Schier Norma (38 results)

Condition: good. Storage wear, fading, and creasing to cover and spine. Small portion of bottom front cover torn away. Pages are in very good condition and free of notes and other markings. Binding intact. Individually inspected by Scott. Thanks for supporting an independent bookseller!

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear. Previous owner's name/inscription inside front cover. FINAL CHAPTER STILL UNCUT.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ex-library edition with stickers, stamps, markings and an inside front cover check out sleeve. There is wear around the edges and corners of the book and jacket; the jacket has a mylar sleeve.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing of this Double Issue of 20 Short Stories. Featured are The Passing of Mr. Toad by Jeffry Scott, Black Water by Doug Allyn, Sunset on the Padang by Neil Jillett, The Theft of Twenty-Nine Minutes by Edward D Hoch, The Jury Box by Jon L Breen, Come Night, Come Silence by Suzanne Jones, Murder Mystery by Alex Auswaks, Wild Strawberries by James A Ritchie, The Mystery Crossword by Norma Schier, The Eye of the Beholder by Robert Barnard, The Corpse in the Attic by Gunnar Staalesen, Two Feet of Steel by Terry Mullins, The Telephone by Augusto Mario Delfino, Satan and the Printer by Tom Tolnay, Window Shopper by Patrick Ireland, The Final Paragraph by Henry Slesar, The Hit by Michael Z Lewin, Perfect in Every Way by Seymour Shubin, I'll Never Leave You by Donald Olson and Fox in the Briars by Kate Wilhelm. In Near Fine Condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. HB Introduction by Stanley Ellin. Features (among others) Sherlockian pastiches or parodies by E. Aldon Canoy (THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY BRIDE) and Rif H. Lobster (THE ADVENTURE OF THE BOING! RITUAL). Where do they get those names?

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover in jacket. Inscibed by the author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is rubbed along bottom edges. Red remainder dot on bottom page edge. Covers are bowed near spine. 167 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. MYSTERIES-This regular size hardcover is SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR and is VERY GOOD with a large PO signature on the FFEP in a VERY GOOD DJ. Clean, bright pages. black w/white lettering 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. book is tight with no markings, some mild soiling to page edges, authors signature and introduction person have both signed on the first page, dj has rubbing and soiling, edges have a couple of small tears along the back top and bottom. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Limited edition 206/250 copies signed by authors on limitation page. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text is unmarked. Dj shelf worn & toned in a mylar cover. Housed in a shelf worn slipcase. Signed by Author.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Verry Good. First Edition trade. A limited edition was also issued. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 167 pages, red cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white but fore-edges lightly foxed and a remainder mark in the bottom fore-edge. In a very good, moderately worn dust jacket with theoriginal price present.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Kay Barth is invited by an old friend to investigate malicious mischief at the Santa Fe Opera. Very gently rubbed, final chapter with the solution still sealed.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. In her first appearance, Colorado D.A. Kay Barth sets out to solve the murder of a woman found on a ski slope. A "can you solve the crime" type of mystery with the final chapter still sealed. Rubbed with a sticker scuff on the front.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HB Introduction by Stanley Ellin. Features (among others) Sherlockian pastiches or parodies by E. Aldon Canoy (THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY BRIDE) and Rif H. Lobster (THE ADVENTURE OF THE BOING! RITUAL). Where do they get those names? This is copy 118 of a limited edition of 250 copies signed by Schier and Ellin. In a fine slip-case. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: near FINE. A VERY FINE tight copy in a near FINE bright dj , 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Very good hardcover with near fine unclipped dust jacket. Straight secure spine with tight hinges and clean interior. Pages are toned due to age.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. A FINE crisp copy in a FINE bright dj in a FINE slipcase. Limited edition, this is #62 of 250 numbered, signed copies, 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Like New with a Very Good DJ in mylar cover wrap.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket is protected by mylar. Name of previous owner inside cover. Stated first edition.

mass market paperback. 16mo 184pp. first printing April 1979. A Zebra Mystery Puzzler #26 "Can You Solve the Crime by finding the clues in the story, on the cover, and in the illustrations--before you cut open the final, sealed, chapter? #02434. Book VG: mild toning, mild shelf wear to wraps, text unmarked, final "mystery" chapter uncut.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by the author on half title page, VG/VG, 1st edn. Inscribed by Author(s).

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. first edition hardcover. fine book in a fine dust jacket slipcased , signed, numbered, one of 250 copies.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Stnaley Ellin. About fine in a very good dust jacket with creasing, tears, and rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Limited, Signed Numbered First Edition. #219 of 250 copies signed by both Schier and Ellin. Fine copy in near fine dust jacket with slight scuffing on front panel in fine matching slipcase as issued. No prior owner markings or bookplates. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Dennis J. Grastorf (illustrator). Numbered. The Mysterious Press, New York, 1979. Limited First Edition bright red Hardcover with matching Slipcase and DJ, 169 pp. This is # 188 of 250 copies SIGNED by author Schier and Introducer Stanley Ellin. A collection of clever pastiches of famous detectives such as Sherlock Holmes, Ellery Queen, and Nero Wolfe, with anagrams abounding. Fascinating. This copy is unread and almost as new but for very slight wear at upper edge of front DJ flap (due removal from slipcase). Signed By Author & Introducer.

First edition. Paperback original. An antiquarian bookseller in Aspen, CO, is murdered. A sealed mystery with the solution revealed only when the pages are opened. Sealed section at rear of book has been carelessly opened and the fore-edges of a few pages have been torn, else a near fine copy.

Hard Cover in Slipcase. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Grastorf, Dennis J. (illustrator). First Edition. First edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover, in bright red slip-case as issued. Introduction by Stanley Ellin. LIMITED EDITION. One of 250 copies, this being #173, that is SIGNED BY BOTH SHIER and ELLIN at limitation page. Collects fourteen pastiches in which author and character names are anagrams. Ten were first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, four are new. Each author's name is an anagram, of course, as is each Detective's. But so is every other proper name in "The Anagram Detectives" -- the first collection of it's kind. Signed by All Contributors. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. [4], 167, [3] pages. Review copy slip laid in. The dust jacket has some wear, tears, soiling and chips. Introduction by Stanley Ellin. Puzzle pastiches of the world's greatest detectives and authors, each being an anagram, as well as every proper name in this collection. Ten of the stories were originally printed in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Stanley Bernard Ellin (October 6, 1916 July 31, 1986) was an American mystery writer. Ellin was born in Brooklyn, New York. After a brief tenure in the Army, Ellin began writing full time. While his novels are acclaimed, he is best known for his short stories. In May 1948, his first sale, and one of Ellin's most famous short stories, "The Specialty of the House", appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. He was awarded three Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Edgar Award). His first Edgar was for the short story "The House Party" in 1954, the next for the short story "The Blessington Method" in 1956, and his third for the novel The Eighth Circle in 1959. Several episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents were based on Ellin short stories, and his novels Dreadful Summit, House of Cards, and The Bind were adapted into feature films. Charles Silet writes that Ellin "did much toward erasing the distinctions between traditional genre and mainstream fiction by writing novels more concerned with character and locale than with plot." Ellin was a past president of the Mystery Writers of America (MWA). He was awarded the 1981 MWA's Grand Master Award. An Anagram is a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another, such as cinema, formed from iceman. Outstanding pastiches of the fiction of such brilliant authors as Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers and John Dickson Carr have been gathered in this work. Four of the 13 greatest detectives (plus one master crook) are contain in this unique collection. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.