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Queen, Ellery. Sporting Blood: The Great Sports Detective Stories. Little Brown & Co., 1942.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: There is wear around the edges and corners of the book; the spine has a little denting and the cover has some light scuffing. There is NO dust jacket.
Seller: Uncle Hugo's SF/Uncle Edgar's Mystery, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$13.97 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.25
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Queen, Ellery. THE DETECTIVE SHORT STORY A Bibliography. Little Brown, 1942.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Exlib; text is clean, unmarked; paper tanned at the edges, spine sunned, wear at edges; 145 pages
Seller: Zane W. Gray, BOOKSELLERS, Fairfield, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good/no dust jacket. Red cloth with black offset. Moderate bumping to corners and light soiling. First edition. Stated on copyright page. Nice solid copy
Seller: Blue Moon Books, Stevens Point, WI, U.S.A.
Queen, Ellery. THE DETECTIVE SHORT STORY: A Bibliography. Little Brown and Co, Boston, MA, 1942.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Queen, Ellery. The Detective Short Story. A Bibliography. Little, Brown and Co.,, Boston, 1942.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This edition is limited to 1060 copies, of which 1000 copies are for sale. Red linen finish cloth binding with white paper label on spine. Dust Jacket is present but is worn and chipped along edges.
Seller: Old Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954), Stouffville, ON, Canada
Queen, Ellery (Frederic Dannay & Manfred Lee). CALAMITY TOWN. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1942.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: the fifteenth mystery by Dannay and Lee in their highly-acclaimed, now classic, 'whodunit' series featuring writer-detective-genius Ellery Queen, a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone, often considered the authors' masterpiece; text edges are slightly soiled, boards show slightly bumped corners, wear at edges and spine ends; small tape residue marks on lower inside edge of both covers; book is still clean, tight, square, not ex libris. Scarce. Collectable.
Seller: H. W. Gumaer, Bookseller, Canandaigua, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$29.00 + shipping
Description: SPORTING BLOOD, Little Brown, 1942, lst ed., spine lightened, else a tight vg or better copy. Contributions by: E. C. Bentley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ellery Queen, Dorothy Sayers, Dashiell Hammett, E. W. Hornung, Leslie Charteris, George Allan England, Ernest Bramah, Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesterton, et.al. Each story with a sports motif.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$31.60 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good reading copy. First edition, fifth printing. Boards are well rubbed, moderate age tone to contents. Lacks jacket. Scarce. * (THIS BOOK IS IN OUR POSSESSION. WE SHIP MOST BOOKS SIX DAYS A WEEK AND WILL CONFIRM WITH TRACKING NUMBER FOR DOMESTIC ORDERS OR CUSTOMS NUMBER FOR NON DOMESTIC) *; 8vo; 995 pages
Seller: Abound Book Company, Overland Park, KS, U.S.A.
Queen, Ellery. Detective Short Story; A Bibliography. Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1942.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. 146 pp. Cloth binding, printed label, no jacket, else good copy. (90522).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Queen, Ellery. The Detective Short Story: a Bibliography. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1942.
Price: US$36.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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 Harlem Consolidated School, it was glued to the front paste down and it was done badly. there is a heavy, vertical crease along the hinge, a short, c;osed tear on the outside and another larger tear, with no loss, towards the head. The glue has partially lifted revealing ugly glue stains on the pastedown, an accesiion number and the school stamp. The body of the book is in excllent condition. As the title implies, Ellery Queen's bibliography of detective short stories arranged in alphabetical order of author identifying first editions. Red boards, 146 pages.
Seller: Good Reading Secondhand Books, Benalla, VIC, Australia
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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. First edition.1/1,060 copies.
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
QUEEN, Ellery. The Detective Short Story: A Bibliography. Little, Brown, Boston, 1942.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Queen, Ellery. THE DETECTIVE SHORT STORY, A Bibliography. Little, Brown and Co.: Boston, 1942.
Price: US$57.50 + shipping
Description: 8.5 x 5.5", red cloth, 145pp with index, covers a little edge-rubbed, spine ends a little bumped, hinges loose, pp toned (end papers unevenly so), in a lightly edge-worn dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Queen, Ellery. The Detective Short Story a Bibliography. Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1942.
Price: US$60.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: a very nice copy which is missing the dust jacket. a bibliography of the short story in a mystery format.
Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
QUEEN, ELLERY. The Detective Short Story: A Bibliography. Little, Brown and Company, 1942.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition (so stated, limited to 1060 copies). 8vo. Dust jacket (unclipped, toning and small nicks at edges). Two contemporary reviews pasted to endpapers. Very good. 145 pages.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
[Ross, Barnaby] Queen, Ellery. The Tragedy of Z.. Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1942.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second Printing. Very Good in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned and soiled, some small chips at the top edge. Blue cloth, pushed at the head and foot of the spine, with red ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square, bound with some reading wear, foxed at the top edge, former owner's stamp inside the front board, clean otherwise. One of Queen's Drury Lane novels, originally published under the name Barnaby Ross in 1933.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Near fine in good only price-clipped 'Third' printing dust jacket. (Light foxing at top edge. Couple inch+ tears on front cover of jacket. Shorter tears & creasing & tiny chips at corners of jacket. ) Features work by Dashiell Hammett, Dorothy Sayers, Stuart Palmer, Leslie Charteris & others.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
QUEEN, Ellery. THE DETECTIVE SHORT STORY A Bibliography. Little, Brown, Boston, 1942.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 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
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Queen, Ellery. THE DETECTIVE SHORT STORY. A Bibliography. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1942.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo. First Edition LIMITED TO 1060 COPIES, 1000 COPIES FOR SALE. Bound in red Linen Finish cloth with red printed spine label. Printed on Utopian white, laid paper. A fine copy in a near fine red printed tan dust jaket with minimal chips and tape verso. $4.00 on dust jacket flap. 146 pp.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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 detective short story. It played an important role in the acceptance of the genre as serious literature. Octavo: 146 p. Original marbled paper-covered boards over a burgundy cloth spine, with a printed paper spine label. A duplicate spine label is tipped in on the rear spine label. Just a hint of edgewear, with some mild toning to the spine label. Near fine.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Queen (Ellery).. The Detective Short Story; a bibliography. Little, Brown and Company,, 1942.
Price: US$875.83 + shipping
Description: Of 1,060 copies, this is one of 25 numbered and specially bound copies Fine copy in rather chipped and soiled dust-wrapper, spare spine label tipped in at end. Presentation Copy, inscribed by "Ellery Queen" (probably Fred Dannay) beneath the statement of limitation to Bertram Rota "In friendship and gratitude". Many entries with a pencilled tick in the margin
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Ellery Queen. Calamity Town. Little, Brown & Co, USA, 1942.
Price: US$1090.78 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 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 fiancé is accused of the crime. Queen is convinced that the fiancé is innocent and begins to investigate the case, delving into the town's secrets and discovering a complex web of motives and suspects.
Seller: Brought to Book Ltd, London, United Kingdom