Queen's Quorum: A History of the Detective-Crime Short Story as Revealed By the 106 Most Important Books Published in This Field Since 1845.

Langue : anglais

Edité par Little Brown & Co, New York, 1951

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QUEEN, Ellery. Queen’s Quorum: A History of the Detective-Crime Short Story as Revealed by the 106 Most Important Books Published in This Field Since 1845. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, first printing, with “First Edition” stated on the copyright page. Revised and expanded from the text originally published within 20th Century Detective Stories in 1948, accounting for the dust jacket’s statement, “A New Revised and Expanded Edition.” Octavo. ix, 132, [2, blank] pp. Photographic frontispiece depicting the first edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales, 1845. Original red cloth with an ivory paper spine label lettered in red. Fore and lower edges uncut. In the original dust jacket, protected in a removable archival Mylar cover. An influential bibliographical and critical survey tracing the development of the detective-crime short story through 106 landmark collections. Published under the joint pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, the work established the numbered sequence known as Queen’s Quorum, an enduring collecting guide and reference for booksellers and collectors of detective fiction. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding is sound and square. Cloth and spine label clean, with corners free from bumping. Dust jacket price-clipped, with light edge wear, closed tears, and chips at the head and tail of the spine. A Near Fine first separate edition in a Very Good dust jacket. Reference: Nevins, Francis M. Ellery Queen: The Art of Detection. Perfect Crime Books, 2013. [Attributes: First Edition; Illustrated; Hard Cover; In Dust Jacket.].…

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Titre
Queen's Quorum: A History of the Detective-Crime Short Story as Revealed By the 106 Most Important Books Published in This Field Since 1845.
Auteur
QUEEN, Ellery [pseudonym of Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905–1971)].
Éditeur
Little Brown & Co, New York
Année de publication
1951
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Assez bon
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Langue
anglais
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Edition originale
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1er tirage
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5,8 pouces de largeur par 8,3 pouces de hauteur par 0 pouce de profondeur
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20th Century Literature, Biography & Memoir, Book Collecting & the Book Trade, Collected Works & Multi-Volume Sets, Detective Mystery & Thriller Fiction, Non-Fiction

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