THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN. A Novel
THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN. A Novel

by Queen, Ellery

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. 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.

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$250.00
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THE WHITE ELEPHANT MYSTERY
THE WHITE ELEPHANT MYSTERY

by Queen, Ellery, Jr.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Good. Barbara Corrigan. Octavo. Stated First Edition. Dust Jack and Frontipiece by Barbara Corrigan. $2.50 front flap of dust jacket. A fine copy in a good dust jacket with small pieces missing spine tip of dust jacket affecting author name, short closed tears, chips, mild... Read More

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$450.00
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The Roman Hat Mystery
The Roman Hat Mystery

by Queen, Ellery

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1929. First Edition. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, 325 pages; publisher's red cloth, printed in black. Owner name at top margin of title page; very light soiling to cloth binding. Internally, quite clean and bright.

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$325.00
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The Dutch Shoe Mystery. A Problem in Deduction
The Dutch Shoe Mystery. A Problem in Deduction

by Queen, Ellery

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1931. First Edition. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, 305 pages; publisher's black cloth, printed in white. A beautiful copy, now quite scarce on the market; internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.

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$450.00
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THE DETECTIVE SHORT STORY. A Bibliography
THE DETECTIVE SHORT STORY. A Bibliography

by Queen, Ellery

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. FIRST LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. 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... Read More

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$350.00
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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. January, 1952
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. January, 1952

by Queen, Ellery (ed.); Kilmer, Joyce

New York: Mercury Publications, Inc, 1952. First Edition. Near Fine. Octavo, Volume 19, #98, January, 1952. Contains stories by Georges Simenon, Joyce kilmer and others. Excellent wrapper art by George Salter.

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$50.00
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IN THE QUEENS' PARLOR And Other Leaves from The Editors' Notebook
IN THE QUEENS' PARLOR And Other Leaves from The Editors' Notebook

by Queen, Ellery

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good-. Octavo. A very good+ copy with mild cover edge wear, small ink stamp ffep in a very good- dust jacket with chips, short closed tears, long thin piece missing rear panel of dust jacket affecting "A Note About Ellery Queen" blurb. 195... Read More

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$75.00
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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. May, 1946
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. May, 1946

by Queen, Ellery (ed.); Hammett, Dashiell; Morley, Christopher

New York: The American Mercury, Inc, 1946. First Edition. Near Fine. Octavo, volume 7, #30; May, 1946. Stories are by Dashiell Hammett, Christopher Morley, Manning Coles and others. Excellent wrapper art by George Salter.

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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. August, 1953
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. August, 1953

by Queen, Ellery (ed.); Biggers, Earl Derr; Sayers, Dorothy L.

New York: Mercury Publications, Inc, 1953. First Edition. Near Fine. Octavo, Volume 22, #117, August, 1953. Contains stories by Earl Derr Biggers, Dorothy L. Sayers and others. Excellent wrapper wrapper art by George Salter.

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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. June, 1950
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. June, 1950

by Queen, Ellery (ed.); Gardner, Erle Stanley

Toronto: Wilson Publishing Co, 1950. First Edition. Very Good+. Octavo, volume 15, #78, June, 1950. Containing a Lester Leith novelette by Erle Stanley Gardner. and stories by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and others. Excellent wrapper art by George Salter.

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QUEEN'S QUORUM. A History of the Detective-Crime Short Story as Revealed By the 106 Most Important Books Published in This Field Since 1845
QUEEN'S QUORUM. A History of the Detective-Crime Short Story as Revealed By the 106 Most Important Books Published in This Field Since 1845

by Queen, Ellery

London: Victor Gollancz, 1953. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Quarto. Bound in original red cloth with black lettering spine. A near fine copy with owner address label ffep. In a very good price clipped dust jacket with fading, chips, and short closed tears. ix, 132 pp.

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$125.00
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The King is Dead
The King is Dead

by Queen, Ellery

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1932. First Edition. Near Fine/About Fine. octavo, 250 pages; publisher's red cloth, printed in black. Pictorial dust jacket with price of $2.75 on front flap; red on spine faded. Owner name and date on ffep. Small check marks by several titles on author's list of books.

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$100.00
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The French Powder Mystery. A Problem in Deduction
The French Powder Mystery. A Problem in Deduction

by Queen, Ellery

New York (1931): Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo, 316 pages, 4 pages of ads at rear; INSCRIBED on FEP. Publisher's red cloth, printed in black. Internally clean and bright. Light spotting to rear panel.

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$1,250.00
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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. March, 1971
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. March, 1971

by Queen, Ellery (ed.); Christie, Agatha; MacDonald, John D.; Gardner, Erle Stanley

New York: Davis Publications, Inc, 1971. First Edition. Near Fine. Octavo, Volume 7, #3, March, 1971. Contains stories by Erle Stanley Gardner, Agatha Christie, John D. MacDonald. and others. Small ink letters "SA" on margin of title page.

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The Chinese Orange Mystery. A Problem in Deduction
The Chinese Orange Mystery. A Problem in Deduction

by Queen, Ellery

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934. First Edition. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, 300 pages; publisher's red cloth, printed in black (several light stains on rear panel); Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.

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Calendar of Crime. INSCRIBED Association Copy
Calendar of Crime. INSCRIBED Association Copy

by Queen, Ellery

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1952. First Edition. Fine/About Fine. Octavo, 248 pages; publisher's red cloth, spine printed in black. INSCRIBED by the author on FEP - Vincent Starrett copy, signed on the half title and dated 18 Dec. 1951. (First edition stated). A lovely copy, in a near fine dust jacket, with price of $2.75 on front... Read More

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$750.00
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Pharmacopoeia Radcliffeana: Or, Dr. Radcliff's Prescriptions, [together with] Pars Altera: Or, the Second and Last Part of Dr. Radcliff's Prescriptions, with Useful Observations...
Pharmacopoeia Radcliffeana: Or, Dr. Radcliff's Prescriptions, [together with] Pars Altera: Or, the Second and Last Part of Dr. Radcliff's Prescriptions, with Useful Observations...

by Radcliff, Dr

London: Printed for C. Rivington, 1716. Second Edition. Very Good+. 12mo, [xii]166(2); [xii]595, plus index and errata. Parts 1 and 2 in one volume. Bound in mid-twentieth Century suede, red leather label on spine, printed in gilt. A handsome, very good+ copy, internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.

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$350.00
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Shakespeare's England. An Account of the Life & Manners of His Age
Shakespeare's England. An Account of the Life & Manners of His Age

by Raleigh, Sir Walter and Others

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926. Hard Cover. Fine. Octavo. Royal octavo, 2 volumes, 546, 610 pages; original navy blue cloth, decorated in gilt; a fine set, internally clean and bright; bookplate and signature of Shakespeare enthusiast Jerry D. Melton on front pastedowns.

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$200.00
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EIGHT REPRINTS FROM THE OBJECTIVIST DATED 1946-1978
EIGHT REPRINTS FROM THE OBJECTIVIST DATED 1946-1978

by Rand, Ayn

New York: Objectivist. Original Wrappers. Very Good+. Octavo. Offered are eight very good to near fine pamphlets bound in original staple bound printed wrappers as follows: "Notes on the History of American Free Enterprise" (1946); "Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World" (1960); "Playboy's Interview with Ayn Rand" (1964); "Art and Cognition" (1971); "The Age of... Read More

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VI, DER LEVER (We The Living)
VI, DER LEVER (We The Living)

by Rand, ayn

Kobenhavn: Berlingske Forlag, 1942. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. First translation by Else Brudenell-Bruce. First Foreign Language Edition. 455pp. Bound in 3/4 brown leather over marbled paper covered boards; internally clean. Upper joint starting, but not broken through. A very good copy. Perinn, A1c.

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$800.00
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged

by Rand, Ayn

Random House, 1957. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/About Fine. Large Octavo. Twenty-sixth printing. Bound in black cloth spine over black boards. Salter dust jacket, with price of $26.50 on front flap. Quite a handsome copy, with little or no wear showing on book or dust jacket.

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$250.00
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THE FOUNTAINHEAD
THE FOUNTAINHEAD

by Rand, ayn

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. Early Printing with page number 9 an "o" - "Refrred" on page 321 (5th line down), smaller "G" on page 381, line 4 and "Domininque" on page 480 (2nd line down). In second issue dust jacket with author photo and three reviews on rear panel of... Read More

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FOURTEEN REPRINTS FROM THE OBJECTIVIST NEWSLETTER DATED 1946-1978
FOURTEEN REPRINTS FROM THE OBJECTIVIST NEWSLETTER DATED 1946-1978

by Rand, Ayn

New York: Objectivist. Original Wrappers. Near Fine. Octavo. Offered are fourteen very good+ to near fine pamphlets in original staple bound printed wrappers as follows: "Notes on the History of American Free Enterprise" (1946); "Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World" (1960); "The Objectivist Ethics" (1961); "The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age" (1961); "Consrvatism: an Obituary"... Read More

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The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead

by Rand, Ayn

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. First Edition. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. octavo, 754 pages; publisher's light green cloth, printed in gilt. "Twelfth printing, September, 1944" as stated on the copyright page. Internally clean and bright. Very faint owner inscription on ffep, small tape residue on pastedowns, binding with some slight fading. Overall, very good.

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$300.00
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged

by Rand, Ayn

New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First Printing (stated) in a very good, first issue dust jacket, with $6.95 on front flap and "10/57" printed on the lower front flap and the Random House name and address on the lower rear flap. Small, light stain at head and foot of dust jacket spine and... Read More

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$1,600.00
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