Murder by Brown Frederic (8 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. George Salter (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 26 # 3, whole # 142 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September 1955 15th Anniversary Issue. Contains stories by Roy Vickers (For Men Only), Nedra Tyre (Murder at the Poe Shrine), Cornell Woolrich (The Most Exciting Show in Town), Ellery Queen (Double Your Money), Michael Innes (A Very Old Case Indeed), Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry Mark Van Doren (The Man Who Made People Mad), Mary Roberts Rinehart (The Splinter), Fredric Brown (The First Time Machine), Mark Twain What Did Poor Brown Do?), and others. Light wear at the edges. Sharp corners & bright color. Light browning to the front cover along the edge of the spine. Light red date stamp on the front cover ("Aug 23 A."). Very light browning to the pages. A very good or better copy.

Paperback. Cover has edge and corner wear. Pages are tight and clean. No; 'My name is Sam Evans. I'm a newspaper man and that's what I want to be. You can get a real wallop out of running down a news story. You never know what'll turn up - a hot babe - or murder. I was ready to grab a vacation when both turned up. Everything was fine until I found the murder was supposed to be mine.' ; 4.5" x 7" Very Good- noticed markings. Overall great condition!

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Vintage Paperback. PBO Saint Mystery Library #3 stated on copyright page though #120 listed on the front cover and spine. Sharp Unread First Printing of this Paperback Original. Also contains stories by Lawrence G. Blochman, Poul Anderson, James Gunn and John Jakes. September, 1959. $.35 Cover price. Square, tight and clean throughout little or no wear. Very mild page toning and a touch of toning to rear cover edges. Still fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A handsome collectable copy at a great price.

Paperback. Condition: G++. Sussman (cover) (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: G++. Sussman (cover) (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Good. Reprint. Edgewear to card covers. Vertical creases to spine. Internally page margins toned. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. "Murder Can Be Fun" by Frederick Brown 1948 First Edition Vintage Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket 7 3/4" x 5 3/4" 219 Pages The jacket is in fair to good minus condition with old edge protection tape and foxing. The jacket is now protected with a Mylar cover. The hardcover book is in good minus condition, free from rips, tears, bends, and writing. There are a few pages with small stains and spots. The boards are in fair plus to good minus condition with light wear around the edges and stains on the boards. The binding is tight and square.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 247 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good condition dust jacket. Spine is faded orange with white lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "$2.50" on front flap, has large chip along spine tail, moderate general rubbing and moderate shelving wear along extremities. Boards have moderate shelving wear along extremities. Text block has mild age toning along edges, mild dust burning along head edge, and a small brown stain pp. 171-186 on fore edge. DL Consignment. Shelved Room C. Frederic Brown (1906-1972) regularly appeared in the American Science Fiction and Fantasy writing which perforated the interwar period. Brown sold work to pulp magazines such as Galaxy and Captain Future, whose readers appreciated the employment of levity and unpredictable endings in his stories. It was in these stories that Brown unintentionally established a lasting trope in science fiction: he often offered a "red herring" or a supernatural diversion before delivering the true explanation right at the end. Following World War II, Brown turned to writing novels and publishing collections of his stories. MOSTLY MURDER is a collection of 18 murder mystery stories that cultivated the conventions which continue to inspire the genre today. 1395925. Special Collections.