rex stout arthur train (6 resultados)

Stapled. Condición: Fair-Good. No Jacket. Cover by Frances Tipton Hunter Ilustrador. First Edition. The August 19, 1939 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Fiction includes most notably part 1 of 7 of Double for Death, a Tecumseh Fox mystery by Rex Stout. Other fiction includes A Salmon for the White House, a short story by Arthur Train, and others. There is also an article about baseball HoF player/manager Leo Durocher (Baseball's Ugly Duckling - the Durable Durocher) by Arthur Mann. Contains a Westinghouse ad featuring the 1939 NY World's Fair. Cover art by Frances Tipton Hunter (Penny Candy). Light damp stains with some rippling to the bottom edge throughout w/occasional loss & fragileness, damp stain to the top corner through page 16, chips to the bottom corner of page 83/84 (* 2" x 1.25" with some minor loss to the text) & the back cover. A fair to good copy with nice Rex Stout serial installment.

Stapled. Condición: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Cover by Frances Tipton Hunter Ilustrador. First Edition. The August 19 & September 16, 1939 issues of the Saturday Evening Post. Fiction includes most notably parts 1 & 5 of 7 of Double for Death, a Tecumseh Fox mystery by Rex Stout. Other fiction includes A Salmon for the White House, a short story by Arthur Train (8/19) and Don't Sell it, Mr Rumbin, a short story by Booth Tarkington (9/16). There is also an an article about baseball HoF player/manager Leo Durocher (8/19 - Baseball's Ugly Duckling - the Durable Durocher) by Arthur Mann. Contains a Westinghouse ad featuring the 1939 NY World's Fair. Cover art by Frances Tipton Hunter (8/19 - Penny Candy & 9/16 - Growing Boy). Light wear at the edges & some mild soiling to the cover. Back covers are missing (8/19) and present but loose (9/16). A good to very good set with nice Rex Stout serial installments.

Stapled. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Ellen B T Pyle, J.C. Leyendecker, Gordon Grant, & Maurice Bower (covers), H R Ballinger ( O Careless Love), Anton Otto Fischer (Mr Gallup Gets Command), Arthur William Brown (Take a Witness), Johm La Gatta (The Curfew Tolls) Ilustrador. First Edition. The September 21 & 28, October 5, & 12, 1935 issues of the Saturday Evening Post containing parts 1 through 4 of 5 of O Careless Love by Rex Stout, one of his last attempts at mainstream fiction. The first publication of this work preceding book publication, and arguably it's true first edition. Additional fiction includes part 5, 6 & 7 of 7 of Furious Young Man, a novel by I A R Wylie (9/21 & 28, & 10/5), Mr Gallup Gets Command, a short story by Norman Reilly Raine, Take a Witness, a short story by Arthur Train (9/28), The Curfew Tolls, a short story by Stephen Vincent Benet (10/5), & Christopher Columbus, a poem by Ogden Nash. The 10/5 issue includes an article about Louisiana's colorful & bombastic senator Huey P Long (Paradox in Pajamas by Herman B Deutsch). Cover art by Ellen B T Pyle (9/21 - Girls Sipping Sodas), J.C. Leyendecker (9/28 - She's My Girl!), Gordon Grant (10/5 - Model Ship), & Maurice Bower (10/12 - Quarterback Pass). The issues are in very good shape. The 9/21 issue has lLight wear to the edges with a soil streak along the spine of the front cover; the 9/28 issue is similar with some pen marks at the lower left of the front cover near the spine; foxing to the edges of the front cover of the 10/5 issue. The 10/12 issue is good only with the front cover separated from the bottom about 2/3 the way plus other chips and small closed tear, mostly along the spine. A very good set, & exceedingly unusual, with serial installments of an early Rex Stout novel. A large oversize lot that may require additional postage.

Stapled. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Covers by Frances Tipton Hunter (8/19 & 9/16), Charles E. Kerlee (8/26), McCauley Conner (9/9), Crosby DeMoss (9/23) & Monte Crews (9/30) Ilustrador. First Edition. The August 19 & 26, & September 9, 16, 23, & 30, 1939 issues of the Saturday Evening Post. Fiction includes most notably parts 1, 2 & 4 through 7 of 7 of Double for Death, a Tecumseh Fox mystery by Rex Stout. Other fiction includes A Salmon for the White House, a short story by Arthur Train (8/19), Don't Sell it, Mr Rumbin, a short story by Booth Tarkington (9/16), Henry and the Gold Mine, a short story by Stephen Vincent Benet (9/23), and part 1 of 7 of Don't Ask Questions, a novel by J P Marquand (9/30). Some of the issues contain ads featuring the 1939 NY World's Fair and the Wizard of Oz movie starring Judy Garland. Cover art by Frances Tipton Hunter (8/19 - Penny Candy & 9/16 - Growing Boy), Charles E. Kerlee (8/26 - Bicycling Beauty), McCauley Conner (9/9 - Bus Fare), Crosby DeMoss (9/23 - Hitchhiking to State U), & Monte Crews (9/30 - First in Line for Tickets). Condition issues include: 8/19 - Light wear at the edges; 8/26 - light browning along the spine of the front cover, a couple of light brown stains along the spine of page 13/14, light soiling & edge wear to the back cover; 9/9 - a few small soil spots along the spine of the front cover; 9/16 - light soiling along the edges of the front cover; 9/23 - a light soil spot to the upper right of the front cover; and 9/30 - a 1.75" x .5" scrape at the lower left of the front cover that has a .75" x .25" hole in the center of it, a small chip at the bottom of page 91/92 toward the spine. A very good set with a nice run of Rex Stout serial installments. A heavy, oversize lot that will require additional postage.

First Edition. THE LEAGUE OF FRIGHTENED MEN in Saturday Evening Post from 6-15-1935 through 7-20-1935, first edition, 6 volumes complete, all in full color pictorial wraps (one having a Norman Rockwell cover and another a cover by J. C. Leyendecker) with one issue being a vg copy while the others are very good plus to near fine copies. Also contains the original work of Jack Dempsey, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, J. P. Marquand, Arthur Train, et.al. The true first edition of this, the 2nd Nero Wolfe title. Rare thus and much more difficult to locate than the most definitely later book format. Perhaps your only chance to procure this scarce offering.

First Edition. *** MEET TECUMSEH FOX *** IN THIS TRUE FIRST EDITION OF DOUBLE FOR DEATH in The Saturday Evening Post from August 19th thru September 30th, 1939, first edition, 7 volumes complete, a vg/ vg+ to near fine set in full color pictorial wraps of this title with one boasting a Rockwell cover. The first appearance in print of Tecumseh Fox published well before the book was released.