The Department of Dead Ends by Roy Vickers - 1949

Dover Publications, Incorporated, 1978. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Dover, 1978. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Ed Thus. First trade paperback ed. thus. Good condition, over all wear, cover creases..

Dover Publications, Inc., 1978. Paperback. Selected and Introduced by E. F. Bleiler. Trade paperback 5"x8" 277 pages. Pages clean, binding tight.

New York: Dover Publications, 1978. Selected and introduced by E.F. Bleiler 8vo size trade paperback; 277 pages From back cover: "The Department of Dead Ends - this special department of (Scotland) Yard collects and store the detritus of unsolved crimes until some future time when the material may be utilized or discarded... In creating this special department, the English writer Roy Vickers (1889-1965) wrote a series of short stories that almost all critics have rated as the best inverted detective stories since the work of R. Austin Freeman... Constructed in a sparse, direct narrative style reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett's in its avoidance of involvement, each story is a personality study, a life history of ordinary people falling or pushed into crime..." Creased back bottom corner, bumped top corner of covers and pages, one page has a quarter inch tear the bottom margin. Spine may be sunned (please see our last photograph.) . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over… Read More

Dover Pubns, 1979-06. Paperback. Good.

Dover Pubns. paperback. Acceptable. 7x5x0. good minus. just a some foxig on page edges. Clean text. Shelving cpode Pulp est

Dover Pubns, 1979 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Secure binding with clean pages and mild cover wear. Softcover book..

Penguin Books, 1955. Paperback. Acceptable. 1955. No Edition Stated. 236 pages. Paperback book. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Notable tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and tear to spine, cover edges and corners. Notable tanning to spine, with staining and soiling to covers.

Penguin, 1955. Paperback. Good. 1955. First Edition Thus. 236 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages with some foxing and tanning. Binding remains firm. Some page corners folded. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Penguin, 1955. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.