The Murderer Is a Fox

Boston: Little Brown, 1945 First American edition. "Published May 1945" on copyright page. 8vo. 7 3/4" tall. Orange cloth stamped in purple. 231pp. Spine is sun faded just a little bit. no jacket. Very good plus condition..

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1949. Third Impression. 184 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are moderately tanned, but text remains clear. Binding is firm. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Heavy marking to endpapers. Boards have light shelf-wear, with minor corner bumping and minimal scuffing to edges. Spine is severely sunned, with some noticeable splitting… Read more about this item

Little, Brown, 1945. Hardcover. Good. 1945. 223 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are in good condition with a firm binding. Endpapers and page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine… Read more about this item

Penguin, 1972. Book. Fair. Paperback. Mild page tanning, some pages a bit rippled, else internally in good condition; cover rubbed with some shelfwear, back cover has a corner crease and spine is curled..

London: Gollancz, 1945. Very Good+ in a Very Good dustjacket. Light blue cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. 184pp. The board-edges and the spine are a bit sunned. Also, there is the sporadic, light and small, foxmark. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is considerably faded and sunned -- particularly along the… Read more about this item

U.S.A.: Dell Book, 1966. , Stated First Dell Printing Jan. 1966, on copyright page.Red illustraded Cover has original price 60c in corner, Dell 6050 near top spine corner. Slight rubwear along surface & edges, a few nips along side top edge. Otherwise the pages still tight with green tinted edges.. Good reading copy. Book shows common (average) signs of wear… Read more about this item

Dell, 1966. Paperback. Good. 1966. First Edition Thus. 252 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

NY: Pocket Books. VG. 1948. 1st Printing. Paperback. Pocket Books #517, 1948. Stated first printing. Very Good condition. R ubs to the corners and spine tips. Small bump to the head of the spine . Faint, 3 1/2" diagonal crease at the rear cover's upper edge. Light tanning to the pages. Cover art by Lorin Thompson. .

London: Pan, 1960. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Thus.. 207pp. Some foxing inside frt. & rr. covers, but generally in very good order inside & out. No inscriptions. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Typical browning apparent to external edges..

Paperback. Very Good.

Gollancz,, [1948]. 8vo., Second Impression, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, covers mildly age-marked else a good, bright copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper, the latter chipped (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Queen's classic crime novel was first published in 1945. The secons impression is the 'First Cheap Edition'.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Very good paperback copy. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 222 pages. Subjects: American fiction. Crime. Genre: Fiction.

Random House Publishing Group, 1975. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin, 1972. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Dell. Collectible - Good. Collectible - Good. Barbara G. Mertz Rev Trust custom bookplate on front inside cover. This book formed part of Barbara G. Mertz's personal library at her home in Frederick, Maryland. Stamped on inside. (Vintage mystery and adventure, mystery, adventure, crime thriller, detective novel, Ellery Queen)

Scherz Phoenix, 1947. 64. vg. 1st Scherz Phoenix 97 1947 edition paperback vg book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Ballantine, 1975. 232 yellowing pages, yellowed white pictorial cover with red ltrs, yellow printers ink on edges, corners/head-heel of spine/& edges are bumped/scruffed/creased/ & nicked, creases on spine. Ellery Queen mystery--like father, like son...killers!.. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. G+.

Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc., 2018. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

1945. Victor Gollancz, London. 1945. First Edition. Hardback. DW. Slim 8vo. Slight lean to spine and very slight fading to head and tail. Foxing to rear endpapers o/w a very good, clean copy in slightly worn and very slightly soiled wrapper that is sunned to spine.

Ballantine Books, 1975-01-12. Mass Market Paperback. Good.