Ross barnaby frederic dannay (8 Ergebnisse)

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.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Vintage Paperback PBO Pocket Books 50497. Sharp Unread First Printing of this Paperback Original story from Dannay and Lee using the Ross pseudonym. June, 1966l, 1964. $.50 cover price. Square, tight and clean throughout with very mild toning. The only real flaw is a faint 1" scratch on the front panel that is very unobtrusive. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A very pretty collectable copy.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine/Fine. 1st Edition. Vintage Paperback PBO Pocket Books 6232. Sharp Unread First Printing of this Paperback Original story from Dannay and Lee using the Ross pseudonym. April, 1964. $.35 cover price. Square, tight and clean throughout with barely a hint of toning. The only real flaw is a slight slant at the heel. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A very pretty collectable copy.…

dj. Hardcover. Originally published under Dannay and Lee's alternate pseudonym, Barnaby Ross. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Spine lean. Jacket lightly rubbed at the extremities, with several neat cello tape reinforcements to the verso, and a hint of fading to the spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Very Good dj. Reprint. [a very nice copy with no significant wear, just a touch of soiling to the bottom edge of the text block, and a one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink on the front endpaper, tiny vintage bookseller's label (Stewart & Co.) on rear pastedown; the jacket is nice-looking with only modest edgewear and some light soiling, although the verso reveals a previous owner's home-grown "restoration" treatments, consisting of tape-reinforcement along the top and bottom edges and a small amount of black ink "touch-up"]. The fourth and final volume in this tetralogy of mystery novels set in New York, featuring Drury Lane, "famous actor and criminal investigator, who, after retiring from the stage, lived in medieval splendor in his 'ancient' caste on the Hudson, and worked out his own theories of crime detection." This one is blurbed as "far and away [Lane's] best case," involving clues that "go back over three hundred years [and present] one of the most ingenious deductive problems that ever confronted a sleuth." Although it wasn't yet publicly known that "Barnaby Ross" and "Ellery Queen" were one and the same author (two cousins from Brooklyn), attentive readers would have picked up on the fact that "Ross" employed the same "Challenge to the Reader" narrative device as "Queen" used in his early novels, that of presenting readers with all the known facts necessary for them to solve the mysteries themselves in advance of the book's protagonist. (As the jacket blurb puts it: "Exciting, baffling but absolutely fair. The facts are here for you to solve.") Reportedly, Dannay and Lee had some fun with their dual-dual pseudonyms at the time these books came out, appearing in a series of public debates in which Dannay impersonated "Ross" and Lee portrayed "Queen," both wearing masks to preserve their anonymity. (Although I've not seen it stated anywhere, it's possible that the character of Drury Lane and his "castle" may have been inspired by the actor William Gillette (1853-1937), famous for his stage portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, who constructed and lived in his retirement just such a dwelling, located on the Connecticut River.) Some years later, after the "Ross"/"Queen" masquerade was revealed, the four books in this group were reprinted under Queen's name; jacketed copies of the original "Ross" versions (even the G&D reprints) are exceedingly scarce. (The publisher of the first editions was the Viking Press, perhaps a calculated choice to further distance "Ross" from "Queen," who was published at that time by the Frederick A. Stokes Company.) NOTE that although this book bears only the 1933 copyright date, this particular printing likely dates from the late 1930s.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Good+ dj. Reprint. [nice copy with no significant wear but a slightly weak front hinge, very slight bump to upper rear corner, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase and brief comment on front endpaper, just below a previous owner's signature dated 1941; the jacket is nice-looking, but has a bit of surface wear and has been rather extensively tape-reinforced on the verso, with a few small bits of amateur paper "restoration" and a small amount of black-ink "touch-up" (still looks great in new mylar)]. The opening installment in this tetralogy of mystery novels set in New York, featuring Drury Lane, "famous actor and criminal investigator, who, after retiring from the stage, lived in medieval splendor in his 'ancient' caste on the Hudson, and worked out his own theories of crime detection." Although it wasn't yet publicly known that "Barnaby Ross" and "Ellery Queen" were one and the same author (two cousins from Brooklyn), attentive readers would have picked up on the fact that "Ross" employed the same "Challenge to the Reader" narrative device as "Queen" used in his early novels, that of presenting readers with all the known facts necessary for them to solve the mysteries themselves in advance of the book's protagonist. Reportedly, Dannay and Lee had some fun with their dual-dual pseudonyms at the time these books came out, appearing in a series of public debates in which Dannay impersonated "Ross" and Lee portrayed "Queen," both wearing masks to preserve their anonymity. (Although I've not seen it stated anywhere, it's possible that the character of Drury Lane and his "castle" may have been inspired by the actor William Gillette (1853-1937), famous for his stage portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, who constructed and lived in his retirement just such a dwelling, located on the Connecticut River.) Some years later, after the "Ross"/"Queen" masquerade was revealed, the four books in this group were reprinted under Queen's name; jacketed copies of the original "Ross" versions (even the G&D reprints) are exceedingly scarce. (The publisher of the first editions was the Viking Press, perhaps a calculated choice to further distance "Ross" from "Queen," who was published at that time by the Frederick A. Stokes Company.) NOTE that although I've dated this book as 1932 (the date that appears on the title page), that seems to have been a carry-over from the original Viking edition; this particular printing likely dates from the mid-1930s. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Very Good dj. Reprint. [a lovely copy with no significant wear, would be Fine but for a couple of very slightly scrunched lower page corners and a one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase and brief comment on front endpaper; the jacket is nice-looking with only modest edgewear and some light soiling, although the verso reveals a previous owner's home-grown "restoration" treatments, consisting of extensive tape-reinforcement and a small amount of black ink "touch-up"]. The third entry in this tetralogy of mystery novels set in New York, featuring Drury Lane, "famous actor and criminal investigator, who, after retiring from the stage, lived in medieval splendor in his 'ancient' caste on the Hudson, and worked out his own theories of crime detection." This one concerns a double murder which takes place in a milieu of political corruption and prison graft. Retired Inspector Thumm (a recurring character in the series) has been looking into some of the fraudulent acitivities of one of the principals, and in turn called in Drury Lane, who for this case finds himself "partnered" with "an attractive and ingeniously deductive young girl," who happens to be Thumm's daughter. In a preface, the author explains that while the first two books ("X" and "Y") took place close together in time, more than ten years had elapsed between then and the events of "Z." Although it wasn't yet publicly known that "Barnaby Ross" and "Ellery Queen" were one and the same author (two cousins from Brooklyn), attentive readers would have picked up on the fact that "Ross" (in "X" and "Y" but apparently not here) employed the same "Challenge to the Reader" narrative device as "Queen" used in his early novels, that of presenting readers with all the known facts necessary for them to solve the mysteries themselves in advance of the book's protagonist. Reportedly, Dannay and Lee had some fun with their dual-dual pseudonyms at the time these books came out, appearing in a series of public debates in which Dannay impersonated "Ross" and Lee portrayed "Queen," both wearing masks to preserve their anonymity. (Although I've not seen it stated anywhere, it's possible that the character of Drury Lane and his "castle" may have been inspired by the actor William Gillette (1853-1937), famous for his stage portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, who constructed and lived in his retirement just such a dwelling, located on the Connecticut River.) Some years later, after the "Ross"/"Queen" masquerade was revealed, the four books in this group were reprinted under Queen's name; jacketed copies of the original "Ross" versions (even the G&D reprints) are exceedingly scarce. (The publisher of the first editions was the Viking Press, perhaps a calculated choice to further distance "Ross" from "Queen," who was published at that time by the Frederick A. Stokes Company.) NOTE that although this book bears only the 1933 copyright date, this particular printing likely dates from a few years later.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Very Good+ dj. Reprint. [a lovely copy with no significant wear, would be Fine but for a couple of very slightly scrunched lower page corners and a one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase and brief comment on front endpaper, just below which is a rubber-stamped name of a previous owner; the jacket is bright and attractive, showing very slight edgewear and a little ink-smudging on the front flap]. The second book in this tetralogy of mystery novels set in New York, featuring Drury Lane, "famous actor and criminal investigator, who, after retiring from the stage, lived in medieval splendor in his 'ancient' caste on the Hudson, and worked out his own theories of crime detection." This one concerns the Hatter family -- the "mad Hatters" -- whose "home on Washington Square came to be as famous in New York as the Wendell house or the home of Hetty Green. Then suddenly, just as the Hatter legends began to abate, there started a series of sinister attempts on the lives of members of the doomed family and concurrent publicity that spattered their names across the front pages of every newspaper." Enter Drury Lane, to solve the case. Although it wasn't yet publicly known that "Barnaby Ross" and "Ellery Queen" were one and the same author (two cousins from Brooklyn), attentive readers would have picked up on the fact that "Ross" employed the same "Challenge to the Reader" narrative device as "Queen" used in his early novels, that of presenting readers with all the known facts necessary for them to solve the mysteries themselves in advance of the book's protagonist. Reportedly, Dannay and Lee had some fun with their dual-dual pseudonyms at the time these books came out, appearing in a series of public debates in which Dannay impersonated "Ross" and Lee portrayed "Queen," both wearing masks to preserve their anonymity. (Although I've not seen it stated anywhere, it's possible that the character of Drury Lane and his "castle" may have been inspired by the actor William Gillette (1853-1937), famous for his stage portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, who constructed and lived in his retirement just such a dwelling, located on the Connecticut River.) Some years later, after the "Ross"/"Queen" masquerade was revealed, the four books in this group were reprinted under Queen's name; jacketed copies of the original "Ross" versions (even the G&D reprints) are exceedingly scarce. (The publisher of the first editions was the Viking Press, perhaps a calculated choice to further distance "Ross" from "Queen," who was published at that time by the Frederick A. Stokes Company.) NOTE that although I've dated this book as 1932 (the date that appears on the title page), that seems to have been a carry-over from the original Viking edition; this particular printing likely dates from the mid-1930s.…