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Ellery Queen. The Chinese Orange Mystery: A problem in deduction.. Frederick A. Stokes, 1934.

Price: US$92.00 + shipping

Description: This book has a new facsimile dustjacket in new brodart. moderate shelfwear, sunning to spine, titles still very visible on spine, ex lending library but only evidence is a step on the last page and a dozen stamps from when it was checked out, no marks outside the book

Seller: West With The Night, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.

Queen, Ellery. The Chinese Orange Mystery. Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1934.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Nice, bright copy. Trace of darkening to spine. No markings or names. Contents clean and tight. 2nd printing before publication, June 25, 1934. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 300 pages

Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.

Queen, Ellery. The Chinese Orange Mystery: A Problem in Deduction. FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY, NEW YORK, NY, 1934.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Boards: title on cover and lightly sun-faded spine, mild wear, corner bumps, few soil marks, edge wear, discoloration, moisture dampness stains, front/back hinge cracks. Interior: bookplate from the previous owner on the front paste-down paper, rubber stamp fromt he previous owner on the front paste-down paper, green ink name/address from the previous owner on the fronte free end paper, pages tanned. DATE PUBLISHED: 1934 EDITION: 300

Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.

Queen, Ellery. The Chinese Orange Mystery. A Problem in Deduction. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1934.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Octavo, 300 pages; publisher's red cloth, printed in black (several light stains on rear panel); Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.

Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.

Queen, Ellery. The Chinese Orange Mystery. Frederick A Stokes Company, New York, 1934.

Price: US$640.39 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, a very good copy in the publisher's cloth, a bit rubbed and scuffed at the edges, slight browning to the edges of a few leaves. Signed "Ellery Queen" to front endpaper.

Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland

Queen, Ellery. The Chinese Orange Mystery. Frederick A. Stokes, 1934.

Price: US$700.00 + shipping

Condition: As New

Description: Frederick A. Stokes. 1934, First Edition, Third Printing, Hardcover. no marks or foxing. no leaning or loose binding. Pages crisp, white, and mark free. Beautiful cover, this First Edition novel in red with black lettering and illustration. No browning of pages. Clean and crisp pages without marks or writing. Not an ex-library book in a smoke free environment. Tight binding and pages. The book is as new and a collector's dream! The novel was loosely adapted for the 1936 film The Mandarin Mystery, starring Eddie Quillan as Ellery Queen. Some elements of the novel were used as the basis for the 1941 film Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery, which was then novelized as The Penthouse Mystery by a ghost writer and published as by Ellery Queen. A wealthy publisher and collector of precious stones and Chinese postage stamps has a luxurious suite in a hotel that serves to handle his non-publishing business and the comings and goings of his staff, his relatives, and his female friends. When an odd and anonymous little man arrives and refuses to state his business, no one is surprised; he is locked (from outside only) in an anteroom with a bowl of fruit (including tangerines, also known as Chinese oranges) and left to await the publisher's arrival. When the door is unlocked, though, a truly bizarre scene is displayed. The little man's skull is crushed, his clothing is reversed, back to front, all the furnishings of the room have been turned backwards and two African spears have been inserted between the body and its clothing, stiffening it into immobility. The circumstances are such that someone has been observing every entrance to the room, and no one has apparently entered or left. The situation is further complicated by some valuable jewelry and stamps, the publisher's business affairs and romantic affaires, and a connection with "backwardness" for seemingly every character. It takes the considerable talents of Ellery Queen to sort through the motives and lies and arrive at the twisted logic that underlies every aspect of this very unusual crime.

Seller: Bell's Books, Mason, TX, U.S.A.

Ellery Queen. The Chinese Orange Mystery. Frederick A. Stokes, 1934.

Price: US$1100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: "The Chinese Orange Mystery", by Ellery Queen New York, Frederick A. Stokes - 1934, first US edition. XII,300p., orig. cl. w. modern dustwr. - Dustwr. replaced by modern facsimile. = SIGNED "Ellery Queen" in pen and ink on first free endpaper. Very rare signed first edition of this early Ellery Queen classic.

Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands

QUEEN, ELLERY. THE CHINESE ORANGE MYSTERY. A PROBLEM IN DEDUCTION. Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934., New York, 1934.

Price: US$4500.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Fine, bright copy in a bright, crisp dust jacket that is lightly soiled on the white rear cover and with light professional restoration to the spine ends and extremities. Insp. Queen needed to learn the identity of a man found murdered in a posh hotel. The scene of the crime bordered on the bizarre, with everything in the room turned backwards, including the victim's clothing, the rug was turned upside down, the picture faced the wall. Everything in the room that was movable had been turned backwards! Bourgeau says "one of the trickiest of the early Queen novels. Ellery deals with a locked-room mystery whose solution lies in what today can only be described as a quaint piece of deduction." An attractive copy of an elusive book.

Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.