Search Results: the black and the red by paul elliot

NY; Random House; 1956;, 1956. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Random House, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x1. First Edition Hardcover with dj. Clean and bright dj. Contents clean and tight. 277 pages.

Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. NY; Random House; 1956;, 1956. First Edition. 1st Printing. Moderate general wear. Size: 9.1 x 6.5 x 1.1. Fiction Modern::Crime/Mystery/Suspense 6064

NY; Random House; 1956;. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Mystery, Fiction, Suspense) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

NY; Random House; 1956;. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Good dust jacket. Bookplate inside. In protective mylar cover. (mystery, crime, vintage)

New York : Random House , 1956. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 277 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to bright dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. Slight creases to pages 239-241. Clean, unmarked copy. Record # 854272

Random House, 1956. First printing. Hardbound in very-good condition in good+ unclipped ($2.75) dj with some wear at top of spine, moderate general wear.

Random House, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good. Minimal wear on corners of DJ and some slight discoloration. Slight shelf wear on binding. Very clean, tight pages throughout.

New York: Random House, 1956. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Stated First printing.. New York: Random House, 1956. Stated First Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Printing (stated), in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Very clean unfaded gray cloth boards with black title box, gold lettering and decoration on spine. No bumping, no wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with black top-stained upper page edges. Clean endpapers; very small corner clip to upper corner of front free endpaper; no names, writing or marks. 277 pages. Clean bright dust jacket is unclipped (2.75 on front inside flap), unchipped, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A Homer Evans murder mystery set in Las Vegas, Nevada..

New York: Random House, 1956. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. About fine in lightly soiled and foxed, very good or better dustwrapper.

N.Y.: Random House, Inc., 1956. 1st edition, so stated. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, $2.75 price intact, in protective mylar cover. Light soiling at rear jacket with black top-stained upper page edges spotted. Very clean unfaded gray cloth boards with black title box, gold lettering and decoration on spine. "John Dickson Carr and others pioneered mystery as slapstick; Elliot Paul merged the genre with surreal farce, with dozens of of continuing eccentric characters tumbling from book to book in ever more outlandish situations, all unified by the superhuman (but never stuffy) figure of Homer Evans." -- Encyclopedia Mysteriosa by William DeAndrea. Trust Homer Evans, that epicurean among detectives, to chose Las Vegas, Nevada, as the newest field for his unorthodox investigations into murder and assorted skullduggeries. In the American capital of sky-high gambling and lavish entertainment, of explosions--temperamental and nuclear--of gangsters and atomic… Read More

New York: Random House.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1956. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. About near fine in very good+ dust jacket. (Several short edge tears in jacket. ) A Homer Evans mystery. ; 5 3/4" x 8 1/2"; 277 pages .

New York: Random House, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 277pp. Cloth. A Homer Evans mystery. A fine copy in about fine dustjacket with extremely mild fading to the spine panel. In Hubin, 1994, p. 630. ; Octavo.

New York: Random House, 1956. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". None. A nicely bound first edition copy of Paul's detective novel, in the original dust wrapper. First edition. In the original price-clipped dust wrapper. 'The Black and the Red' is a detective novel by Elliot Paul. It follows Detective Homer Evans as he examines a Las Vegas mystery involving both gangsters and atomic scientists. Elliot Paul (1891-1958) was an American journalist and author. He worked for the Chicago Tribune and the Paris Herald, as well as the experimental literary journal 'transition'. He was a close friend to both James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. Collated, complete. In the original cloth binding, in the price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with no noticeable faults other than a bit o fading to top edge of boards. Prior owner's pencil inscription to front paste down. Dust wrapper is very smart, with a few marks to the wraps and very minimal edge wear. A bit of age-toning… Read More