Edited Vincent Starrett (13 results)

HARDCOVER. Condition: G- / NONE. GOOD-MINUS HARDBACK. EX-LIBRARY WITH TYPICAL MARKINGS. HEAVILY WORN BUT SOLID SINGLE VOLUME EDITION. WITH "VR" ON COVER IN 4 PLACES AS IF MADE UP OF BULLET HOLES. Illus. By Steele, Paget, Etc (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Light shelf wear and lean. Binding is slightly shaken but remains intact and pages are clean and unbent. Used Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st thus. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Previous owner's details to half-title page. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Crossword at rear is clean. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 247 pages. First published in 1940, this is one of the most famous works of Holmesian scholarship. A range of essays including on by Conan Doyle on many aspects of the Sherlock Holmes canon. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. War Edition. BO5 - A war edition hardcover book in very good condition in poor dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease, tears and open tears on the edges, corners and sides, detached bewteen the spine and front, scattered foxing, stains, light wrinkling, rubbing and scuffing, tanning and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners and cover edgewear, wrinkling/crease on some inside pages, tanning and light shelf wear. Regional MURDER SERIES edited by Marie F. Rodell, Vol. II. Although not marked in any way, this copy comes from the personal collection of Otto Penzler, legendary editor and founder of the Mysterious Press, an award-winning icon in the genre. 8.25"x5.5", 213 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. Moderate wear to boards. Rubbing to edges of dust jacket. Stale odor from prolonged storage. Dust jacket is enclosed in a clear protective cover. Photos available upon request. (Shelf: K4) Books are carefully sealed in waterproof poly and boxed to prevent damage during transit.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Previous owners name is written inside on front free end Paper. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. DIFFICULT TO FIND BOOK: Nice neat book includes 17 Stephen Crane Short Stories including MAGGIE. PER Researcher SCOT KAMINS, 210 Titles listed on back pages indicates a First ML; Brown Balloon Cloth, Spine #7 is faded and gold title too, torchbearer #7 on front, Kent Endpapers. Spine is lightly faded. Very tiny previous owner's name written on front FEP (See Scan). NO DJ.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Decorative cloth, hard covers in tidy condition, slightly browned at the edges, colour illustrations, 263pp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Shinn, Everett (illustrator).

Hb. Condition: VG. None. First Edition. Clean maroon coth on boards with gilt titles and gilt profile of Sherlock Holmes on front of cover. Thin light bumping to foot of spine. Edges: light greying to top-edge and faint dusting of a little age soiling. Just a couple of pages with few only foxings; light foxing to recto of glossy illustration pages. B/w illustrations. Binding is As New. 247p. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1933 , States First Modern Library Edition; 245 Titles Verso & Back of DJ with Pre ZipCode Coupon, VG-/GOOD, in the dust jacket. Small Brown cloth with Gilt Streamer man on front Bright & Titled faded on spine Cvr, Book is very slightly faded; Lacking front free end paper; book plate on front paste-down. Dust jacket is slightly time darkened mostly at spine, few small edge chips. Interior is tight and clean. Kent D endpapers. Toledano Spine # 7. (1933), 12mo, 336 pg. + ADS END WITH SELECTED TALES HAWTHORNE, Spine Tanning DJ & small Extremitiy Chips. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+YEARS ON ABEBOOKS. RARE COPY WITH RARER SURVIVING DJ. DJ in tan and red is unclipped (95 cents) and covered in mylar; has many chips along edges (see scan) and a tear on front, but all the relevant info is there; tanning. BOOK is a brown limp LEATHERETTE has chip on top of spine; binding #4 (1925-29); Bernhardt endpapers (1925-29); brown topstain. STORY: Stephen Crane was prolific throughout his short life (29 years), he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. …