queens challenge reader anthology de queen ellery (4 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).

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. First edition. About fine lacking the dust jacket. Nicely Inscribed by both of the duo who made up Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee), all but Lee's signature in the hand of Dannay: "July 31, 1940. To Rudy and Martha Flothow with the best wishes of the author 'Ellery Queen' (Frederic Dannay), (Manfred B. Lee)." The first of many anthologies edited by Queen, with first appearances of 25 short stories by authors including Arthur Conan Doyle, Dashiell Hammett, Agatha Chrsitie, and others.