John Dickson Carr, Signed (25 results)

Condition: Fair. Signed Copy . Loose pages. Gideon Fell Mystery series. Reading copy only. In polypropylene bag. ISBN: 0608070095. Barbara G. Mertz's signature on front endpage. Barbara G. Mertz Rev Trust custom bookplate inside front cover. This book formed part of Barbara G. Mertz's personal library at her home in Frederick, Maryland. (Mystery, Detective Fiction, Gideon Fell).

Condition: Fair. Signed Copy . Spine torn. Loose pages. Reading copy only. In polypropylene bag. Barbara G. Mertz's signature on front endpage. Barbara G. Mertz Rev Trust custom bookplate inside front cover. This book formed part of Barbara G. Mertz's personal library at her home in Frederick, Maryland. (Mystery, Detective Fiction, Sir Henry Merrivale).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Signed by both editors. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Anthology of suspense stories concerning the arts. Includes works by John Dickson Carr, Jacques Futrelle, Ben Hecht, Ellery Queen, Edward Hoch, Robert Bloch, Ron Goulart, and others. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Fair. Signed Copy . Barbara G. Mertz Rev Trust custom bookplate on front inside cover. Barbara G. Mertz's copy with her signature on front endpage. This book formed part of Barbara G. Mertz's personal library at her home in Frederick, Maryland. Reading copy only. Spine split. Some pages coming loose. (Vintage mystery and adventure, mystery, adventure, crime thriller, detective novel, Sir Henry Merrivale).

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Nine previously unpublished radio plays, including two featuring Dr. Gideon Fell. Spine heel gently bumped. Jacket rubbed with wear at the corners and spine ends, lightly tanned, in Brodart. Inscribed on the front end paper "For Marv Lachman, From his admiring friend. Doug Greene. 10 Mar. 1984.". Inscribed By the Editor.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First UK Edition. Hamish Hamilton, 1981; "First published." stated, no additional printings indicated; 352pp. Inscribed/signed by editor Douglas Greene on front end page. Previously unpublished and/or uncollected stories, essays and radio plays, as well as a comprehensive bibliography which includes Carr's work under pen names. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; very minor wear to edges of red cloth boards, gilt titling remains bright and bold; text very good. Very minor wear to edges of unclipped dust jacket; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Signed by Editor.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. CB3 - A hardcover book club SIGNED by Frederick Forsyth on his story page in very good condition that has some bumped corners, some light stains on the page edges and endpapers, light discoloration and shelf wear with no dust jacket. Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dame Ngaio Marsh, Rex Stout, Ross Macdonald, Ellery Queen, Ruth Rendell, Dick Francis, P.D. James, Robert Barnard, Julian Symons, John D. MacDonald, Eric Ambler, John Dickson Carr, Michael Gilbert, Frederick Forsyth, Charlotte Armstrong, Cornell Woolrich, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, Stanley Ellin, Robert Bloch, Simon Brett, Edward D. Hoch, Sue Grafton, Linda Barnes, Donald E. Westlake, Ursula Curtiss, Antonia Fraser, Mark Twain, Isaac Asimov, Reginald Hill, Patricia Moyes, Bill Pronzini, Nedra Tyre, Lillian de la Torre, Lawrence Block. 8.5"x6", 651 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed. Book Club (BCE/BOMC).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Signed by Bowen on the title page. An advance copy with the publisher's press release laid in. In the Golden Age tradition of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr this thriller is preceded by a floor plan, in this case the second floor of a Washington home that belonged to a CIA agent who died in disgrace. ; 211 pages; Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Fifteen mysteries, each set in the past. Lightly bumped. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, including a pair of 1/2" tears and a crease across the upper front panel, in Brodart. Inscribed on the half title page "To Pat Erhardt - From Dan Marlowe's alter ego - Jaime Sandaval.". Inscribed By the Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of 21 essays and short stories by Carr. SIGNED by John Dickson Carr's granddaughter - Shelly Dickson Carr on the title page. A 1/4- inch closed-tear to the tip of the spine. In fine / near fine condition. Signed by Author.

Black Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition / First Printing. Hint of edge and corner wear to the dj, gently scuffed, lightly shelf worn, overall a very crisp and clean signed first edition! Inscribed by the author on the title page! Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! "When a highly respected judge dies, the widow is shocked to discover a shoebox in his closet ---- a shoebox stuffed with small-denomination bills, amounting to almost $50,000. The man put in the delicate position of investigating ---- but quietly ---- is Loren Mensing, the lawyer-detective who debuted in Publish and Perish, a novel praised by John Dickson Carr as 'a very sophisticated performanc.an exciting murder mystery in the classic style.'" Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed By the Author.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A scarce first edition copy of this play script by John Dickson Carr, a mysterious tale, signed by the publisher. The first edition of this scarce work, of which only one thousand copies were printed.Signed by the publisher to the recto of the front endpaper, 'The first printing of the first Crippen + Landru book, Douglas G. Greene - publisher'.A never before published play by John Dickson Carr, 'Speak of the Devil' is set in 1815, following a Captain as he attends a ball before fighting in Waterloo, meeting a beautiful young woman who asks for his help before promptly disappearing, leaving behind only a miniature portrait of herself.This play was produced for the radio by the BBC in 1941 in eight parts. In the original publisher's paper wraps. Externally, fine. Light spots to the fore edge. Publisher's inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. signed by author. book.

Letter. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Slight creases (chiefly vertical; folds); slight browning and nicking to edges; else a very well preserved piece. 1 leaf (recto only). Letter in reply to Emanuel Brisker, Jr., dated September 21, 2000: 'Thanks for your letter. I'm not sure I can answer all of your questions, but I'll do my best. The first book I ever read was probably about baseball -- that was my passion when I was young -- though I can't recall an exact title . As for mystery formats, I've always liked the classic English whodunit format. I'm also very fond of locked room mysteries, especially those of John Dickson Carr. And yes, I do plan to spin off Shadwell Rafferty into his own series of books .' Signed in full in black ink above typed name.

First Edition. THE LIFE OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Harper & Brothers, 1949, first edition, some light off-setting to the first 4 leaves, some slight rubbing to the bottom edges and light wear to the lower front front fore edge corner tip, else a tight vg copy in a just about vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. Inscribed by John Dickson Carr "For Doctor Edward Barnett, in Baker Street fellowship, John Dickson Carr." Illustrated with many photographs.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. With an introduction by the editors. Twenty one stories in all including by the editors. Twenty-one stories in all including by John Dickson Carr, W Hope Hodgson, Jacques Futrelle, Gax Rohmer and Edgar Wallace. Signed on the title page by one of the editors, Robert Adey. It is also signed by George Locke, one of the contributors, at the head of the first page of his story. His work, 'A Nineteenth Century Debacle's is a Sherlock Holmes parody. Original cloth in pictorial dustwrapper which is complete with original price. All books are tracked. All books outside the UK are sent airmail. Paypal accepted. All dustwrappers are film protected. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The book and contents are clean and tight. Dust jacket has some light scuffing and edge wear. The SIGNED AUTHOR INSCRIPTION on front free end paper. The former owner kept his address label from Argus Books, Inc. on a small piece of packing paper laid ion the front of the book. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. The works of John Dickson Carr. Text in French. Gently rubbed. Inscribed to Marvin Lachman and signed by Lacourbe on the half title page, dated 11 May, 1998. Inscribed By the Author.

First edition. Signed by the editor on the title page. As new, unread copy in dust jacket. Fourteen impossible crimes from the American masters of the form. For devotees of the Golden Age mystery, the impossible crime story represents the period's purest form: it presents the reader with a baffling scenario (a corpse discovered in a windowless room locked from the inside, perhaps), lays out a set of increasingly confounding clues, and swiftly delivers an ingenious and satisfying solution. During the years between the two world wars, the best writers in the genre strove to outdo one another with unfathomable crime scenes and brilliant explanations, and the puzzling and clever tales they produced in those brief decades remain unmatched to this day. Among the Americans, some of these authors are still household names, inextricably linked to the locked room mysteries they devised: John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen, Clayton Rawson, Stuart Palmer. Others, associated with different styles of crime fiction, also produced great works?authors including Fredric Brown, MacKinlay Kantor, Craig Rice, and Cornell Woolrich. All of these and more can be found in Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries, selected by Edgar Award-winning mystery expert and anthologist Otto Penzler. Featuring a delightful mix of well-known writers and unjustly-forgotten masters, the fourteen tales included herein highlight the best of the American impossible crime story, promising hours of entertainment for armchair sleuths young and old.

First edition. Signed by the editor on the title page. As new, unread copy in dust jacket. A nice introduction by Otto Penzler and fourteen wonderful bibliomysteries from the Golden Age of the mystery genre (the decades between the two World Wars). These are stories that involve crimes set, somehow, in the world of books - stories that feature a book scout as a sleuth, for example, or that find a literary heir killing to preserve an estate. Perhaps because it deals with a subject that authors know well, this type of plot comes up throughout the history of the genre. This volume collects the finest of such stories written by American authors during the Golden Age of mystery. It includes works by household names such as Ellery Queen, Cornell Woolrich, Carolyn Wells and John Dickson Carr, and less-remembered writers such as James Gould Cozzens, Frederick Irving Anderson, Lillian De La Torre and Lawrence Blochman.

First edition. Signed by the editor on the title page. As new, unread copy in dust jacket. A nice introduction by Otto Penzler and fourteen wonderful bibliomysteries from the Golden Age of the mystery genre (the decades between the two World Wars). These are stories that involve crimes set, somehow, in the world of books - stories that feature a book scout as a sleuth, for example, or that find a literary heir killing to preserve an estate. Perhaps because it deals with a subject that authors know well, this type of plot comes up throughout the history of the genre. This volume collects the finest of such stories written by American authors during the Golden Age of mystery. It includes works by household names such as Ellery Queen, Cornell Woolrich, Carolyn Wells and John Dickson Carr, and less-remembered writers such as James Gould Cozzens, Frederick Irving Anderson, Lillian De La Torre and Lawrence Blochman.

First edition. 8vo. Laid-in is a holograph letter on Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine stationery and dated 2/28/63. The letter is an encouraging one advising a prospective author that "and while this particular story is not for EQMM, I do encourage to keep writing." The letter is signed as "Fred Dannay ("E. Q.")." Twenty short stories provided by Cornell Woolrich, Stanley Ellin, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, John Dickson Carr, Ring Lardner, Charlotte Armstrong, Margaret Millar, Patricia Highsmith, Margery Allingham, Joe Gores, et al. Ring Lardner's story "Stop Me -- If You've Heard This One" is the first book appearance of this tale. Patricia Highsmith's "The Terrapin" was judged to be the second best mystery short story of 1962. John Dickson Carr's "The Grandest Game in the World" is a brilliant critique of the detective story. Fine, bright, tight copy in fine fresh dust jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart set of five volumes of The Best Science Fiction Stories series, with volume one signed and inscribed by the editors. Five volumes. First editions. With volume one signed and inscribed by the editors to the front endpaper, which reads: "8-17-1949 To T. L. MacDonald with the very best personal wishes of the editors." A collection of anthologies of science fiction short stories, being the first published anthology to present the best science fiction stories for a given year. With most stories having previously appeared in magazines such as Planet Stories, Astounding Science Fiction, Blue Book, Comment, and Thrilling Wonder Stories from the previous year. The collection was published annually from 1949 to 1954, with additional publication Year's Best Science Fiction Novels being issued for the years 1952, 1953, and 1954. With contributions from authors such as Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Fredric Brown, Clifford Simak, Robert S. Carr, L. Sprague de Camp, Gordon Dickson, Katherine MacLean, William F. Temple, Alfred Bester, Betsy Curtis, Zenna Henderson, John D. MacDonald, Walter M. Miller, and John Wyndham, amongst others. Edited by Everett Franklin Bleiler, an American editor, bibliographer, and scholar of science fiction, detective fiction, and fantasy literature, and Thaddeus Maxim Eugene (Ted) Dikty, an American editor who also played a role as one of the earliest science fiction anthologists, and as a publisher. This set contains: The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949, 1949. The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1950, 1950. The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1951, 1951. The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1952, 1952. The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1953, 1953. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrappers are also smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the extremities. Light sunning to the spines, particularly to the volume for 1950, with the odd small mark to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light age toning and the odd small mark to the endpapers. Editors' ink inscription to the front endpaper of volume one only. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.

Signed limited edition, number 25 of 147 copies signed by the author. This "definitive edition" of the Sherlock Holmes stories was issued with signed sheets retained by the publisher from the production of the Crowborough Edition, which was published in 1930. Doyle signed the sheets for the edition but died on 7 July 1930, shortly before its publication. See Green & Gibson A60. 2 vols, octavo. Original blue quarter calf, grey cloth sides, spine lettered in gilt, blue endpapers, top edge blue. With publisher's blue card slipcase. Spines a little sunned, head and foot of spines slightly rubbed, short split to head of front hinge in vol. 1, slipcase sunned, slightly soiled and a little worn: a near-fine copy in a very good slipcase.

Etats-Unis, Cleveland and New York, The World Publishing Company, 1948. In-12 cartonnage éditeur, pleine toile grise, de 288 pages au format 13 x 19 cm. Couverture avec petite illustration. Dos rond avec titre. Complet de la belle jaquette illustrée, en superbe état, avec quelques infimes frottis épars. Plats et intérieur frais. Anthologie qui contient 14 histoires inédites en volume, par Dashiell Hammett, Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Stribling, E. C. Bentley, John Dickson Carr, Anthony Boucher, Ellery Queen, etc. Illustrations en noir par Seymour Nydorf. En fin d'ouvrage on trouve une liste des 101 plus importants livres policiers avec notes, critiques et bibliographie. Rare édition originale américaine en superbe état de fraicheur. Précieux exemplaire enrichi d'une cordiale et belle dédicace autographe, signée, de Ellery Queen à Thomas Narcejac : To Thomas Narcejac with my best wishes. Provenance idéale. Les dédicaces d'Ellery Queen sont très rares.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Excelente. 1ª Edición. In-8º mayor.- 118 (7) p.- Ilustrado con un retrato fotográfico y un facsímil de Evaristo Carriego, y dos vistas fotográficas por Horacio COPPOLA.- Fina encuadernación en chagrin bordeaux, lomo de cinco nervios, títulos dorados, cubiertas originales conservadas; estuche.- Dedicatoria manuscrita del autor, estrictamente contemporánea "A Marta Acosta van Praet, con admiración y amistad. Cordialmente, Jorge Luis Borges. s/c. Pueyrredón 2190".- Primera edición.- Excelente ejemplar. Marta Acosta van Praet, destinataria de este ejemplar, compartió con Borges una duradera amistad. Fue la reconocida traductora de autores como John M. Synge, Graham Greene, André Gide, John Dickson Carr, Howard Fast, Hillaire Bellocq, Ingmar Bergman, Raymond Postgate, Eden Phillpotts y Peter Brook, algunos de los cuales integraron la célebre colección de "El Séptimo Círculo", y se desempeñó junto a Margarita Abella Caprile en la dirección del Suplemento Literario de "La Nación". La poesía de Evaristo Carriego debe a Borges gran parte de su frágil supervivencia. Desdeñado por la crítica de su época por su sentimentalismo próximo al del tango, su figura le ofrece al joven Borges iconoclasta la ocasión de renovar su batalla contra el modernismo y contra Leopoldo Lugones y rescatar un Buenos Aires de compadritos, conventillos y duelos a cuchillo que ya por entonces había ingresado en el olvido. La figura y la poesía de Carriego sufren en este libro una ficcionalización, detrás de la cual se perfila la figura del propio Borges. Dedicatoria autógrafa del autor.