The Brown Fox Mystery by QUEEN Jr., Ellery - 1951

Collins, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. The yellow cloth cover is much marked and worn. The front cover has fading stains on the body and right hand edge. The spine edge is worn but firm. All corners have shelving depressions. The spine has storage spotting and wear depressions to the head and foot. The front and end papers have spotting. The frontispage has a school prizegiving plate. The pages are discoloured and marked. There are persistent stains through the first 35 pages. However, the general condition is fair with firm, clear pages. The paper trim edges are much marked by storage and dust. All pages however are present which allows full enjoyment. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Collins, 1951. Hardcover. Good. 1951. First Edition. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Mild water stains and droplets to surfaces.

Groset & Dunlap 1948. Duodecimo. Book is in good condition. Text is clean and unmarked. Boards and bindings are strong with moderate shelf and edge wear. DJ has significant shelf wear and chips and tears with a large 3" piece missing on front lower right.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 243 p. Reprint. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with dark brown titles. Tiny bookseller's label (Bullock's Wilshire) to the rear pastedown. The dust jacket is moderately edgeworn, with some shallow chipping to the spine head and a lengthy tear to the front panel that has been mended with tape on the verso. A very good copy.