Fourteen Great Detective Stories: Revised Edition (Modern Library #144.2) by HAYCRAFT, Howard (editor) - [c.1959]

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. [c.1959]. Hardcover. An anthology of outstanding detective stories by masters of the genre. Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesterton and stories by 10 other authors have been chosen for this edition, which follows an earlier Modern Library collection. Edited and with an introduction by Howard Haycraft. Edited and with an introduction by Howard Haycraft. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 388 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1959 (though 1949 date appears in book). ML #144.2. --- A loosened rear hinge has been carefully repaired prior to this listing and front free endpaper has been scuffed to allow inked price to be seen, otherwise a stable, tightly-bound and unmarked copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with lightly sunned spine and mild chafing to edges, else bright and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall) ; xiv, 464 pages .