BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES.
by Wells, Carolyn, editor. Dashiell Hammett, Ben Ames Williams and others, contributors
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in green cloth (bookplate on front endpaper), no dust jacket. /green cloth (bookplate on front endpaper), no
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Albert & Charles Boni,, (1934). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in green cloth (bookplate on front endpaper), no dust jacket. . First printing. A rather uncommon mystery anthology, selected and with an introduction by Carolyn Wells. Includes 'The Farewell Murder' by Dashiell Hammett, "The Ax" by Ben Hecht, and contributions by Ben Ames Williams, Melville Post, Jerome Beatty, Faraday Keene, McKinley Kantor and more. xvii, 533 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 78257
- Title
- BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES.
- Author
- Wells, Carolyn, editor. Dashiell Hammett, Ben Ames Williams and others, contributors
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in green cloth (bookplate on front endpaper), no dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- green cloth (bookplate on front endpaper), no
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Albert & Charles Boni,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1934)
- Keywords
- short stories,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery and crime fiction anthology;
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