Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Ellery Queen. There Was an Old Woman. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1943.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in light tan cloth with dark brown lettering on front cover and spine, Near Fine condition except for large previous owner in formation on front pastedown
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octvao (20cm); tan boards titled in brown on the cover and spine; dustjacket; 321pp.; spots of soil to the lower fore edge of textblock; faint foxing to upperedge; former owner's bookplate inside front cover; minor scuff to spine; tiny soil mark at rear; still Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket. "In their third period, the cousins [QUEEN] used complex deductive puzzles with in-depth characterization, finely detailed evocation of place and mood, occasional ventures into topsy-turvy Alice in Wonderland otherworld ." PRONZINI & MULLER; p.656; HUBIN, p.335.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Queen, Ellery.. There Was an Old Woman. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN. 1943, 1943.
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pages are largely clean with the exception of a stamp on p. 25. The cover has visible markings and wear. There is staining on the text block edges Fast Shipping - Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!
Seller: Solr Books, Skokie, IL, U.S.A.
Queen, Ellery.. THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN. 1943, 1943.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ; Tan cloth cover is rubbed at corners and spine caps with some very modest barely visible scuffing or soiling but bright and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Small number written on front paste down and former owner's name on front end sheet. Three dog earred pages, otherwise pges are clean and very good.
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Queen, Ellery. There Was an Old Woman. Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1943.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good in a Good jacket, clipped, generally rubbed and bumped with a few small chips and closed tears. Tan buckram, bumped at the top corners, with brown ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square, bound with some reading wear, clean internally. An Ellery Queen detective story.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Queen, Ellery. There Was An Old Woman. Little Brown, 1943.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Tan cloth with brown lettering, in original pictorial dust jacket. First printing. Endpapers and pages lightly toned, else nearly fine in good to very good unclipped dust jacket with some chipping to lower front panel and edges.
Seller: Book 'Em, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Advance copy, consisting of eleven sewn signatures, with plain wrappers. Wrappers with slight foxing. Very scarce. We could locate no other copies for sale.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Ellery Queen. There Was An Old Woman. Little, Brown & Co, USA, 1943.
Price: US$224.57 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: There Was An Old Woman by Ellery Queen First Edition Little, Brown & Company 1943. Boston. A near fine copy with no inscriptions or signs of ownership. Covers are completely unblemished and have no bumping or rubbing to corners or edges. In a near fine dust jacket. Not price clipped and with no fading to spine.
Seller: Brought to Book Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Queen, Ellery. THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN. A Novel. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1943.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo. Stated First Edition. $2.00 on dust jacket front flap. A near fine copy with owner name ffep in a very good dust jacket with tape verso of dust jacket, mild chips, short closed tears. 321 pp.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. vi. [3], 4-321, [1] pp. Tan cloth with brown lettering on the front board and the spine. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Henderson 888. Hubin 661. A nice example of an Ellery Queen mystery, difficult to find in collectible condition. A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket with traces of rubbing and a small closed tear to the rear panel.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
QUEEN, Ellery. THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN. Boston: Little, Brown, (1943), 1943.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: True First Edition (Published March 1943) of this quite scarce Queen title, a Near Fine copy in the elusive Pauline Jackson pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped but certainly presentable and equally very Near Fine. A very collectible example of a much sought-after title.
Seller: Mystery Pier Books, Inc.,ABAA, ILAB, ABA, West Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
Queen, Ellery.. THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN.. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN. 1943, 1943.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in a Vg.+ dj. (Couple of mild spots of shelfsoiling at edges. A few small chips & tears at corners of dj. Traces of shelfwear to dj. Spine on dj. discolored, though still perfectly readable) Uncommon.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.