Dickson Robert C Editors (6 results)

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First prining October 1987, with complete number line beginning with 1. Cover lightly sunned, else a near fine, tight copy. Paperback Original. 553 pages. This anthology contains 24 "stories," 22 of which are narrative fiction ("The First Locked Room" is a reconstruction of a true crime by Lillian de la Torre, and "The Adventure of the Man Who Could Double the Size of Diamonds" is a radio play by Ellery Queen). A few of its stories have frequently been reprinted elsewhere (Wilkie Collins's "A Terribly Strange Bed," G. K. Chesterton's "The Invisible Man," and Clayton Rawson's "Off the Face of the Earth"), but most of them will be new to most readers. Trade Paperback Original.

Cloth. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Very Good first edition, previous owner stamps and bookplate, very good dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very Good + copy with some foxing at endpapers, light shelfwear & a bit of dust soiling at pagination edges. Dust jacket has an elongated chip along top front 1/2" at its depth else entire with modest wear & rubbing. Yet a nice little volume which contains early verse by Malcolm Cowley & Kenneth Burke.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Introduction By William L. Graves; 85 p., scarlet and grey paper covered boards. Former owner name and address in pencil; contents are bright and clean, except pages have a single checkmark in pencil (easily erased).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Original paper-covered boards, bookplate on front paste down, else fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by William L. Graves. Contains two early poems by Malcolm Cowley.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. A tiny tear at the crown, a poem in pencil on rear blanks, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with minor wear. Contains early appearances by Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, preceding the first book of his own poetry.