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Queen, Ellery. The Dragon's Teeth, A Problem in Deduction. Frederick A Stokes Company., New York., 1939.

Price: US$19.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. 325 p. Tan cloth over boards, Red titles. 22 cm. Deckled right page block. Classic Ellery Queen mystery fiction in which a 19th century Beau Rummill keeps getting mistaken for the 18th century Beau Brummell, and he has not been happy about that. Good. No dust jacket. Cover soiling moderate. Clean text pages. Tight binding. Prior owner bookplate mostly torn away. Presumed 1st. Same date, title and copyright pages. 1

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

Queen, Ellery. The Dragon's Teeth A Problem in Deduction. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1939.

Price: US$19.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 8vo, tan cloth soiled, inked name on endpaper Ellery Queen opens his first detective agency office. Murder ensues.

Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

Queen, Ellery. The Dragon's Teeth aka The Virgin Heiresses. Stokes, New York, 1939.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition first printing of the fourteenth novel in the Ellery Queen series. Also later published under the title The Virgin Heiresses. No dustjacket. Light edge wear. Light soiling to the boards and spine. Solid book. Earlier owners name on the first glued down end page, lettering an inch tall and ugly. In good condition.

Seller: Scene of the Crime, ABAC, IOBA, St. Catharines, ON, Canada

Queen, Ellery. The Dragon's Teeth. STOKES CO., NEW YORK, 1939.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The book is in pretty good condition, deckled fore edges, tight binding, clean body, and unmarked text. However, there is slight shelf wear, the cover is slightly soiled, tanned fore edges, and the previous owner's name is written in the inside cover. Otherwise, good copy. DATE PUBLISHED: 1939 EDITION: 325

Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.

Queen, Ellery. The Dragon's Teeth. Stokes, New York, 1939.

Price: US$80.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition first printing of this Ellery Queen mystery. Published in the UK under the title The Virgin Heiressess. The spine has turned pink from sun fading. The dust jacket has been trimmed and then the inside flaps have been glued to the book. Then in 1941 the owner stamped his name and date on the first free end page. Also I believe the dust jacket has been laminated. In good / good condition. Language: eng 0.0

Seller: Scene of the Crime, ABAC, IOBA, St. Catharines, ON, Canada

QUEEN, ELLERY.. The Dragon's Teeth. New York: Stokes, 1939, 1939.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Bookplate; very good in dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.

[pseud. DANNAY, Frederic and LEE, Manfred Bennington] QUEEN, Ellery. The Dragon's Teeth. Frederick A Stokes, New York, 1939.

Price: US$253.41 + shipping

Description: 8vo, pp. 325. Original grey boards, lettered in red to front panel and spine. Leading and lower edges uncut. Illustrated dust jacket. Offsetting to endpapers, spine faded, boards a little marked and rubbed, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket, tape reinforcements to reverse, a little chipping to lower edge and with some wear to corners and spine ends. First edition. Not in Hubin.

Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

QUEEN, ELLERY.. THE DRAGON'S TEETH.. Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1939., New York, 1939.

Price: US$875.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Inscribed on the front free fly leaf, "To -- -- from "Ellery Queen." Spine lightly faded, else a fine, tight copy in dust jacket with some tiny spots to the spine a minor closed tear to the bottom of the rear cover, and a light scratch to the top of front cover. Insp. Queen investigates the death of a retired munitions magnate, who dies unexpectedly while sailing his yacht in the Caribbean. Attractive copy.

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

QUEEN, Ellery. The Dragon's Teeth. A Problem in Deduction. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1939.

Price: US$921.56 + shipping

Description: 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. --

Seller: Lok Man Rare Books. ABA/ILAB, Central, Hong Kong