Murderer by Quentin Patrick: First Edition (9 results)

Paperback. first edition. 890 good, many creases Cover by Walter Brooks. paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st thus of a PB edition of a a mid 1950s mystery. Dell Book 890. "All he had was the son he loved, a man the world called killer!" Light edge wear with rubbing to the covers and spine hinges. Light browning to the pages. A good copy. Walter Brooks (cover) (illustrator).…

Paperback. first edition thus. G-1267 very good - fine, crease, name stamp reprints dell 890 paperback.

Paperback. first edition. 890 very good, creases Cover by Walter Brooks. paperback.

Mass market paperback. Condition: Very good. Mass market paperback. First printing. Wraps lightly rubbed and edgeworn, else very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. first printing. Yellow cloth Octavo, 247 pages 20 cm. Purple illustrated dust jacket in archival mylar wrap. An Inner Sanctum Mystery. Jacket housed in archival mylar. Very good+; owners' stamp to endpaper; light spotting to endpaper and edges, else clean and tight in very good but for sunned spine, chipped corners dust-jacket.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 13 # 63 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 1949. Contains a novelette by Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler & Richard Wilson Webb - The Jack of Diamonds) and stories by Philip Macdonald (Two Exploits of Harry the Hat), Quentin Reynolds (Never Trust a Murderer), Eric Ambler (Case of the Landlady's Brother), , Jacques Futrelle (The Leak), Thomas Walsh (The Good Prospect), Raoul Whitfield, (The Rainbow Murders Begin), A E Coppard (A Broadsheet Ballad), Barry Perowne (Up the Garden Path), Joseph Harrington (Painted Faces) and others. Light wear at the edges. Ink scribble at the top center of the front cover and "A1-18" written in black grease pencil at the top center of the back cover. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy. George Salter (cover) (illustrator). …

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing stated on copyright page. In original, unclipped, jacket with edge wear including shallow chipping and sunning to the spine. Bound in yellow cloth over boards with black designs and lettering. Solid and square. Along the long edge there is some green toning that looks to have been part of the paper used in manufacturing (minor, but noted), otherwise the book is in fine condition. Pages:(8) 247 Dimensions:7¾ x 5(1/8) x (15/16). …

First Edition. Near fine bright copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with some mottling to the rear panel and some small chips, tears, and creases. Patrick Quentin is the author of ÔGarden Clubs and Spades,Õ ÔA Puzzle for Fools,Õ ÔPuzzle for Pilgrims,Õ ÔThe Ordeal of Mrs. Snow and Other StoriesÕ (a Queen's Quorum title), etc. Patrick Quentin was one of the pseudonyms of author Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912 - 1987), a Tony Award-winning English-born playwright, screenwriter, librettist, poet, and translator. Wheeler won both a Tony and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical for ÔA Little Night MusicÕ and ÔCandideÕ (operetta), and won both again for his book for ÔSweeney Todd.Õ.…