Porcelain Sidney (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ. Minimal wear to hard back book. 192 pages.Pages are clean and tight. No name or inscription.A few minor marks to front board.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. 39, no. 6 (Whole No. 223). Includes "In the Confessional" by Alice Scanlon Reach; "Squealer's Reward" by Harold Q. Masur; "The Finisher" by Henriette McClelland; "The Last Manuscript" by Sidney Porcelain; "The Sin of Madam Phloi" by Lillian Jackson Braun; "The Shadow Outside" (novelette) by Helen McCloy; "The Missing Tins of Chicken Breasts" by Victor Canning; "Costume Piece" by Stephen Barr; "The Hopeless Case" by Helen Nielsen; "Clancy and the Shoeshine Boy" by Robert L. Pike; "Who Killed Nora Burkey?" by Edward D. Radin; "Mystery Hardcovers of the Month"; "Mystery Paperbacks of the Month"; "Best Mysteries of the Month" by Anthony Boucher; "Index to Volume Thirty-Nine". Edge nicks and wear; minor creasing, bumps and dings; tanning; minor wet spot at upper foredge corner. Book.

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Fair. First Thus. Book appears heavily read with creasing to covers with some wear and scuffing at edges and extremities. A block or signiture of approximately 40 pages is loose, but could be reglued. OW book looks pretty square and sounds worse that it appears. Pages lightly tanned. 120 pages + ad for War Bonds at inside rear cover. Prize Mystery Novel #14.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket - As Published. First Edition. Bond in stiff blue wraps, stamped in black. This is a 40 pp. Literary magazine. This one notes that there is a supplement by Chester Himes, but this copy does not include that. This is from the library of Paris Flammonde (and the publication includes one of his poems). Edges soiled. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Green boards with titles to the spine. Pages have some age toning and a bit of foxing. Front end page has been replaced so possible ex library.

Hard Cover. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Octavo, pp. 192. Publishers' sky-blue cloth with black titles in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth very faintly surface soiled; ownership inscription in ink to ffep and small mark to rfep otherwise contents clean. Jacket nicked & creased, with lightly soiled rear white panel and minor loss at corners and spine tips. A Very Good copy in like jacket. Fast-moving thriller set in the world of the late Dexter Kite, race track patron and business man. Scarce.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 43 pp., Soft Covers, Very Good. Scarce. First Edition.

Stapled magazines. First edition. Literary magazine, first three issues from 1955 (were there other issues?, can't find out much about this magazine, certainly rare). No 3 has ''Special Supplement! Story by Chester Himes/see page 7'' printed on the front cover. Laid in is a 12-page booklet of the Chester Himes short story ''Friends''. First two issues near fine (NF), third issue VG+ with small chip to top spine corner and small brown stain along bottom edge of front cover.