The Tragedy of Z by Barnaby, Ross aka Ellery Queen - 1933

New York: N.Y. / New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1933 (possibly 1934 ), 1st G&D Edition, 1st Printing, 1933. ----------( 1st printing of the FIRST G&D Edition ) ---hard cover, a Very Good+ example with light wear, in an attractive Fair to Good dustjacket, some chips and tears especially at spine tips, ---bookplate for Sterling and Margaret Campbell partially attached to front flap, --- STERLING CAMPBELL was a Canadian aviator and film director best known for the 1947 film Bush Pilot, one of the first narrative feature films ever produced by a Canadian film production company. ---Campbell served in the Canadian Army during the First World War. He later worked in Hollywood, California as a technical and action assistant director, including the films Wings, Dawn Patrol, Hell's Angels, Air Circus, Legion of the Condemned, Forced Landing and Ceiling Zero, and as an assistant to Cecil B. DeMille and Howard Hawks. He also had minor acting roles in the films Forced Landing, Hands Across the… Read More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1940. First Edition Thus. The first (and best) of the four novels written by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee under the Barnaby Ross pseudonym, originally published by Viking in 1932 and re-issued by Stokes and Little, Brown between 1940-42. Detective and retired Shakespearean actur Drury Lane joins forces with NYPD Inspector Thumm to "investigate the murder of the much-despised stockbroker Harley Longstreet on a passenger-jammed crosstown trolley by means of a ball of cork riddle with poison-tipped needles. This is followed by a second murder, with one of the Longstreet suspects thrown from the upper deck of the Weehawken ferry and crushed to pulp as the boat pulls into its slip; and then by a third killing, carried out aboard a New Jersey communter train within a few feet of Lane himself" (Pronzini & Muller, pp.699-700). A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone title. Hubin, p.345. First Printing (and the first published under the Ellery Queen pseudonym). Octavo (21.25cm);… Read More

New York: The Viking Press, 1933. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; x,308,[2]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, light wear and hand-soil to cloth, with offsetting to endpapers, and previous owners ink name to FEP; Very Good+, lacking the scarce dustjacket. The fourth and final Drury Lane mystery written under the Barnaby Ross pseudonym. HUBIN, p.355.