 192 p. 17 cm. Paperback. Spine lean. Some creases and soiling. Paper browning. Terror Stuck Them Dumb. Published by arrangement with Julian Messner, New York. First published 1945.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. :: A blood curdling, vicious murder - a tale of hatred that had smoldered over long years until it could no longer be controlled. :: Bound in publisher's orange cloth, author, title, and publisher lettered in black upon spine. Fore-edge of text block deckled. Duodecimo (7 5/8 x 5 3/8 inches; 193 x 132 millimeters). 213 pages. Condition: Very Good, in a Good dust jacket. Spine cocked, wear at crown and foot, light soiling. Front paste-down has small vintage bookshop stamp, rear past-down has small sticker pull. Pages lightly age-toned. Dust jacket is worn with chips tears and wrinkles along edges. Hinges worn. Multiple amateur tape repairs upon the interior. Alexander (Dust Jacket) (illustrator).…

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. 213 pp. Publisher's orange cloth with black lettering on spine. A Near Fine copy with former owner's bookplate on paste down, tiny bump to back board but very clean and sharp, in a Near Fine dust jacket with light shelf wear, faint penciled checkmark to spine, hint of foxing but unfaded and attractive. An oft-reprinted mystery described on the front flap as "A tale of hatred that had smoldered over the long years until it no longer could be controlled.".…