Royce Howes (28 results)

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

Hardcover. Condition: VG-. 1st Edition. Condition is VG-. Clean pages and tight binding. RFEP missing. Rose-colored boards are clean, with moderate wear and a darkened spine. No DJ. A nice, solid copy. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. New York, 1953; brown cloth covered boards; minimal shelf wear; jacket flaps pasted to paste-downs, rest of jacket missing; Previous owner's name on front and rear end papers; 248 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. None Listed. 248 pp, b/w frontis of Edgar Guest, the book and contents are clean and tight, the corners are lightly rubbed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Included. Stated second printing. Heavy wear, tear, & soiling. Dust jacket included. Stale odor from prolonged storage. Photos available upon request. (Shelf: L2) Books are carefully sealed in waterproof poly and boxed to prevent damage during transit.

Condition: New.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Edgar A. Guest: A Biography. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Printing. Hardcover with dustjacket. 1945, 2nd printing. Corners and spine extremeties lightly bumped. Boards have a couple tiny, faint spots. Slight spine lean. Else the binding is quite clean. Top page edges are age-darkened. Small spot on front pastedown. 1/4" loss to spine head of DJ. DJ edges are chipped, bumped and have short creases and tears. DJ rear panel is lightly rubbed. ; 23A; 7-3/4 x 5-1/2"; 223 pages.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In blue cloth. Blank front end paper has been removed. Jacket flaps glued to front and rear end papers.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Signed. This book has minor corner bumping and edge wear. There is some rubbing of the boards, slight spotting. Yellowing from age, book cloth has slightly tinted corner edges of the text block. Binding is tight, clean. Both the author and Mr. Guest have inscribed the half-title page "For Winston & Constance." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 258 pages. 8.90x5.90x0.70 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. First. There is a party at the prestigious home of Colonel Ludlow Ames. The younger folk get a trifle lewd while the Colonel and his friends are off in the study (and the armory) discussing business and the Colonel's collection of antique guns. A few hours later someone is found dead, and two guns are found - recently discharged. 274 pages. Cond: Red boards with a graphic of a man and a woman on the spine. NO dust jacket. Corners and edges are bright and clean w/o wear. Spine is fine, binding is tight. No names, marks nor tears. Pages 59 -70 have been crumbled sli. at one corner. Pages are yellowed w/ age. VERY clean and tight. Attractive. Almost giftable !! Quote (p. 65) : " . Lucias roared in his face, leaning across the desk. ` This is a homicide investigation and I don't want your house dick or you or anybody else around here putting his . ." Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: VG-. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book has modest cover wear, light soiling, slightly cocked spine thus very good minus. A scarce title. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Novel Selections Inc. New York. 1945. Paperback. Pages are browned and covers and spine ends are a little worn o/w a remarkably good, clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 218 pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is tight with bright covers and spine, clean unmarked interior. Wear to the jacket with tearing/chipping mostly to the spine, edges, and corners. Some fading and foxing to the jacket. Stated first printing. Thomas McDade's personal copy with his bookplate. McDade was a member of the FBI on the Dillinger Squad and author of The Annals of Murder.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Stated first printing. Moderate wear. Stale odor from prolonged storage. Dust jacket is enclosed in a clear protective cover. Photos available upon request. (Shelf: H4) Books are carefully sealed in waterproof poly and boxed to prevent damage during transit.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ***Please Read*** DUST JACKET IS POOR WITH TEARS AROUND THE EDGES - NAME STAMP INSIDE COVER - No marks on text - My shelf location 33-F-42*.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo, original pink cloth over boards, gilt lettering, deckle edge, color illustrated dustjacket. Mystery novel. Very Good, light shelf wear, in Very Good dustjacket, small edge chips.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First printing. Light shelfwear. The boards are bleached. The spine is slanted. Otherwise fine in a sound binding with hinges intact. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 266. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1953 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 266.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Fine copy in a very good jacket.First Edition Stated.$2.00 on flap. Excellent Copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The scarce first edition of this crime novel by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Royce Howes, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first printing, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Howes's novel, set on a tramp steamer, begins with the murder of the ship captain and first officer, with the inexperienced second officer left to take charge of a vessel that is housing a murderer.The publishers term this 'a fast moving, perplexing yarn full of the sea tang and atmosphere so popular with the reading public'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Rubbing to the centre of the back strip, with bumping to back strip head and tail. Light marks to boards. Discolouration to centre of dust wrapper back strip, with two areas of partial loss to the front wrap, with areas of the paper lifting. Small number of small closed tears to dust wrapper tail. Rubbing to centre of reverse of dust wrapper back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. book.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.