Thwing Eugene Editor (21 results)

paperback. Condition: Fair. stock photo does not represent this listing; 1934; illustrated paper covers; wear and discoloration around edges; spine and corners are creased; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; hinge split with backstrip separating from spine; pages are toning, but clean; 392 pages. Photos available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. A VERY GOOD book in a FAIR+++ jacket (now in a new brodart).

Hard cover. Condition: Good in poor dust jacket. 10 v. 15 cm. old book VOLUME 2 ii ONLY! No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. No remainder mark. DJ PART INSIDE BOOK SMALL SECTION ONLY h.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume One of a ten volume, early 20th century collection of the best detective stories. Gilt lettering on spine strip, red cloth binding. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Volume 3 of this ten volume set, an early 20th century collection of the best detective stories. Dust jacket has minor wear. Book.

Flexible Boards. Condition: Good. Moderate wear including an exterior edge stain. Book.

Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. ; Stories by A. Conan Doyle, Vincent Starrett, Maurice LeBlanc, Henry C. Rowland, Henry Smith Williams, and Alexandre Dumas. ; Vol. 6; 208 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine. . Volume shows mild wear and rubbing around corners and spine with some minor loss at heel of spine, corners bumped, spine sunned, rear hinge starting. GOOD. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. 195, (4) pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 10" x 13 2/4" magazine bound in stapled, pictorial covers. Very Good condition. Rusting to the stapled and rubbing along the spine. Dust soiling to the covers. Rubs to the corners. Age toning to the pages. 2" vertical damp stain at the magazine's upper right corner. This issue includes "Putting Their House in Order" by Harris Dickson, "The Courtship of the Wiggins Children" by Allis Ross Burnett, "Whose Is It?" by William Jennings Bryn, and other features. Cream of Wheat ad featuring art by N.C. Wyeth.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 10" x 13 2/4" magazine bound in stapled, pictorial covers. Very good condition. Rusting to the staples and dusting to the covers. Rubs to the corners. Damp stain at the magazine's upper left corner. Vertical crease along the length of the front cover. This issue includes "Mr. Taft in the White House" by Lyman Beecher Stowe, Drawings by M. Leone Bracker, and other features.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 10" x 13 2/4" magazine bound in stapled, pictorial covers. VG- condition. Rusting to the staples and dusting to the covers. Slight spine roll. Rubs to the corners. The front cover is split from the spine at its lower 2". Some creases to the rear cover. This issue includes "The Battle for Ohio" by Hugh C. Weir, "The Young Lawyer" by John S. Wise, and other features. Cover art by Benton.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Thwing, Eugene (editor-in-chief). The World's Best One Hundred Detective Stories (in Ten Volumes). Volume Seven. New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1929. Small 8vo, red textured cloth with black diamond spine design, 219 pp. Printed in the U.S.A. First Edition, First Printing (1929) - issued as part of Funk & Wagnalls' ten-volume anthology series presenting landmark works in early 20th-century detective fiction. This volume features stories by Octavus Roy Cohen, Edmund Snell, R. Austin Freeman ('The Pathologist to the Rescue'; 'The Blue Sequin'), Thomas W. Hanshew ('The Mystery of the Steel Room'), George Barton, and William B. Maxwell. The series sought to showcase 'the world's best' examples of deduction, forensic method, and narrative suspense drawn from British and American magazine literature of the preceding decades. Condition: Very Good. Bound in clean red publisher's cloth with minimal rubbing; spine titles sharp and unfaded. Binding sound and hinges firm. Textblock evenly toned but supple, free of writing or tears. A well-preserved example of this fragile Depression-era production. Edition details: Copyright 1929 by Funk & Wagnalls Company; no later printings indicated. Issued simultaneously across all ten numbered volumes, uniformly bound in red cloth with black decorative spine stamping. Printed under the Articles of the Pan-American Copyright Convention, August 11 1910. Eugene Thwing (1873-1940) was an American editor and anthologist best known for his work compiling the World's Best literary series for Funk & Wagnalls. Through these collections - spanning detective, mystery, and adventure fiction - Thwing helped preserve and popularize early genre writing from both sides of the Atlantic, bridging popular magazine fiction and emerging literary recognition of detective storytelling.

First Edition. Good copy in original title-blocked cloth with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Includes previous owner's signature. Physical description; vol. 8 (only): 205 pages ; 16 cm. Subjects; Detective and mystery stories. Genre; Fiction. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Good copy in original title-blocked cloth with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Includes previous owner's signature. Physical description; vol. 8 (only): 205 pages ; 16 cm. Subjects; Detective and mystery stories. Genre; Fiction. 1 Kg.

Condition: Fair. Fair condition. Moderate wear. Binding beginning to loosen,pages very age toned. Pictures available upon request. AP.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 5"x7.25" 208 numbered pgs. Volume 3 of a 5 volume set. Grass green cloth boards w/faded gold letters and black ink design on spine. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/vanilla tone. Not x-library, no DJ, unmarked. Small tear to bottom of title page. Top edge faded green. Faint rubs and soiling to boards. Back gutter exposed. Price covers secure ship in box w/track #. See photos for contents.

Hardcover. Condition: Good plus. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall, variant green cloth; ex libris Roy Wagner ( bookplate designed and signed by Bessie L. Nyb (?) featuring an owl ) . "There are 52 American stories and 49 each from England, France and Germany." Contributors include Conan Doyle, Harry Stephen Keeler, Melville Davisson Post, Freeman Wills Croft," The editor's boast that this is an international collection is legitimate and so - or nearly so - is the title of the collection; that is, if one bears in mind the literature available [before 1930]." - Barzun & Taylor, CATALOGUE OF CRIME Rev. ed., no. 4168.

Hard Cover in Red Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Nine of ten volumes. Volume V is missing. All with the green paper jackets in poor conditions. Hard cover in red cloth FINE.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. dj has edge chipping & wear, binding tight, no markings. light mark on cover. F3 2.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 10 volumes. 12mo, publisher's red cloth decoratively stamped in gilt at spine (gilt darkened, some spots to boards, one with small marginal coffee stain, overall very good). Decorative art nouveau dust jackets (some chips with moderate loss to spine ends and extremities, mild toning, overall fairly clean and attractive, very good).