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Queen, Ellery. The Roman Hat Mystery. Frederick Stokes, First Edition Library, 1929.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in like DJ with slipcase. A facsimile copy of the 1929 Frederick Stokes first edition.
Seller: Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Queen, Ellery. The Roman Hat Mystery. Frederick A. Stokes, 1929.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Sixth Printing. No dust jacket. Cover has some tearing. Spine leaning; back hinge a bit cracked. Good condition. A few marks and spots here and there. Good condition.
Seller: Rare Reads, Athens, GA, U.S.A.
Queen, Ellery. The Roman Hat Mystery. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1929.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, 325 pages; publisher's red cloth, printed in black. Owner name at top margin of title page; very light soiling to cloth binding. Internally, quite clean and bright.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
Queen, Ellery.. The Roman Hat Mystery.. NY. Frederick A. Stokes Company. 1929., 1929.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Queen's first book and a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. With the Map of the Roman Theatre and the adjacent explanation page. G+ in original red woven mesh cloth stamped in black with top hat on front boards. The boards are heavily frayed, worn, and edge-rubbed. Small foxing stains to the preliminary pages (the first ix). Occasional light stains and an ink erasure on p.140; otherwise, VG- internally. Perhaps a suitable copy for rebinding in sumptious red leather. First Edition.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Queen, Ellery. THE ROMAN HAT MYSTERY. Frederick A. Stokes, 1929.
Price: US$834.25 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: THE ROMAN HAT MYSTERY, Stokes, 1929, first edition, some shadowing and bumping to sections of the bottom margins of about half the text block, else a bright vg+ (perhaps near fine) copy in as new facsimile dw. The authors first book in a long series of books to follow. HAYCRAFT/QUEEN cornerstone.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
QUEEN, Ellery. The Roman Hat Mystery. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1929.
Price: US$9995.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: BASEMENT BOOKS, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.