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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.
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Ellery Queen's Challenge to the Reader: An Anthology
by Queen, Ellery, editor
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CHALLENGE TO THE READER
by Queen, Ellery (pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee), (editor)
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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.
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ELLERY QUEEN'S CHALLENGE TO THE READER: AN ANTHOLOGY
by Queen, Ellery, editor (pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee)
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- Used - 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 u
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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.
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