Stanley C Vickers (17 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Dirone Photography (cover photo) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 22 # 121 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1953. Contains stories by Roy Vickers (The Frame Up), David From (Leslie Ford - Zenith Jones Brown - The Man on the Iron Palings), Erle Stanley Gardner (Bird in the Hand), Richard Deming (Open File), Don M Mankiewicz (Two Rolls, No Coffee), C P Donnel, Jr (The Fourth Degree), Rhys Davies (Vivian Rees Davies - The Trip to London), William Abrahams (The Poison Typewriter), W R Burnett (Nobody's All Bad), Mel Dinelli (The Man), Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White - Out of Patience . ), and others. GGA cover. Light wear at the edges with rubbing to the spine hinges. Script "e" written in black at the top left of the front cover. Light curl toward the spine. Some soiling to the rear cover and a small corner crease at the bottom. Browning to the pages. A good to very good copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Dirone Photography (cover photo) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 22 # 121 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1953. Contains stories by Roy Vickers (The Frame Up), David From (Leslie Ford - Zenith Jones Brown - The Man on the Iron Palings), Erle Stanley Gardner (Bird in the Hand), Richard Deming (Open File), Don M Mankiewicz (Two Rolls, No Coffee), C P Donnel, Jr (The Fourth Degree), Rhys Davies (Vivian Rees Davies - The Trip to London), William Abrahams (The Poison Typewriter), W R Burnett (Nobody's All Bad), Mel Dinelli (The Man), Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White - Out of Patience . ), and others. GGA cover. Light wear at the edges. .75" closed tear at the top left spine hinge with an associated one that also goes across the spine creating a loose flap. 2" closed tear at the bottom right spine hinge. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Dirone Photography (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 22 # 121 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1953. Contains stories by Roy Vickers (The Frame Up), David From (Leslie Ford - Zenith Jones Brown - The Man on the Iron Palings), Erle Stanley Gardner (Bird in the Hand), Richard Deming (Open File), Don M Mankiewicz (Two Rolls, No Coffee), C P Donnel, Jr (The Fourth Degree), Rhys Davies (Vivian Rees Davies - The Trip to London), William Abrahams (The Poison Typewriter), W R Burnett (Nobody's All Bad), Mel Dinelli (The Man), Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White - Out of Patience . ), and others. GGA cover. Minimal wear at the edges. Light browning to the page edges. A nice, sharp copy. A very good or better copy.

Fair condition with scotch tape to edge of front cover, and rear cover- repairing an edge tear, spine completely covered with tape going an inch over front and rear covers. Covers are lightly toned. Page are toned, small tears to pages at binding staple. See photos whb15E.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Pages unmarked. No jacket. Small moisture drop stain on spine. Beige binding square & firm. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Softcover, protected in plastic sleeve. December 1952, Volume I, Number 4. Yellow covers with green and black lettering. 127 pages. In fair condition. Covers are toned, with creasing along edges. Paper over foot of spine is torn, revealing about half an inch of the binding. Pages are toned with age, with some light chipping along page edges (light enough that I missed it upon first glance), but are otherwise free of foreign markings. Binding is strong. Containing stories from some of the most well-known mystery writers today.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. 110, No. 5. Edited by Kenneth S. White. Cover art by Paul Stahr for "Jungle Jeopardy" (novelette) by Brian O'Brien. Includes "Sweetwater Pirate" (novelette) by R. A. Emberg; "It Had to Be Fog" by Stanley C. Vickers; "Mazis in Mugs" by Jonathan Fettes; "Baby from Base Point" by M. A. Shumard II; "A Heel in the Moon" by H. Bedford-Jones; "Traitor Unknown" (pt. 2 of 3) by M. V. Heberden; "Watch Below" (Fact Story) by F. R. Buckley; "Fourth Generation" (verse) by Florence Burrill Jacobs. Departments: "The Camp-Fire"; "Ask Adventure"; "Ask Adventure Experts"; "Lost Trails"; "The Trail Ahead." Illustrated by Gordon Grant, V. E. Pyles, Charles Dye, Hamilton Greene, Frank Kramer, and Nick Eggenhofer. Standard wear and tear at edges; creasing; a little lean; minor stain at upper edge of early pages; some soiling. Book.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. McLoughlin, Denis (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. First UK paperback edition. Published in the UK in hard covers by Boardman in 1951. This volume contains some of the stories gathered in Best Detective Stories of the Year 1950 published in the US by Dutton in 1950. The front cover has a small patch of label residue and a little surface and edge wear. The rear cover has a one inch crease to the bottom left corner. The spine has reading creasing, edge rubbing and a small chip at the top. The pages are lightly browned but otherwise generally unmarked. First printing. Cover illustration by Denis McLoughlin.

Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. The front cover has a three inch closed tear at the top left corner along the spine. The spine has a little surface chipping at the top and bottom. There is some light discolouration to the rear cover which has some chipping along the top edge. Pages browned around the edges with rusty marks around the staples but otherwise unmarked. Contains 'The Endowment Murders' by Vickers, 'Footprints of Death' by Webb, 'Murder of a Lady' by Treat, 'She Walks in Terror' by Salz, 'Contract with Death' by Reilly, 'House of Clay' by Hoover, 'Busy Signal' by Dennis, Victoria by Hartmann and 'Codes' by Lysing. One large illustration at the beginning of the first story. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. XLIX, No. 6. Digest-sized. Cover art by Modest Stein for "Murder by Magic" (novel) by Maxwell Grant. Includes "Death by Diagnosis" (novelette) by Stanley C. Vickers; "Headless Horseman" by Thorne Lee; "Second Shot" by Jim Kjelgaard. Departments and Features:"Code of the Month"; "My Strangest Experience". Illustrations by Kramer and others. Front hinge glue-mended with creasing and small losses; tanning; first few pages have short stress tear; edge nicks and wear. Cover stamped "Property of Ted White", noted editor and writer, from his collection. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Very good in original wrappers with short closed separation on the rear spinefold.and light additional wear.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. L, No. 3. Digest-sized. Cover art is uncredited for "The White Skulls" (novel) by Maxwell Grant. Includes "The Trap" (novelette) by Edward Ronns; "The Collaborators" by Stanley C. Vickers; "The Beautiful Lies" by Robert Lambert Merrill. Departments: "Code of the Month"; "My Strangest Experience". Illustrations by Kramer and others. Glued inside frotn cover; spine tears; with losses at lower end; stress; tanning; minor soiling. Owner's stamp on cover and p. 5, "Property of Ted White", noted author and editor. Book.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. XXIX, No. 5. Digest-sized. Edited by Babette Rosmond. Cover art is uncredited. Includes "Once Over Lightly" by Kenneth Robeson; "Or the World Will Die" by John D. MacDonald; "Operation Successful" by Stanley C. Vickers; "Second Visitor by Peter Reed; "Pride Is a Good thing" by Don James; "Worse Than Murder" by Henry Rieser. Illustrated by Edd Cartier. Tanning; edge nicks, wear, and small corner losses; spine tears and losses; rear cover partuially loose. Cover and p. 5 stamped "Property of Ted White", noted editor and writer, from his collection. Book.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good+. Rare issue. Magazine cover has very light toning and shelf wear but clean, bright and very good+. Pages lightly toned and near pristine. Contents: 6 A Solution on India Paul Hunter ed8 Sabotage in the U. S. A. [Part 1 of 5] Alan Hynd ar11 A Kiss for Miss Bliss Howard Breslin ss14 Warner Brother Number One [Part 1 of 3] Frederick Van Ryn ar18 Life of the Party Gordon Ramsey ss23 Pig Boats Don't Have Press Agents Walter Karig ar26 Football Will Never See Their Like Again Edward Prell ar34 Wiseacre Alice Lent Covert ss40 The Restoration of 10 B Stanley C. Vickers vi44 China and IndiaStronghold and Menace Leonard Engel & A. Leidenfrost ar46 Caribbean Patrol [Part 2 of 3] James Edward Grant sl54 I Was a Prisoner of the Japs [Part 4 of 4] Wenzell Brown ar.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. LIV, No. 3. Digest-sized. Edited by William J. deGrouchy. Cover art is uncredited for "Jade Dragon" (novel) by Maxwell Grant. Includes "They're Hustling You" (True Story) by Walter Gardner; "The End of the Line" by Miriam Allen deFord; "We're All Human" by Stanley C. Vicker. Illustrations by Cartier and others. Tears at spine ends with loss at head; tanning; minor creasing, soiling and edgewear. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Lovely copy of this rare older volume. Text is unmarked, though the pages are yellowed. Covers are bright if lightly edge worn. 162pp.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. XLIX, No. 3. Digest-sized. Cover art by Modest Stein for "Tear-Drops of Buddha" (novel) by Maxwell Grant. Includes "The Peculiar Blood" (novelette) by Stanley C. Vickers; "The Non-Murder" by Peter Reed; "Death gets Married" by John P. Reilly. Departments: "My Strangest Experience". Illustrations by Kramer and others. Tanning; stress, or glue-shrink; edge chipping; creasing; a few small stains; . Cover stamped "Property of Ted White", noted editor and writer, from his collection. Book.