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.
Language: English
Published by Little Brown & Co, New York, 1951
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Redeemed Rare Books, La Jolla, CA, U.S.A.Redeemed Rare Books
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QUEEN, Ellery. 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. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, first printing, with “First Edition” stated on the copyright page. Revised and expanded from the text originally published within 20th Century Detective Stories in 1948, accounting for the dust jacket’s statement, “A New Revised and Expanded Edition.” Octavo. ix, 132, [2, blank] pp. Photographic frontispiece depicting the first edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales, 1845. Original red cloth with an ivory paper spine label lettered in red. Fore and lower edges uncut. In the original dust jacket, protected in a removable archival Mylar cover. An influential bibliographical and critical survey tracing the development of the detective-crime short story through 106 landmark collections. Published under the joint pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, the work established the numbered sequence known as Queen’s Quorum, an enduring collecting guide and reference for booksellers and collectors of detective fiction. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding is sound and square. Cloth and spine label clean, with corners free from bumping. Dust jacket price-clipped, with light edge wear, closed tears, and chips at the head and tail of the spine. A Near Fine first separate edition in a Very Good dust jacket. Reference: Nevins, Francis M. Ellery Queen: The Art of Detection. Perfect Crime Books, 2013. [Attributes: First Edition; Illustrated; Hard Cover; In Dust Jacket.].…
Seller Inventory # 26EQ.075Ff1951
Bibliographic details
- Title
- 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.
- Author
- QUEEN, Ellery [pseudonym of Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905–1971)].
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Co, New York
- Publication year
- 1951
- Condition
- Near fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 5.8 inches width by 8.3 inches height by 0 inches depth
- Seller catalogs
- 20th Century Literature, Biography & Memoir, Book Collecting & the Book Trade, Collected Works & Multi-Volume Sets, Detective Mystery & Thriller Fiction, Non-Fiction
Redeemed Rare Books
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Founded in 2002, Redeemed Rare Books specializes in rare and collectible literature, with a particular emphasis on 19th-century and Victorian works in both book and periodical form. Principal areas include Charles Dickens, C. S. Lewis, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Edgar Allan Poe, together with related authors and illustrators. Our inventory includes first and early editions, illustrated books, original serial publications, fine bindings, and distinctive editions of enduring works of literature.…
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