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QUEEN, Ellery.. The American Gun Mystery. [Death at The Rodeo]. A Problem in Deduction.. , 1933.

Price: US$38.99 + shipping

Description: Frederick A. Stokes Company. New York. 1933. First Edition. Hardback. No DW. Red cloth. The spine has a slight lean, and is sunned with slight fraying to head. Small bump to top margin of front board. Light foxing to endpapers and page margins browned o/w contents clean and sound. A very good copy.

Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom

QUEEN, ELLERY. THE AMERICAN GUN MYSTERY (Death at the Rodeo). APROBLEM in DEDUCTION. Frederick A STOKES, N.Y, 1933.

Price: US$48.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: STATED FIRST EDITION. THIRD PRINTING , MAY 11., 1933. RED CLOTH BOARDS WITH BLACK LETTERING AND PICTURE OF A REVOVLVER. . SLIGHT WEAR TO CORNERS. SOME FADING TO SPINE. APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN GLUED (well done) along spine and front board. SMALL STAIN AND NAME ON ffep. CLEAN AND TIGHT. 308 PAGES. TINY BOOKSHOP STICKER ON INSIDE OF BACK COVER. HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER BOOK. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS.

Seller: Come See Books Livres, Canton de Hatley, QC, Canada

Queen, Ellery. The American Gun Mystery (Death at the Rodeo): A Problem in Deduction. Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1933.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: A rodeo star is shot in front of twenty thousand people and the newsreels. Who did it and why is there no murder weapon? First U.S. printing, same date on the title and copyright pages. Bumped and rubbed with wear to the lower front corner. Damp stain to the rear board, showing on the upper and fore edges of the last 30 pages. Boards a bit bowed, spine cocked and lightly sunned. Front hinge loose, rear cracked, previous owner's name on the front end paper.

Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.

Queen, Ellery, and J.J. McC. (Foreword by). The American Gun Mystery (Death at the Rodeo); A Problem in Deduction. Frederick A Stokes Company., New York., 1933.

Price: US$68.00 + shipping

Description: Red cloth over boards, stamped black titles and pistol (American West holstered type). Mystery murder fiction. The prelude "Preparatory: Spectrum" is a conversation between Queen and J.J. McC. and the Postlude: "Spectrum Analysis", continues that conversation. On page 256, there is "Challenge to the Reader", described by the author as the "seventh-inning stretch" of his novels. This challenge: "Who killed the the two horsemen in the arena of the 'Colosseum'? " He notes all the clues have been laid out. Then, the writing continues to the end. Themes: the press, 45 guns, ballistics, heel of Achilles; Very good. No dust jacket. Slight edge wear, minor spine slant. Else fine. 1

Seller: Hedgehog's Whimsey BOOKS etc., Newport, NH, U.S.A.

Queen, Ellery. THE AMERICAN GUN MYSTERY. (Death At The Rodeo). A Problem in Deduction. Frederick A. Stokes Co, New York, 1933.

Price: US$95.00 + shipping

Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. A strange issue with NY dating & "Canadian Edition" For Sale In Canada Only on the verso of the title page. Sm. 8vo., pp. 308. Red cloth printed in black with gun illustration on front cover, slightly darkened at the spine. This copy has the rubber stamp of Molson's Brewery Curlew Club on the eps & pastedowns. A very good copy of a virtual unknown issue.

Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada

Queen, Ellery. The American Gun Mystery (Death at the Rodeo): A Problem in Deduction. Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1933.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: A rodeo star is shot in front of twenty thousand people and the newsreels. Who did it and why is there no murder weapon? First U.S. printing, same date on the title and copyright pages. Ex-library with date stamps and a number code on the rear end papers, no othere library indications. Red boards with black imprint bumped and rubbed, spine a bit sunned, with five small drip marks to the front board. Front hinge cracked, rear loose. Residue to the pastedowns where the jacket flaps had been glued, with roughly half the rear flap intact. Occasional finger marks or small stains to the text.

Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.

Ellery Queen. The American Gun Mystery (Death at the Rodeo): A Problem in Deduction. Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1933, 1933.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A Very Good bright, square copy of the First Printing in red cloth with a few light spots to the front and bottom of the text block.

Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.

QUEEN, Ellery. The American Gun Mystery (Death At The Rodeo). A Problem in Deduction. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1933.

Price: US$1495.00 + shipping

Description: 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.

Seller: BASEMENT BOOKS, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.

QUEEN, ELLERY.. THE AMERICAN GUN MYSTERY. [DEATH AT THE RODEO]. A PROBLEM IN DEDUCTION. Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933., New York, 1933.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Description: 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.

Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.