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Doubleday Crime Club, 1930. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Doubleday, 1931. 1st edition, so stated. Light wear along edges, very lightly rubbed, else a near fine copy in homemade acetate dust protector. In his introduction to this documentary novel, Philip MacDonald says: "In this book I have striven to be absolutely fair to the reader. There is nothing -- nothing at all -- for the detective that the reader has not had. More, the reader has had his information In exactly the same form as the detective -- that is, the verbatim report of evidence and question." "Anthony Gethryn is vacationing in Costa del Chica, Spain, when he receives from Assistant Commissioner Sir Egbert Lucas, C.I.D., the transcript of the coroner’s inquest into the death of Maxwell Brunton. Brunton had been murdered in his study one night, a crime that could have been committed only by someone residing in the house. Brunton, according to the testimony, was a philanderer and a man easily given to anger, but he also had… Read More

Garden City; published for the Crime Club Inc by Doubleday Doran & Company, 1931.. Good. 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 281pp, edges browned, text clean and sound, owner's name on red patterned endpapers, black cloth, red titles, board corners slightly bumped, spine slightly rubbed, Good / no dustwrapper .

Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Company. Collectible - Acceptable. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931. 1st edition. 12mo. 279pp. Fair book. No dust jacket, else Good. Bookplate inside. (mystery fiction) Inquire if you need further information.

Garden City New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc., 1931. Stated First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In this murder mystery you, the reader, and Colonel Gethryn, the detective, are on equal footing. Every fact that he has to work on you have also - in exactly the same form. If you want to know how good a detective you are, this book will tell you. Published for The Crime Club, Inc. 281 pp. Black cloth covered boards have red text on spine and front, top edge dyed red. Introduction by Philip MacDonald. 'The Summit Stationery And Cigar Store Lending Library' stamp , 3 due date stamps are the only clues to its former life. Front hinge starting & showing gauze, rear hinge starting, 4 " closed tear p.279, spine ends rubbed, book is slightly cocked, 1 1/2" diagonal scratch accross fore edge. Bookseller's Inventory # 133516.

Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, 1930 281 pages. Front free endpaper removed, otherwise a sound and clean copy. SIGNED and inscribed by the author: "Jerry / At least you won't / guess this one. / Philip MacDonald / July '44.". Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

red illustration detective inside front flap, flyleaf and rear inside cover, front cover inscribed with detective image, , owner name top inside flyleaf, number 15 in pencil front flap, other wise clean with no writing or underling. You get to solve the mystery and match wits with the detective. Slight teat front dj, smalltear bottom front cover dj, spot front dj, wear top of spine

The Crime Club/Doubleday Doran, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Good++/Good++. Hardcover in dust jacket. Black cloth boards with title in red on front board and spine. Boards show soil and scuffing. Water mark and soil to foredges. Occasional light water mark to lower text page margins. Text is completely unaffected. Tan illustrated dust jacket shows soil, tanning and rubbing. Looks good when placed in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

New York: The Crime Club Inc./ Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. First published in the UK by Collins as "The Maze". Black cloth with red lettering to the front board and spine. Light bumping to the spine ends, one corner lightly bumped, light foxing to the text block edges and slightly cocked. Dust jacket price clipped and overall a little age-toned, foxing to the upper edge of the front cover, lightly chipped corners and lightly nicked edges, with a couple of very short closed tears and some light creases to the upper edge of the front cover. Overall a good and clean copy.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1931., 1931. First edition. First edition. True first edition. Published in U.K. as The Maze in 1932. Former owner's inked name on front pastedown sheet, small old water stain to bottom edge of some pages, else near fine in a bright dust jacket with light restoration to the edges. "Here, for the first time, is a mystery story that places you in a position of complete equality with the detective--in this case the famous Colonel Anthony Gethryn," says the front cover of the dust jacket. 20th Century Crime & Mystery Writers says, "---Macdonald made his views clear before writing Persons Unknown, stating that he proposed "a due and proper unfolding to the reader of the tale and of the relevant pieces, however small, of the puzzle...the ideal detective story is a sort of competition between author and reader." Attractive copy of a Crime Club mystery.