Search Results: Mysteries from Charles Agvent

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. An anthology of detective fiction with the writers' names in anagram. Introduction by Stanley Ellin. Original unbound sheets with a photocopy of a note from the publisher stating that this is one of 8 sets of unbound, folded, and gathered signatures to be used for review purposes.

New York: The Mysterious Press, (1986). First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Uncorrected proof in light blue wraps with a dustwrapper printed on the front cover and spine only laid in.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Bookplate on front pastedown with date in ink below it: May 1929. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with a small chip to the head of the spine and rubbing to the rear panel. First printing of the fourth Philo Vance mystery.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name in ink dated 1927 on front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with an inch chip to the head of the spine. First printing of the second Philo Vance mystery, a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone, in the second state dustwrapper.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in an attractive Very Good dustwrapper with light edgewear and minor chipping to the head of the spine. Ellery Queen's subtle attack on his longest and most complicated case to date developed out of a baffling series of murders in New York City." An Advance Review Copy with the publisher's slip giving a publication date of 26 September 1949 laid in. Interestingly, the date of 18 September 1949 stamped in red near the $2.75 price on the dustwrapper front flap.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Small leather bookplate on the front pastedown with offsetting to the endpaper. Small tear to the top of the spine.Old dampstain to lower spine with gutters of some pages affected. Very Good. Lucius Hitchcock. Decorated red cloth. BAL 3471: State A of the front pastedown and the rear endpaper, State B of others. Illustrations by Lucius Hitchcock. Twain's wonderful satire on the mystery novel, with an appearance by Sherlock Holmes.

New York: The Mysterious Press, (1986). First Edition. Wraps. Slight crease to lower front corner. About Fine. Uncorrected proof in orange wraps of this reissue of a book first published in 1977.

(London): Gaberbocchus, (1961). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. A thriller by a British writer and artist who also worked in the film industry about a young black American accused by an African government of a crime.

London: The Queensway Press, [1935]. First Edition. Hardcover. Attractive bookplate on the front pastedown. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. An update of an earlier mystery and play of the same title by Jerome K. Jerome. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper.