Robert starrett (31 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hard Cover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. First Canadian paperback edition, first printing # 130 of this collection of short stories. Featured are Active Duty by Richard Sale, The Body in the Ostrich Cage by Vincent Starrett, The Greek Poropulos by Edgar Wallace, Bond of Reunion by Carl Carmer, Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper by Robert Block, The Street of the Little Candles by James Francis Cooke, The Blackout Murders by Allan Vaughan Elston, "You're Killing Me!" by Dale Clark, If the Dead Could Talk by Cornell Woolrich, The Judge Finds the Body by Geoffrey Homes, The Phantom Slayer by Fritz Leiber Jr. Tears of the Virgin by Thomas Grant Springer, Me and His Majesty and Trouble by Joseph C. Stacey, Death in the Gray Mist by Frank Owen. Lamination is lifting along the edge of the cover. Light age toning to the pages. In good condition.…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of 10 short stories. Featured are Final Rites by Doug Allyn, Life, Death and the Other Trivial Concerns by Robert Loy, The Mountain Mishap Mystery by James A. Noble, Sweet as No Fruit is Sweet by Ann F. Woodward, The Motor Coach of Allah by Walter Satterthwait, The Last Rose by L.A. Taylor, Career in Crime by Janet O'Daniel, The Third Jury by David Braly, The Deadly Telephone by Henry Slesar. The Mystery Classic reprint is: The Other Woman by Vincent Starrett. Light edge wear. In very good condition. …

Hardcover. Etat : Used: Acceptable. Ex-library copy with usual markings and attachments. Library binding is tight and square. Text is clean. Boards have rubbed corners and back cover is soiled. No dust jacket. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. None. First Edition. The first book publication of stories by Bloch, Starrett, Woolrich and others. Beautiful vintage paperback art of ghosts emerging from the head of a seated reader. A very good, clean and unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Book Club Edition. This Book Club Edition of "The World Inside" shows signs of age with a dust jacket that has noticeable creases and edge wear, but remains intact. The hardcover is in good condition, with the spine and binding still firm. The pages are clean, with no inscriptions or library markings, making it a solid addition to any science fiction collection. Worn with creases and edge wear. Jacket by James Starrett (illustrateur).…

Soft cover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Not Stated. California: Wilshire Book Company, 1962. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 5"x8". This soft cover book has a brown and white illustrated cover with orange and brown lettering on the front and brown lettering on the white spine of the cover. The owner's stamp is on the inside. A book about concentrating. 130 pages, and advertisments in back. .…

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of 12 short stories by various authors. Featured are The Gerrard Street Mystery by John Dent, A Slippery Customer by Robert Barr, Sherlock Holmes Great Canadian Adventure by Jack Batten & Michael Bliss, The Tattooed Man by Vincent Starrett, Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth by Maureen Jennings, The Cure by Eric Wright, The Greenhouse Dogs by James Powell, Shaving with Occam's Razor by Rosemary Aubert, Bombed by Peter A. Sellers, This Town Ain't Big Enough by Tanya Huff, Lost in the Mail by Robert J. Sawyer, The Map by Andrew Weiner. SIGNED by Maureen Jennings on the title page. In fine unread condition. Signed by Author.…

Paperback. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

No Binding. Etat : VGF. 1052-149. A VG or better original 8 x 10 still. Size: 8" x 10". Photographic Image.

Etat : New.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good +. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. B.C.E. A solid spine with no edge rubbings. The dustjacket has edge rubbings. No store stamp. Starrett,James (illustrateur).

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good to Fine. First Collected Edition, PBO thus.. **CONTENTS(1) The Question by Stanley Ellin (2) The Old Barn on the Pond by Ursula Curtiss (3) The Hearts House by Mary McMullen (4) The Phonograph Murder by Helen Reilly (5) Testimony of a Witness by McGarry Morley (6) The Night Calhoun was Off Duty by Thomas Walsh (7) The Missing Mortagee by R. Austin Freeman (8) The Beauty In That House by Florence V. Mayberry (9) Man in Hiding by Vincent Starrett (10) Mrs. Kendalls Trunk by Robert Twohy (11) Franz Katka, Detective: The Bird of Ill Omen by Charles West, Jr. (12) Falling Object by William Brittain (13) The Mysterious Death in Percy Street by Baroness Orozy (14) The Good Times Always End by David Morrell (15) The Men in Black Raincoats by Pete Hamill (16) Monday Is Quiet Place by Marjorie Carleton (17) The Shop That Exchanged Evils by Lord Dunsany (18) The Bag Man by Brooke Weld (19) The Neighbours by John Galsworthy (20) A Question of Neighborliness by David Ely (21) Whos the Blonde? by John D. MacDonald (22) In A Country Churchyard by Robert L. Fish (23) Deja Vu by Mary Barrett (24) Fishing Can Be Fatal by Stephen Wasylyk (25) Rear Window by Cornell Woolwich >> Cover scuffing Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Painted Front Cover (illustrateur). Book.…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. The photos in the listing are of the actual item you will receive. Very light wear and rubbing to covers. See photos mag15E.

near fine.

Original Cloth. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition containing 8 of the 13 stories in the US edition which was published in 1950 under the title 'The Best Science Fiction Stories:1950' by Frederick Fell. Boards have a little bumping to the spine and corners. Page edges are browned with quite heavy spotting. Endpapers are browned with previous owners bookplate to the front pastedown. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket has one small closed edge tear and chipping to the top and bottom of the spine and the corners. The rear panel has some discolouration and light staining. First printing. …

Couverture souple. Etat : bon. RO60002650: post 1972. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 122 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Limited Edition. Book size about 6 by 8 inches with unnumbered pages. Bound in tan paper over boards with a white cloth spine. Title on spine paper label. Fore-edge and bottom edge untrimmed. In the original dust wrapper. Limited Edition 1 of 600 copies so stated. Compilation of poetry from various Chicago writers edited and with an Introduction by Keith Preston. General layout is with one poem per page by Vincent Starrett, Marjorie Barrows, Richard Atwater, Robert Ballou and many other Chicago notables. Index at the rear gives actual name and pseudonym (Where used) for each author. Book with darkening in spots where wrapper has chips; wear through at one tip; unmarked. Wrapper with small chips, moderate tear at front cover upper right; soiling. GOOD/GOOD Language: eng.…

First Edition. THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, Arkham House, Summer, 1949, first edition, some creasing to the spine, short closed tear to the fore edge margin of the rear cover, else just about fine in wraps with original contributions by Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Jules Verne, Everett Bleiler, David Keller & Vincent Starrett.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. One Of 150 Copies Printed For David G. Joyce, Bound By Florence Grabhorn. Salmon Paper Covered Boards, Spine Lettered. Fine, Bright And Clean, No Names Or Marks Or Bookplates.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s). The book has slight soiling to the edges of the page block. The dust jacket has light soiling to the covers and is unclipped ($4.95). First Edition Stated. Signed by the author on the title page. James Starrett, dj art (illustrateur).…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. None. First Edition. LIMITED TO 225 COPIES printed on a handpress using fine Bertini paper. A series of celebratory essays by Sandburg, August Derleth and others, including a self-portrait poems by Starrett and a portrait etching by Robert G. Little. Original quarter cloth over decorated boards. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Mystery writer and editor "Ellery Queen" was the pseudonym of a pair of cousins from Brooklyn, N.Y. -- Daniel Nathan, 1905-1982, known professionally as Frederic Dannay, and Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky, 1905-1971, known professionally as Manfred Bennington Lee.) This is the second printing, "Published March 1944 / Reprinted April 1944." Not price clipped; original $2.50 price showing to top of jacket front flap. Includes the 33 most notable celebrity pastiches, parodies, or imitations of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories which were available as of 1944, including Agatha Christie's "The Case of the Missing Lady," Vincent Starrett's "The Unique Hamlet," Mark Twain's "Double-Barrelled Detective Story," Anthony Boucher's "The Adventure of the Illustrious Impostor," Maurice Leblanc's "Holmlock Shears Arrives Too Late," O. Henry's "The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes," Ellery Queen's own "The Disappearance of Mr. James Phillimore," and others, including (the first and arguably the best) Robert Barr's "The Great Pegram Mystery." Though the editors in their Introduction explain their disparate reasons for omitting three separate stories in which Holmes purportedly solves Charles Dickens' Mystery of Edwin Drood; A.A. Milne's "Dr. Watson Speaks out," and other efforts which "failed to make the cut." 365 pp. including bibliography and index. Reduced from $280.…

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 5.5 x 8.5in. 83pp. Publisher's cloth boards. Includes "An Appreciation of Lloyd Lewis" tipped-in at the front endpaper. The former copy of Vincent Starrett with his signature at the half-title page. NEAR FINE. Shows the spine lightly toned, else Fine/As New. As pictured. …

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Reprint 1st Thus. Modern Library No. 144., Rare, Reprint First Thus Edition, First Printing from roughly 1942 to 1944 due to the price of the "Giant Editions" on the back dj cover being $1.45. True hardback, not one of the earlier decaying leatherette softcovers. Probably the first real hardback. Slight musty odor. Mottling on book covers. Book has straight stiff spine, pointed tips, no leans or dings. Blue boards and top stain.Vincent Starrett does the introduction in this edition and that was also changed in the 1949 edition. Original aqua and black dust jacket with picture is not price clipped (.95) and has Modern Library catalog listed on the back. Earlier jackets were brown with no picture, just lists of authors. This jacket has no lists on the front cover. The later 1949 jacket reintroduced the lists. General overall wear with slight crumple and loss at spine ends, tips and most edges. Looks spiffy in new plastic cover protector. Not Signed.…

8.75" x 10.75" pp. [107], including two plates, one fold-out illustration, and multiple examples of printed illustrations throughout. Illustrated tan and red paper boards; book design motif. Light smudging to the cover boards. Ex-Libris plate on front pastedown in the name of "Edwin C. Buzbaum." Text and illustrations are bright and clean. Very good. This is Part Seven of Colophon: A Book Collector's Quarterly featuring a variety of articles related to writing, book collections, and publications. Some of the included articles are "Thoughts on Half Titles," "Recipes for Writers," and "The Golden Cockerel Press.". …

First Edition. THE ARKHAM SAMPLER, Arkham House, 1948 -1949, first edition, 8 volumes complete, a fine set in original wraps save for the Winter 1948 issue which has the upper rear fore edge corner tip attached with some non-stick tape. An easy fix for restoration. Contributions by H. R. Wakefield, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Leah Bodine Drake, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, Samuel Loveman, Lord Dunsany, A. E. Van Vogt, Ray Bradbury, Ted Sturgeon, Jules Verne, Everett Bleiler, P. Schuyler Miller, Donald Wandrei, Sam Moskowitz, Lewis Padgett, CarlJacobi, David Keller, Vincent Starrett, E. Hoffman Price, et.al. All 1/1,200 copies save the All Science Fiction issue which was 1/2,000 copies. …

Etats-Unis, Produced and distributed by Luther Norris, Publisher, The Pontine Press, august 1974. In-12 broché, non paginé, de 28 pages au format 21,5 x 14 cm. Couverture avec portrait de Vincent Starrett. Plats et intérieur frais. Recueil d'hommages à Vincent Starrett par Michael Murphy, Leonard Cochran, Robert Hahn et John Schwind. Photographies hors texte. Rarissime édition originale en superbe état, uniquement tirée à 400 exemplaires numérotés ( n 82 ).…