Adventures Problems Deduction by Queen Ellery (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Features eleven short mysteries solved by the detective Ellery Queen including campus crimes and acrobat assassinations. Ellery Queen is a writer who assists his father, a New York police inspector, using intellectual and deductive reasoning to solve crimes. Condition: Boards have wear and faint dust markings. Pages are clean with some age tanning. Binding is secure. Dust jacket has edge wear , some dust staining and a tear at bottom of spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Early Reprint. Originally published by Frederick A Stokes. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 345 pages, red titles and decoration on black cloth. A very good, clean, neat hard cover with little shelf wear, binding tight, paper just slightly yellowed with slight soiling to the fore-edge. In a very good minus, moderately worn dust jacket, chipping at the fold edges.Taken off for photo correction.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. FREE SHIPPING Stated First Edition of Tower Books publishing, 1947. Scarce edition. Includes; Adventure of The African Traveler, Hanging Acrobat, One-Penny Black, Bearded Lady, Three Lame Men, Invisible Lover, Teakwood Case, Two-Headed Dog, Glass-Domed Clock, Seven Cats and Mad Tea-Party. Pages starting to darken, clean, unmarked and tight. Shipped in sturdy cardboard box.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Clean gray cloth boards with brown skeleton reading a book on front cover; brown lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean (pages have slight tanning); small return address label at upper right corner of front free endpaper, with small neatly penned inscription on same page. All pages edges clean (top-stained red). 307 pages. Clean bright jacket is unchipped, no tears, very slight edge wear; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good+ dj. Reprint (1st printing thus). [a good sound copy, nicer than often seen with these cheaply-produced editions, with a typical but not severe amount of age-tanning to the pages, a touch of wear to the spine ends, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink on the front endpaper, small ink check-marks next to several titles in the table of contents; the jacket is lightly edgeworn, and the lower rear flap is rather heavily corner-clipped]. The second published collection of Ellery Queen short stories, all of which had previously appeared in various magazines during the 1930s. The short novel, "The Lamp of God," is presented first, and the remaining eight stories are arranged in two groups: "New Adventures" (consisting of "The Adventure of:" "The Treasure Hunt"; "The Hollow Dragon"; "The House of Darkness"; "The Bleeding Portrait"); and "A Unique Group of Ellery Queen Sports Mysteries." The latter group contained these stories, with their theme sports noted: "Man Bites Dog" (baseball); "Long Shot" (horse racing); "Mind Over Matter" (boxing); "Trojan Horse" (football). Originally published by Frederick A. Stokes Company in 1940. Illustrated by (dj) Arthur Hawkins Jr. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good dj. Reprint. [a good sound copy, tiny fraying and very slight exposure of boards at lower tips but no other significant wear, bookplate on front pastedown, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase and brief comment (all in ink) at top of front endpaper, small ink check-mark next to each title in the table of contents; the jacket has some wear along the top and bottom edges, with shallow chipping along top edge (mostly at top of spine), light scuffing/soiling, one small closed tear and associated short crease at bottom right corner of front panel]. The first "Ellery Queen" book that wasn't a novel, originally published by Frederick A. Stokes in 1934. The contents, "a veritable banquet of thrills for all lovers of Problems in Deduction" (a reference to the subtitle on all of EQ's early mystery novels), were stories that had appeared in various magazines (some under different titles than here) during 1933 and 1934. The tales, all of which had "The Adventure of" prepended to their titles for purposes of this collection (probably a conscious nod to the original Sherlock Holmes stories, which employed the same titling practice), are: "The African Traveler"; "The Hanging Acrobat"; "The One-Penny Black"; "The Bearded Lady"; "The Three Lame Men"; "The Invisible Lover"; "The Teakwood Case"; "'The Two-Headed Dog'"; "The Glass-Domed Clock"; "The Seven Black Cats"; and "The Mad Tea-Party." A feature carried over from a number of the early novels was the book's Preface by the mysterious "J.J. McC.," a friend of the Queens, who here relates conversations he had with both Ellery and his father Richard, on the topic of his being asked to write this very foreword! It's interesting to note that for this edition, G&D employed the same "silhouetted crook with a gun" jacket art that they had used for a couple of Raoul Whitfield novels in the early 1930s.…

First Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Spine evenly sun-toned. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 640 pages, 18 cm. Subjects; Detective fiction. Women authors. Crime and police. Whodunit. Investigation. Golden age of crime. Suspense. Mystery. Queen of crime. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Spine evenly sun-toned. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 640 pages, 18 cm. Subjects; Detective fiction. Women authors. Crime and police. Whodunit. Investigation. Golden age of crime. Suspense. Mystery. Queen of crime. 1 Kg. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1936 (1934 copyright). Hardcover, 320 pp. A collection of eleven short mystery stories, some of which were previously published in periodicals. Near fine, with two small water stains at foot of text block. Otherwise very clean. No dust jacket. …

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Detectives, Mystery) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Cover shows moderate edgewear and rubbing, with fraying to the spine; Binding is sound; Previous owner name on front endpaper; Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

hardcover. 12mo 357pp. collection of 11 short story mysteries by "Ellery Queen" (pen name. used by a number of different writers under one pseudonym) 1. The African Traveler 2. The Hanging Acrobat 3. One-Penny Black 4. The Bearded Lady 5. The Three Lame Men 6. The Invisible Lover 7. The Teakwood Case 8. "The Two-Headed Dog" 9. The Glass-Domed Clock 10. The Seven Black Cats 11. The Mad Tea-Party. #01701. Book VG: age wear to boards and spine, name on FFEP, toning to text block, text clean, binding tight. DJ G: closed tears base of spine, age toning and rubbing, not clipped.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 7.5 x 5", pict yellow boards, 357pp, covers rubbed and lightly soiled, extremities bumped (especially top fore-corner of front cover), spine a bit cocked, pp toned; still, a good used copy of this fairly SCARCE title. FIRST EDITION (NAP).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Light creasing and chipping to the dust jacket. Moderate wear to the boards with bumping and bowing. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. dj: none. book: fine to as new, orange boards. gorgeous copy. paper toned commensurate with age.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint Edition. The Adventures of Ellery Queen: Problems in Deduction (Gollancz) File Copy A firm square copy. Several faint sooty spots to the cloth binding. half-title page stamped "Archive Copy". A sun faded yellow jacket. Several tears to spine ends and corner tips. Brodart cover. Second impression (first cheap edition) March 1936. First published February 1935. From the Gollancz archives. Publisher's copy. BOOK. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Pages tanned, edges more so, else internally in generally good condition; rear hinge very dodgy, cover rather worn and rubbed, with some corner bumping and uneven fading, mainly to backstrip. No wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Imp., Hard cover red cloth bds, no dust jacket, spine lightened and a little age-spotted, black lettering to spine, bds a little faded otherwise Good, contents clean and tight, pges lightly tanned, pp637, no names etc.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. First English Edition. 8vo. 637pp 11 stories. foredges browned, light maginal browning, impression of previous owner inscription to ffep, good in original red cloth, black titles, shelfworn and finger marked, spine sligtly sun faded, good Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint Edition. The Adventures of Ellery Queen: Problems in Deduction (Grosset & Dunlap) A frim square copy with a bright cover. Owner's faint inked name stamp to front endpaper. A patch of pale dampstain to back lower corner at spine. Several tears, rubbing, and faint damp stain to back cover corner. Not price-clipped, original "5050" intact on flap. Fresh Brodart protective cover. [circa 1934 - 1940s]. Complete and unabridged. Grosset & Dunlap reissue by arrangement with Frederick A. Stokes Co. 1934 copyright. An early collection of Ellery Queen detective stories compiled from their original publications in "Red Book," "Mystery," "Great Detective," and "Mystery League" magazines. Black cloth with striking pictorial red stamping to cover, red topstain. BOOK. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo, original pictorial yellow cloth blocked in black. 357 pp. Front free endpaper lacking, and inner front hinge cracked; some light stains to the text block. Yellow cloth slightly dust-soiled, as usual but not too badly at all. No dust jacket. About a very good copy of a pretty scarce book. QUEEN'S QUORUM # 90. Eight short mystery stories; a classic.…

First edition. Octavo, pp. [i-viii] ix-xii [xiii-xiv] [1-2] 3-357 [358: blank], pictorial yellow cloth stamped in black. The first collection of Queen stories with eleven adventures. [Reference: Queen's Quorum 90. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 92. Hubin, p. 660]. Corner tips a bit worn, some soiling and light stains to cloth, a very good copy. An uncommon title. (30888).…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A thrilling anthology of eight detective fiction short stories starring 'Ellery Queen', in the publisher's original and very scarce price unclipped dust wrapper. The first impression of this omnibus edition of the works of American crime fiction writer Ellery Queen, the pseudonym for writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee, and the name of their fictional central character, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve crimes. In the very scarce publisher's original dust wrapper, price unclipped.An anthology of eight Ellery Queen stories, featuring those that previously appeared in 'The Adventures of Ellery Queen', first published in 1935, and 'The New Adventures of Ellery Queen', first published in 1940. The first edition thus to feature these two works combined, the dust wrapper notes that these two volumes have both 'long been out of print'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely, with a touch of fading to back strip and minor shelf wear to back strip head and tail. Dust wrapper rear wrap and flyleaf neatly detached from back strip, front wrap, and front flyleaf. Sunning to front wrap and back strip. Chipping to back strip head, with two significant closed tears to back strip tail. Significant closed tear to rear wrap. Small tape repair to head of reverse of dust wrapper back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. None (illustrator). book.…