101 Years' Entertainment: The Great Detective Stories, 1841-1941; (Modern Library Giant #G69.1)

by QUEEN, Ellery (editor)

$40 · Offered by Biblio

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. Hardcover. A Modern Library Giant edition presenting a collection of fifty notable detective stories by various English-language masters of the genre. The stories are organized thus: The Great Detectives, The Great Women Detectives, The Great Humorous Detective Stories, The Great Thieves, The Great Crime Stories and one categorized as The Detective Story to End Detective Stories. Authors such as Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesterton, Edgar Allan Poe, Dorothy Sayers and many others are represented. Edited, with an introduction, by Ellery Queen. Volume wrapped in jacket with books-and-skulls artwork by Paul Galdone to front panel. --- In Toledano spine G4 / blue cloth-covered boards / gilt titling on red spine blocks / gilt-stamped ML torchbearer on front cover spine / red topstain / blank GA style endpapers / jacket style Gd, verso advertises 358 titles in ML catalogue. Likely published c.1951 (though 1941 date appears in volume). ML #G69.1. --- A generally well-preserved copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked except for penciled notations to front endpapers and a little whitish discoloration to front cover. Unclipped, unpriced dust jacket with small tears and chafing to extremities, but remaining bright, intact and in removable mylar protector. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested.); Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xviii, 995 pages . [c.1951].

• Publisher: The Modern Library / Random House
• Year: 1951
• Binding: hardcover

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