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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Egyptian Cross Mystery by Ellery Queen First Edition Frederick A. Stokes 1932. A near fine copy that has no inscriptions or signs of ownership. Edges and contents free of any foxing or toning. Covers bright and unmarked with no darkening to spine. In original near fine dust jacket that has no loss, creasing or tears and no fading to red lettering on spine. Not price clipped. For further images please see Brought to Book Ltd.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Dutch Shoe Mystery by Ellery Queen First Edition Frederick A. Stokes 1931. No inscriptions. Contents clean throughout and unblemished, as are the edges. Covers are VG+ and have no bumping or rubbing to corners. In scarce original dust jacket with a very small internal repair to head of spine. No loss or tears, also unfaded. Not price clipped. For further images please see Brought to Book Ltd.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition, FIRST PRINTING of the FIRST Ellery Queen mystery! Near Fine/No DJ (in mylar cover). Mild slant, owner name front endpaper, else Fine and unmarked. 325pp. Nice example of the First Printing. Book.

Cloth. Condition: About Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition, FIRST PRINTING of the SECOND ElleryQueen mystery series. About Fine/No DJ (in mylar cover). Mild slant, else Fine and unmarked. 325pp. Nice example of the First Printing. Book.

First edition, second printing, of the author's second mystery. Ellery Queen, the pseudonym created by writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee in 1929, "took the intellectual game that was the formal detective novel to greater heights than any American writer" (The Weekly Standard). As Queen, they wrote over 30 novels, edited anthologies of crime fiction and true crime, and founded and edited Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, which has been published continuously from 1941 to the present. The jacket matches the first printing jacket, aside from the inclusion of "second printing" on the lower edge of the front panel, and "by the author of 'THE ROMAN HAT MYSTERY'" at the top of front panel. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and outline of bookend on spine in black, front lettered in relief on black bookend design, top edge red. With dust jacket. Spine ends very slightly bumped and rubbed, a fine copy, clean and bright, in the bright jacket, a little loss to tips, a few chips and short closed tears to extremities, a few spots of rubbing, remnants of adhesive and very faint soiling to rear panel, still a bright example.

First edition. First edition. Fine, bright copy in a bright, crisp dust jacket that is lightly soiled on the white rear cover and with light professional restoration to the spine ends and extremities. Insp. Queen needed to learn the identity of a man found murdered in a posh hotel. The scene of the crime bordered on the bizarre, with everything in the room turned backwards, including the victim's clothing, the rug was turned upside down, the picture faced the wall. Everything in the room that was movable had been turned backwards! Bourgeau says "one of the trickiest of the early Queen novels. Ellery deals with a locked-room mystery whose solution lies in what today can only be described as a quaint piece of deduction." An attractive copy of an elusive book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. In original black cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt. Octavo - 344 pp. In a clean and bright example of the illustrated dust jacket. Floor plan is present. The boards are solid and the corners true. Minor offsetting to both the front and rear free endpapers. Small previous book shop sticker to the rear paste-down. Small piece of cellotape at the verso of the spine head. Very small burn hole to the bottom margin of the front panel. Shallow closed tears. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Near Fine / Very Good.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.5cm); dark blue cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; [xii],387,[1]pp. Signed on the front endpaper by the following 11 contributors: Thornton Wilder, Clayton Rawson, Hugh Pentecost, Edward D. Radin, Lawrence Treat, Helen McCloy, Brett Halliday, "Ellery Queen" (signed by Frederic Dannay), Lawrence G. Blochman, Leslie Charteris (beside which he has added a tiny Saint drawing), and Robert Bloch. Gentle sunning to spine, light wear to spine ends and extremities, with some subtle fading to lower front cover, and the front hinge very slightly over-opened; contents clean; Very Good+. In a supplied dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.50), gently spine-sunned, with moderate wear along the upper edge and front flap, with several losses (none affecting lettering), and numerous tears, many of which have been neatly and archivally strengthened on verso; Very Good. The second Mystery Writers of America anthology, originally published by Ziff-Davis in 1947, in which 18 short stories are selected by MWA members, with each of them offering an introduction to their selection. Here, Clayton Rawson selects "The Locked Room" by John Dickson Carr; Mabel Seeley selects "The Witness for the Prosecution" by Agatha Christie; Margaret and Ken Millar on "The Hound" by William Faulkner; Anthony Boucher introduces "The Hands of Mr. Ottermole" by Thomas Burke; Leslie Charteris on G.K. Chesterton; August Derleth on R. Austin Freeman; Vincent Starrett introduces Frederick Irving Anderson; et al. A round-robin copy of an important anthology, with an exceptional collection of signatures from distinguished contributors.

First edition. First edition. Author's sixth mystery novel. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket, with light wear to spine ends and the extremities with a small closed tear and crease to the bottom edge of the front cover. A baffling murder takes place at "The Colosseum" in New York City, during the gala opening performance of the old-timers' Wild West Rodeo. Ellery must solve a crime which could have easily occurred many years ago in the West. He must contend on the one hand with sophisticated New Yorkers, and on the other hand cowboys, cowgirls, bronc-busters, etc. from the West. An attractive copy of this early Queen title.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, inscribed on the flyleaf by Frederic Dannay as Ellery Queen to Manly Wade Wellman. Wellman's story 'The Man Who Was Not Dead' appears as the final story in this volume of thirty-three Sherlock Holmes stories, one of Queen's most impressive anthologies and originally suppressed by Adrian Conan Doyle. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1944. Original black cloth boards stamped in red-orange. Boards show shelfwear, rubbing and sunning. Scattered foxing and thumbsoiling internally with a smudge to the verso of flyleaf. Binding cracked at the half-title but holding firm. Jacket shows toning and shelfwear to the extremities, a couple closed tears and reinforcements to verso, protected in archival mylar. Housed in a very attractive custom case. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED & INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Water-stained boards on a good square copy happily without any of the foxing usually seen on this elusive title. Better than very good dust jacket is clipped (though not the price), shows only moderate creasing and just three relatively minor chips: two to spine extremities and one to lower rear panel. Book is from library of famed multi-millionaire bibliophile Edward T. (Ned) Guymon, intimate of Dannay & Lee, Hammett, Chandler, Christie, etc., (and the many whom Fred Dannay credits as being his guide & predecessor). On the front pastedown is Guymon's own weirdly fascinating bookplate. Book is a PRESENTATION COPY from Fred Dannay to Guymon's secretary Gertrude Larson, and bears this inscription penned in the bold cursive hand of Dannay: "To / Ned Guymon's / secretary -- / Gertrude Larson -- / with the best wishes / of the author / "Ellery Queen"." A highly fascinating association copy. This is also an advance copy which has the slip laid in. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Ellery Queen (the collaborative pen name of Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee) on the front free endpaper, inscribed "To August Derleth with best wishes from 'Ellery Queen.'" Bound in publisher's half grey cloth over decorative wrapper boards stamped in red and gilt; top edge stained red. Near Fine with lightly crimped spine ends else fine. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear; dampness staining to verso. An important association between major authors in American genre fiction: mystery and horror, inscribed to August Derleth (1909-1971), H.P. Lovecraft's literary executor, co-founder of Arkham House and inventor of the term "Cthulu Mythos." He, along with Arkham House co-founder Donald Wandrei, were the first to publish H.P. Lovecraft's writings. The Memoirs of Solar Pons authored by Derleth has a forward by Ellery Queen.

First edition. First edition. Inscribed on the front free fly leaf: "To Shirley & Murray from the author 'Ellery Queen." A nice association copy to his sister-in-law. Spine panel a bit darkened, else a near fine copy in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners, three small closed tears and creases to front cover and one tiny closed tear to top edge of rear cover. The author's tenth mystery novel, "where Ellery Queen, crime consultant to the world-at-large, returns to his old love of pure and pungent deduction in what is unquestionably his most fascinating narrative of real people and subtle violence to date --- a modern TALE OF TWO CITIES by the master mystery teller.".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1933, 1st ed., IX,(1),325p., orig. cl. w. dustwr. - Erased owner's entry on first free endpaper. Dustwr. w. tape repairs along edges and creases on verso. = SIGNED "'Ellery Queen' (Frederic Dannay)" on title page. Very Rare signed first edition with original dust wrapper. Signed by Author.

Cloth. Condition: About Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, FIRST PRINTING of the SIXTH Ellery Queen mystery series. About Fine book w/light text block pull at crown, else Fine and unmarked/Very Good UNCLIPPED DJ creased and torn, 1/2" strip missing bottom rear panel, now in clear protective cover. 308pp. LAID-IN Publisher's Presentation card. Book.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 12mo, 316 pages, 4 pages of ads at rear; INSCRIBED on FEP. Publisher's red cloth, printed in black. Internally clean and bright. Light spotting to rear panel.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine (Facsimile DW). Third Impression. Bound in black cloth, stamped in red. The book shows a tiny tear to the top of the spine. This is the third printing of the book -- published two months after the first edition and in the same format. The book is inscribed to the Opera Singer AnnaMary Dickey (Laue) on the front endpaper, signed as Ellery Queen (but it was actually Frederic Dunnay who did the signing). 359 pp. + Bibliography. Fitted with a facsimile dust jacket that fits the book perfectly. Signed by Editor.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "The Chinese Orange Mystery", by Ellery Queen New York, Frederick A. Stokes - 1934, first US edition. XII,300p., orig. cl. w. modern dustwr. - Dustwr. replaced by modern facsimile. = SIGNED "Ellery Queen" in pen and ink on first free endpaper. Very rare signed first edition of this early Ellery Queen classic. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Calamity Town by Ellery Queen First Edition Little, Brown & Company 1942. Boston. A very fine copy. No inscriptions and no foxing or toning to contents or edges. Covers are bright and completely unblemished. No bumping or rubbing to corners. In original near fine dust jacket that has no loss or fading to spine. Not price clipped. A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. Calamity Town follows the investigation of a baffling murder case. The story begins when Ellery Queen, a famous detective and writer, is invited to spend the summer in the small New England town of Wrightsville. However, his vacation is disrupted when a local woman is found dead and her fianc� is accused of the crime. Queen is convinced that the fianc� is innocent and begins to investigate the case, delving into the town's secrets and discovering a complex web of motives and suspects.

Etats-Unis, Cleveland and New York, The World Publishing Company, 1948. In-12 cartonnage �diteur, pleine toile grise, de 288 pages au format 13 x 19 cm. Couverture avec petite illustration. Dos rond avec titre. Complet de la belle jaquette illustr�e, en superbe �tat, avec quelques infimes frottis �pars. Plats et int�rieur frais. Anthologie qui contient 14 histoires in�dites en volume, par Dashiell Hammett, Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Stribling, E. C. Bentley, John Dickson Carr, Anthony Boucher, Ellery Queen, etc. Illustrations en noir par Seymour Nydorf. En fin d'ouvrage on trouve une liste des 101 plus importants livres policiers avec notes, critiques et bibliographie. Rare �dition originale am�ricaine en superbe �tat de fraicheur. Pr�cieux exemplaire enrichi d'une cordiale et belle d�dicace autographe, sign�e, de Ellery Queen � Thomas Narcejac : To Thomas Narcejac with my best wishes. Provenance id�ale. Les d�dicaces d'Ellery Queen sont tr�s rares.

Etats-Unis, Boston and Toronto, Little, Brown and Company, 1954. In-8 cartonnage �diteur, pleine toile vert p�le, de 282 pages au format 14 x 3,5 x 21 cm. Couvertures muettes. Dos rond avec titre. Complet de la superbe jaquette illustr�e par J.O'H. Cosgrave II, en superbe �tat, avec quelques infimes frottis et minuscules manques �pars. Plats et int�rieur frais. Carte illustr�e en pages de garde. Rare �dition originale am�ricaine et canadienne, publi�e simultan�ment dans les 2 pays et portant la mention " First Printing " au colophon. Superbe �tat de fraicheur. Pr�cieux exemplaire enrichi d'une cordiale et belle d�dicace autographe, sign�e, de Ellery Queen � Thomas Narcejac : To Thomas Narcejac with the warmest thanks of Ellery Queen. Provenance id�ale. Les d�dicaces d'Ellery Queen sont tr�s rares.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Ellery Queens 1960 Anthology. Signed and numbered limited edition. Hardbound copy of the anthology including the wrappers. Davis Publications, New York, 1960. Tipped in printed slip on first free endpaper with issue number (#132) penned in plus the name of the recipient and signed in ink Ellery Queen. Signature matches those of other Ellery Queen signings. Binding is in fine condition. Contents clean, toning to the paper. Wrappers in near fine to fine. 320 pages. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #15-001. Price: $1,000. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed "For August Derleth / with the warmest / thanks of / Ellery Queen," on blank page following the copyright page. Possibly tipped in, as it slightly overhangs the text block. Green binding with black lettering on spine. Spine head slightly bumped. Paper clip mark at top of inscribed page. Dust jacket price clipped, though $ sign still visible. Some color loss to spine. Short, closed tear in lower left edge on front. Light wear to tips, mild crease at lower left on front. Light wear to spine head and heel. Small soil mark at bottom edge on back. Dust jacket in mylar. Inscribed by Author.

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Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 415.

First U.K. edition. Octavo. 286 pages.Endpapers lightly spotted. Vertical crease to spine. Very good in the scarce dustwrapper which is very good, tanned at the spine and slightly chipped and creased.

First edition. First edition. Light off-setting to the front and rear endpapers else a fine, bright copy in a bright dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners, and small nicks and chips to the extremities. Accompanying this copy is an inked handwritten letter on Ellery Queen stationery and dated March 3, 1958. Frederic Dannay responds to questions posed by the recipient of this letter. Mr. Dannay says that he does not know which author first used hypnosis as an integral part of a story, and he cannot be of help with the book Cops And Robbers by O. Henry as "we have no copies left." He further advises that all matters involving money orders and subscription requests will be forwarded to the New York Office. Signed "Sincerely, Frederic Dannay." The letter contains three paragraphs and is about 85 words. The letter has two horizontal faint, fold creases and the original stamped mailing envelope is also included.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 375.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Octavo, 316 pages; publisher's red cloth, printed in black; top edges stained red. Portion of dust jacket flap is affixed to front pastedown. A very good copy, internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind; small loss at foot of spine; light stain at lower corner of front panel.

Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. -- Condition: Near fine, toning to spine, in near fine dust jacket with short tears to spine ends, some soiling to rear panel, and light rubbing to corners and upper flap fold. -- Details: A nice clean first edition of one of the best Ellery Queen mysteries in which Ellery Queen teams up with the son of a former police colleague, the casework begins with the death of a retired munitions magnate, who dies unexpectedly while sailing his yacht in the Caribbean, and ends up in the search for two missing heiresses. Ellery Queen, and later Barnaby Ross, was the pseudonym shared by the writing team composed of cousins Frederick Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. Together, the pair wrote four Drury Lane mystery novels, starring a Shakespearean actor and detective, as well as the Ellery Queen mystery series. The pseudonym pair was all the rage in the 1920s and '30s, with one of the cousins, usually Dannay, donning a mask and appearing in public as Ellery Queen. The cousins carried on a fictional dialogue as Ross and Queen in print and ended the intrigue in 1932 when Ross was revealed to be Ellery Queen. Several years later, when the writers behind the pseudonyms were unmasked, the public was so enamoured of them that their work continued to enjoy great popularity for decades to come. 'After Poe, I think it's true that Ellery Queen was the most significant and important writer of mystery fiction in America.' - Otto Penzler. -- Reference: Reilly, 'Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers' (1980), 1225. Penguin Random House. Julian Symons, 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books, Sunday Times (1957). -- Octavo (book size 21.2x15cm), pp. vi 325 [5]. In publisher's light straw-grey cloth, lettered in orange to spine and upper board, foredge untrimmed others trimmed. Dust jacket priced '$2.00' to upper corner of front panel, all corners with publisher's decorative trim. --.