Vickers Stanley (32 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. First Edition. Vol 54 # 2 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Anthology vol. 16, August 1969. Contains stories by Erle Stanley Gardner(TCOT Murder's Bride), Ngaio Marsh (Death on the Air), Cornell Woolrich (Goodbye, New York), Hugh Pentecost (Judson Pentecost Philips - Murder de Luxe), Lawrence Treat (Lawrence Arthur Goldstone - , C as in Clue), George Harmon Coxe (A Neat and Tidy Job), Roy Vickers (William Edward Vickers - A Toy for Jiffy), Eric Ambler (The Case of the Pinchbeck Locket), Ellery Queen (Another Pair of Queens), and others. Light wear at the edges. Price ($12.50) faintly written (not by me!) in black marker on the front cover. A 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. Leslie Ross (Cover) (illustrator). Illustrated wrappers are worn with edge nicks, chips, tears. Moderate wear, front cover detached at top and bottom but holding, age-toning to interior, clean, securely bound. Feature stories: Homestretch Pressure, a Lew Young Diamond Thriller; Pitchers are Real Series Heroes. 113 p. Periodical.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Detective book club, clean interior, covers have some damp stain circles and marks. some edge wear.

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: Good. Vol. XXV, No. 6. Digest-sized. [Edited by Babette Rosmond.] Cover art is uncredited for "The Wee Ones" (novel) by Kenneth Robeson. Includes "Witch Doctor of Weather" by Stanley G. Vickers; "The Better Man" by Lynn Montross; "The Coffin Trick" by Julius Long; "Violence, With Eye-Shade" by Giff Cheshire; "Ram Horn Rhapsody" by R. A. Emberg. Uncredited illustrations. Rear cover tears and about 1/4" lost; edge nicks and tears; creasing; tanning. Book.

softcover. Condition: nf.

softcover. Condition: nf.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition faux red leather boards with elaborately decorated gold front cover, rear cover and spine decorations. The volume contains a a traditional six- hubbed spine. Includes an Introduction by Ellery Queen. Illustrated with black-and-white author photographs at the beginning of each story plus matching red front and rear endpapers. A former owner bookplate is neatly affixed to the center of the inner front board. First edition thus. "Dear Reader: Annexation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Four Freedoms proclaimed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Atlantic Chaarter announced by Churchill and Roosevelt . Pearl Harbor attacked December 7, 1941. first nuclear chain reaction. race riots in Detroit and Harlem . Yalta Conference . death of President Roosevelt . suicide of Hitler . United Nations . first atomic bomb . Philipine indepedence. Nuremberg trial . Truman Doctrine . Marshall Plan . India and Pakistan independence . Gandhi assassination .Berlin blockade and airlift . Free State of Israel . Alger Hiss trials . North Atlantic Treaty . Tokyo Rose sentenced . The Forties -- the War Years and Post - war Years for the United States, and against this background of momentous events and of struggle for survival, life went on and the detective-crime-mystery story continued to be written - in its own fashion. At the start of the decade in 1941, Philip Van Doren Stern published an article cleverly titled "The Case of the Corpse in the Blind Alley." In it Mr. Stern wrote: "The great need of the mystery story today is not novelty of apparatus but novelty of approach. The whole genre needs overhauling, a return to first principles, a realization that murder has to do with human emotion and deserves serious treatment. Mystery story writers need to know more about life and less about death -- more about the way people think and feel and act, and less about how they die." Mystery story writers listened, and if they didn't actually read Mr. Stern's warning, the strong hint of danger and its consequences was in the air for them to think about and feel and react to. So they turned away from some of the characteristics of The Golden Age -- rather, they modified and changed them, and adopted a new approach, taking Mr. Stern's words to heart. And in the 19 stories in this volume you will see clear evidence of these modifications and changes -- the beginning of a new Golden Age, or perhaps, more accurately, of a Renaissance. Happy reading!" - from the Introduction by Ellery Queen.

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.

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.

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.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Billboard Books. 320 pp. LCC: 2004108903 Very good condition; traces of wear on edges of covers.

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.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good. Vol. XLVII, No. 2. Digest-sized. Cover art is uncredited for "Crime Caravan" (novel) by Maxwell Grant. Includes "The Whispering of a Ghost" by Stanley G. Vickers; "Fifth Bullet Missing" by Stuart Friedman; "The House of Killers" by Paul Selonke; "Class Murder" by John Graham. Special Features: "80 Seconds to Solve It"; "My Strangest Experience"; "Codes". Front cover has small edge and corner losses and is 2" loose at lower end; losses also to rear; tanning. Book.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. Vol. XXIV, No. 6. Digest-sized. [Edited by Babette Rosmond.] Cover art is uncredited for "Strange Fish" (novel) by Kenneth Robeson. Includes "Moonlight Dip" by Sam Carson; "White Water Test" by Giff Cheshire. Tears, edgewear, chips and small losses; spine sunned; tanning; minor soiling. Cover and first page stamped "Property of Ted White", noted editor and writer, from his collection. Book.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. XXV, No. 6. Digest-sized. [Edited by Babette Rosmond.] Cover art is uncredited for "The Wee Ones" (novel) by Kenneth Robeson. Includes "Witch Doctor of Weather" by Stanley G. Vickers; "The Better Man" by Lynn Montross; "The Coffin Trick" by Julius Long; "Violence, With Eye-Shade" by Giff Cheshire; "Ram Horn Rhapsody" by R. A. Emberg. Uncredited illustrations. Small corner loss to cover (see scan); tanning. Cover and page facing contents page 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.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Cover Painted by Maurice Bower; typical browning to pages ,light chipping at topedge and minor wear to extremes otherwise in very good plus condition; Discounts given for purchases of multiple copies of other issues of Adventure Maga zine from our collection ( approx 40 issues).

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.

very good + couple rub marks on the cover, dirty.