Ray Stanich (6 results)

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

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

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition / First Printing. Hint of edge wear, gently scuffed, light stain in the base of the bottom of the rear cover, overall a very crisp and clean first edition, gift quality! Very very rare and hard-to-find! 109 very clean, unmarked and uncreased, informative and historical pages! Wonderfully well-preserved! Extremely scarce and out-of-print! "I discovered Ellery Quen in my early teens, those formative years when the heroes a person adopts can last a lifetime. I can still see myself sitting in a creaky old rocking chair in front of my grandmother's house during the heat of the 1957 summer, lost in ecstasy as I wandered with Ellery through the labyrinths of The Greek coffin Mystery. Through my high school and college years I found and devoured in haphazard order all the other Queen classics: The Egyptian Cross Mystery, The Tragedy of X, The Tragedy of Y, Calamity Town, Cat of Many Tails. It was many years after my intorduction to the Queen novels that I learned about the Queen radio programs, which had come on the air several years before I was born and had gone off when I was five. Eventually I became interested in that aspect of the Queen saga too, and a chapter on the program ---- a chapter I now realize was all too sketchy and inadequate ---- was included in my 1974 book, Royal Bloodline: Ellery Queen, Author and Detective. But the full story of that program has remained untold until now."-----from the Preface by Francis M. Nevins, Jr. …

First edition. Trade size paperback original. Inked presentation inscription on title page and signed by Nevins. Forward by Larry Dobkin. Provides The Adventures of Ellery Queen chronology and episode log for the radio series. Fine copy in pictorial stiff wrappers.

Brownstone Books. 1983. First edition. paperback. Spine sunned, covers also slightly browned. Illustrated with photos. Clean and sound.

First edition. Trade size paperback original. Inked presentation inscription on title page and signed by Nevins. Provides The Adventures of Ellery Queen chronology and episode log for the radio series. Fine copy in pictorial stiff wrappers.