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

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..

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.

New York: D. Appleton - Century Company, 1941. Very Good condition. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. 1941. Second printing of the First Edition with Appleton's "2" at the end of the final page. Illustrated with 56 photos on 18 plates. This reference is frequently cited in the catalogues of booksellers. See Barzun and Taylor COC 4316: "An extremely thorough and sensible treatment of its subject." Penzler calls this "the first and best comprehensive history of the genre." A Penzler basic reference tool. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped maroon cloth.. First Edition, second printing. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xx, 409pp. + 18 plates. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

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

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.

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 .

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.

NY: Biblio and Tannen, 1974. 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.

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.

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.