Queen Ellery Pseudonym Frederic Dannay (85 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine to Fine. ----------paperback. An Ellery Queen mystery, part of Otto Penzler's Classic American Mystery Library. A little wear to corners, an unread near fine to fine copy.

mass_market. Condition: Used - Good. Some light wear. Good copy.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fine. ----------paperback. An Ellery Queen mystery. Modest shelfwear, an unread fine copy.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: GOOD, Decent Reading Copy. Line Drawn Cover Art. (illustrator). 24th Edition. 249 PAGES. Complete & Unabridged "Logical successor to Sherlock Holmes" >>> This is a reading copy. Cover creasing; spine split to paper spine & backcover, re-glued. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. Painted Front Cover (illustrator). 27th Edition. By Publisher. 243 PAGES. Complete & Unabridged "Logical successor to Sherlock Holmes" >>> Cover creasing; Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good to Very Good. First Edition. ----------paperback. An Ellery Queen mystery. Front cover scratch, soiled, edgewear, reading crease, a good-VG copy.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good to Very Good. First Edition. ----------paperback. An Ellery Queen mystery. Small tears to spine bottom, spine crease, edgewear, corner creases, a good-VG copy.

Soft cover. Condition: GOOD+. Robert ABBETT Painted Cover! (illustrator). Second Edition By Publisher. 200 pages. >> Cover creasing; Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Pocket Books Paperback Edition. Chips at spine on front cover and at bottom of back cover plus two short closed tears . 166 pages. Despite her name, Princess O'Shea is not a spoiled brat. When her father's death leaves her an orphan, she goes to live with her old uncle, Slater, and is horrified by what she finds. She knew the O'Sheas were a family of scoundrels, but Slater and his awful brood are the laziest bunch of nitwits she has ever met. From her moronic cousin Twig to the daffy Peet, every one of Princess's new relations is driven by greed, lust, and a desperate fear of work. The only thing holding them together is the promise of their father's fortuneand Uncle Slater is not long for this world. When Princess finds Slater lying facedown on his bedroom floor, she assumes he's sleeping off a bender. In fact, he will never wake again. His bourbon was poisoned, and if Princess isn't careful, she'll be the next O'Shea to die.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some light bumping and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is a small nick / tear to the bottom edge of the front spine joint. The text pages are clean, though there is noticeable toning to the pages. "Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1929 by American crime fiction writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee and the name of their main fictional character, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murders. Dannay and Lee wrote most of the more than thirty novels and several short story collections in which Ellery Queen appeared as a character, and their books were among the most popular of American mysteries published between 1929 and 1971. In addition to the fiction featuring their eponymous brilliant amateur detective, the two men acted as editors: as Ellery Queen they edited more than thirty anthologies of crime fiction and true crime, and Dannay founded and for many decades edited Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, which has been published continuously from 1941 to the present. From 1961, Dannay and Lee also commissioned other authors to write crime thrillers using the Ellery Queen nom de plume, but not featuring Ellery Queen as a character; several juvenile novels were credited to Ellery Queen, Jr. Finally, the prolific duo wrote four mysteries under the pseudonym Barnaby Ross. " (from Wikipedia).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The duist jacket is generally clean and bright, with some light toning to the white portions. There are a couple of small edge nicks and tears. "Daniel Nathan, professionally known as Frederic Dannay (b Brooklyn October 20, 1905 d New York September 3, 1982) , and Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky, professionally known as Manfred Bennington Lee (b Brooklyn January 11, 1905 d Roxbury, Connecticut April 3, 1971) , were American cousins from Brooklyn, New York. In addition to writing most of the novels and short stories featuring the brilliant amateur detective Ellery Queen, Dannay and Lee edited more than thirty anthologies of crime fiction and true crime, which were published under the Ellery Queen pseudonym. Dannay was the founder and longtime editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, which has been published continuously from 1941 to the present. " (from Wikipedia).

Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. 34th Mystery Annual. In protective mylar cover. (Short Stories, Detectives, Mystery).

Triangle Books first edition (a reprint of the original 1936 Frederick A. Stokes edition). x, 309 pages. Hardcover: H 19.25cm x L 12.75cm. Dust jacket with terrifically stylized front panel illustration in shaded of orange and green although the artist is uncredited (same dj illustration as on Stokes edition); dj foxed and soiled; chipping at spine and flap fold ends with other edges nicks and tears plus shallow losses at tops of both flaps; steep angled trimming to rear flap's bottom corner; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Bluish-gray cloth; jagged .75cm loss at spine head; slender wear along boards' top edges as well as at rear board's upper fore-edge. Some foxing to text block's dark orange-colored edges. Endpapers toned; interior leaves toned at margins. Binding is firm.

Reprint (first published in 1939 by J.B. Lippincott Company). vi, 325 pages. Hardcover: H 19.25cm x L 13cm. Dust jacket rubbed with a few short tears and nicks at edges, color fading to spine panel with shallow chipping at head, faded pencil check marks to publisher's title list on both rear panel and rear flap, brown impressions from old tape strips on both foxed flaps, bottom corner of rear flap is clipped; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Red cloth decorated with black stamping to spine and front board; slender soiling along rear joint. Red text block edges; some soiling to top edge. Endpapers toned; past owner's ink inscription on front free endpaper; impressions from removed tape strips which previously secured dj flaps on endpapers as well. Interior leaves have mild age-toning at margins as is usual for wartime Triangle editions. Binding is firm. A very good- copy in a good+ dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. signed by Dorothy Salisbury Davis on page 142 the first page of her contribution. Signed by Author(s).

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: FINE. First printing. An anthology containing 22 short stories from the Ellery Queen magazine - "stories with just ambiguity to tease your wits. Included are The Cloud Beneath the Eaves by Barbara Owens, The Sacrificial Goat by Thomas Walsh, Dover Goes to School by Joyce Porter, Dream House by Kathryn Gottlieb, Charlie's Shell Game by Brian Garfield, The Forgotten Murder by E. X. Ferrars, The Krowten Corners Crime Wave by Stephen Wasylyk, One Thing Leads to Another by Harold Q. Masur, I Can't Help Saying Goodbye by Ann Mackenzie, The Spy and the Cats of Rome by Edward D. Hoch, Cout me OUt by Ernest Savage, Milady Bigamy by Lillian de la Torre, The Writing on the Wall by Patricia McGerr, Born Victim by Ruth Rendell, Installment Past Due by Robert Twohy, No Wider than a Nickel by Jack Ritchie, When in Rome by Patricia Highsmith, The Other Runner by John Lutz, This is Death by Donald E. Westlake, Going Backward by David Ely, Caught in the Act by Bill Pronzini, and Reasons Unknown by Stanley Ellin. Introduction by Queen. 287 pp. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (small date stamped on front endpaper).

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Pale green cloth boards with blue titling. Bindings tight and square. Minimal shelf handling. Very nice jacket with light handling wear. Now in new Mylar protective sleeve. BCE - Book Club Edition, 8.5 inches tall. 312 pages. Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: to write detective fiction. In a successful series of novels that covered forty-two years, Ellery Queen served as both author's name and that of the detective-hero. Near Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Triangle printing. Originally published by Frederick A. Stokes in 1933. This fine detecting mystery featuring Ellery Queen originates with the murder of a former film star cowboy during his participation in a rodeo wild west show. Small faded spot to the lower spine end, soiling to the covers, end-papers age-toning and pages tanning as usual, else very good and sturdy, in red linen with black titles and pistol illustration to the front cover and with black titles to the spine, sewn binding; in an about very good dust jacket with short shelf-edge tears and creases, wear and nicks to the spine folds and flap folds, larger chips and tears to the upper and lower spine ends and corners, clear tape reinforcing to the verso; code 0039 printed to the front inner flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. small chip on back of dust jacket at top. 665 pages.

Hardcover. 8vo., 371 pp. The 20th annual collection, stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Includes works from: Stanley Ellin, Nicholas Blake, Robert L. Fish, Avram Davidson, Fredric Brown and many others. Contains two short novels, one novelette and seventeen short stories. Near Fine with some light scattered foxing along the bottom edge in Very Good lightly rubbed dust jacket.

Hardcover. 8vo., 195 pp. Index. A collection of fifty anecdotes, personal reminiscences and reflections regarding writing crime fiction. Contains the essay 'Who Shall Ever Forget?,' the famous chronicle of his introduction to Sherlock Holmes. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition, First Printing. This is a fine unmarked, hardcover first edition, first printing copy in a mylar protected DJ that is price clipped and has minor chipping. black-blue spine.

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Twenty-one stories by Bryce Walton, Avram Davidson, Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, Robert L. Fish, and others. A very good copy in very good dust jacket. (#83894).