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Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press. (2004) 1st ptg. HC. fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 1592287093 . 128pp ... more information

Cambridge, UK: Patrick Stephens. (1979). PB. very good, wraps (softcover). ISBN 0850593360 A selection of German wartime photographs from the Bundesarchiv, Koblenz. . 95pp ... more information

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. 1995. PB. very good++, wraps (softcover). A compilation of works by and about members of the United States Senate 1789-1995. . 356pp ... more information

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.. (1971) 1st ed. HC. good, black cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket-cloth w/fade & wear. Contents include: Juvenile Incunabula; 18th-Century Children's Books; Fairy, Folk Tales and Fantasia; Books of Instruction, Natural History and Travel; Poetry and Nursery Rhymes; Stories--before 1850; Stories--1850 and after; Boys' Adventure Stories; Periodicals, Annuals and Penny Dreadfuls; Miscellanea, Toy Books and Moveable Books; Bibliography; Index. . 144pp ... more information

New York: Random House. (1965) 1st ptg. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). The titles are: The Death of Don Juan; The Wrightsville Heirs; The Case Against Carroll; E = Murder; and Diamonds in Paradise. . 173pp ... more information

New York: The Dial Press. (1983) 1st ptg. HC. very good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 038527954X Featuring THE HOLLY WREATH, a short novel by Patricia Moyes, and 15 short stories by Christianna Brand, Seicho Matsumoto, Edward D. Hoch, Joan Aiken, Robert Twohy, William Bankier, and others. . 287pp ... more information

New York: The Dial Press. (1981) 1st ed. HC. very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0385271913 Stanley Ellin, Edward D. Hoch, Julian Symons, Brian Garfield, Janwillem van de Wetering, Ruth Rendell, Peter Lovesey, Georges Simenon, Donald E. Westlake, and others. In this book, circumnavigate the globe and discover a new world of excitement, wonder, suspense, and surprise--a world trip featuring 26 adventures and excitements you will never forget. . 286pp ... more information

New York: The Dial Press. (1984). HC. very good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 038519644X A short novel by William Banker, 20 stories by Clark Howard, Tim Heald, Antonia Fraser, Hillary Waugh, Edward D. Hoch, and others. A field of opium poppies in the countryside outside Mexico City. The teeming streets of Jakarta, Indonesia. The Governor's palace in the Lima, Peru, of Conquistador days. The ancient temples of Karnak and Luxor beside the Egyptian Nile. There are the settings for just a few of th... more information

New York: The Dial Press. (1979). HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0803730705 Contained in this book is Erle Stanley Gardner's "lost" short novel, THE CLUE OF THE SCREAMING WOMAN, never included in any Gardner book. You will also find exciting and baffling novelets and short stories by Edward D. Hoch, Robert Bloch, Victor Canning, Hugh Pentecost, Lawrence Treat, Barry Perowne, Lawrence G. Blochman, Brian W. Aldiss, Ellery Queen and others. . 285pp ... more information

New York: The Dial Press. (1980). HC. fine w/very good++ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0803723687 3 Extra-Specials by Eric Ambler, Ross MacDonald, Ed McBain, 1 short novel by Hugh Pentecost. Plus 16 novelets and short stories by Ruth Rendell, Edward D. Hoch, Phyllis Bentley, Lord Dunsany, Ellery Queen, Michael Gilbert, Robert L. Fish, Lawrence Treat, Lillian de la Torre, and others. . 285pp ... more information

New York: Davis Publications, Inc.. (1978) 1st ptg. HC. fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0803722583 In this collection Ellery Queen offers you some of these Napoleons of detection--Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe, Michael Gilbert's Inspector Petrella, Isaac Asimov's the Black Widowers and Henry, Michael Innes' Sir John Appleby, Ellery Queen's EQ, Edward D. Hoch's Captain Leopold--and some Napoleons of mystery--Hugh Pentecost, Ruth Rendell, Patricia McGerr, and Edmund Crispin. .... more information

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1977. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0575023899 Three novels and eleven stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. . 316pp ... more information

New York: The Dial Press. (1975) 1st ptg. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 080374515X Contains 2 short novels, 1 novel, 2 novelets, and 9 short stories by such masters in the genre as Charlotte Armstrong, Earl Derr Biggers, Michael Gilbert, Robert L. Fish, Berkely Mather, and Robie Macauley, as well as exciting detection by Ed McBain's 87th Precinct, Lawrence G. Blochman's Dr. Coffee, Edward D. Hoch's Captain Leopold, Helen McCloy's Dr. Basil Willing, Michael Collins&#... more information

New York: Random House. (1975) 1st ed. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0394496744 For his twenty-ninth annual mystery-story collection from the pages of a magazine acknowledged by readers and authors to be Number One of its kind, Ellery Queen has coined a new word--murdercade--denoting a parade of people in murders. . 338pp ... more information

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. 1942 1st ed. HC. very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover). "A detective story is a tale of ratiocination, complete with crime and/or mystery, suspects, investigation, clues, deduction, and solution; in its purest form, the chief character should be a detective, amateur or profesional, who devotes most of his (or her) time to the problems of detection." . 146pp ... more information

New York: The World Publishing Co.. (1970). HC. fine w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) BCE. Contents include: A Star for a Warrior; The President of the United States, Detective; Justice Has No Number; Blessed are the Mee; The Gentleman from Paris; The Enemy; The Cold Winds of Adesta; My Brother Down There; Double Image; The Moment of Decision; The Black Kitten; The Necessity of His Condition; One Drop of Blood. . 347pp ... more information

Geneve: Minerva. (1981). HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). Brittany is really more than a province or a region--it is a land. . 96pp ... more information

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. 1962 1st ed. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). "One of the most entertaining autobiographies in the English language." Provides insights to 18th century social life. . 452pp ... more information

New York: Stein and Day/Publishers. (1971). HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0812813685 A collection of delighful mini-biographies. Each biography is a vivid portrait which shows the close connection between an artist's personal life and the work he left behind him. . 198pp ... more information

New York: Atheneum. 1980 1st Amer. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0689110812 This book begins where THE MARBLE FOOT left off, starting in 1939 with his World War II misadventures as an inept fire warden (discharged for smoking on the job) and indifferent government censor, and following the progress of his life since. . 192pp ... more information