ellery queens challenge reader anthology de editor (3 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A Good or slightly better copy of the 1938 hardcover first edition. Tanning at the outer edges of the text block, sound binding, clean within, with little cover wear. Not ex-library. No dust jacket. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First edition. Binding somewhat shaken, spine darkened, very good lacking the dustwrapper. A series of short stories where you the reader identify the great detective.

First edition. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] 1-502 [503: acknowledgments] [504: blank], original gray cloth spine stamped in black, red and gold. Anthology of 25 detective stories not previously collected in a U. S. anthology, the "Challenge to the Reader" is that the detectives in the stories names are changed and it is left to the reader to identify them and the author. Includes the work of A. Conan Doyle, H. C. Bailey, Agatha Christie, Ernest Bramah, Dashiell Hammett and others. The first anthology edited by Queen. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with shelf wear to spine ends and corner tips, closed tear repaired on the verso to the upper right front corner, several closed tears to the upper spine panel with tape repair to the verso. Uncommon in the jacket. (22533).