Verlag: Wiegers Publishing Company (Yogi Mysteries), New York, NY, 1940
Anbieter: Lazy S Books, Austin, TX, USA
Erstausgabe
Soft cover. Zustand: Fair-Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A collection of short stories by one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America published under the pseudonym Stuart Towne. The main flaw is a large piece (2" x 2") is missing from the top right corner of the front cover affecting the TH and ERE of the title. Light wear to the spine but the text is readable. The cover illustrations is bright and unaffected. Overall a good or somewhat better copy. Rare book.
Verlag: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box: (Shelburne, ON), 2004
Anbieter: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 8.5 x 5.5", gilt-pict cloth, 437pp, very minor shelf wear else a nice, clean copy in a lightly edge-worn dustjacket. First Printing of this collection of stories from Red Star Mystery Magazine. Magic (stage, sleight of hand).
Verlag: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1941
Anbieter: Avol's Books LLC, Madison, WI, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Black cloth with red lettering on spine, figure of magician on front. Pronounced spine slant. Name stamped on bottom edge and inside front cover. Some light water spotting and dust soiling to last blank page and inside of back cover. edges of text lightly yellowed. Dust jacket shelf rubbed on edges, with wear to spine head, heel, and tips. Stress crease on front near upper edge, short tear at spine heel, top of rear fold, and top edge on back panel. Jacket in mylar. Clayton Rawson was an American mystery writer, editor, and amateur magician. He was one of the four founding members of the Mystery Writers of America.
Verlag: Coward-McCann [1941], New York, 1941
Anbieter: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, USA
Erstausgabe
First edition. Octavo, cloth. Two novelettes featuring Don Diavolo, The Scarlet Wizard-magician detective. These were first published in separate issues of the pulp Red Star Mystery in 1940. This is the first of two books published with the Towne pseudonym (and the only one in hardcover). A very good plus copy, some mild soiling to cloth, tear to cloth (mendable) at upper rear cover in a very good dust jacket with some edge wear, wrinkling to upper front panel stain marks to upper rear panel. Uncommon in jacket. (9869).