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NY: D APPLETON CO, 1941. 3RD PRINTING. . Hardcover. Near Fine/NoNE. PHOTOS. SOLID CLEAN AND BRIGHT SMALL PREVIOUS OWNER SIGNATURE PRIVATELY OWNED DATE ON TITLE PAGE MATCHES DATE ON COPYRIGHT PAGE THERE IS A SMALL 3 ON LAST PAGE OF INDEX DENOTED 3RD PRINTING VERY BRIGHT UNMARKED TEXTBLOCK BOUND IN RED WITH COMPLETE GOLD LETTERING LIGHT WEAR TO LETTERING ON SPINE A VERY NICE COPY OF THIS CLASSIC LOOK AT EARLY DETECTIVE FICTION
Murder for Pleasure, The Life and Times of the Detective Story [1941, first printing] by Haycraft, Howard - 1941
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Murder for Pleasure, The Life and Times of the Detective Story [1941, first printing]
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New York: D. Appleton - Century Company, 1941. PHOTOS UPON REQUEST. Good condition in a Good dust jacket. SCARCE in JACKET. The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NOT price clipped. Spine ends a little frayed. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean. 1941. First Printing of the First Edition with Appleton's requisite "1" 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 maroon cloth. Complete with dust jacket.. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Good condition/Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xx, 409pp. + 18 plates. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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- Date Published 1941
- Size 8vo. xx, 409pp. + 18 plates
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MURDER FOR PLEASURE THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE DETECTIVE STORY
by HAYCRAFT HOWARD
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Murder for Pleasure, The Life and Times of the Detective Story [1941, first printing]
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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.
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MURDER FOR PLEASURE. The Life and Times of the Detective Story
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London: Peter Davies, 1942.. 8vo.. xxviii+348pp. B/w illustrations. Original cloth, a very good copy. . First edition.
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Murder For Pleasure. The Life and Times of the Detective Story.
by HAYCRAFT, Howard. With an Introduction by Nicholas Blake
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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.
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1941. HAYCRAFT, Howard. Murder for Pleasure, the Life and Times of the Detective Story. Original cloth; d/j. Illustrated. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1941. First edition. A very good copy.
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MURDER FOR PLEASURE ~ The Life and Times of the Detective Story
by HAYCRAFT, Howard
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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.
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Murder For Pleasure. The Life and Times of the Detective Story.
by HAYCRAFT, Howard. With an Introduction by Nicholas Blake
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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.
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