MURDER FOR PLEASURE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE DETECTIVE STORY

by Howard Haycraft

$25 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York, London: D. Appleton-Century Company Incorporated, 1941. Octavo, pp. i-vi vii-xiii xiv xv-xviii 1-2 3-409 410-412: blank note: last leaf is a blank , seventeen inserted plates, cloth. First edition, first printing with 1 at base of text on page 409. The first book about detective fiction as a literary form to be published in the United States. A landmark study. An extremely thorough and

• Printing: first

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