Multiplying Villainies: Selected Mystery Criticism, 1942 - 1968 by Boucher, Anthony (pseudonym of William Anthony Parker White) - 1973

N.p.: Bouchercon Book, 1973. First Edition. One of 500 numbered copies, of which 475 are for sale (this is no.212). Octavo (22.5cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; xii,13-136,[2]pp; a 5.5" x 8.5" black and white print, featuring an illustrated portrait of Boucher by Kelly Freas, is laid in. Cloth and text edges show some light, scattered foxing, else Near Fine. Print is toned along right edge, else Near Fine.

Edited by R. Briney and F. Nevins Jr., foreword by Helen McCloy. The first Bouchercon book. Copy #201/500 numbered copies. Blue cloth with gold gilt spine lettering, 136 pages, index, acknowledgments. Spine slanted. light dust soiling top page edges.clph

Edited by R. Briney and F. Nevins Jr., foreword by Helen McCloy. The first Bouchercon book. Copy #51/500 numbered copies. Separate Kelly Freas black-and-white portrait of Anthony Boucher laid in. Blue cloth with gold gilt spine lettering, 136 pages, index, acknowledgments. Spine slanted. light dust soiling top page edges.clphE

no place: Bouchercon Books, 1973. Hardcover. 136p., foreword, introduction, reviews and columns from the SF Chronicle, index, near-fine limited first edition, numbered #384/500; in buckram blue cloth boards and silver foil titles.

[n.p.]: Bouchercon, 1973. Fine.. First edition of this collection of selected reviews and critical writing by Boucher, including his essays "Baker Street Immortal" and "Opera and Murder." 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original blue cloth with silver-lettered spine. Limited edition of 500 copies, of which 475 were offered for sale. This copy not numbered. Edited by Robert E. Briney and Francis M. Nevins, with a foreword by Helen McCloy. 136 pages. Though no provenance markings, this copy from the library of the noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong. Very light edgewear and page toning.

Bouchercon, 1973. Limited edition, number 56 of 500, produced for Bouchercon in 1973. Gently bumped and rubbed with the bookplate of Marvin Lachman on the front end paper. Signed on the title page by Briney, Nevins, and Anthony Boucher's widow, Phyllis White.. Signed by the Editor. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

MULTIPLYING VILLAINIES - SELECTED MYSTERY CRITICISM 1942 - 1968, Bouchercon, 1973, first edition., front corner tips gently bumped, tiny stain to small area of rear cover at the fore edge, else a tight vg+ copy. 1/500 copies, this one still bearing the laid in Boucher portrait by Frank Kelly Freas.

Bouchercon, 1973. Limited edition, number 56 of 500, produced for Bouchercon in 1973, with the Frank Kelly Freas portrait of Boucher laid in. Lightly bumped and rubbed. Signed on the title page by Briney, Nevins, and Anthony Boucher's widow, Phyllis White.. Signed by the Editor. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.