Death by Towne Stuart (11 results)

1 Very good. light shelf wear, mild spine lean.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. None Stated. A mystery novel by Clayton Rawson writing as Stuart Towne from the early 1940s. Yogi Mysteries. Light edge wear. The tittle page & FFEP are missing. 1.75" x 2" chip from the top right corner of the front cover affecting part of the title. Small chip from the top right corner of the rear cover at the spine. Light soiling to the rear cover. Still a good or better copy of a rare title.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Black cloth with red lettering on spine, figure of magician on front. Pronounced spine slant. Name stamped on bottom edge and inside front cover. Some light water spotting and dust soiling to last blank page and inside of back cover. edges of text lightly yellowed. Dust jacket shelf rubbed on edges, with wear to spine head, heel, and tips. Stress crease on front near upper edge, short tear at spine heel, top of rear fold, and top edge on back panel. Jacket in mylar. Clayton Rawson was an American mystery writer, editor, and amateur magician. He was one of the four founding members of the Mystery Writers of America.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 7.5 x 5", pict black cloth, 280pp, covers heavily rubbed and stained, extremities bumped and fraying, spine cocked, old bookstore inkstamp on front fly, pp toned and used. SWAF, but FIRST EDITION (NAP). Expensive in nice condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair-Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A collection of short stories by one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America published under the pseudonym Stuart Towne. The main flaw is a large piece (2" x 2") is missing from the top right corner of the front cover affecting the TH and ERE of the title. Light wear to the spine but the text is readable. The cover illustrations is bright and unaffected. Overall a good or somewhat better copy. Rare book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 7 x 5", pict stapled wraps, 128pp. Covers have creasing, soiling and edge tears, toned, last two pages have edge tears else good. Colorful front cover shows a leopard attacking a man. Yogi Mysteries. SCARCE.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo. 3-280 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine blue with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$2.00." Mild chipping and tearing to dust jacket at head and tail of spine, general age toning elsewhere. Mild general shelf wear to boards. Mild age toning throughout textblock. The two novelettes featuring Don Diavolo that were previously printed in the pulp magazine Red Star Mystery in 1940. MA Consignment. Shelved in Alcove. 1388033. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Binding is mildly cocked. Spine tips and cover corners are lightly bumped and rubbed. Some light discoloration at top front edge. 280 pages.

[RAWSON, CLAYTON]. First edition. 0riginally published serially in Red Star Mystery magazine under the titles GHOST OF THE UNDEAD and DEATH OUT OF THIN AIR. A pseudonym of Clayton Rawson and the first appearance using this pseudonym. These two pulp novelettes feature a magician-sleuth called Don Diavolo and the titles are DEATH FROM THE PAST and DEATH FROM THE UNSEEN. In the story DEATH FROM THE PAST, Diavolo must solve a murder of a frightened female medium, committed in his own backstage dressing room, apparently by a vampire conjured up during a seance. In DEATH FROM THE UNSEEN, an inventor claims to have invented an invisibility machine. A few weeks later an invisible man murders a detective at police headquarters and then challenges Diavolo to find him. If you are unfamiliar with Don Diavolo, he is an illusionist who gets involved in crimes only a magician could commit. The stories are thoroughly entertaining and readable. Fine, tight copy in a bright, un-faded dust jacket with light professional restoration to the spine ends, corners and extremities.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Death Out of Thin Air by Stuart Towne First Edition Signed Firm, square copy. Bright cloth. Clean text block. Bright jacket. Mild rubbing to front corners and spine ends. Writing to back cover. Not price-clipped. Clear protective cover. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the Author to the back of jacket, "Stuart Towne is C-- R-- Can your detective ability fill in the blanks?" Classic Don Diavolo mystery, originally serialized as two stories in Red Star Mystery, which ran for only four issues: June, August, October, and December 1940. Separated into two acts, the first, Act 1: Death From the Past, appeared as "Ghost of the Undead" and the second, Act 2: Death from the Unseen, appeared as "Death Out of Thin Air". Stuart Towne was the pseudonym of Clayton Rawson who also created another famous pulp-era magician, The Great Merlini. Rawson was himself an accomplished magician, illustrator, writer, and editor. Orange cloth with black debossed magician image to front cover and black lettering to spine. SCARCE. BOOK.

First edition. Octavo, cloth. Two novelettes featuring Don Diavolo, The Scarlet Wizard-magician detective. These were first published in separate issues of the pulp Red Star Mystery in 1940. This is the first of two books published with the Towne pseudonym (and the only one in hardcover). A very good plus copy, some mild soiling to cloth, tear to cloth (mendable) at upper rear cover in a very good dust jacket with some edge wear, wrinkling to upper front panel stain marks to upper rear panel. Uncommon in jacket. (9869).