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New York: Biblio and Tannen, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Newly enlarged edition with Notes on Additions to a Cornerstone Library and the Haycraft-Queen Definitive Library of Detective-Crime-Mystery Fiction. Octavo. 409pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Two paperclip indentations on front fly, and lightly rubbed on the spine, near fine in a very good dustjacket with modest chips at the spine. Howard Haycraft's own copy with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Influential history of the detective story as a literary form, beginning with the invention of the form by Edgar Allan Poe.

U.S.A.: Appleton, 1941. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. From the collection of Adrian and M. B. Goldstone--and signed in pencil to the front free endpaper by Goldstone--who along with his brother--who was Steinbeck's bibliographer--were well known collectors early detective and western fiction. Also signed by Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay) by his photograph on page 167. This copy is in near fine condition with only light age toning ---or would be fine. Published on the 100th anniversary of the detective story (first one was by Poe)--this book covers a "who's who" of detection literature. From "The Murders In The Rue Morgue" to 1941---Haycraft brilliantly chronicles the art form. A great collectible copy.

1942. Peter Davies, London. 1942. First Edition. Hardback with DW. Frontis + illustrations. xxvii, 347 pages. Boards are sunned along bottom margins, slightly worn at extremities, and top corner of front board slightly creased. Pencil annotations to page margins and rear endpaper, the pages are very slightly browned o/w contents clean and sound. The wrapper is worn and slightly chipped and a little soiled and rubbed, the spine is sunned o/w a very good copy of this book in a SCARCE wrapper.

FINE condition in NEAR FINE dust jacket. NY. Biblio & Tannen. HARDCOVER. 1974. FIRST PRINTING of Newly Enlarged Edition. SIGNED By Half. AS NEW, bound in mulberry cloth with silver titles in black and red printed dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, dust jacket NOT clipped. Very light rubbing to top edge of dust jacket, else FINE, see image. '..... with Notes on Additions to a Cornerstone Library and the Haycraft-Queen Definitive Library of Detective-Crime-Mystery Fiction.' Illustrated. ~ SIGNED on Front-Free Endpaper by Half of the Author ~ Ellery Queen ~ (Frederic Dannay) ~. Signed by Author. First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

London: Peter Davies, 1942. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xxvii; 347; [1]. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price 10s 6d to front flap. Black and white illustrations throughout, including frontispiece of Wilkie Collins. Small previous ownership inscription in black ink to free endpaper, toning to textblock edges, bumping to board corners and rolling to spine. Slight toning to dust-jacket spine, tearing to jacket edges. Very good. In this copy of 'Murder for Pleasure', Haycraft, an expert in detective fiction, traces the genre's development from the 1840s through the 1940s, looking at key contributions from a range of detective fiction authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle and Wilkie Collins. This copy is scarce in its dust-jacket.

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1943. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Bound in red hardcovers, faint rubbing to the spine ends. Dust jacket rear cover is rather dirty; the spine is sun faded; the corners are rubbed or lightly chipped; the front joint is torn for 3" from the top; the front flap is price clipt. Jacket is reinforced with mylar. "This is the first book about the detective story as a literary form to be brought out in this country. Published on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Detective Story, it is an account of the milestones in detective writing, beginning with the invention of the form by Edgar Allan Poe." Illustrated. 409 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1968. First Edition; Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Newly enlarged edition with notes on additions to a cornerstone library. 409pp. Cloth. "The first book about the detective story as a literary form to be brought out in this country. Published on the one hundredth anniversary of the detective story, it is an account of the milestones in detective writing, beginning with the invention of the form by Edgar Allan Poe to the present day." Small stain to fore edge and to edge of rear panel. A very good copy in very good+ dustjacket with two small stains to rear panel and light fading to spine panel. ; Octavo.

New York: D. Appleton-Century. 1941. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Ex-Library with the usual markings. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NEW YORK NY: APPLETON-CENTURY-CROFTS, INC. VERY GOOD COPY WITH NO D.J.. PUB 1941. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. A LIBRARY DISCARD WITH MINIMAL MARKINGS WITH A VERY NICE LIBRARYBINDING WITH WHITE SPINE TITLES AND NO EXTERNAL LIBRARY MARKS. A VERYNICE CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY OF THIS LANDMARK STUDY OF THE DETECTIVE GENREWITH A LOT OF SERVICEABLE MILES LEFT ON IT.. Keywords: BIBLIOGRAPHY, DETECTIVE FICTION, CORNERSTONES, INVISIBLE, ABCDEF.

London: Peter Davies, 1942. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Tight Firm Clean Copy - First Edition - No Signatures, Inscriptions Or Notations Discovered. Not Illustrated. Red Cloth Hard Cover With Black Titles Withing Grey Coloured Box On Spine - Faint Wear..

London:: Peter Davies,, 1942. First edition. Cloth. Very Good in Fair DJ. Introduction by Nicholas Blake. 11 pages of b/w plates. Cloth worn and marked. Top edge marked by dust. Dj rather worn, with waterstains and tearing along top and base.

London: Peter Davies, 1942.. 8vo.. xxviii+348pp. B/w illustrations. Original cloth, a very good copy. . First edition.

1942. Peter Davies, London. 1942. First Editon. Hardback. No DW. Brick red library binding. Illustrated. Ex-library copy with remains of labels to prelims. number to spine, and small stamps to title page and copyright page. Boards a little soiled o/w a a good copy.

New York: Carroll & Graf Pub. Stated First Carroll & Graff edition. M13 . Near Fine. Soft cover. First Thus. 1984.

Appleton-Century, 1941. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Fourth printing from 1943. An ex-library copy lacking the dust jacket..

CARROOL & GRAF, 1984. First edition. . Trade paperback. Very good.. 1 460 p.