More Tales of the Black Widowers

London: Victor Gollancz, 1977. first thus. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First printing of this edition. Fine book in fine dust jacket, now in new removable protective cover. Red boards with gold print on the spine. Pages are clean and unmarked, mild age toning as expected. Victor Gollancz hard cover with dust jacket, first printing April 1977, ISBN: 9780575022713, 180 pages. 8vo (5.5"" x 8"") First UK edition. First US edition was a 1976 Doubleday hard cover. 2nd in series, preceded by Tales of the Black Widowers, and followed by Casebook of the Black Widowers and others. Collects 12 stories with an introduction. Contents: Introduction, essay by Isaac Asimov. Stories: When No Man Pursueth; Quicker Than the Eye; The Iron Gem; The Three Numbers; Nothing Like Murder; No Smoking; Season's Greetings!; The One and Only East; Earthset and Evening Star; Friday the Thirteenth; The Unabridged; The Ultimate Crime. Six of these stories were originally published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, three were originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and three are first published in this collection. Each story has an afterword by the author.