The Queen’s Awards 1946 by Queen, Ellery - 1946

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1948. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1948. No Edition Remarks. 370 pages. Green dust jacket over green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1946. Book. VG+. Hardcover. First Edition. First printing. A VG+ copy in a VG price-clipped dust jacket. Includes first book appearance of "An Error in Chemistry" by William Faulker, as well as the first book publication of "Find the Woman" by Kenneth Millar ("Ross MacDonald"), the author's first published short story..

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. VG/VG-. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. Some soiling to top edge in lightly toned DJ. ; 9.13 X 6.57 X 1.11 inches .

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1948. Name inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked dark turquoise cloth boards, tanned end papers and no bumping to corners. Well sunned dust jacket price clipped with nicks and chips to edges. 370pp. Sixteen detective stories from the likes of William Faulkner, TS Stribling, Philip Macdonald, Anthony Gilbert and Ngaio Marsh.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good (-). 7.5 x 5 inches.

MA: Little,Brown & Co., 1946. in VG+ dustwrapper that shows some wear to extremities but is overall bright and whole. The first edition of this collection of mystery stories chosen by editors of Ellery Queen Mystery Mag. Stories by Faulkner, Millar, Marsh, Innes and Coles.. VG+.

Little, Brown & Company, 1946. First Edition. hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 0x0x0. 1946; Boston; First edition; blue glossy paper dust jacket with black titles; dust jacket contains rubbing and edge wear; dust jacket contains color fading and sun damage; corners are bumped and worn; spine contains major sun damage and wear; interior contains light foxing around edges; interior clean and unmarked; 12mo - over 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; 380 pages

Boston: Little Brown, 1946. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. Boston: Little Brown, 1946. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. Clean yellow cloth boards (one tiny brown spot--smaller than a grain of rice). Green crown decoration on cover and spine, green lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Previous owner name on front fixed and front free endpaper (neatly penned). 380 pgs. Clean DUSTJACKET is not price clipped, has shallow chipping at top and bottom of spine, slight corner wear, small chip at front fold edge. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8 vo. Detective..

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946. First edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket, spine panel is faded, light shelf wear to corners and spine ends, back panel age darkened. (5867). Octavo, cloth. The best detective stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, the first volume in this series. First hardcover appearance of Kenneth Millar's (Ross MacDonald) with his first story "Find the Woman.