Lee Babs (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Reading copy only, as boards are trashed and dampstained, but sturdy and square. With one new endpaper, and jacket flap pasted inside. Murder mystery set in the glamorous fashion industry of New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Spine leaning forward, shelf wear and marks and creasing on dj covers, wear and tanning on dj spine with a small hole on dj spine, wear and tears and some chips to dj edges, cloth mildly sunned along spine and at extremities, sides tanned, brown stains on sides of some pages near the end, some marks in margins on pages 175-8, otherwise good. 400 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. BN1 - A first edition ("A" on the copyright page) hardcover book in very good condition in poor dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket worn with tears, open tears and discolored. Book lightly cocked, some bumped corners and cover edgewear, wrinkling on the spine edges, previous owner's name written on the front free endpaper, previous owner's label, label residue and info stamped on the back fixed endpaper, light tanning and shelf wear. 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. 7.5"x5", 228 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Good+. Scribners, New York, NY 1944. First Edition. 1st Printing. 228 pages. Nice Firm copy ! Jacket has edge wear, short tears. Previous owner name. Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Fiction Modern::Crime/Mystery/Suspense 5970.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Babs Lee was an American writer, lecturer, fashion consultant and Beauty Editor of Vogue Magazine. She also wrote The ABCs of Beauty. She collaborated with Clare Castler Saunders for this title, an Angus Steele mystery. Dust-jacket with creases, closed tears and small chips, protected in Mylar. Pages are very clean. First edition. 5¼" - 7½". book.

hardcover. First Edition. Near-fine in near VG Dust Jacket with chips at spine extremities. First edition, 1st printing. Mystery features Private Eye Argus Steele and "his beautiful Ellen." By the author of A MODEL IS MURDERED. Co-authored with Clare Castler Saunders.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pp: 243. FIRST EDITION. The first edition of the author's first book, with the letter 'A' on the copyright page. Pictorial price clipped dust jacket, lavender coloured boards with lettering in black. A New York model is murdered and the case is investigated by Inspector Grange. The book is of the same style as those from The Golden Age of Detective Fiction. This copy is very good with light wear. The text block is clean and free of markings. The jacket is just very good. There is about a quarter-inched chipped from the head, and a lesser amount from the base of the spine. Elsewhere, there is wear at the ends of the folds, and some loss of brightness to the jacket colours.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1942, "A" First Edition, Good to Very Good/no dj, octavo, 243pp., light reddish-brown cloth hardcover, short tears along top of spine & 1" of exterior hinges, bottom corners of covers bumped & frayed, binding tight, text unmarked, Presented & Signed on front free endpaper: "To Tom Mahoney - Thanks for the kind words - will write the next one just for you - Babs Lee," plus one-page hand-written letter with envelope: "Dear Tom, Thank you so very much for your generous gift to Roosevelt Hospital in Idah's name. It is a great comfort to know that someone else's suffering may be spared or lessened by your contribution. Sincerely, Babs Lee, January 5, 1960.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 7.5 x 5", cloth, 233pp, spine ends bumped, minor soiling to covers, endpapers glue-stained else a nice copy in a rubbed, edge-worn and soiled dustjacket with a 1" chip out of front panel and a hole in spine; the price on the front flap has ink line through it. FIRST EDITION ["A"]. SCARCE. The dustjacket illustration shows a passport dripping blood over the figure of a young woman lying face-down with a knife in her back.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition, First Printing (No additional printings stated, with Scribner "A" on copyright page. ) . Deep pink cloth covers with purple titling with light, general wear; interior with light toning to endpapers & page edges; text remains bright & unmarked; binding tight. D/J cut down 1/8" & remains bright looking, with some tiny chips at corners & some scuffing at back cover. Nice copy! First & Collectible Editions; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

hardcover. First Edition. VG+ in a VG Dust Jacket. Argus Steele. Author's first mystery.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. Near fine in very good dust jacket with slight soiling, light rubbing, few small chips and tears. Scarce book that is scarcer still in dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. :: In the exotic and troubled Portugal, detective story writer Argus Steele and New York model Ellen Curtis find themselves embroiled in a series of murders involving American expatriates, Nazi agents, and the Portuguese police. :: Bound in publisher's cloth-like warm-beige paper covered boards, front board bears author and title in red. Title, author, and publisher lettered upon spine in red. Fore-edge rough-hewn. Duodecimo (7 7/16 x 4 15/16 inches; 189 x 125 millimeters). 233 pages. Condition: Very Good+, in a Very Good dust jacket. Book has minimal wear, pages age-toned. Dust jacket has chips missing, primarily at top of spine, and is worn along the edges. Vintage amateur tape-mends on the verso. Age-faded, small stains. Overall quite nice, please see our photographs.