The Detective Short Story

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. This copy is Number 22 of 25 specially bound presentation copies. Inscribed on the front flyleaf: "To Shirl and Murray with the best wishes of 'Ellery Queen' (Danny)". The recipients were Frederick Dannay's sister-in-law and her husband. A pioneering work, billed as the first bibliography of the… Read more about this item

New York: Biblio and Tannen, 1969. Fine in very good plus jacket.. Limited edition reissue of the classic 1942 genre reference, "the first bibliography of the detective short story ever written," with a new introduction by the authors. 9'' x 6''. Original grey cloth with silver-lettered spine. In original unclipped (15.00) dust jacket. Edition of 1000 copies. 146… Read more about this item

Ground breaking bibliography in the field of detective fiction; the first bibliography of the detective short story. One of 1060 copies of which 1000 were offered for sale. Several closed tears in dust jacket edges and spine; otherwise a nice clean copy.

Boston, MA: Little Brown and Co, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original red cloth, with printed paper label on the spine, as issued. Limited to 1060 copies. Spine is faded and the label is tanned. Some off-setting to endpapers.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Red cloth with printed spine label. Small name in pencil on front fly. Label a little toned else near fine lacking the dustwrapper. A landmark bibliography, one of 1000 copies offered for sale, from a total edition of 1060.

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1942.. 1942.. Good. - Octavo, red cloth with paper label on spine. The cloth is rubbed & unevenly faded. The head of the spine is frayed & there are 2 light library stamps on the front cover. 146 pp. Ex-library with the usual markings, including a stamp in the text. Good. <p>First edition.<p>1/1,060 copies.… Read more about this item

Biblo and Tannen, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. A new edition of the rare 1942 bibliography LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES. One of the best reference books on the detective novel by a famed author of many of them. Book is fine and unmarked. Except for two small corner nicks, so is the jacket. Archival Mylar cover… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. One of 1060 copies. 145 pages. Bound in red cloth. Tan dust jacket with price $4.00 on flap. Spine of dust jacket slightly darkened.

New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1969. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. near fine in vg jacket, in fresh mylar; minor wear at top of jacket spine, mild rubbing to jacket edges, small red ink mark next to a few entries within the book else a tight square crisp copy in an unclipped jacket

Biblo-Moser. Used - Good. Good condition. Poor dust jacket. Writing inside. (Vintage mystery and adventure, mystery, adventure, annotated bibliography, reference, best books, detective story)

New York: Biblo and Tannen , 1969. Hardback. Fine/Near Fine. 9" by 6". None. A limited edition bibliography of detective short stories collated by Ellery Queen. An updated printing of the 1942 classic. This edition was limited to 1000 copies. In the publisher's binding with original unclipped dust wrapper. … Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown, 1942. First, Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo, 146pp., red cloth, paper label on spine; dj spine darkened from nicotine Annotated. Fundamental. One of 1060 copies, of which 1000 were for sale. In an ultra-violet light-resistant dj protector

(DETECTIVE FICTION). QUEEN, Ellery. The Detective Short Story: A Bibliography. Orig. cloth with paper spine label, dust jacket. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1942. First edition. Limited to 1,060 copies. A fine copy.

Biblo and Tannen 1969. Tidy ex-library, super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The paste on title and author label on the spine strip is faded and the pages rough cut. The main the damage is the front end paper. To hide the fact that the book once belonged to the… Read more about this item