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Published by Mercury Publications, Inc Joseph W Ferman, New York, NY, 1955
Seller: Lazy S Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. George Salter (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 26 # 1, whole # 140 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1955. Contains stories by Clayton Rawson (Merlini and the Lie Detector), Charlotte Armstrong (What Would You Have Done?), Edmund Crispin (Blackmailers Have their Uses), Erle Stanley Gardner (The Hand is Quicker Than the Eye), Robert Louis Stevenson (Markheim), Jack London (Make Westing), Wade Miller (Robert Allison Wade & H Bill Miller) (Invitation to an Accident), Fredric Brown (Killers Three: The Letter), and others. Light wear at the edges. Sharp corners & bright color. Creamy white pages. A very good or better copy.
Published by Paddington, 2019
Seller: Aeon Bookstore, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two volumes in slipcase, richly illustrated in color photographs and elaborated in multiple accompanying essays. Both volumes are in excellent shape, nearly as new copues that appear to have scarcely been read or handled. Former owner name in pencil to both volumes at the front free endpaper, otherwise immaculate. Case has some superficial rubbing and scuffing but is well intact and clean. Attractive volumes. HEAVY and may require extra shipping. Vol. 1. Island Southeast Asia: 236 pp.; illustrated throughout, maps, index. Vol. 2. Melanesia: 484 pp.; illustrated throughout, maps, index. Paddington, 2019. 2 Volumes, in slipcase. Hbks. Standard work on Shields from Island Indonesia and Melanesia. Vol. 1: 3 essays. 1. 'Shields: an appreciation' by Andrew Tavarelli. 2. 'Dayak Shields: Courting and Defying Death' by Steven G. Alpert. 3. 'Dance Shields of Bali: A Legacy of Majapahit' by Robyn Maxwell. Vol. 2: 5 essays. 1. 'Why Paint Shields?' by Harry Beran. 2. 'Subsistence Strategies, Settlement Patterns, and the Form and use of War Shields in the Sepik, Mandang, and Highlands regions of Papua New Guinea' by Barry Craig. 3. 'Ol Samting Bilong Pait Igat Ai/The Weapons of War Have Eyes, Modern Shields of the Wahgi Valley' by Natalie Wilson. 4. 'Thoughts upon Elema Shields' by Crispin Howarth. 5. 'Eyes that Watch: Shields from Island Melanesia' by Kevin Conru.