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Frederick A. Stokes, 1938. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

American Mercury, 1938. Book. Good. Paperback. Pages unmarked. Paper tanning. Edgeworn & moderately shelfworn with some tattering at top of spine. Binding firm..

New York: Stokes, 1938. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. A Good or slightly better copy of the 1938 hardcover first edition. Tanning at the outer edges of the text block, sound binding, clean within, with little cover wear. Not ex-library. No dust jacket.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Binding somewhat shaken, spine darkened, very good lacking the dustwrapper. A series of short stories where you the reader identify the great detective.

New York: The American Mercury, n.d.. First paperback edition. A near fine copy with a little edge rubbing, in wrappers. (7289). Wrappers. Abridged from the 1938 hardcover edition. Anthology of stories in which the detective's name is changed and the reader must deduct their identity from reading the story.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. First edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with shelf wear to spine ends and corner tips, closed tear repaired on the verso to the upper right front corner, several closed tears to the upper spine panel with tape repair to the verso. Uncommon in the jacket. (22533). Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] 1-502 [503: acknowledgments] [504: blank], original gray cloth spine stamped in black, red and gold. Anthology of 25 detective stories not previously collected in a U. S. anthology, the "Challenge to the Reader" is that the detectives in the stories names are changed and it is left to the reader to identify them and the author. Includes the work of A. Conan Doyle, H. C. Bailey, Agatha Christie, Ernest Bramah, Dashiell Hammett and others. The first anthology edited by Queen.