Queen arthur jr (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Very Good+ dj. Reprint (1st printing thus). [a good sound copy, nicer than often seen with these cheaply-produced editions, with a typical but not severe amount of age-tanning to the pages, a touch of wear to the spine ends, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink on the front endpaper, small ink check-marks next to several titles in the table of contents; the jacket is lightly edgeworn, and the lower rear flap is rather heavily corner-clipped]. The second published collection of Ellery Queen short stories, all of which had previously appeared in various magazines during the 1930s. The short novel, "The Lamp of God," is presented first, and the remaining eight stories are arranged in two groups: "New Adventures" (consisting of "The Adventure of:" "The Treasure Hunt"; "The Hollow Dragon"; "The House of Darkness"; "The Bleeding Portrait"); and "A Unique Group of Ellery Queen Sports Mysteries." The latter group contained these stories, with their theme sports noted: "Man Bites Dog" (baseball); "Long Shot" (horse racing); "Mind Over Matter" (boxing); "Trojan Horse" (football). Originally published by Frederick A. Stokes Company in 1940. Illustrated by (dj) Arthur Hawkins Jr. (illustrator).…

Zustand: New. In English.