Rhode John Dickson Carter (23 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. [1st printing, 1946] #87. Cover art by Fiedler. Creased; unevben edges; edge and corner wear; tanning; laminate starting to peel at edges. Book.

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

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

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

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Popular Library 87, first paperback printing. A publisher is shot in his private elevator as he descends alone. U.S. title, published in England in 1939 as Drop to His Death. Light wear at the edges with a 1/4" chip to the spine head. Pages tanned, crease to the lower corner of the first couple of pages with the letter "N" on the front end paper.

Condition: BUONO. Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Ed. cm.11x18,3, pp.190, tascabile, copertina figurata a colori. Collana I Classici del Giallo,611.

softcover. Condition: vg.

Condition: Good. Popular 1946 creasing to wraps.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Paperback Edition. A tight and crisp copy with allover wrinkling to the laminate, but no corner creasing. Contents are clean and unmarked. A RARE title, especially in this condition.

Brossura. Condition: ottimo. OTTIMO STATO NESSUN DIFETTO RILEVANTE. TEMA: Sir Tallant, magnate dell'editoria, è stato ucciso da un proiettile alla testa mentre era nel suo ascensore privato nel Temple, il palazzo dove ha sede la sua casa editrice. Vi era entrato da solo, al quinto piano, e l'ascensore non si era fermato fino al pianterreno. All'apertura delle porte, nessuno aveva avuto la possibilità di avvicinarsi alla cabina, eppure l'arma del delitto non si trova. Toccherà a una strana coppia di investigatori, l'ispettore capo David Hornbeam di Scotland Yard e il bizzarro quanto geniale medico legale e criminologo dottor Horatio Glass, sciogliere l'enigma anche grazie a una serie di piccoli indizi apparentemente privi d'importanza come, per esempio, una scatola di cioccolatini.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Paperback Edition. Vintage Paperback Popular Library #87. Solid First Paperback Printing. No month, 1946. No Cover Price. Originally published by Dodd, Mead in 1939. Square and tight with fairly mild page toning. Little or no wear. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. Very well preserved. A sharp collectable copy and uncommon in any condition.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Fatal Descent by John Rhode & Carter Dickson First Edition Dodd, Mead & Company Inc 1939. New York. No previous owner's inscriptions. Small ink stamp to front pastedown and remnants of dust jacket front flap still present also. Contents are spotless throughout and free of foxing. Original publisher's cloth covers lightly marked. No toning to spine. A VG copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Edition, with matching dates on title page and copyright page without any later printings listed. A Red Badge Detective novel with black lettering on yellow cloth and decorated end papers. Light shelf rubbing to covers. Some age darkening to spine with a few small, faint stains. Text clean with only a hint of yellowing. Scarce in First Edition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Printing. 2nd printing. Lacks jacket. Boards soiled, corners slightly exposed, hinges weakening, transfer to endpapers as if the flaps of the now-absent jacket had at one point been adhered, tiny chip from fore edge margin of p. 23/24. 1939 Hard Cover. 280 pp. A collaboration by two pseudonymous crime fiction authors (John Rhode was Cecil Street, a British army major turned writer; Carter Dickson was one of several pen names used by John Dickson Carr). The humming noise of the automatic elevator stopped and the hall porter glanced idly toward the bronze doors. Twenty minutes later, when no one had emerged, the porter became uneasy and forced the doors open. Inside he found Sir Ernest Tallant, dead! Shot through the heart in a hermetically sealed elevator! It looked like the perfect crime - until Dr. Horatio Glass, in his blundering way, set Inspector Hornbeam on the track of the one crucial clue. Two famous detective story writers combine their masterly talents in this baffling and suspenseful mystery novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8 x 5.5", cloth, 280pp, covers quite worn and unevenly sunned, extremities quite bumped and fraying, endpapers with massive rubber cement stains (ex-library?), pp toned; a rather well-used and abused copy of the Third Printing of this rather SCARCE mystery title.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition, 3rd printing. Red cloth cover with black lettering. Clean, unmarked but for a name and date on the front endpaper. Foxing on back endpaper. Cover has wear on edges near spine. Spine discolored. Small soil spot on top left of front cover and on bottom of back cover.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 5 x 7.5"; 528 pages; blue cloth worn, and small split to top of spine, black titles; good; contains authors such as Milne, Allingham, Bailey, Bentley, Blake, Dickson Carr, Chesterton, Christie, Cole, Connington, Crofts, Carter Dickson, Jepson, Eustace, Freeman, Gilbert, Gorell, Jerrold, Kennedy, Lorac, Morrison, Orczy, Punshon, Sayers, Wade, and Walpole; detective fiction at its best by the best; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Dodd, Mead and Company. New York. Hardback. Third printing of first edition. 1939. No DW. Original yellow cloth, slightly crumpled around head and tail of spine. Pages browned, pencil inscription erased from half-title otherwise a clean and sound copy of a very scarce title.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fatal Descent by John Rhode & Carter Dickson First Edition Dodd, Mead & Company 1939. A fine copy with both contents and edges completely unblemished. No name inscriptions or sign of previous ownership. Covers are exceptionally bright and have no rubbing to corners. In original near fine dust jacket, correctly priced at $2.00. Scarce.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1939. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's yellow decorative cloth stamped in black; [8],280pp. Moderate wear to cloth margins with brief exposure at corners, spine rather toned, front hinge slightly starting, else a Very Good, still bright example, though lacking the rare dust jacket. Crime novel written by the American author Carter Dickson (a.k.a. John Dickson Carr) and the English author John Rhode (a.k.a. Cecil Street), "Fatal Descent" takes the locked room mystery to new heights with the murder occurring in a hermetically sealed elevator.