The Dragon's Teeth

QUEEN, Ellery The Dragon's Teeth : A Problem in Deduction Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1950, hardback with dust wrapper, Gd/gd, boards red/gilt, 288 pp. Boards clean and firm, bump to front board, rubs to edges and corners, no inscription or annotations, binding sound, slight lean to the spine, pages tanned, foxing to endpapers. Appreciable wear to wraps (see scan) with foxing to front… Read more about this item

A first edition novel by Ellery Queen 1939 pages are brown from age and one blank page is ripped in back

A first edition novel by Ellery Queen 1939 pages are brown from age and one blank page is ripped in back

Blakiston Company. Good+ with no Dust Jacket. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Edges frayed, PON, other writings. ; 14540 .

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Triangle Books, 1945. First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Book #15 in the Ellery Queen detective series. Orig. published in 1939, this is the First Printing of the Triangle Books/Blakiston edition (#101) from 1945 (First, thus). With gray cloth-covered boards stamped with a deep burgundy design & lettering to front cover & spine,… Read more about this item

New York: International Readers League, 1939. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. No jacket. General wear, pages toned. 1939 Hard Cover. 325 pp. "After the death of his longtime friend Inspector Rummell, Ellery Queen drops in on Rummell's son, a struggling lawyer named Beau. Before their meal is through, Queen and young Rummell are partners in a newly… Read more about this item

The Blakiston Company/Triangle Books. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1945. Hardcover. ; Grey cloth cover has modest wear to corners and spine caps and is toned but clean and in very good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Former owner's name on front paste down. Pages are toned otherwise clean and pristine. Dust… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1939., 1939. First edition. First edition. Inscribed on the front free fly leaf, "To -- -- from "Ellery Queen." Spine lightly faded, else a fine, tight copy in dust jacket with some tiny spots to the spine a minor closed tear to the bottom of the rear cover, and a light scratch… Read more about this item

Grosset & Dunlap, 1939. Hardcover. Fair Condition/Fair. Shelf wear, name inside; the pages are darkly yellowed; a solid book. The jacket has some chips, tears and soiling. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 207129. .

Third impression (first cheap edition) October 1940 (first published October1939). Blue cloth boards with dark blue titles to spine. Binding firm. Some fading to spine and board edges, rubbing to corners and spine edges. Previous owner name and date in pencil to front free endpaper. Page edges heavily browned. Not ex-library. 288 pp. All books are individually described. All overseas… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company / Triangle Books, 1945. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7x5x1. Jacket stained on reverse side, jacket edges rubbed with a few small chips. 1945 Hard Cover. 325 pp. "After the death of his longtime friend Inspector Rummell, Ellery Queen drops in on Rummell's son, a struggling lawyer named Beau. Before their meal is through,… Read more about this item

New York: Stokes, 1939. First Edition. Bookplate; very good in dust jacket.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1939. Solid copy. Unmarked, tight and square. Rusty red textured cloth with black lettering to spine and front board. One bumped tip. Textblock clean and supple but tanned. Jacket has small, shallow chip at head of spine and similar one at top of front fold. In… Read more about this item

[FREDERIC DANNAY, MANFRED BENNINGTON LEE]. THE DRAGON'S TEETH. Pocket Books, New York, 1947. First Edition, First printing. True first edition PB #459. Condition: Near Fine. Appears unread, some wrinkling to cover from the original publisher's Perma-gloss lamination, pages are slightly age toned typical vintage paperbacks of this age, pages are clean, unmarked and binding tight. Ellery Queen is the pseudonym… Read more about this item

New York: International Readers League, 1939. Very Good. Very good. Book is lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, pages yellowed, foredges soiled. 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.

Philadelphia: Triangle Books (Blakiston), 1945. Very nice copy. Remarkably well preserved book. Unmarked, tight and square. Red topstain to all outer edges. Red textured boards with black lettering and stamping. Base of spine lightly crimped. Jacket is bright and fresh with no issues. First published in 1939 by JB Lippencott. In mylar.… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1939.. FIRST EDITION. A fine copy in an unusually bright unfaded dust jacket with a few tiny closed edgetears and a very faint dampstain on verso of jacket.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1940. Hardcover. Good. 1940. Third Impression. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping.… Read more about this item

New York, NY: International Readers League, 1939. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 325 pages, tall 12mo. Orange cloth boards with gold-embossed title and design of key along spine. No DJ. Shelfwear: light rubbing along cover edges, heavy scuffing and smudge marks to covers and spine, heavy spine fade. Tanned page edges. Previous owner's name in black ink on front free endpaper. Tightly… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, tan cloth soiled, inked name on endpaper Ellery Queen opens his first detective agency office. Murder ensues.