stuart palmer craig rice (21 résultats)

Etat : Good. 1965. First printing. 191 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has moderate edge wear with noticeable creasing and chipping. Moderate tanning and markings.

digest size. very good - fine.

SingleIssueMagazine. Etat : Good to Very Good-. Vol. 20, No. 109. Cover art by Salter. Includes "Author in Search of a Character" by Phyllis Bentley; "And the Birds Still Sing" by Craig Rice; "The Inspector Had a Wife" by Charles B. Child; "The Jinx Man" by Stuart Palmer; "The Point of Honor" by Thomas Flanagan; "Man Who Voted for Ulysses S. Grant" by MacKinlay Kantor; "Going My Way?" by George Harmon Coxe; "A Matter of Timing" by Victor Canning; "Mrs. Oliphant Deceased" by Michael Gilbert; "The Sheriff Decides" by Roark Bradford; "Morte D'Alain" (First) by Maxey Brooke; "The Creative Impulse" by W. Somerset Maugham; "Detective Directory" by Robert P. Mills; "Index to Volume Twenty". A little soiling; edge and corner wear with dings, small tears and losses; mild tanning; musty.

Publisher's original colour illustrated paper card wrap covers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5½''. Slight tanning to the page margins, only very tiny rubs to the spine tips and in Very Good clean and sound condition, spine not faded. We currently hold 83 other Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine titles in stock. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.

digest size. near fine.

Soft cover. Etat : As New. 1st Edition. AS NEW never opened, first printing.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good+. 1st Printing (1st Ed.). VG+ in green pictorial wraps with white & yellow lettering. Mystery featuring series characters Hildegarde Withers & John J. Malone. Mystery, Vintage Paperback.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First Edition. Good in good dust jacket. No markings, no bookplate. Jacket shows some edgewear, creasing, short tears. No chips and not price-clipped.

Mystery Digest. Very Good condition. Slight spine wear to the rear bottom edge.

[Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.254 [2]. Publisher's cream quarter cloth with mottled orange paper over boards, and black titles to spine. Top edge orange; others untrimmed. With the orange pictorial dust-jacket designed by Lawrence Ratzkin, printed price $3.50. Heavily toned throughout to low quality paper. Some light sunning to jacket spine, and minor wearing to edges. A near fine copy. An Inner Sanctum Mystery.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Ellery Queen. Cheap paper toned as usual, a little soiling on the spine else near fine in very good dust jacket with rubbing and small tears at the extremities, but none of the usual spine-sunning.

Pictorial wrappers. First Edition. Light toning to pages. A fine copy. Contributions by Hugh B. Cave, Roald Dahl, and others. Photo cover. ; Octavo.

Pictorial wrappers. First Edition. Complete with subscription card. Light toning to pages, mild wear. A near fine copy. Contributions by Cornell Woolrich, Gerald Kersh, and others. ; Octavo.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First Edition. A FINE FIRST EDITION IN A NEAR FINE PLUS DJ.

Hardcover. Etat : As New. 1st Edition. As new condition faux red leather boards with elaborately decorated gold front cover, rear cover and spine decorations. The volume contains a a traditional six- hubbed spine. Includes an Introduction by Ellery Queen. Illustrated with black-and-white author photographs at the beginning of each story plus matching red front and rear endpapers. A former owner bookplate is neatly affixed to the center of the inner front board. First edition thus. "Dear Reader: Annexation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Four Freedoms proclaimed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Atlantic Chaarter announced by Churchill and Roosevelt . Pearl Harbor attacked December 7, 1941. first nuclear chain reaction. race riots in Detroit and Harlem . Yalta Conference . death of President Roosevelt . suicide of Hitler . United Nations . first atomic bomb . Philipine indepedence. Nuremberg trial . Truman Doctrine . Marshall Plan . India and Pakistan independence . Gandhi assassination .Berlin blockade and airlift . Free State of Israel . Alger Hiss trials . North Atlantic Treaty . Tokyo Rose sentenced . The Forties -- the War Years and Post - war Years for the United States, and against this background of momentous events and of struggle for survival, life went on and the detective-crime-mystery story continued to be written - in its own fashion. At the start of the decade in 1941, Philip Van Doren Stern published an article cleverly titled "The Case of the Corpse in the Blind Alley." In it Mr. Stern wrote: "The great need of the mystery story today is not novelty of apparatus but novelty of approach. The whole genre needs overhauling, a return to first principles, a realization that murder has to do with human emotion and deserves serious treatment. Mystery story writers need to know more about life and less about death -- more about the way people think and feel and act, and less about how they die." Mystery story writers listened, and if they didn't actually read Mr. Stern's warning, the strong hint of danger and its consequences was in the air for them to think about and feel and react to. So they turned away from some of the characteristics of The Golden Age -- rather, they modified and changed them, and adopted a new approach, taking Mr. Stern's words to heart. And in the 19 stories in this volume you will see clear evidence of these modifications and changes -- the beginning of a new Golden Age, or perhaps, more accurately, of a Renaissance. Happy reading!" - from the Introduction by Ellery Queen.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. 254 pages. (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter beige cloth with black brown lettering to spine and decorate square with initial to cover over red marbled boards in original pictorial jacket. Introduction by by Ellery Queen. First edition. Intermittently from the late Forties into the early Sixties, Palmer and his good friend and fellow mystery writer Craig Rice, with whom he had worked on the scripting of the 1942 film The Falcon s Brother, collaborated on half a dozen novelettes for Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine. Each story teams the crusty Miss Withers, that tall, angular person who somehow suggested a fairly well-dressed scarecrow, with Rice s hard-drinking, womanizing Chicago lawyer, John J. Malone. And all six are collected in this volume. Working in tandem, Withers and Malone solve what the dust-jacket blurb describes as hectic, hilarious homicides. A fair assessment: Both Palmer and Rice wrote cleverly constructed, fair-play whodunits flavored with (sometimes wacky) humor, and the blending of their talents produced some memorable stories. One is the title novelette, in which Hildegarde and John J. hunt for a missing witness in the murder trial of a Malone client and wind up pulling off some courtroom pyrotechnics to rival any in the Perry Mason canon. In Cherchez la Frame, the two sleuths travel to Hollywood to look for the missing wife of a Chicago gangster and find her strangled with Malone s tie in his hotel bathroom. But the best of the stories is probably the first Withers and Malone collaboration, Once Upon a Train (original title: Loco Motive ). This spoof of the intrigue-on-the-Orient-Express genre takes place on the Super-Century en route from Chicago to New York and features a dead man lurking sans clothing in Miss Withers s compartment, the murder weapon conveniently planted in Malone s adjoining compartment, and a combination of quick thinking by the little lawyer and a bizarre dream by the angular spinster that unmasks the culprit. Once Upon a Train was one of two Withers and Malone stories sold to MG resulting finally, Stuart Palmer writes in his preface, in Mrs. O Malley and Mr. Malone, a starring vehicle for James Whitmore, in which Miss Withers mysteriously changed into Ma Kettle. Palmer and Rice were two of the scriptwriters on that 1951 film. Each of these six stories is enjoyable light reading and should appeal not only to fans of either or both series, but to anyone who enjoys what Ellery Queen refers to in the book s introduction as madcap capers full o fun. Condition: Pages age toned. Jacket spine sunned else a better than very good copy in like jacket.

Hardcover w/ DJ. Etat : Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED: Good hardcover with acceptable dust jacket. Dust jacket has rips, tears and creasing along edges, corners and spine. Dust jacket repaired with tape. Deckle edges. Pages tanned, otherwise clean pages. First printing. 8vo, 254pp.

Pulp. Etat : Very Good+. First Edition. 5 Detective Novels 1953 Winter. Contains Once Upon A Train by Craig Rice and Stuart Palmer, Stop The Presses by Frederick C. Davis. Very good plus Condition with nice cream supple pages. ; Vol. 5 #2; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Etat : Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Good+. Artzybasheff(Cover Artist) (illustrateur). First Edition. The Puzzle of the Red Stallion by Stuart Palmer (First Edition) Hubin Listed Damp staining to the covers and slightly to the text block fore edge. Several tears to the jacket edges. Not price-clipped. Clear protective cover. Stated First Edition. Hildegard Withers mystery. Filmed as ?Murder on a Bridle Path?. BOOK.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+. First Edition. The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan by Stuart Palmer (First Edition) A firm square copy with some small stains andmoderate wear to the cloth. A bright dust jacket with some rubbing and creasing to the edges. Not price-clipped. Clear protective cover. Stated First Edition. Hildegard Withers, in Hollywood as a technical advisor, investigates the murder of the studio?s star writer. BOOK.

paperback. Original color half sheet (22 X 28) for the classic 1950 MGM film. Just about fine, unfolded. Based on the short story "Once Upon a Train" (which was the first collaboration between Palmer and Rice), the film was directed by Norman Taurog. The cast included Marjorie Main, James Whitmore, Ann Dvorak, Phyllis Kirk, Fred Clark & Dorothy Malone.