French Powder Mystery

USA: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1930. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+. The French Powder Mystery by Ellery Queen First Edition Frederick A. Stokes Company 1930. New York. A VG+ copy with no previous owner's name inscriptions. Contents clean throughout. Top edge red tint still present and very much bold. Covers are bright and unblemished and have… Read more about this item

First edition first printing of the second novel in the Ellery Queen mystery series. Has 1930 on the copyright page and MCMXXX (1930) on the title page. Edge wear all the fabric on the corners is worn to the boards. There is a inch long tear on the back edge of the spine. Both tips of the spine are frayed.… Read more about this item

England: Penguin Books, 1956 Tidy, lightly browned edges and covers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company,, 1930. A fine copy, in the dust jacket First edition, second printing, of the author's second mystery. Ellery Queen, the pseudonym created by writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee in 1929, "took the intellectual game that was the formal detective novel to greater heights than any American writer" (The Weekly Standard). … Read more about this item

New York: Mysterious Press. Very Good. 2015. Trade Paperback. Faint spine crease. 394 pages. The second novel in the popular detective series featuring Ellery Queen.French's department store was famous for the rare merchandise it offered its elite clientele. But no one there could be proud of its latest exclusive window display: the bloodstained corpse of the… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1930 Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York. 1930. Hardcover. Stated 5th Printing. Book is tight, has slight spine roll, and unmarked but for a small bookseller sticker on the rear pastdown for Lamar Book Store, Houston, TX. Book Condition: Good; shelfwear through fabric at head, tail, and lower tips; small spotty stains on… Read more about this item

New York: Otto Penzler Books, 1995. First edition, first printing (full number line). Paperback. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, extremely gentle rubbing to corners, bright pages in tight binding, else Near Fine(+) to Fine. Large white duodecimo in plastic pocket, smaller than octavo, xvi, 316 pages, b&w illustrations ; 19 cm. Police -- New York… Read more about this item

The World Publishing Company, 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1947. First Edition. 316 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards. Diagram at front. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed throughout. Minor pencil annotations to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All… Read more about this item

MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2015-01-20. Paperback. Used:Good.

Hardback, no dust jacket, spine ends, long spine edges and corners are rubbed, pages are very yellowed, text clean

New York: Pocket Book, 1947. rep. Softcover. Very Good/None. Non-paginated. Paperback. Pocket Book #71. Laminate starting to peel on wrappers, gutter cracked, and moderate edgewear. Ink "X" on spine. Record # 368552

New York: International Readers League. 1930. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in boards. Small owner label on front pastedown. Light fraying on spine crown. ; A Problem in Deduction .

New York: International Readers League, 1930. Very Good. Later. Very good. Book is rubbed at spine ends and corners, corners bumped, cover and foredges soiled, pages yellowed. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2015-01-20. Paperback. Used: Good.

New York: Pocket Books, 1964. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Fair To Good. Vintage paperback, Pocket Books 45012; Ellery Queen, New York City's legendary amateur sleuth, hunts down the murderer of a woman killed in a department store window in one of the best novels in this celebrated mystery series; Eighteenth Printing of First… Read more about this item

New York: Pocket Books, 1941. First Paperback Edition, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage Paperback, Pocket Books 71; Considered one of the greatest mysteries of all time, reprinted more than thirty times in five different edtions in the decade after it was first issued in 1930; a young Ellery Queen tracks down… Read more about this item

MYSTERIOUS PR.COM/OPEN ROAD. New. Special order direct from the distributor

Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1956. Pbk edition. Softcover. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 264 pages ; (8º). Subject; Fiction.

Scribner, 1995. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality… Read more about this item

Pocket Books by arr. w/ J.B. Lippincott., 1964. Copyright 1930, Stokes; 1958 renewed. 18th pr.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Lower spine tear at fold, repaired w/ clear tape.. 1 285 p. Mass-market paperback. 16 cm. Red-dyed page blocks. Murder mystery fiction. During a Fifth Avenue store window demo, showing off modern French furniture, a wall bed is lowered,… Read more about this item