Head Matthew John Canaday (19 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Used Good. Wear to cover, bumped corners, pages tanned but clean and unmarked. Firefly sells new and used books through our store front. We try to add a detailed description to as many titles as possible. If you have questions regarding this title, please contact us. Photos available on request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing. DJ has chipping, yellowing, creasing, wear, and has been price clipped. Endpapers are beginning to yellow. ; 184 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing full number line. The dust jacket is price clipped. Light signs of age and wear. We ship fast.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition thus. First printing of this Tower Books edition, very good hardcover (no dust jacket) shows mild rubbing and soil to covers with bumping to corners, bit of staining at page edges, dulling to lettering at spine, name and date at front endpaper, bit of age toning to pages and endpapers and some other light trace wear. 307 pages. Still a solid copy of this mystery from Canaday writing as Matthew Head.…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Printing. 1st pbk printing, March 1947. Vintage paperback. Dell Mapback #158, no price on cover. Half inch by 2 inch tear of lamenation and art work at cover (cover is still intact) Very light wear at edges, page edges of the text block has lost most of its dye, o/w a very good copy. Rear cover map by Ruth Belew, based on a map sketched by the author for the Dell edition Matthew Head is the pseudonym of John Edwin Canaday (1907-1985), an art critic and writer. Canaday was a New York Times art critic for seventeen years and later in life he wrote restaurant reviews for the Times. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed. Gregg, Gerald (illustrator). Vintage Paperback.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Quick dispatch from the UK. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dell Book 158, 1st paperback printing, no month, 1947. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. 190 pages. Reprints the Simon & Schuster hardcover edition from 1945. This copy in Near fine condition. 95% of laminate intact on wraps, pages are off-white. Inked check mark to FFEP, else clean. …

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. First UK paperback edition of the second Dr. Mary Finney novel. First published in the UK by Heinemann in 1950. Originally published in hard covers in the US by Simon & Schuster in 1949. The spine is faded with has some reading creasing, edge rubbing and a small chip at the bottom where there is a piece of tape around it. There is slight surface creasing around the bottom corners of the front cover. The back cover has small chip out of the top left corner. Light browning to the page edges and the pages are a little browned with a light trace of a price in pencil on the first page but are otherwise clean and unmarked. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.…

Paperback. First Edition. Perennial Library P542. Originally published by Simon & Schuster in 1955. Tiny crease to back cover else a fine copy. ; Small octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 246 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter grey cloth with black lettering to spine over green boards with "Inner Sanctum" black pictorials to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Murder at the Flea Club is the seventh Matthew Head mystery novel in fourteen years. In this he has chosen the perfect background: Paris. More specifically, he has perpetrated his violence in a night club. Here comes the most sophisticated citizens of the world, and also the most innocent. Here may be found the headhearted chanteuse, stinging of romance but single-mindedly devoted to business; the American millionairess in search of an exciting fifth husband; the gigolo ruthlessly sell his wares; and the gaping tourists who love it all and understand very little of what goes on beneath the glittering surface. When murder happens at the Flea Club, a most unsuitable element is added in the person of Dr Mary Finney, the rough-textured medical missionary and amateur detective. Her normal sphere is Africa, but she happens to be in Paris receiving medals for her medical work and she is much admired by the Sûreté for earlier cases. She wades into the Flea Club with characteristic energy and intelligence. The result is a murder novel that charms and diverts. Condition: Corners bumped, spine heal with small split. Jacket price clipped, corners and spine ends chipped, fold over edges and hinges rubbed, back stained and lightly damaged else a very good copy in a good to very good jacket. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Pages are age toned, light wear else about fine in ldust jacket, ightly chipped at head and foot, small piece out at rear and soiled at rear , not price clipped ($2.75 price is still intact) Dr. Mary Finney in Paris. Catoluge Of Crime #1112. Matthew Head is the pseudonym of John Edwin Canaday (1907-1985), an art critic and writer. Canaday was a New York Times art critic for seventeen years and later in life he wrote restaurant reviews for the Times. Paris at the height of its post-War chic is a far cry from the African backwaters that Hoop Taliaferro has been calling home. But with his American charm and American dollars, he fits in anywhere. He especially fits in at the Flea Club, a naughty nightclub for people who have pretty tame ideas of naughty. The real draw is Nicole, a third-rate chanteuse singing sad songs for the bored expats holding up the bar. When someone silences the music, it falls to Hoop to put things right. Sleuthing's not really Hoop's line. He runs more to clever quips and nicely ironed khakis. But he is saved, once again, by the timely arrival of the redoubtable Dr. Mary Finney. Stomping through the City of Light in her sensible shoes, Mary is everything Nicole wasn't -- including one step ahead of her killer. Book.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. First paperback edition. Dell Book 346. Dell Mapback. Originally published in hard covers by Simon & Schuster in 1947. There is very slight creasing to the corners of the front cover, a small bump to the base of the spine and some light edge rubbing to the covers which are otherwise bright and unmarked. Uneven blue colouring to the page edges due to different paper stock being used. Slight yellowing to the first and last pages and slight browning to the pages which are otherwise unmarked - fells crisp and unread. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.…

reprint hardback with dust jacket Very Good small octavo 262pp., Neat ownership signature & scuffs to rear panel of dust jacket where booksellers label has been removed o/w a nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st printing of 1st edition of author's first book. Very Good hardcover, no DJ. Black cloth over boards, gilt titles on spine. Clean, square covers and spine; lightly scuffed; tightly bound; owner name on front paste down; bright, clean interior. 8vo, 307 pp.…

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. 12mo. Pp. 184. Black cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Leaves of wartime paper variably toned and fragile with a few chips and closed tears, front free endpaper inscribed in ink. In the color illustrated dust jacket with price intact on the front flap: spine ends chipped and edges rubbed, colors remain vivid. The first of four Dr. Mary Finney novels, set in the Belgian Congo. The author John Canaday, long-time art critic at the New York Times, has inscribed this copy "Lucky Hoop! p. 87 / Caroline from John 'Matthew Head'" to Caroline Houser, a noted Greek art historian and professor at Smith College. On the referenced page Gabrielle Boutegourde relinquishes her virginity to Hooper Taliaferro.Dust jacket is now housed in a removable clear archival sleeve. H. Lawrence Hoffman (dust jacket) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. First Edition. 207pp. Boards. A mystery featuring Dr Mary Finney. A near fine copy in very good+ dustjacket with toning and light wear. In Hubin, 2003, p. 709.; Octavo.

Hardcover. First Edition. 217pp. Cloth. A mystery set in Kansas City and Paris. Toning to endpapers. A bright near fine copy in very good dustjacket with a few chips and creases, and light fading to spine. Dustjacket art by H. Lawrence Hoffman. ; Octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Book Club Edition. DJ sunned, scuffed, frayed, tattered, large chips, front flap detached. Book is deeply yellowed in the margins, boards worn through in places. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. Second English printing (published the same year as the first). Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a little modest wear. Murder in a Paris nightclub with an international clientele. Nicely Inscribed by the author to the noted critic and author: "For Brooks Atkinson from John Canaday because the only thing I have on him is that he never wrote a mystery. John Canaday / Matthew Head. Not required reading.".…