manfred bennington lee (51 Ergebnisse)

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Fair-Good. No Jacket. Dirone Photography (cover photo) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 24 # 129 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1954. Contains stories by Rov Vickers (William Edward Vickers - Find the Innocent), , Stuart Palmer & Craig Rice (Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig - Autopsy and Eva), Pat Frank (Harry Hart "Pat" Frank - On Edge), Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay & Manfred Bennington Lee - , GI Story), James M Ullman (James Michael Ullman - , Anything New on the Strangler?), Ring Lardner (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner - Claude Diphthong, Student of Crime), Don Marquis (Donald Robert Perry Marquis - The Iron Hand in the Velvet Glove), Ellis Parker Butler (The Silver Protector), Arthur Conan Doyle (How it Happened), and others. GGA cover. Light wear at the edges. Some waviness to the front cover and top edges of the first few pages that suggest moisture exposure, however there aren't any stains. Initials (DJ) written in the upper right of the front cover.Light browning to the edges of the front cover and the pages. Rubbing to the spine that has worn off most of the writing. The interior is clean and tight. A good very good copy.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. New York, 1938; covers not as pictured in stock photo; gray cloth covered boards; mild edge and corner wear; no jacket; 12mo, 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; end papers toned; interior is clean and unmarked; 303 pages.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. A 3rd print (stated) from the mid 1940s of a Pocket Book edition of an Ellery Queen mystery from the early 1940s. PB 283. "It all starts when Ellery Queen goes to a small town, disguised as Ellery Smith, to write a novel." Light edge wear with some closed tears at the bottom of the spine. Good color to the front cover. Lightly browned pages that are clean, crisp and tight. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Silver Studio (cover photo) (illustrator). First Thus. A 1st print (stated) from the early 1950s of a Pocket Book edition under a new title of a mystery from the late 1930s. PB 459. Light edge wear. Lightly browned pages that are clean, crisp and tight. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) from the early 1950s of a Pocket Book edition of a mystery from the late 1940s. PB 740. Light edge wear. Mild spine lean. Lightly browned pages that are clean, crisp and tight. A good to very good copy.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) from the mid 1950s of a Pocket Book edition of a mystery from the mid 1940s where neither Ellery Queen nor Inspector Queen appear. PB 1082. "Lynch law takes over as a town goes mad with vengeance". Light edge wear. Small damp stain to the bottom corner of the pages that starts at the back and gradually diminishes towards the front. Lightly browned pages that are clean, crisp and tight. A good to very good copy.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. ? (cover) (illustrator). Reprint. A 9th print (stated) from the mid 1940s of a Pocket Book edition of the 3rd Ellery Queen mystery from the early 1930s. PB 202. The cover art is signed but it's too small and indistinct to decipher. Light edge wear with a little more to the spine. The spine is a little faded. The binding is starting to split at the dedication page but still holding together. The is some loss at the bottom of the pages at the spine (insect damage?). The white pages are a little browned but clean, crisp and tight. A good to very good copy.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Art Sussman (cover) (illustrator). Reprint. A 22nd print (stated) from the mid 1950s of a Pocket Book collection of Ellery Queen stories from the mid 1930s. The stories were originally published in various magazines including Red Book, Mystery, Great Detective and Mystery League. PB 99. GGA cover. Contents include: The Adventure of - The African Traveler, The Hanging Acrobat, The One-Penny Black, The Bearded Lady, The Three Lame Men, The Invisible Lover, The Teakwood Case, "The Two-Headed Dog", The Glass-Domed Clock, The Seven Black Cats & The Mad Tea-Party. Light edge wear. Light damp stain to the lower third of the pages that shows faintly throughout. Lightly browned pages that are clean and tight. A good to very good copy.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. A 2nd print (stated) from the mid 1940s of a Pocket Book edition of an Ellery Queen mystery from the late 1930s. PB 270. Light edge wear with some rubbing to the spine. Good color to the front cover. The creamy white pages are a little browned but clean, crisp and tight. A very good copy.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. George Salter (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 24 # 129 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September 1954. Contains stories by Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay & Manfred Bennington Lee - Diamonds in Paradise), John F Suter (When Are the People Going to Learn?), Michael Gilbert (The Customer is Not Always Right), Philip MacDonald (The Man Out of the Rain), Hugh Pentecost (Judson Pentecost Philips - Murder Plays Through), Jack London (The Unexpected), Hodding Carter (William Hodding Carter II - Bad Check), Zenna Henderson (You Know What, Teacher?), Helen Simpson (Helen de Guerry Simpson - A Posteriori), Norbert Davis (Do a Dame a Favor?), Babette Rosmond (Best of Friends), and others. Light wear at the edges. The color on the cover and spine is exceptionally bright. Very small horizontal closed tear to the fore edge of pages 137 through the end. The interior is clean and tight. Light browning to the pages. A very good or better copy.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st thus from the early 1950s of an Avon Books edition of a mystery novel from the late 1930s. Avon 509. GGA cover. Light edge wear with a couple of light creases to the covers. The lightly browned pages are clean, crisp and tight. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 3rd print (stated) from the mid 1940s of a Pocket Book edition of a mystery from the early 1930s published under their Barnaby Ross pseudonym featuring Drury Lane and Inspector Thumm. PB 355. Light edge wear. Mild spine lean. Lightly browned pages that are clean, crisp and tight. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. An early 1940s reprint (special printing 1941) of a late 1930s Ellery Queen mystery. No DJ. Blue green buckram boards with black lettering. It appears like the book has been rebound. Light edge wear. .5" closed ear at the top of the spine. The interior is clean and tight. A good to very good copy.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. 34th Mystery Annual. In protective mylar cover. (Short Stories, Detectives, Mystery).

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Im-Ho (cover) (illustrator). First Thus. A 1st print (stated) from the early 1940s of a Pocket Book edition of the 4th Ellery Queen mystery from the early 1930s. PB 179. Light edge wear with a couple of creases to the front cover. Mild spine lean. Book store stamp ("Libby's Used Book Store .") on the FFEP. The creamy white pages are clean, crisp and tight. A very good or better copy.

Zustand: FINE. First printing. An anthology containing 22 short stories from the Ellery Queen magazine - "stories with just ambiguity to tease your wits. Included are The Cloud Beneath the Eaves by Barbara Owens, The Sacrificial Goat by Thomas Walsh, Dover Goes to School by Joyce Porter, Dream House by Kathryn Gottlieb, Charlie's Shell Game by Brian Garfield, The Forgotten Murder by E. X. Ferrars, The Krowten Corners Crime Wave by Stephen Wasylyk, One Thing Leads to Another by Harold Q. Masur, I Can't Help Saying Goodbye by Ann Mackenzie, The Spy and the Cats of Rome by Edward D. Hoch, Cout me OUt by Ernest Savage, Milady Bigamy by Lillian de la Torre, The Writing on the Wall by Patricia McGerr, Born Victim by Ruth Rendell, Installment Past Due by Robert Twohy, No Wider than a Nickel by Jack Ritchie, When in Rome by Patricia Highsmith, The Other Runner by John Lutz, This is Death by Donald E. Westlake, Going Backward by David Ely, Caught in the Act by Bill Pronzini, and Reasons Unknown by Stanley Ellin. Introduction by Queen. 287 pp. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (small date stamped on front endpaper).

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. BCE. In original, unclipped, jacket designed by J. O'H. Cosgrave, II. The jacket has some light chipping, short tears, and creasing. Bound in red leatherette with black lettering on the front and spine. Minor edge wear with bumped corners. Square. Red top stain with some lightening of the stain and marginal bleed through to the top edge of some pages. The interior is clean and clear. Pages:220 (4) Dimensions:8½ x 5¾ x (13/16).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., 284pp. Beautiful Stated First Printing of this anthology with stories by Rendell, Stout, Queen, Innes, and many others. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. A bit of off-setting to gutters. Very attractive unclipped dust jacket, ($8.95), has some light wear and surface tubbing but is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A very pretty collectable copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine/Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., 285pp. Beautiful Stated First Printing of this anthology with stories by Rendell, Dunsany, Queen, and many others. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Very attractive unclipped dust jacket, ($9.95), has some mild edge-wear but is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A very pretty collectable copy of one of the less common of Queen's annuals.

Hardback. Printed pages: 303. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 2nd Impression. *** PLEASE NOTE *** The bookshop is currently closed for holidays. Items can still be ordered, but will not be dispatched until we reopen on Saturday 6th June. Many thanks for your patience. *** Dust jacket: Rubbing and chipping to edges, loss to ends of spine. Browning and slight foxing to rear cover. Fading to spine. Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good Minus. Book: Second printing of the first UK edition. Orange cloth binding with black dog to front board. Slight fading to ends of spine. Light marking and a few spots of foxing to page edges, clean text throughout. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. The first Ellery Queen children's mystery. Edited by Lee but ghost written by Samuel Duff McCoy. Scarce in the jacket. . Overall book condition is Very Good. Size: 5 x 7.25 inches (13 x 18.5 cm).

1 feuillet, 260p., 1 feuillet. Bon état. Traduction, par Simone LECHEVREL, de "The Door Between", roman policier publié en 1937 par Ellery QUEEN, pseudonyme collectif de 2 cousins états-uniens Frederic Dannay et Manfred Bennington Lee: un cadavre en "chambre close", et toute l'habileté du détective amateur Ellery Queen face à l'inspecteur Queen, son propre père ! Réédition d'un ouvrage publié en 1938 dans la collection "L'Empreinte" (Nouvelle Revue Critique) sous le titre "Le Mystère du grenier" (même traduction); 27è volume de la collection dirigée par Alexandre Ralli. Albin Michel, "Le Limier", 11,1 x 17,4cm Broché sous couverture bordeaux et jaune.

286p., 1feuillet. Bon état sauf charnières et bords de couverture légèrement frottés et tranches un peu salies. Traduction, par Alain GLATIGNY, de "The New Adventures of Ellery Queen", recueil de 8 nouvelles policières des années 1930, publié en 1940 par Ellery QUEEN, pseudonyme collectif de 2 cousins états-uniens, Frederic DANNAY et Manfred B. LEE (ont aussi écrit sous le pseudonyme collectif Barnaby Ross), réunissant: "Le Dragon creux" ("The Hollow Dragon", 1936), "Le char de Phaéton" ("The Lamp of God", 1935), "La Course au trésor" ("The Treasure Hunt", 1935), "Le Palais des ténèbres" ("The House of Darkness", 1935), "La Belle et la bête" ("Man Bites Dog", 1939), "Ellery Queen aux courses", "Ariel contre Caliban" ("Mind over Matter"), "Le Cheval de Troie" ("The Trojan Horse", 1939). 5è volume de la collection (sans jaquette jusqu'au n°52, précise Jacques Bisceglia dans ses "Trésors du roman policier"; mention de "2d french edition". Nicholson & Watson, "Collection La Tour de Londres", 12,5 x 17cm Broché sous couverture au 1er plat illustré.

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Jacket design by Bob Cato. An Inner sanctum Mystery. In original, unclipped, jacket in protective sheet. Minor edgewear and a few creases, else fine; old small price sticker on inner front flap. Bound in dark blue paper over boards with green quarter cloth spine. Gilded facsimile signature on front and gilding on the spine. Solid, square, minor rubbing at edges. Long edge deckled. The interior is tightly bound, evenly toned, and clear of any markings, inscrptions, or plates. Pages:(6) 312 (1) Dimensions:7(7/8) x 5(1/8) x 1(1/8).

First Edition. First Printing. Octvao (20cm); tan boards titled in brown on the cover and spine; dustjacket; 321pp.; spots of soil to the lower fore edge of textblock; faint foxing to upperedge; former owner's bookplate inside front cover; minor scuff to spine; tiny soil mark at rear; still Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket. "In their third period, the cousins [QUEEN] used complex deductive puzzles with in-depth characterization, finely detailed evocation of place and mood, occasional ventures into topsy-turvy Alice in Wonderland otherworld ." PRONZINI & MULLER; p.656; HUBIN, p.335.

Hard board, 8vo, 286 pp; -browned, very good copy.

Vintage reference photograph from "The Adventure of Veronica's Veils," season 1 episode 9 of the 1975-1976 television series. With detached mimeo snipe. Loosely based on the 1929 novel, "The Roman Hat Mystery" by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee under their joint pseudonym Ellery Queen. The series follows a detective solving various absurd crimes. In this episode a producer who works a t burlesque club has a heart attack and dies. He left a tape before he died asking someone to find his murderer. Set in New York City. 7 x 9 inches. About Fine.

3 Bll., 183 S. Orig.-Pappband mit Orig.-Umschlag. Erste Ausgabe in Großbritannien. - Umschlag mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); light grey cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in dark green on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [vi],265,[1]pp. Some offsetting to pastedowns, small ink owners name to front endpaper, with a faint stain affecting the lower 2.5" of the spine; contents fresh; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently sunned, showing modest wear, a few tiny nicks and tears, and a corresponding faint stain to lower spine and rear panel; Very Good. HUBIN, p.335.

Zustand: Good. 8vo. 13.7 x 19.3cm. Original wraps. very OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:987431.Physical Description:128 pages ; 20 cm."Complete and unabridged."This is the ninth, and last, collection of Dashiell Hammett's short stories"--Introduction, page 6"Only edition"--LaymanPublished January 19, 1962; see Layman"Cover and design by George Salter"--Title page verso.

Zustand: Good. 8vo. 13.8 x 19.3cm. Original wraps. very good. ,OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1979380: Physical Description:128 pages ; 20 cm.Stories originally published in Black mask magazine and Sunset magazine"First edition"--LaymanPublished December 20, 1946; see LaymanCover design by George Salter.