A Treasury of Great Mysteries : Two Volumes by Howard Haycraft
A Treasury of Great Mysteries : Two Volumes by Howard Haycraft
A Treasury of Great Mysteries : Two Volumes by Howard Haycraft 1957
Book Condition: Very Good - Owner's nameplate to ffe.
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good - Toned spine and faint bug-eaten trails exposing white (marbling effect). A one inch closed tear to rear top spine corner, vol1. One half-inch half-open tear front spine bottom, vol 2. Clean.
Authors: Howard Haycraft (editor); John Beecroft (editor)
Edition: Later printing
Publisher: Nelson Doubleday, Inc
Location: New York
Date: 1957
Features: Later printing, 1957. Two volumes. Introduction by Howard Haycraft and nineteen great mystery stories by Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, Edgar Wallace, Georges Simenon, Patrick Quentin, Mary Roberts Rinehart, John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen, Margery Allingham, William Irish, Eric Ambler, Raymond Chandler, Dorothy L. Sayers, Leslie Charteris, Ngaio Marsh, Rex Stout, Craig Rice & Stuart Palmer, Carter Dickson, and Daphne du Maurier. Smooth grey buckram, purple lettering. 576 pages in each volume.
HCS3818-1
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