Search Results: the department of dead ends by roy vickers

Walter J. Black, 1953. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Dover, 1978. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Ed Thus. First trade paperback ed. thus. Good condition, over all wear, cover creases..

Dover Publications, Inc., 1978. Paperback. Selected and Introduced by E. F. Bleiler. Trade paperback 5"x8" 277 pages. Pages clean, binding tight.

New York: Dover Publications, 1978. Selected and introduced by E.F. Bleiler 8vo size trade paperback; 277 pages From back cover: "The Department of Dead Ends - this special department of (Scotland) Yard collects and store the detritus of unsolved crimes until some future time when the material may be utilized or discarded... In creating this special department, the English writer Roy Vickers (1889-1965) wrote a series of short stories that almost all critics have rated as the best inverted detective stories since the work of R. Austin Freeman... Constructed in a sparse, direct narrative style reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett's in its avoidance of involvement, each story is a personality study, a life history of ordinary people falling or pushed into crime..." Creased back bottom corner, bumped top corner of covers and pages, one page has a quarter inch tear the bottom margin. Spine may be sunned (please see our last photograph.) . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over… Read More

Walter J. Black. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (mystery fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Walter J. Black. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (mystery fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

New York: Walter J. Black, 1953. Book. Good. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Detective Book Club. There is a name label on the front end paper. There is some foxing on the top page edging. The cover has soiling, mostly on the back. The dust jacket has some tanning, a few small soil spots and is darkened on the spine area. Included in this book: Let the Dead Past by John Stephen Strange; Collectors' Item by Amber Dean; and The Department of Dead Ends by Roy Vickers. 517 pages in total. .

Penguin Books, 1955. Paperback. Acceptable. 1955. No Edition Stated. 236 pages. Paperback book. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Notable tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and tear to spine, cover edges and corners. Notable tanning to spine, with staining and soiling to covers.

Penguin, 1955. Paperback. Good. 1955. First Edition Thus. 236 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages with some foxing and tanning. Binding remains firm. Some page corners folded. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Penguin, 1955. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Faber & Faber, 1949. Hardcover. Good. 1949. First Edition. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages remain bright and clear. Mild tanning to endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Mild ring marks to rear board.

NY: Lawrence E. Spivak. Good. 1947. First Edition. Softcover. Wrappers. Spine ends splitting, some creasing/edgewear, inked names to rear cover, crown bumped, book has a mild wave, large number written to title page. Pages toned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 128 pages .

NY: Dover, 1978. FINE condition in FINE covers. NY. Dover. SOFTCOVER. 1978. FIRST EDITION, THUS. AS NEW, bound in original brown glossy pictorial stiff paper wraps. Square and tight, UNREAD, NO spine creasing. Fourteen unabridged stories as originally published in periodicals dating from 1935 to 1958. Selected and introduced by E F Bleiler. Cover design by Paul E Kennedy. Stored in Archival sleeve. . First Edition, Thus. Soft Cover. Fine/Fine Original Wraps.

New York: Spivak, 1947. First American Edition. Edited by Ellery Queen; Queen’s Quorum. Publisher’s wrappers; very good.

Short stories. With an introduction by Ellery Queen, Celebrated American Criminologist and Editor of 'Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'. (London: Faber and Faber: 1949) First UK Edition. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 254. An ownership inscription in blue pencil on front free endpaper. A light dampstain to head of rear board and a few small stains to the spine otherwise a near fine copy.

Faber & Faber, 1949. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Spot to fore-edge. Internally clean. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Faber & Faber, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. FIRST / VG-/Good. 'first published mcmxlix', no mention of further printings. used hardcover in a FACSIMILE dust jacket. jacket is now protected in mylar. previous owner's bookplate on front endsheet. binding is just slightly cocked. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

[New York]: Lawrence E. Spivak, Publisher, [1947]., 1947. First edition. First edition. Digest sized PBO. Bestseller Mystery, No. B 91. Collected and Edited, with an Introduction by Ellery Queen. Ink mark to front cover, else very good copy in pictorial wrappers. Contains seven Department of Dead Ends' mysteries, only two of which are included in the U. K. edition, THE RUBBER TRUMPET and SNOB'S MURDER which is entitled THE SNOB'S MURDER. Queen's Quorum 104 says "... relate the full case histories of unusual murders ... "a minute and detailed description of the crime, setting forth the antecedents, motives, and all attendant circumstances." Readers "see the crime committed, know all about the criminal." Queen's Quorum 104.

[New York]: Lawrence E. Spivak, Publisher, [1947]., 1947. First edition. First edition. Digest sized PBO. Bestseller Mystery, No. B 91. Collected and Edited, with an Introduction by Ellery Queen. Very good copy in pictorial wrappers. Contains seven Department of Dead Ends' mysteries, only two of which are included in the U. K. edition, THE RUBBER TRUMPET and SNOB'S MURDER which is entitled THE SNOB'S MURDER. Queen's Quorum 104 says "... relate the full case histories of unusual murders ... "a minute and detailed description of the crime, setting forth the antecedents, motives, and all attendant circumstances." Readers "see the crime committed, know all about the criminal." Queen's Quorum 104.

London: Faber and Faber, [1949]., 1949. First edition. First edition. The second of two editions listed by Queen as Queen's Quorum 104. With an Introduction by Ellery Queen. Former owner's name, lightly faded at spine ends, else very good in dust jacket with internal cellophane tape repairs, moderate wear to spine ends, chip at top edge of rear panel and to corner points. Contains the same Ellery Queen introduction as the U. S. edition, but has eight additional Department of Dead Ends' mysteries, that are not included in the 1947 U. S. edition and has only two stories common to each edition. Queen's Quorum 104 says "... relate the full case histories of unusual murders ... "a minute and detailed description of the crime, setting forth the antecedents, motives, and all attendant circumstances." Readers "see the crime committed, know all about the criminal." Queen's Quorum 104.