John Mccloud Editor (18 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Vol. 1, No. 4, September, 1953. Digest sized mystery magazine. A Good copy. Rubs to the corners. Frays at the head of the spine. 4" diagonal crease at the front cover's lower right corner. The front cover is splitting from the spine at its upper and lower left corners. Dust soiling to the rear cover. 3" diagonal crease at its lower left corner. Tanning to the page margins. Includes "Three O'Clock" by William Irish (Cornell Woolrich), "Fer-De-Lance" Part IV by Rex Stout, and stories by Frank Kane, James M. Cain, Craig Rice, Fredric Brown, and others.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Each spine has an edge tear, with a very small chip to the upper end and a larger chip to the lower end. Covers have some slight corner and edge creasing. Page margins are lightly browned. The words "Mickey Spillane" on the front cover have ink doodling. ; Approx. 5 3/8" wide by 7 1/2". Includes stories by Mickey Spillane, Craig Rice, Evan Hunter, and others. ; 144 pages.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Wraps scuffed, stained, creased, and edgeworn. Staplebound; binding sound. Pages tanned, text unmarked. With contributions from Ray Bradbury, Erskine Caldwell, and others.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Printing. Solid with creases on the covers and a slight spine roll. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. FAIR / NO DUST JACKET as Issued. 144 pp. Text clean and unmarked. Pages very toned. Illustrated paper wraps dampstained at back, edges rubbed. Binding firm. With stories by Erskine Caldwell, Ray Bradbury, and others.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fair- Good. 1st Printing. Solid with about the bottom 3/4" corner of the front cover missing, corner creases on the covers, some pen writing on both covers, and the covers show wear from rubbing. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pulp Fiction Detective Magazine: Manhunt, June, 1954, Vol.2, No.4. Contains "Skip a Beat," a complete Peter Chambers novel by Henry Kane; novelettes by Craig Rice and Bruno Fisher; short stories by Richard Prather (Shell Scott story), Richard Deming, David Alexander, Fletcher Flora and John Sitan, as well as regular monthly features. Pictorial wrappers show quarter-inch tear lower end of spine, o/w light surface and edge wear without significant flaws. Text shows light age-tanning, is o/w clean and unmarked, tight and square. Collectable. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Vol. 1, No. 4, September, 1953. 5 1/4" x 7 1/3" digest bound in pictorial covers. A Very Good copy. Tiny creases to the front cover's corners. 2" diagonal crease at its lower right corner. Faint crease along the front spine seam and light rubs to the spine tips. Mild dust soiling to the rear cover. Tanning to the pages. Contains "Three O'Clock" by William Irish, and stories by James M. Cain, Rex Stout, Fredric Brown, and others.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Good condition. Light to moderate shelf wear. Contains "Question And Answer" by Hal Ellson, a novel by Richard S. Prather, & More.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 128 pp. Digest Format. Edge and corner wear with some chipping at the foot of the spine; ink mark on the front cover; no interior markings. This issue contains: Blood Ballot - A Shell Scott novel by Richard S. Prather; The Homecoming by Frank Ward; Meet Me in a Narrow Street by Fletcher Flora; Question and Answer by Hal Ellson; The Posse by Richard Deming; Getaway by Jack Webb; and No Victim Tonight by Harrison Coulter; and the regular features: It's a Racket by David R. Saunders; Scene of the Crime by Tom Beach; and Tricks of the Trade by Edward Clark. Size: 12mo. Book. …

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. The front cover has a two inch piece missing from the top right corner and a small crease to the bottom right corner. Small amount of tearing and chipping to the base of the spine with a stain along the edge of the back cover. Browning to the pages with a little chipping to the corners but they are otherwise generally unmarked. Joe Kubert is credited with the illustration for the Spillane story - curiously other copies of this magazine which are otherwise identical have a different illustration which is credited to Matt Baker. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed. Kubert, Joe (illustrator).…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The front cover has a creases across the top and bottom right corners. Small amount of chipping to the base of the back cover next to the spine with a small crease at the bottom left corner of the back cover. Browning to the pages with some creasing to the bottom corners and light spotting to the first and last pages but they are otherwise generally unmarked. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The front cover has a small tear at the top left corner and creases across the bottom right corner. Small tears to the top and bottom of the spine. Browning to the pages with brown staining to bottom left corner of the inside of the front cover and to the bottom right corner of the first page but the pages are otherwise generally unmarked. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The front cover has a small crease to the bottom right corner. Small amount of chipping to the base of the spine with a small crease at the bottom left corner of the back cover. Browning to the pages but they are otherwise generally unmarked. Matt Baker is credited with the illustration for the Spillane story - curiously other copies of this magazine which are otherwise identical have a different illustration which is credited to Joe Kubert. Baker, Matt (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. COVER STORY: THE TWO O'CLOCK BLONDE BY JAMES M. CAIN.

Stapled Soft Cover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, spine is lightly creased, lightly shelf worn, light crease in the lower corner of the front cover and in the upper corner of the rear as well, overall a clean used first edition! Very very rare and hard-to-find! Color illustrated wrappers. 128 unmarked and uncreased suspense-filled and mystery-riddled pages! Wonderfully well-preserved! Extremely scarce magazine! Contents include: "Blood Ballot by Richard S. Prather (A Shell Scott Novel) / The Homecoming by Frank Ward / Meet Me in a Narrow Street by Fletcher Flora / Question and Answer by Hal Ellson." ---- and many other stories and features. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Small octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. The first of only two issues published. Another magazine that could not find an audience as many similar short lived digests were crowded out on the newsstand rack and likely also had distributions issues. Author's include: Richard S. Prather (Shell Scott), Richard Deming, Jack Webb and others. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 326-327]. Reading crease, mild rubbing, a very good to nearly fine copy. (24248). …