Pseud hunter evan mcbain ed (28 Ergebnisse)

1st Great Britain Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Minor library marks remain. Front free endpaper is missing with text not affected. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 157 pages; Physical description. : 157, [1]p. ; 22cm. Notes: Originally published: Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1976. - 'Portions of this novel appeared previously in the "Ladies' Home Journal"' - title page verso. Subject: English fiction. Fiction in English, 1900 - Texts. 1 Kg.…

1st Great Britain Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Minor library marks remain. Front free endpaper is missing with text not affected. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 157 pages; Physical description. : 157, [1]p. ; 22cm. Notes: Originally published: Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1976. - 'Portions of this novel appeared previously in the "Ladies' Home Journal"' - title page verso. Subject: English fiction. Fiction in English, 1900 - Texts. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 326 p. ; 18 cm. Summary: A psychiatrist saves a young woman from a mugging in New York's Central Park and a relationship develops. At first David Chapman only indulges in fantasies, but after seeing the woman dance in a musical, he embarks on an affair. It's a complicated business because he lives in another town and has a family. When the woman becomes the target of a stalker, things become even more complicated. Subject: Man-woman relationships - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. Psychiatrists - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. American fiction - 20th century. New York (N.Y.) - Fiction. Modern fiction FICTION / General. Genre: Fiction. Romantic suspense fiction. Romantic suspense novels. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 326 p. ; 18 cm. Summary: A psychiatrist saves a young woman from a mugging in New York's Central Park and a relationship develops. At first David Chapman only indulges in fantasies, but after seeing the woman dance in a musical, he embarks on an affair. It's a complicated business because he lives in another town and has a family. When the woman becomes the target of a stalker, things become even more complicated. Subject: Man-woman relationships - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. Psychiatrists - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. American fiction - 20th century. New York (N.Y.) - Fiction. Modern fiction FICTION / General. Genre: Fiction. Romantic suspense fiction. Romantic suspense novels. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 237 pages; 1959 Simon & Schuster. HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Soundly bound copy in original dust jacket with publisher's $3.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Jacket lightly shelf rubbed and worn at edges and less os to surfaces. Light to moderate toning to page stock. VG-/VG-. …

Soft Cover. Zustand: VG+. Reprint. 12mo. original printed paper wraps (a little rubbed & creased); pp. 332 [last blank), [6 (pubs. advts.)], with diagrams. A very good copy. Inscribed to prev. owner on title page 'To Gwen - Best wishes! Ed McBain'. The forty-second title in this long running series of New York inspired crime novels. Signed by Author.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, (not price-clipped) now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description: 596p. : 21cm. Summary: In New York during the frenetic week before Christmas, a plagiarism trial has profound effects on a playwright, the plaintiff, and a best-selling novelist, the defendant. Subject: Authors- Fiction. Trials - New York (N.Y.) - Authors. New York (State) - New York. Genre: Fiction. Novel. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, (not price-clipped) now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description: 596p. : 21cm. Summary: In New York during the frenetic week before Christmas, a plagiarism trial has profound effects on a playwright, the plaintiff, and a best-selling novelist, the defendant. Subject: Authors- Fiction. Trials - New York (N.Y.) - Authors. New York (State) - New York. Genre: Fiction. Novel. 1 Kg.…

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Mysterious Press, [1988]. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket; [10],320pp. Very light edge wear, jacket flaps rather yellowed, else a Very Good or better example. Inscribed and signed by the author on half title page. Signed.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 253 pp. : 21 cm. Notes: Stated First Printing. Contents: Uncle Jimbo's marbles - The tourists - On the sidewalk, bleeding - The fallen angel - Alive again- The prisoner - S.P.Q.R.- The final yes - The innocent one - Pretty eyes - Million dollar maybe - Happy new year, Herbie. Subject: Short stories. Fiction. Fantasy - realism - characters. Topical.Genre: Fiction. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 253 pp. : 21 cm. Notes: Stated First Printing. Contents: Uncle Jimbo's marbles - The tourists - On the sidewalk, bleeding - The fallen angel - Alive again- The prisoner - S.P.Q.R.- The final yes - The innocent one - Pretty eyes - Million dollar maybe - Happy new year, Herbie. Subject: Short stories. Fiction. Fantasy - realism - characters. Topical.Genre: Fiction. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 326 p. ; 18 cm. Notes: SIGNED by the Author. This copy is not price-clipped. Summary: From the author of CRIMINAL CONVERSATION, the story of an obsessional relationship between a married and successful New York psychiatrist and a young Broadway dancer. A chance encounter in Central Park leads to adultery and tragedy. Subject: Man-woman relationships - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. Psychiatrists - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. American fiction - 20th century. New York (N.Y.) - Fiction. Modern fiction. FICTION / General. Genre: Fiction, Romantic suspense fiction, Romantic suspense, novels. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 326 p. ; 18 cm. Notes: SIGNED by the Author. This copy is not price-clipped. Summary: From the author of CRIMINAL CONVERSATION, the story of an obsessional relationship between a married and successful New York psychiatrist and a young Broadway dancer. A chance encounter in Central Park leads to adultery and tragedy. Subject: Man-woman relationships - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. Psychiatrists - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. American fiction - 20th century. New York (N.Y.) - Fiction. Modern fiction. FICTION / General. Genre: Fiction, Romantic suspense fiction, Romantic suspense, novels. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 542p. ; 21cm. Summary: The interlocking lives and loves of four women, a suburbanite with thwarted musical talent, a dedicated actress, an aging charmer with a past, and a romantic teen-ager. Subject: Fiction in English - 1900- - Texts. Mothers/ daughters / relationships / people. Generations. Growing up. Genre: Fiction. Novel. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 542p. ; 21cm. Summary: The interlocking lives and loves of four women, a suburbanite with thwarted musical talent, a dedicated actress, an aging charmer with a past, and a romantic teen-ager. Subject: Fiction in English - 1900- - Texts. Mothers/ daughters / relationships / people. Generations. Growing up. Genre: Fiction. Novel. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine Facsimile dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 309 pp. : 22 cm. Notes: STATED FIRST PRINTING. Summary: Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Subject: Fiction in English - American writers - 1945 - Texts - fiction in English - Teachers - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. Teachers. Genre: Fiction. 1 Kg.…

Eighth Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Copy is not price-clipped. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 319p ; 21 cm. Summary: Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Part of the "NFT/BFI Film Classics" series, young hoodlums develop their crude ways, and their teachers fight a vain and losing battle to bring a semblance of decency and honesty into their lives. Subject: Fiction in English - American writers - Texts. Schools - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. Juvenile delinquents -Teachers - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. American fiction - 20th century. Modern fiction Fiction / General. Genre: Fiction. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine Facsimile dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 309 pp. : 22 cm. Notes: STATED FIRST PRINTING. Summary: Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Subject: Fiction in English - American writers - 1945 - Texts - fiction in English - Teachers - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. Teachers. Genre: Fiction. 1 Kg.…

Eighth Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Copy is not price-clipped. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 319p ; 21 cm. Summary: Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Part of the "NFT/BFI Film Classics" series, young hoodlums develop their crude ways, and their teachers fight a vain and losing battle to bring a semblance of decency and honesty into their lives. Subject: Fiction in English - American writers - Texts. Schools - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. Juvenile delinquents -Teachers - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. American fiction - 20th century. Modern fiction Fiction / General. Genre: Fiction. 1 Kg.…

Stated First Printing. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description: 375p. ; 22cm. Summary: A young married man, ini a moment of vulnerability, meets a neighbouring woman who gives him a dangerous new image of himself. In Strangers When We Meet, Hunter charts the progress of infidelity: the beginning of the affair - stage fright and an illusion of romance; the first small deceptions that multiply into a nightmarish entanglement of lies. Subject: Fiction in English. Fiction in English, 1900 - Texts. Infidelity - marriage - betrayal - illusions - relationship - friendships/ confidants - stratagems - entrapment. Genre: Fiction. 1 Kg.…

Stated First Printing. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description: 375p. ; 22cm. Summary: A young married man, ini a moment of vulnerability, meets a neighbouring woman who gives him a dangerous new image of himself. In Strangers When We Meet, Hunter charts the progress of infidelity: the beginning of the affair - stage fright and an illusion of romance; the first small deceptions that multiply into a nightmarish entanglement of lies. Subject: Fiction in English. Fiction in English, 1900 - Texts. Infidelity - marriage - betrayal - illusions - relationship - friendships/ confidants - stratagems - entrapment. Genre: Fiction. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, (not price-clipped) now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description: 218 p. ; 20 cm. Summary: Evan Hunter (Pseudonym,Ed McBain) is an accomplished short story writer. In the main this collection of his stories concerns youngsters and crime. Stories of teen-age gangs, of girls in trouble, of Russian Roulette: the ordeal of a dope addict. But Mr. Hunter ranges equally effectively through a wonderful satire on the tough 'private eye' to a particularly terrifying science fiction story. Subject: Short story - relationships - adolescence - experimentation - Unmarried mothers - drugs - crime - social problems. Science fiction - fiction - varying genres. Genre: Fiction. Text. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, (not price-clipped) now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description: 218 p. ; 20 cm. Summary: Evan Hunter (Pseudonym,Ed McBain) is an accomplished short story writer. In the main this collection of his stories concerns youngsters and crime. Stories of teen-age gangs, of girls in trouble, of Russian Roulette: the ordeal of a dope addict. But Mr. Hunter ranges equally effectively through a wonderful satire on the tough 'private eye' to a particularly terrifying science fiction story. Subject: Short story - relationships - adolescence - experimentation - Unmarried mothers - drugs - crime - social problems. Science fiction - fiction - varying genres. Genre: Fiction. Text. 1 Kg.…

proof copy, pp. [iv], 290 (paginated by hand), 8vo, publisher's cerise wrappers, printed in black, small faint mark on cover, dustjacket over tall for proof hence creases at upper edge, very good. Signed by the author on title page. With letter from Michael Carter of Arbor House to Art Seidenbaum of the Los Angeles Times, introducing the book with a summary of the plot and its place in the 87th precinct series.…

8vo, pp. 255. Original grey boards, lettered in silver to spine. Endpapers patterned with Inner Sanctum device. Top edge red, leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket, author's photographic portrait to rear panel. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with just a little age-toning. First edition. A collection of three short 87th Precinct titles -- The Empty Hours, 'J' and Storm -- and a very well preserved example. HUBIN, p. 265.…

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. London: T.V. Boardman & Company Limited, 1960. First UK Edition. Octavo (19cm); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (10s. 6d.); 192pp. Light wear and wrinkling to jacket margins, brief foxing and a few tiny soil spots to textblock edges, else a Very Good and sound example. Issued as American Bloodhound no. 297. The fifth title in the 87th Precinct series, "the longest, the most varied, and by all odds the most popular police procedural series in the world" (St James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers," p. 718).…

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. London: American Bloodhound Mystery, 1961. First UK Edition. Octavo (19cm); publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (12s. 6d.); 191pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, long vertical crease to upper panel along spine edge, a few small closed tears, brief soil and a few small dings to board edges, else a Very Good, bright and sound example. Signed by the author on title page. The seventh title in the 87th Precinct series, "the longest, the most varied, and by all odds the most popular police procedural series in the world" (St James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers," p. 718). Signed.…

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. London: T.V. Boardman & Company Limited, [1960]. First UK Edition. Octavo (19cm); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (12s. 6d.); 191pp. Moderate wear and a few small chips and closed tears to jacket margins, corners nudged, else a Very Good and sound example. Signed by the author on title page. The second of McBain's novels to feature Detective Cotton Hawes and the sixth title overall in the 87th Precinct series, "the longest, the most varied, and by all odds the most popular police procedural series in the world" (St James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers," p. 718). This title issued as American Bloodhouse No. 312 by the publisher. Signed.…