Stuart Palmer: First Edition (194 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Covers laminated with clear plastic.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A real nice clean unmarked 303 page first edition hardcover with 1 low in printing number line. Has a nice clean dust jacket that mirrors the cover boards. Well-illustrated withj full color an d black & white photos. Set up in chronological history by time frame periods. See my scans for nice condition and more information. Size: 11 1/2h x 9 1/2w. Book.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fair-Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 24 # 129 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1954. Contains stories by Rov Vickers (William Edward Vickers - Find the Innocent), , Stuart Palmer & Craig Rice (Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig - Autopsy and Eva), Pat Frank (Harry Hart "Pat" Frank - On Edge), Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay & Manfred Bennington Lee - , GI Story), James M Ullman (James Michael Ullman - , Anything New on the Strangler?), Ring Lardner (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner - Claude Diphthong, Student of Crime), Don Marquis (Donald Robert Perry Marquis - The Iron Hand in the Velvet Glove), Ellis Parker Butler (The Silver Protector), Arthur Conan Doyle (How it Happened), and others. GGA cover. Light wear at the edges. Some waviness to the front cover and top edges of the first few pages that suggest moisture exposure, however there aren't any stains. Initials (DJ) written in the upper right of the front cover.Light browning to the edges of the front cover and the pages. Rubbing to the spine that has worn off most of the writing. The interior is clean and tight. A good very good copy. Dirone Photography (cover photo) (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 26 # 6, whole # 145 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1955. All text cover variant. Contains stories by Clayton Rawson (Merlini and the Sound Effects Murder), Michael Innes (The Ghost of a Ghost), Ellery Queen (The Black Ledger), Stuart Palmer (Hildegarde and the Spanish Cavalier), Anthony Gilbert (Once is Once Too Many), Mabel Seeley (Let Run, or Catch?), Cornell Woolrich (One Night to be Dead Sure Of), and others. Light wear at the edges. "1955" written in black marker at hte top of the front cover and also at the bottom left. Small rub spots to the front cover. Rubbing and wear to the spine hinges with a 1.25" closed tear at the bottom right. Very light browning to the pages. A good to very good or better copy.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 26 # 6, whole # 145 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1955. All text cover variant. Contains stories by Clayton Rawson (Merlini and the Sound Effects Murder), Michael Innes (The Ghost of a Ghost), Ellery Queen (The Black Ledger), Stuart Palmer (Hildegarde and the Spanish Cavalier), Anthony Gilbert (Once is Once Too Many), Mabel Seeley (Let Run, or Catch?), Cornell Woolrich (One Night to be Dead Sure Of), and others.Light wear to the spine (insect damage) and a little to the front cover. A good to very good copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st printing indicated on the copyright page. Bright and fine. Pictorial glossy cover. No markings or noticeable wear - looks new. Well-illustrated chronological history.

Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hildegarde Withers is just your average school teacher -- with above-average skills in the art of deduction. Based in New York City, she often finds herself investigating crimes led only by her own curiosity. So when a summer vacation to Los Angeles finds her working on the set of a film adaption of the Lizzie Borden story, and that job is interrupted by the screenwriter's death, the multi-talented Withers jumps at the opportunity to engage her favorite hobby. The local authorities quickly deem the death accidental, but Withers suspects that, alongside the fictionalized "forty whacks," someone has dealt out a whack that is all too real. And when it becomes clear that there is something sinister at work in Hollywood, she teams up with a detective from back home to catch a wily killer. Penzler Publisher, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2018 THIS IS A BRAND NEW BOOK.…

Paperback. first PB. M-3079, good, many creases mystery novel, paperback.

Paperback. first PB. M-3079, good - very good, many creases mystery novel, paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. An excellent hardcover copy of the first edition/first printing, with dustcover: book and dustcover near fine. Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches, 277 pp., index. Two red library "withdrawn" stamps (front free endpaper and top edge of book block), else near fine. (Never a circulating library book.) (K085).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. #601, Mapback, First Printing. Mapback, cover by Willard Downes. Slight general wear, light wear at spine ends. Photos on reqeust. Size: Mass Market.

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: New. 1st Prtg. 1st prtg, (originally published in 1947). A fine, unread copy of the trade paperback. Inspector Piper asks Hildegarde Withers to mind her own business. And so she does. But of course her business is murder. Retired schoolteacher Miss Hildegarde Withers has promised her old friend Oscar Piper that she will stop meddling in police affairs. It looks as if she means it, too, for when Pat Montague's Long Island society friends ask her to help clear the young Anny veteran of the murder of Huntley Cairns, his former sweetheart's husband, Hildegarde instead turns him over to the police. But then she has second thoughts and alternates between investigating suspects, snooping for clues, and studying her tank of tropical fish. Oddly enough, it is the fish-and a little pancake flour-that finally furnish the clues she needs to find the murderer. Hildy is as tart-tongued and delightful as ever in Miss Withers Regrets, and you won't regret that she is once again refusing to mind her own business. First published in 1947, this was the first post-World War II novel to feature Hildy and Oscar, whose exploits delighted readers and moviegoers in the 1930s and 1940s. Pudim, Rob (illustrator). Trade Paperback.…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. A class trip to a Manhattan aquarium leads Miss Withers to her first case. Although the stock market had crashed recently, it was too early for most people to predict that the Great Depression was about to get under way. For 39-year-old spinster schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers, it's business as usual. And part of her usual business is taking her class for an outing to the aquarium to see the penguins. Instead, she spots the floating corpse of Wall Street broker Gerald Lester and quickly realizes that Inspector Oscar Piper ofNYPD Homicide isn't up to solving this tricky case, especially when he appears ready to accept the confession of an obviously innocent young man. Red herrings as well as penguins abound. Miss Withers has a number of questions that need answers before she can reel in the real murderer: Who did Lester's wife meet behind the stairs? What did the pickpocket see? Who was man in the fedora? And just how did Miss Wither's hatpin turn into a lethal weapon? First published in 1931, The Penguin Pool Murder was as big a hit with readers as it was with moviegoers when it was filmed the following year starring Edna May Oliver as Miss Withers and James Gleason as Inspector Piper. Trade Paperback.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 17 # 87 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 1951. Contains a novelette by Irvin S Cobb (The Darkest Closet), and stories by Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White - Crime Must Have a Stop), Stuart Palmer (Where Angels Feared to Tread), F Tennyson Jesse (Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse Harwood - Lord of the Moment), Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler - Who Killed the Mermaid), Thomas Narcejac (Pierre Ayraud - The Police Are on the Stairs, Cyril Hare (Margin of Safety), and others. Light wear at the edges. Small loss at the top of the spine. Small rubs at the top of the back cover. Light browning to the pages and the edges of the covers. A very good copy. George Salter (cover) (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Davis Publications 1961 1st ed. 130pp Very good with creasing to spine, light wear and rubbing to covers, pages lightly toned. bx812.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Hardcover Edition. (xii) 386 pp. Quarter-bound in black cloth on black boards; lettered in silver on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Sj art by Savio Mizzi. This anthology contains: Introduction: Sport by Isaac Asimov; Diamond Dick by Jon L. Breen; A Game of Chess by Robert Barr; Coffin Corner by Anthony Boucher; The Great Rodeo Fix by Leo R. Ellis; The Sailing Club by David Ely; The Season Ticket Holder by Joyce Harrington; The Last Downhill by Clark Howard; The Other Runner by John Lutz; Storm by Ed McBain; Dead on the Pin by John D. MacDonald; The Affair of the Avalanche Bicycle and Tyre Co. Limited by Arthur Morrison; Tomorrow's Murder by Stuart Palmer; Trojan Horse by Ellery Queen; The Return of Cardula by Jack Ritchie; This Won't Kill You by Rex Stout; Murder on the Race Course by Julian Symons; The Hustler by Walter S. Tevis; Without the Option by P. G. Wodehouse; and The Man Who Pretended to Like Baseball by Isaac Asimov. Size: 8vo. Savio Mizzi; (illustrator). Book.…

First Edition. A bright copy in tight binding Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. With almost two hundred colour photographs the story of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight shows that it is as much the characters of the pilots and ground crew that bring these classic aircraft to life, as well oiled machinery and aviation fuel. This blue cloth hardback book is in really very good condition with normal wear and marks consistent with use and age. All 160 pages, text and illustrations are in good perfect order. Dust jacket included. This large book may increase in its listed postage price depending on final delivery destination. First Published in 1996, First Edition. A truly wonderful book that the authors depict a true story of how a handful of dedicated people maintain a living memorial to all those that flew and perished in the skies of a world at war.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. With almost two hundred colour photographs the story of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight shows that it is as much the characters of the pilots and ground crew that bring these classic aircraft to life, as well oiled machinery and aviation fuel. This blue cloth hardback book is in really very good condition with normal wear and marks consistent with use and age. All 160 pages, text and illustrations are in good perfect order. Dust jacket included. This large book may increase in its listed postage price depending on final delivery destination. First Published in 1996, First Edition. A truly wonderful book that the authors depict a true story of how a handful of dedicated people maintain a living memorial to all those that flew and perished in the skies of a world at war.…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Prtg. First IPL printining, January 1991, with complete number line beginning with 1. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. A class trip to a Manhattan aquarium leads Miss Withers to her first case. Although the stock market had crashed recently, it was too early for most people to predict that the Great Depression was about to get under way. For 39-year-old spinster schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers, it's business as usual. And part of her usual business is taking her class for an outing to the aquarium to see the penguins. Instead, she spots the floating corpse of Wall Street broker Gerald Lester and quickly realizes that Inspector Oscar Piper ofNYPD Homicide isn't up to solving this tricky case, especially when he appears ready to accept the confession of an obviously innocent young man. Red herrings as well as penguins abound. Miss Withers has a number of questions that need answers before she can reel in the real murderer: Who did Lester's wife meet behind the stairs? What did the pickpocket see? Who was man in the fedora? And just how did Miss Wither's hatpin turn into a lethal weapon? First published in 1931, The Penguin Pool Murder was as big a hit with readers as it was with moviegoers when it was filmed the following year starring Edna May Oliver as Miss Withers and James Gleason as Inspector Piper. Zann, Nicky (illustrator). Trade Paperback.…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this new trade paperback. When pretty little Ina Kell arrived in Manhattan full of foolish dreams about making it big in show business, she had no idea how quickly she'd be in the headlines. But when TV personality Tony Fagan is murdered in the apartment building where she's staying and she disappears shortly thereafter, the search is on, led by Inspector Oscar Piper and his longtime friend Hildegarde Withers. The chief suspect is playboy Junior Gault, whose company sponsored Fagan's show and who was the target of some intemperate remarks Fagan made on the air. Hildy and her beloved poodle Talleyrand soon find themselves in Tijuana, where a clever street urchin named Vito becomes her right-hand man. She's soon joined by Oscar, Junior's socialite fiancee Dallas Trempleau, and other refugees from the Big Apple. And while Hildy may be retired from teaching, she's clearly not ready to put her career as an amateur sleuth extraordinaire behind her just yet. First published in 1951, this is the twelfth of thirteen books to feature Hildy and Oscar, whose exploits delighted readers and moviegoers in the 1930s and 1940s. Pudim, Rob (illustrator). Trade Paperback.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Very light shelf-wear to dust-jacket edges. Crisp clean unclipped dust-jacket, fresh covers with gilt lettering on spine, tight binding, clean pages and end-papers . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. ISBN: 1899884017. ISBN/EAN: 9781899884018. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 77515010112. All our books are sent by tracked mail. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. #18, Mapback, First Printing. 240pp. Slight wear. Cover by Gerald Gregg. Photos on request. Size: Mass Market.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 186 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt label to spine and black pictorial stripes to cover un original pictorial jacket. First edition. A violent man is killed in a hit and run, and his wife is accused of the crime. In the inky Los Angeles twilight, a man takes his dog for a walk. They are crossing the street when a station wagon comes charging around the curb, crashing into man and beast. Both are killed. The dog might have been innocent, but the man had it coming. It only takes a day for the district attorney to accuse the dead man's wife of the crime. Deirdre Charteris, a former starlet who has lost none of her looks, had every reason to want her husband dead: He was psychotic, violent, and refused to agree to a divorce. But Dee swears her innocence, and Howie Rook believes her. A retired newspaperman with a detective's sixth sense, he will do whatever he can to prove her innocence. But he will find that asking questions can be just as dangerous as going for a walk in the dark. Rook Takes Knight is part of the Howie Rook Mysteries series, which also includes Unhappy Hooligan. Condition: Points lightly rubbed. Jacket price clipped, spine ends rubbed with some small chips else near fine in like jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Light blue cloth binding with gold colored print on front cover and spine. Black ink stain on top right corner of cover and pages. Otherwise sound and unmarked. 60 pages. Yellow dust jacket with red decorations on front and black print on front cover and spine. Dj is soiled and has several small tears in top and bottom edges. Black ink stain on top right corner of dj. Dj in mylar.…

Paperback. first PB. 601, very good , reading crease, (MYSTERY NOVEL), paperback.

Paperback. first PB. 601, very good , reading crease, an ink mark (MYSTERY NOVEL), paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 399 pp. Cream-coloured boards with a small black illustration on the front panel; lettered in black on the spine; illustrated endpapers. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; previous owner's name inside. Illustrated with line drawings by: Sam Dwyer; David Godfrey; Bob Harvey; Nigel Hewetson; Andre Leonard; Lee Noel; David John Roe; Geoff Taylor; Mark Wilkinson; and Phil Stevenson. This anthology contains: From Spy Catcher to Spy by Geoffrey Palmer; The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe; George Blake Double Agent by Alastair Scott; The Veiled Lady by Agatha Christie; The Queen's Super Spy by Avis Murton Carter; The Signalman by Charles Dickens; The German Who Succeeded by John Bulloch; The Spy Who Never Was by Noel Lloyd; Annemarie The Lady Doctor by K. Alan Macdonald; The Thirteenth Man by Lt. Col. Oreste Pinto; Captain Roberton's Secret by Michael Hardwick and Mollie Hardwick; The Eye of the Dawn by Alan Stuart; A Dreadful Bell by Leopold Lewis; Young Saboteurs of the Churchill Club by Samuel Epstein and Beryl Williams; Who Killed Sir Harry Oakes by Elizabeth Bennett; History's First Spies by Alastair Scott; Yours Truly Jack the Ripper by Robert Bloch; The Krogers of Ruislip by Betty Grant-Sutherland; Eileen a Quiet English Miss by Joseph Hutton; The Fatal Six Cables by Kenneth Allen; Operation Cicero by Geoffrey Palmer; The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stephenson; The Death of Edith Cavell by H. R. Berndorff; Gunpowder Treason and Plot by Avis Murton Carter; A Thing on the Ground by Ivan T. Sanderson; Dark Rendezvous by John Agee; The Hoodoo Ship by K. Alan Macdonald; The American Colonel by Edwin T. Woodhall; A Third Man by Alan Stuart; The Alibi by Anonymous; Hitler's Spies by Bernard Newman; The Haunting of U-Boat 65 by Michael Hardwick and Mollie Hardwick; The Night of 6 September by John Baker White; The Sea's Greatest Mystery by K. Alan Macdonald; The Spy in the Barrel by Robert Louis Stephenson; The Bermuda Triangle by David S. Allen; and The Campden Wonder by Noel Lloyd. Size: 8vo. Sam Dwyer; David Godfrey; Bob Harvey; Nigel Hewetson; Andre Leonard; Lee Noel; David John Roe; Geoff Taylor; Mark Wilkinson; Phil Stevenson; (illustrator). Book. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hildegarde Withers' investigation takes her to Tijuana as she tries to solve the murder of a television personality and the disappearance of an aspiring actress. Bumped and rubbed with wear at the edges, tiny nick to the spine. Binding square and solid, jacket flaps glued to the pastedowns, both a bit foxed.…

Cloth. Condition: Fair to Good, Reading Copy. G to VG Dust Jacket. Ex-Library Copy. INVENTORY = B >> 1956; Harper & Brothers, New York, USA; Book-Club Edition; 191-Pages; 300-Grams; Hardcover with Dust Jacket; Goodreads: The Big Top in California is the background which Howie Rook, ex-newspaperman and collector of murder cases, takes on for protective coloring when he is tossed an impeccable suicide by the dead man's widow. Objectively observing, taking part in the clown acts, getting the walk around from two and four legged performers, he sweats it out to prove his verdict. Tony Palladino art on front of the Dust Jacket / PHOTO the Author in Clown Make-Up on back of the Dust Jacket >>> Book = Ex-Library Copy, Overall decent copy, but with: Paper-Pull to inside front end-page, Clear Vinyl Tape down spine with Library sticker, thus FA/G. Dust Jacket = Creasing & scuffing; paper pull to paper spine. Edge-Tears and Wear at top and bottom thus G/VG; Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Tony Palladino art on front of the Dust Jacket / PHOTO the Author in Clown Make-Up on back of the Dust Jacket (illustrator). Book.…