Great American Detective Stories - a Tower Mystery

Cleveland & New York: World Publishing, 1945. First edition. Very good, text block darkened, spotting to boards, in a very good dust jacket, some light edge wear with a little chipping to lower front panel, some internal cello-tape reinforcement. (5846). Octavo, Hardcover. Includes stories by Hammett, Woolrich, Chandler, Rice, Boucher, Palmer, Gruber and others. First hardcover… Read more about this item

World Publishing Company, 1946. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1946. Third Printing. 308 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper and back pastedown. Ownership plate stuck to front pastedown. Top textblock edge dyed grey. Binding remains firm. Boards… Read more about this item

Cleveland: World Publishing, 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Second printing. 308pp. Age-toned pages, near fine in a very good dustwrapper with chips and foxing.

The World Publishing Co, 1946. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback, third printing, octavo. Paper markedly age-toned, the text clean and unmarked, the binding tight. The pictorial dust jacket is chipped and with residual marks to the edges of the verso from old tape strengthening, showing through to the return flaps and rear panel & therefore described as good only. Now… Read more about this item

Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, 1946. Hardcover in good condition, with unclipped dust jacket in acceptable condition. Jacket is marked and sunned. Edges are creased and torn, with chips at the spine ends and folds. Board corners and spine ends are bumped, with small tears at the spine head. Page block and page edges are tanned. Label remnant and… Read more about this item

World Publishing, 1945. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Cleveland and New York: Towerthe World Publishing Company, 1945. Boards. Good in Good dust jacket. DJ chipped, torn along top of spine, bookplate front paste down, blue faded boards, 308 pgs., pages brown but clean, binding very good; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cleveland, OH., USA: The World Publishing Company, 1946. Jacket is clean and quite tattered, but is held together with tape. . Cover is light blue cloth on boards, with some wear and fading to the edges and corners. There is a murder scene , in black on the front. Spine is light blue and black cloth,… Read more about this item

world publishing, first hardcover, 1945. very good book fair jacket missing about 1/3 of the rear