pseud brown zenith (15 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 1st. 1st pb printing (stated); pictorial wraps w/small sticker mark; 242 clan, unmarked pages+publoisher's lissting.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Illustrated by Edward Calman Ilustrador. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [a ready copy only, with considerable external wear/soiling, previous owners' names in pencil on front endpaper]. (pen and ink drawings) The sixth Mr. Pinkerton mystery, set at Oxford University (of which there is a map as the frontispiece). Also published in England the following year under the title "The Body in the Turl.".

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. this one featuring Nat Ryan, a young lawyer visiting Baltimore to serve as best man at a wedding, who finds himself accused of a savage attack on the bride. A unique presentation of this crime mystery based around a rape. Book is in very good condition Original orange borads spine is sun faded No Dust Jacket Interior is clean and bright. Copyright page 1962 A-2.62 V appears to be the first US Printing. All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks. Book.

Soft Cover. Condición: VG. First Paperback. Undated, but c. 1950. 16mo. original printed paper wraps (slightly rubbed and creased, prev. owner's name to first leaf); pp. 192. A very good copy. Colonel Primrose murder mystery number 15.

Soft Cover. Condición: VG. First Paperback. 16mo. original printed paper wraps (slightly rubbed and creased, prev. owner's notation & bookshop RSM inside front cover, slight tearing to final leaves); pp. 224. A very good copy. Colonel Primrose murder mystery number 16.

Hard Cover. Condición: VG+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG. First UK. VG+/VG. 12mo. original orange boards (slightly rubbed, some spotting to leaf edges and outer leaves, small ink notoation to lower pastedown) in dustwrapper (a little rubbed and nicked, some spotting & toning); pp. 192. A very good copy.

Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. New York: Rinehart & Company, 1950. First Edition, with encircled R on copyright. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); 243pp. Dust jacket significantly worn with substantial splitting along flap folds, old tape repairs to verso, a number of shallow chips and small paper flaws along margins, cloth extremities a bit rubbed with brief exposure, else a Good copy overall, internally clean and sound. A Murray Hill Mystery.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 112 pages inc wrappers, art drawn cover by Steven Dohanos. With serial parts by Dorothy Cameron Disney "The 17th Letter" part 2 of 8 + short stories by Kathryn Forbes, Norman Matson, Jerome Barry and Albert R. Wetjen, + war articles and letters and lots of adverts, many in full colour, cars, Willys Jeeps and great a Xmas Coca-Cola back page advert. minor wear but all very good. Folio.

Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; [8],188pp. General edge wear to jacket and board extremities including a few tiny closed tears to the former, rear jacket panel a bit toned and dust-soiled, spine rather cocked, else Very Good, internally clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Third edition. 8vo. Original grey/green cloth. Dust-jacket, with 5/- price-sticker to inside front flap. An attractive reissue of this classic London-based murder mystery. Ink library stamp to front free endpaper; tape marks to covers; tape burn to foot of spine.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good. No jacket. First UK edition. First UK edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Lovely Faith Yardley's betrothal to a man from the north is abruptly followed by murderand more murder. Minor foxing; cloth a little dulled and rubbed at spine. Book.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); tan cloth covered boards, titled in blue on the cover and spine; dustjacket; 235pp. Faint dampstain to lower rear board; minor biopredation to the upper board edges, causing some discoloration; spine ends pushed; mild toning to endpapers; Very Good. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00) with nicks to the extremities; dampstaining and soil; Very Good. "Colonel Primrose and Mrs. Grace Latham have another mystery on their hands. It concerns the death of Lawrason Hilyard, a dollar-a-year man occupying an important position in the O.P.M Hilyard is supposed to know all that there is to know about prometheum, If you don't know what prometheum is, consult your dictionary, and little good it will do you unless your dictionary is better than ours." (New York Times review).

Hardcover. Condición: Very good. No jacket. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Leslie Ford is the nom de plume of Zenith Jones Brown, who also wrote as David Frome and Brenda Conrad. A very good copy. Book.

8vo, pp. 243. Original dark blue boards, lettered in silver to spine. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket. Offsetting to endpapers, but a very good copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, rear panel a little darkened and with a little light edgewear. First edition. The twelfth and final Evan Pinkerton title, published the following year in the UK with the title Murder in the Square. Zenith Jones Brown [1898-1983] adopted the Frome pseudonym for her first book, The Murder of An Old Man (1929), hoping to maximise sales by hiding her sex. She also wrote as Leslie Ford and Brenda Conrad. HUBIN, p. 158.

8vo, pp. 235. Original cram and purple boards, lettered in purple to front panel and spine. Illustrated dust jacket. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with just a little wear to top corners and head of spine. First edition. Zenith Jones Brown [1898-1983] adopted the Leslie Ford pseudonym in 1931 for The Sound of Footsteps (1931), hoping to maximise sales by hiding her sex. She also wrote as David Frome and Brenda Conrad. HUBIN, p. 152.