Twentieth Century Detective Stories
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1948. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. First Edition. Hardcover. Item #18084
Gray cloth stamped in gold and red on cover and spine, top edge stained red. Mild toning to endpapers. A fine copy in about fine dustjacket with mild rubbing to rear panel. Complimentary copy with publisher's slip laid in. Fourteen stories previously unpublished in book form in the US by Dashiell Hammett, Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Stribling, E. C. Bentley, Ernest Bramah, C. S. Forester and others. Also includes Queen's Quorum, a list of the 101 most important books of detective-crime short stories with critical and bibliographical notes. A lovely copy. ; Octavo.
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