THE BIG FEAR de Durrant, Theo - 1953

Allan Wingate, London, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. 235 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Allan Wingate, London, 1951. First Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition but dust jacket is not included. More specifically: Edges of boards have superficial edgewear and corners are lightly bumped. Pages are lightly tanned and mildly foxed. Previous owner's name in ink. Moderate water damage to covers, text unaffected. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; Inventory No: 23080180..

New York: Knopf, 1951.. 8vo. 235 pp. Very Good, Decorative Boards with sun-fading, edge wear, & rubbing; spine slanted; minor shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle; previous owner's bookplate inside back cover. First Edition.

THE MARBLE FOREST, Knopf, 1951, first edition., vg+/near fine in near vg dust-wrapper with a small triangular chip missing from the upper margin of the rear dust-wrapper panel and thumbnail size area effaced from upper right corner of the front dust-wrapper panel. Actually written by 12 different authors, the Durrant name being a pseudonym.

1951. Borzoi Book, Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1951. First edition. No DW. Attractively patterned salmon pink boards. Endpapers browned, slight wear to edges of boards otherwise a clean and fresh copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Good in Good dust jacket. 1951. First Edition. Hardbound. Small Stain on Ffep .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. 235pp. Decorated boards, top edge stained black. A collaborative novel by Terry Adler, Anthony Boucher, Eunice Mays Boyd, Florence Ostern Faulkner, Allen Hymson, Cary Lucas, Dana Lyon and others. Name erased on front free endpaper. A near fine copy in very good+ dustjacket with fading to spine panel and light edge wear. ; Octavo.

N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1951. 1st edition, so stated. Red decorated boards with black lettering and picture at front. Very light wear at edges with some very minor soiling at spine else a near fine copy in dust jacket with very light soiling, not price clipped, $2.50 price intact, in protective mylar cover. Durrant is a psuedonym for a collaborative effort by 12 members of the California Mystery Writers of America: Terry Adler, Anthony Boucher, Eunice Mays Boyd, Florence Ostern Faulkner, Allen Hymson, Cary Lucas, Dana Lyon, Lenore Glen Offord, Virginia Rath, Richard Shattuck, Darwin L. Teilhet & William Worley. "Durrant" dedicated the book to these 12 writers. This copy, although not marked as such, comes from the Otto Penzler collection and is SIGNED BY 10 OF THE 12 CONTRIBUTORS. Rare ... [pencil notes by Otto on front free endpaper] Filmed by Allied Artists, 1958, as "Macabre" (scw: Robb White and Anthony Boucher; directed by William Castle and starring… Leer más

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. First Edition. Attractive copy of this collaborative novel, written by the Northern California chapter of the MWA, under the direction of Anthony Boucher. "Each author was to write a chapter for the book. As the book was handed off to the next author, the challenge was to use the material that had already been written and add to it in a meaningful way to continue the mystery...The book opens with a mysterious phone call announcing that Dr. Barratt's daughter Midge has been kidnapped and placed in a coffin. She has no more than five or six hours worth of air before she dies. Each chapter in the book is titled with the exact time, so the reader is constantly aware of how much time remains for Midge to live" (Marks, Jeffrey. Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography, p.99). Basis for William Castle's 1958 film Macabre, starring William Prince. Hubin, p.127. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); patterned paper-covered boards; blue topstain; dustjacket; x,235,[5]pp. Signed on the… Leer más