Resultados da Pesquisa: x marks the dot por stafford muriel

Duell, 1943-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Blue cloth cover shows minor wear and rubbing, no dj. Missing about 1/3 of the ffep. Pages are tanned and clean.

Duell, 1943. 1st. hardcover. VG+.

New York: Detective Book Club, 1943. Book. Good. Cloth. Book Club Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Detective Book Club. Brown cloth binding. No markings in the text with a very few light scattered soil spots. There is a name label on the front end paper. The dust jacket is darkened on the spine area. Included in this book: Murder with Love by Garland Lord; X Marks the Dot by Muriel Stafford; and The Stars are Dark by Peter Cheyney. 636 pages in total. .

Duell, 1943. 1st. hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dj w/lite wear at spine ends, 1st Edition

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1943. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. "Mr. X, the curious stranger, asked to see everyone at the newspaper office. One of them saw him first Probably he had no hane to turn his head before the crushing blow fell on his skull.' Author was a graphologist who read the handwriting of the Duchess of Windsor, J. Edgar Hoover, Christopher Morley, Frank Sinatra, Louis Bromfield, Noel Coward, Mae West and Thornton Wilder. Book has tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Duell, Sloan and Pearce is shown as publisher on spine of dust jacket, while Coward-McCann, Inc. is shown as publisher on title page. Dust jacket has chips and tears around edges. Original price of $2.00 on front flap. Blue boards with red lettering on spine. Size: Sm 8vo (7.5" to 8"). 245 pp.

New York: Detective Book Club / Walter J. Black. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1943. Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket, this rather scarce edition features three unabridged stories by three individual authors, the brown cloth has two faint blemishes on the front cover and tanning is present on the inside front and rear hinges, the binding is tight and clean and the contents are fine, the spine of the jacket is slightly tanned and mild edge-wear is present at the corners and spine-ends, the jacket is clean and well-preserved and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included .

First edition first printing of the only mystery novel by this author. A graphologist mystery. Light edge wear. Price clipped otherwise in very good / very good condition.

New York, NY, USA: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1943. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/Very Good, but chipped, torn and price clipped. Blue boards with red letters with a 1 cm tear mid spine. Previous owner's name on front free page. The price clipped dust jacket has tears to 2 cm and chips at top and base of spine. Pages 245.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. Very Good+ in Good+ dj. (c.1943). First Edition. Hardcover. [book is moderately worn at the extremities, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper, bookplate on front pastedown; the jacket, which has some edgewear and a couple of tiny chips, has been internally tape-reinforced along most edges and folds, and has also been touched up and filled-in along both the top and bottom edges]. (A Bloodhound Mystery) Series An unusual mystery novel, centering around the use of graphology (handwriting analysis) to solve a murder that takes place in a newspaper office. This was the only novel by Ms. Stafford, described in the jacket blurb as "America's best-known and most gifted graphologist," as indeed she was (best-known, anyway, by virtue of having had a regular newpaper column, which debuted in the Chicago Tribune in 1934 and later in papers across the country. (When it began running in the Los… Ler mais

New York: The Guinn Company, 1943. Edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, spine is gently creased, pages are toning, a couple of chips out of the base of the rear cover, 435 written in red on the front cover, overall a clean collectible first paperback edition! Wonderfully well-preserved! Full-color illustrated wrapper. 124 very clean unmarked and uncreased suspense-filled and mystery-riddled pages! "You'll find much more than you expected in this suspensive, spinetingling, unusual 'whodunit.'". First Thus. Stapled Soft Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Duell, Sloan, 1943. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943 . First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 8" by 6". None. An excellent example of Muriel Stafford's thrilling murder mystery novel, in which handwriting analysis plays a major role. The first edition, first printing, with 'first edition' to colophon.In the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper.A graphologist herself, in this work Muriel Stafford's central character shares her name. The fictional Stafford is writing a newspaper column about handwriting analysis when a visitor at the newspaper's office is murdered.A thrilling murder mystery. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. Light shelf wear to back strip tail, with minor are of fraying to spine head. Otherwise, externally fine. Three small closed tears to front wrap head, with light chipping to back strip head, and edgewear to back strip tail. Light mark to head of rear wrap. Tape repair to head of back strip reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages… Ler mais