Great Short Masterpieces of Mystery: The Enemy By Charlotte Armstrong and 13 Other Stories
by Queen, Ellery (editor)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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Martinsville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Roslyn, N.Y.: Black's Readers Service Company, 1951. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, no dj, corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, some light shelf wear, a small x is written in ink in the upper corner of the ffep, overall a clean used first edition! Extremely scarce title! Red cloth quarterbound by gray with gilt on red and black lettering on the spine. Very very rare and out-of-pint! 247 very clean unmarked and uncreased suspense-filled and mystery-riddled pages! "They sat late at the lunch table and afterwards moved through the dim, cool, high-ceilinged rooms to the Judge's library where, in their quiet talk, the old man's past and the young man's future seemed to telescope and touch. But at twenty minutes after three, on that hot, bright, June Saturday afternoon, the present tense erupted. Out in the quiet street arose the sound of trouble." ---- from The Enemy by Charlotte Armstrong.. First Edition / First Printing. Red Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Conover Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 036484
- Title
- Great Short Masterpieces of Mystery: The Enemy By Charlotte Armstrong and 13 Other Stories
- Author
- Queen, Ellery (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Publisher
- Black's Readers Service Company
- Place of Publication
- Roslyn, N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- FICTION MYSTERY MULTIPLE AUTHORS SHORT STORIES ANTHOLOGIES
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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