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Published by Little Brown, Boston, 1944
Seller: Juniper Point Books, Round Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Third printing. 363p, cloth, DW, moderate edgewear to DW as well as some damp staining to the rear DW and book cover, in mylar, Good+.
Seller: Librairie Chat, Beijing, China
Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 2 books Size: 16cm.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1945
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with no DJ. Black cloth over boards with black lettering on red patch on front board and spine. Title page dated 1945. Copyright page dated 1944. Reprinted February 1945. 363 pages. Boards are very lightly rubbed with slight fading along spine. Black lettering on front board and spine remains clean and legible. Deckle edge pages. Front and rear endpapers are lightly toned. 1 1/2 inch tear to gutter at front and rear endpapers, binding exposed but boards and pages remain firmly attached and in place. List of novels, critical works, and titles written under the pseudonym of the author opposite half title page. Illustration of a scene from page 40 as frontispiece. Pages have been well maintained. Text is clear and legible. Binding secure with no missing pages. Very Good Condition. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.
Published by Little, Brown, 1944
Seller: Bergen Book Studio, Hillsdale, NJ, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This book was edited by Ellery Queen and the Contents consist of 4 Parts - stories by authors dating from 1892 - 1941. "PART ONE - BY DETECTIVE-STORY WRITERS" - this has 9 short stories by such writers as: Robert Barr, Maurice Leblanc, Carolyn Wells, Vincent Starrett, Anthony Berkeley, Agatha Christie, Anthony Boucher, Ellery Queen, & Stuart Palmer. "PART TWO: BY FAMOUS LITERARY FIGURES" - stories by Sr James M. Barrie, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, & O. Henry. "PART THREE: BY HUMORISTS" - stories by R. C. Lehmann, John Kendrick Bangs, and Stephen Leacock. "PART FOUR: BY DEVOTEES AND OTHERS" - stories by Zero (Allan Ramsay), R. K. Munkittrick, Oswald Crawford, Julies Castier, A. E. P., August Derleth, William O. Fuller, Hugh Kingsmill, Rachen Ferguson, Frederic Dorr Steele, Frederric Arnold Kummer and Basil Mitchell, Logan Clendening, M.D., Richard Mallett, S. C. Roberts, and Manly Wade Wellman. Photos available by request. International customers will be charged actual shipping costs.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1944
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. March 1944 first printing first edition in shop worn damp stained price intact jacket. Tight and unmarked. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.
Published by LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY, BOSTON, 1944
Seller: A Casperson Books, Niles, MI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: NO DJ. 1st Edition. Black lightly rubbed boards. Internally clean and sound.
Published by LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY, 1944
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. No DJ. In archival cover.
Publication Date: 1944
Seller: LibreriaElcoste�o, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, BA, Argentina
Tapa Blanda. Condition: Bien. IMAGENES: En caso que no exista imagen de tapa. no dude en solicitarla. Ejemplar Usado, puede (o no) contener signos de uso como firma, anotaciones o subrayados, consultenos para mayor informacion del estado.
Published by Little, Brown, Boston, 1944
Seller: Macintosh Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Good Plus. Later Printing. Spotting on page ends. Dust jacket has minor soiling and tears top and bottom of spine. This is a good, clean, tight copy. Not price clipped.
Published by little, Brown & Company Boston, 1944
Seller: HERB RIESSEN-RARE BOOKS, Costa Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Frederick Dorr Steele (illustrator). 1st Edition. A previous owners 4 line of purchase history in ink at top of front free endpaper. Dust jacket has long closed tear at front spine edge, not noticeable. short on inch tear at bottom front near spined.
Published by Little Brown, 1944
Seller: Zach the Ripper Books, Gillette, WY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated first edition. Unclipped ($2.50-used bookstore price written-in pencil-lightly below this original price). The jacket has mylar protection. The DJ has a 1/2" x 1 " triangular piece missing at the heel of the spine. A 1" closed tear on the back/bottom. Small chips to each flap's corners. Some small chips and creases to the head of the spine. The book has clean text and no marks or writing. Sharp corners. Some minor shelf wear to the bottom of the boards. The spine is slightly sun faded and the crown and foot curve somewhat under. The binding is solid. Red topstain.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1944
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Illustrated by Steele, Frederic Dorr (illustrator). First Edition. xxii, 363pp + index. Black cloth stamped in red on the front panel and the spine panel. Collects thirty-three stories ranging from parody to satire to exact imitation by Agatha Christie, Anthony Boucher, Ellery Queen, Vincent Starrett, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Bret Harte, John Kendrick Bangs, August Derleth, Hugh Kingsmill, Frederic Dorr Steele, Frederic Arnold Kummer, Manly Wade Wellmann, and others. Dustjacket drawing and illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele. Light wear to head of spine. A nice near fine copy in very good- price-clipped dustjacket with light fading and tiny chip to spine panel, two old tape mends to the verso, and a short closed tear. ; Octavo.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1944
Seller: Ziebarth Books, Coal Valley, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, hardcover. Black cloth with black lettering on a red field on spine and front cover. Red top stain. xxiii,363 pages. Bibliography. Index of Sherlock Holmes's Other Names. Very good with tanning to endpapers, in a good, unclipped dust jacket with wear to edges, including 1" tear with creases to bottom edge of front panel and several tears/scratches to rear panel, and rear panel and edges of flaps tanned. Mylar cover on jacket. NOT ex-library. "Parody, travesty, burlesque and exact imitation by Mark Twain, Bret Harte, O. Henry, Agatha Christie, John Kendrick Bangs, Stephen Leacock, Carolyn Wells and many others. Thirty-three stories in all.".
Published by Boston, Little, Brown and Company,, 1944
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Edition. Illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele Slightly darkened front free endpapers but overall a very nice clean copy in a bright dust-wrapper with only minor edgewear. Library label of noted James Joyce scholar James Fuller Spoerri on fromt endpaper This scarce compilation, supposedly suppressed by the Doyle estate, features contributions from Bret Harte, August Derleth, Stephen Leacock, Agatha Christie, James M. Barrie, O. Henry and Mark Twain. "Twenty-five of the thirty-three stories belong to the combined category of parody-travesty-satire-burlesque, five are exact imitations of the real Doyle stories, and three might be called stunt imitations." Black cloth with scarlet decoration stamped on upper board and spine.
Published by Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1944
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-v] vi-xiv [1-3] 4-363 [364-366], original black cloth front and spine stamped in orange, top edge stained red. A fine copy in a very good to nearly fine dust jacket with mild shelf wear to corner tips and spine ends, some color fade to orange ink of spine panel. (28923).
Published by Little Brown, Boston, 1944
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine (Facsimile DW). Third Impression. Bound in black cloth, stamped in red. The book shows a tiny tear to the top of the spine. This is the third printing of the book -- published two months after the first edition and in the same format. The book is inscribed to the Opera Singer AnnaMary Dickey (Laue) on the front endpaper, signed as Ellery Queen (but it was actually Frederic Dunnay who did the signing). 359 pp. + Bibliography. Fitted with a facsimile dust jacket that fits the book perfectly. Signed by Editor.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1944
Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, inscribed on the flyleaf by Frederic Dannay as Ellery Queen to Manly Wade Wellman. Wellman's story 'The Man Who Was Not Dead' appears as the final story in this volume of thirty-three Sherlock Holmes stories, one of Queen's most impressive anthologies and originally suppressed by Adrian Conan Doyle. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1944. Original black cloth boards stamped in red-orange. Boards show shelfwear, rubbing and sunning. Scattered foxing and thumbsoiling internally with a smudge to the verso of flyleaf. Binding cracked at the half-title but holding firm. Jacket shows toning and shelfwear to the extremities, a couple closed tears and reinforcements to verso, protected in archival mylar. Housed in a very attractive custom case. Signed by Author(s).