Mercury publications (258 Ergebnisse)

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 18 # 95 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, October 1951 - Tenth Anniversary Issue. Contains stories by Roy Vickers (The Hair Shirt), George Bernard Shaw (The Grave of Brimstone Billy), Thomas Walsh (Danger in the Shadows), Erle Stanley Gardner (The Exact Opposite), , Robert Arthur (The MWA Murder), and others. Also includes the Haycraft-Queen Definitive Library of Detective Fiction. The cover is rough - tape to the spine, 1.25" piece missing at the top of the spine & 1" x 1" chip at the top right corner of the front cover. Other than some light browning the interior is in good shape. A filler. DIrone Photography (cover photo) (illustrator). …

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Fair-Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 22 # 121 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1953. Contains stories by Roy Vickers (The Frame Up), David From (Leslie Ford - Zenith Jones Brown - The Man on the Iron Palings), Erle Stanley Gardner (Bird in the Hand), Richard Deming (Open File), Don M Mankiewicz (Two Rolls, No Coffee), C P Donnel, Jr (The Fourth Degree), Rhys Davies (Vivian Rees Davies - The Trip to London), William Abrahams (The Poison Typewriter), W R Burnett (Nobody's All Bad), Mel Dinelli (The Man), Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White - Out of Patience . ), and others. GGA cover. Light wear at the edges with a crease and small closed tear along the spine. The front cover is loose. . Light browning to the pages. A fair to good or better copy. Dirone Photography (cover photo) (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Fair-Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 31 # 1, whole # 170 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 1958. Contains a novelette by Whit Masterson - Robert Allison Wade & H. Bill Miller (Suddenly It's Midnight), and stories by Mignon G Eberhart (Murder at the Dog Show), Lilian de la Torre (Saint-Germain the Deathless), Michael Gilbert (Operation Cryptic), Anthony Boucher - William Anthony Parker White (Best New Mysteries of the Month), and others. Wear at the edges and spine hinges. Spine roll. 1" loss at the bottom of the spine. Browning to the pages. A fair to good copy. C S Eisenberg (cover) (illustrator). …

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 21 # 113 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, April 1953. Contains stories by Sinclair Lewis (The Ghost Patrol), Michael Innes (The Cave of Belarius), H C Bailey (The Long Dinner), Edmund Crispin (All in the Way You Look at It), Dorothy Salisbury Davis (Sweet William), and others. Light wear at the edges. A good to very good copy.…

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 21 # 113 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, April 1953. Contains stories by Sinclair Lewis (The Ghost Patrol), Michael Innes (The Cave of Belarius), H C Bailey (The Long Dinner), Edmund Crispin (All in the Way You Look at It), Dorothy Salisbury Davis (Sweet William), and others. Light wear at the edges. A very good or better copy. …

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Fair-Good. No Jacket. 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. Dirone Photography (cover photo) (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 26 # 6, whole # 145 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1955. All text cover variant. Contains stories by Clayton Rawson (Merlini and the Sound Effects Murder), Michael Innes (The Ghost of a Ghost), Ellery Queen (The Black Ledger), Stuart Palmer (Hildegarde and the Spanish Cavalier), Anthony Gilbert (Once is Once Too Many), Mabel Seeley (Let Run, or Catch?), Cornell Woolrich (One Night to be Dead Sure Of), and others. Light wear at the edges. "1955" written in black marker at hte top of the front cover and also at the bottom left. Small rub spots to the front cover. Rubbing and wear to the spine hinges with a 1.25" closed tear at the bottom right. Very light browning to the pages. A good to very good or better copy.…

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 20 # 105 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1952. Contains stories by Edgar Pangborn (The Singing Stick), Georges Simenon (The Old Lady of Bayeux), Octavus Roy Cohen (Always Trust a Cop), Charlotte Armstrong (The Evening Hour), Ellery Queen (Money Talks), Hugh Pentecost (Judson Pentecost Philips - Lonely Boy), L A G Strong (Leonard Alfred George Strong - You Can't Love Two Women), Richard Deming (The Value Received), Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mark Van Doren (An Episode at the Honeypot), Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer, Detective: Part 1), Julian Symons (The Case of XX-2), and others. Light wear at the edges with rubbing to the spine hinges. Script "e" written in black at the top left of the front cover. Browning to the pages and the edges of the covers. A good copy. Sid Rosenbaum (cover photo) (illustrator). …

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 26 # 6, whole # 145 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1955. All text cover variant. Contains stories by Clayton Rawson (Merlini and the Sound Effects Murder), Michael Innes (The Ghost of a Ghost), Ellery Queen (The Black Ledger), Stuart Palmer (Hildegarde and the Spanish Cavalier), Anthony Gilbert (Once is Once Too Many), Mabel Seeley (Let Run, or Catch?), Cornell Woolrich (One Night to be Dead Sure Of), and others.Light wear to the spine (insect damage) and a little to the front cover. A good to very good copy.…

Zustand: Good. Mercury Publications 1946 12mo. 126 pages. reading copy. rubbing, soiling, and creasing to wraps. dampstaining to fore edge and right margins of text pages. pages browned.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 28 # 2, whole # 153 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1956. Text cover. Contains stories by Orson Welles (Diplomatic Crisis), Paul W. Fairman (The Hills Cried Murder), Nedra Tyre (Tour de Couleur), Jack London (King of the Lepers), Ben Hecht (The Tired Horse), Mignon G Eberhart (Date to Die), Melville Davisson Post (The Great Game), Daniel Nathan (Frederic Dannay/Ellery Queen - The Boy and the Money Box), Michael Innes (The Cellini Saltcellar), Roy Vickers (William Edward Vickers - A Toy for Jiffy), William Lindsay Gresham (Don't Believe a Word She Says), and others. Light wear at the edges. Light soiling along the spine of the rear cover. Small closed tear to the bottom right spine hinge. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy.…

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 22 # 121 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1953. Contains stories by Roy Vickers (The Frame Up), David From (Leslie Ford - Zenith Jones Brown - The Man on the Iron Palings), Erle Stanley Gardner (Bird in the Hand), Richard Deming (Open File), Don M Mankiewicz (Two Rolls, No Coffee), C P Donnel, Jr (The Fourth Degree), Rhys Davies (Vivian Rees Davies - The Trip to London), William Abrahams (The Poison Typewriter), W R Burnett (Nobody's All Bad), Mel Dinelli (The Man), Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White - Out of Patience . ), and others. GGA cover. Light wear at the edges. .75" closed tear at the top left spine hinge with an associated one that also goes across the spine creating a loose flap. 2" closed tear at the bottom right spine hinge. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy. Dirone Photography (cover photo) (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 22 # 117 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1953. Contains stories by Lawrence Blochman (The Girl With the Burgundy Lips), Edna Ferber (The Man Who Came Back), Earl Derr Biggers (The Apron of Genius), Jim Kjelgaard (Code of the Underworld), James Yaffe (On the Brink), Freeman Wills Crofts (Two Birds with One Spanner), Dorothy Sayers (Striding Folly), C B Gilford (Heaven Can Wait), Phyllis Bentley (The Way Round), Pietro Di Donato (The Society of the White Button), Miriam Allen deFord (The Crazy House), Howard Schoenfeld (All of God's Children Got Shoes), and others. Light wear at the edges. Small dents at the top of the front cover. Light rubbing to the front cover with a corner crease at the bottom. A 1.25" closed tear at the bottom right spine hinge. Light browning to the edges of the pages. A nice, sharp copy. A very good or better copy. Taylor Oughton (cover) (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 21 # 115 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 1953. Contains stories by Stanley Ellin (The Betrayers), Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White - The Numbers Man), Michael Innes (Inspector Appleby's First Case), Val Duncan (Emerald Bait), Margery Sharp (Clara Margery Melita Sharp - Winning Sequence), Owen Johnson (One Hundred in the Dark), Raoul Whitfield (A Woman Can Kill), John D MacDonald (Heads I Win, Tails You Lose), Ben Ray Redman (A Night at the Theater), Melville Davisson Post (The God of the Hills), and others. Light wear at the edges. Faint rubbing, a top corner crease and a few indentations to the front cover. .75" closed tear to the bottom left spine hinge. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy. George Salter (cover) (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 20 # 105 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1952. Contains stories by Edgar Pangborn (The Singing Stick), Georges Simenon (The Old Lady of Bayeux), Octavus Roy Cohen (Always Trust a Cop), Charlotte Armstrong (The Evening Hour), Ellery Queen (Money Talks), Hugh Pentecost (Judson Pentecost Philips - Lonely Boy), L A G Strong (Leonard Alfred George Strong - You Can't Love Two Women), Richard Deming (The Value Received), Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mark Van Doren (An Episode at the Honeypot), Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer, Detective: Part 1), Julian Symons (The Case of XX-2), and others. Light wear at the edges with rubbing to the spine hinges. Light black line through "Ellery Queen's" at the top of the front cover. Small closed tear at the bottom center of the front cover. Light browning to the pages and the edges of the covers. A good to good copy. Sid Rosenbaum (cover photo) (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 27 # 2 (#147), February 1956, of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. All type cover variant. Contains stories by Agatha Christie (Find the Cook), Edmund Crispin (The Lion's Tooth), Martin Gardner (The Missing Walnuts), Michail Gilbert (Every Monday, A New Letter), Rex Stout (A Dog in the Daytime later published as Die Like a Dog in the Three Witnesses novella collection), Roy Vickers - William Edward Vickers (A Woman of Principle), and others. Light wear at the edges with some browning at the edges of the pages. Light damp stain to the bottom corner of the pages. 1.5" closed tear from the middle of the right spine hinge into the front cover. Light pencil annotations in the margins throughout. A good copy.…

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Fair-Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 22 # 119 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, October 1953. Contains stories by Thomas Kyd (Alfred B. Harbage - High Court), Michael Gilbert (Back in Five Years), Lillian de la Torre (Lillian de la Torre Bueno McCue - The Stroke of Thirteen), Thomas Walsh (Before the Act), Charlotte Armstrong (Laugh it Off), Steve Fisher (Day Never Came), Fredric Brown (Cry Silence), Will Scott (William Matthew Scott - A Wish for a Cigar), Frank Swinnerton (Ms. In a Safe), Faith Baldwin (Night of the Execution), Rex Stout (The World Series Murder), and others. GGA cover. Minimal wear at the edges. The cover is complete but loose from the binding glue. 1.75" closed tear at the bottom right spine hinge. Light browning to the page edges. A fair to good copy that presents well. Fred Kirberger (cover) (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 27 # 3, whole # 148 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1956. Contains a Sir Henry Merrivale locked room novelette by Carter Dickson - John Dickson Carr (The Man Who Explained Miracles), Barry Perowne (Jack of Diamonds), Melville Davisson Post (Of More Value Than Sparrows), Q Patrick - Hugh Callingham Wheeler (On the Day of the Rose Show), Clayton Rawson (Solution to the Sound Effects Murder), and others. Light wear at the edges and spine hinges. Small loss at the bottom of the spine. Browning to the edges of the front cover. Light browning to the pages. A good or better copy. George Salter (cover) (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 21 # 113 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, April 1953. Contains stories by Sinclair Lewis (The Ghost Patrol), Michael Innes (The Cave of Belarius), H C Bailey (The Long Dinner), Edmund Crispin (All in the Way You Look at It), Dorothy Salisbury Davis (Sweet William), and others. Minimal wear at the edges. Light browning to the cover at the spine. A nice, sharp copy. A very good or better copy. …

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 26 # 4 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, October 1955. All text cover variant. Contains stories by Clayton Rawson (Merlini and the Vanished Diamonds), Georges Simenon (The Little Doctor and the Slipper Fiend), Agatha Christie (The Six China Figures), Mignon G Eberhart (The Wagstaff Pearls), Edmund Crispin (Looking for a Diamond), Michael Innes (A Test of Identity), Jack London (The Mystery of Kersh), and others. Light wear at the edges. "1955" written in black marker at the top of the cover. 2" closed tear at the bottom right spine hinge. A good to very good copy.…

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 27 # 3 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1956. All text cover variant.Contains a Sir Henry Merrivale locked room novelette by Carter Dickson - John Dickson Carr (The Man Who Explained Miracles), Barry Perowne (Jack of Diamonds), Melville Davisson Post (Of More Value Than Sparrows), Q Patrick - Hugh Callingham Wheeler (On the Day of the Rose Show), Clayton Rawson (Solution to the Sound Effects Murder), and others. Roughness at the edges with moderate browning. Small specs on the front cover and spine. A good copy. …

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 36 # 7 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1960. Contains stories by Philip MacDonald (In the course of Justice), Hugh Pentecost (Waterfront Shakedown), and others. Light wear at the edges. A very good copy.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. Mass Mkt PB from meticulous collector, appears unread, showing typical PB chipping, shelf/edge wear including light rubbing or production creases.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:1873428006.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Mailing label on front cover. 44th anniversary issue. Covers show minimal shelf wear and scuffing. All pages intact, binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Poor. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 23 # 127 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 1954. Contains stories by Ray Bradbury (The Whole Town's Sleeping & At Midnight, in the Month of June), Margery Allingham (Mum Knows Best), Cornell Woolrich (Dead Shot), and others. Light wear at the edges. 1" x 2.25" corner chip at the bottom of the front cover. Browning to the pages. The main flaw is the right column of text on pages 49 & 51 is washed out affecting the stories by Jack London (The Mastery of Mystery) and Karel Capek (The Fortune Teller). This looks like a printing flaw. That causes the "poor" condition rating. However the rest of the magazine is good to very good. Dirone Photography (cover photo) (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The June 1956 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Vol 27 # 6, whole # 151. Contains an index to volume 27 and stories by Stanley Ellin (The Blessington Method), A W E Mason (The Shining Key), Mignon G Eberhart (Murder in the Rain), Bret Harte ("Who Was My Quiet Friend"), Cyril Hare (Double Jeopardy), Georges Simenon (Journey Into Time), Frederick Nebel (Try it My Way), and others. Light wear at the edges. A very good copy. …

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 18 # 95 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, October 1951 - Tenth Anniversary Issue. Contains stories by Roy Vickers (The Hair Shirt), George Bernard Shaw (The Grave of Brimstone Billy), Thomas Walsh (Danger in the Shadows), Erle Stanley Gardner (The Exact Opposite), , Robert Arthur (The MWA Murder), and others. Also includes the Haycraft-Queen Definitive Library of Detective Fiction. Light edge wear. Light to moderate browning the pages. A good to very good . DIrone Photography (cover photo) (illustrator). …

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 22 # 119 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, October 1953. Contains stories by Thomas Kyd (Alfred B. Harbage - High Court), Michael Gilbert (Back in Five Years), Lillian de la Torre (Lillian de la Torre Bueno McCue - The Stroke of Thirteen), Thomas Walsh (Before the Act), Charlotte Armstrong (Laugh it Off), Steve Fisher (Day Never Came), Fredric Brown (Cry Silence), Will Scott (William Matthew Scott - A Wish for a Cigar), Frank Swinnerton (Ms. In a Safe), Faith Baldwin (Night of the Execution), Rex Stout (The World Series Murder), and others. GGA cover. Light wear at the edges. The front cover has some small dents along the top, some rubbing at the top right corner, and lightly written initials (DL?) just above the center. there is a .75" closed tear at the bottom left spine hinge. Light browning to the page edges. A good to very good copy. Fred Kirberger (cover) (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 26 # 5, whole # 144 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 1955. All text cover variant. Contains stories by Philip MacDonald (Dream No More), Lord Dunsany (Near the Back of Beyond), Roald Dahl (The Way Up to Heaven), Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White) (Murder Was Their Business), Edmund Crispin (A Message to Herb Dietrich), Michael Innes (Tom, Dick, and Harry), Ellery Queen (Driver's Seat), and others. Light wear at the edges. Sharp corners & bright color. Very light browning to the pages. A very good or better copy.…