Helu Antonio (10 results)

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bueno. Helú, Antonio. La obligación de asesinar. México, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA), 1991. Características: Rústica en buen estado. 118 p. (21 x 14 cms.). Peso: 200 grs. (NOR. ESP. 2029).

Condition: Exterior e interior: bien. Segunda edici. Autor: México (1900 - 1972) 217 págs. 21 x 14 cm. Castellano Presentación de Alfredo Harp Helú Rústica con las cubiertas. México - Novela policíaca 205 gramos.

Condition: Exterior e interior: bien. Primera edici. Autor: México (1900 - 1972) 93 págs. 17 x 11 cm. Castellano Rústica con las cubiertas. Serie: La honda del espíritu. Marcas de lectura. México - Cuentos 65 gramos.

Condition: Exterior e interior: bien. Primera edición en esta editorial. Autor: México (1900 - 1972) 118 págs. 21 x 13,5 cm. Castellano Xavier Villaurrutia Rústica con las cubiertas. Fotografía de portada por Gabriela S. Téllez. México - Novela policíaca 143 gramos.

Rústica. Condition: Bueno. 11 x 16,5 cm. 93pp.+3pp. Rústica. Cuadernos de Lectura popular, 203.- La Honda del espíritu.- Selección y notas por Antonio Helu. Español. Cubierta en buen estado, ligeramente deslucida y con leves roces.- Interior del libro en buen estado, tostado.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 7.5 x 5", pict wraps, 133pp + ads. Covers have light soiling and wear, light wear along spine, contents toned, tiny tear to ffep else very good condition. "Las Aventuras de Maximo Boldan". Stories include "Piorpos a Media Noche", "Cuentas Claras", "El Pistol de Corbata". Colorful attractive cover showing a man holding a flashlight while opening a safe. SCARCE.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine Condition. First Edition. Shelf wear and wear on foredge of cover, faint soiling to wraps, yellowing to pages. This book is a collection of several stories centered around crime solver and thief Maximo Roldan. "He operates in the corrupt and violent Mexico City which is filled with unsavory policemen and evil business men. Roldan is gifted with la verborrea, the gift of gab, and he uses it to solve crimes and enrich himself--his "cases" usually end with him deceiving either the criminal, the victim, or the policemen involved and retaining a portion of the money or loot for himself." writes Jess Nevins on "The Encyclopedia of Pulp Heros." Size: 8vo. Text is in Spanish. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; Spanish Language; Inventory No: 300179.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good Condition. First Edition. Original pictorial wraps, light wear at edges. Slight soiling to wraps, even age toning internally. A nice copy of this hard boiled novel based on Helú's 1937 film of the same name and featuring the bounty hunter Maximo Roldan. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 047970.

First edition. First edition. Text in Spanish. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Queen Quorum 102 says, "---Antonio Helu was founding a south-of-the-border school of detection, developing the first great Mexican manhunter, Maximo Roldan. In the earliest tale to appear in the United States, Roldan solved an intricate and baffling murder to prove that crime does pay: for by solving the murder Roldan was able to pocket 10,000 pesos in jewels, thus combining (bloodhound) business with (pilfering) pleasure. The wages of sin, in Roldan's lexicon of larceny, is---detection." Very scarce. QUEEN'S QUORUM 102.

1st Edition. 1st Edition. Helu, Antonio. LA OBLIGACION DE ASESINAR. [HE COMPULSION TO MURDER] Mexico City: Albatros, 1946. First edition. A nice near fine or better copy of this Queen Quorum # 102 title: " Antonio Helu was founded a south-of-the-border school of detection, & created the first great Mexican manhunter, Maximo Roldan. In the earliest tale to appear in the United States, Roldan solved an intricate and baffling murder to prove that crime does pay: for by solving the murder Roldan was able to pocket 10,000 pesos in jewels, thus combining (bloodhound) business with (pilfering) pleasure. The wages of sin, in Roldan's lexicon of larceny, is---detection." A very nice example. $350.