The Roman Hat Mystery

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Triangle Books, 1942. First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The very first book in the long-running & ever-popular Ellery Queen detective series. Orig. published in 1929, this is the First Printing from May 1942 of the Triangle Books Edition (First, thus). With deep teal cloth over boards stamped & lettered in brown… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1929. First Edition. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, 325 pages; publisher's red cloth, printed in black. Owner name at top margin of title page; very light soiling to cloth binding. Internally, quite clean and bright.

New York: Triangle Books. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1942. Later Edition. Hardcover. Teal cloth binding rubbed at spine ends & corners; back hinge cracking; owner's name pencilled on front free endpaper; paste-downs & outer leaves browned. Dj rubbed at extremities; backstrip sunned; flaps corner-clipped; retail price label on front flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9"… Read more about this item

THE ROMAN HAT MYSTERY, Stokes, 1929, first edition, some shadowing and bumping to sections of the bottom margins of about half the text block, else a bright vg+ (perhaps near fine) copy in as new facsimile dw. The authors first book in a long series of books to follow. HAYCRAFT/QUEEN corner-stone.

Signet, 1967. 239 yellowing pages, blue pictorial cover with white & mustard ltrs, yellow printers ink on edges, creases on spine, crease on back upper corner, corners/head-heel of spine/& edges are bumped/scruffed/creased/ & nicked, covers scruffed, sticker on front cover, special 50th anniversary edition. Ellery Queen mystery--one of the suspects has enacted the performance of the year: The… Read more about this item

London: Penguin Books, 1956 A good copy with tanned edges.

Signet Book, 1979. Mass-market paperback. Fair.. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade.

World Publishing Company, 1948. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1948. First Edition Thus. 325 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Light foxing and staining to pages with moderate tanning throughout. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library Copyright is 1989. 295 pages. Red cloth covers with gold lettering and decoration. Raised spine bands. All edges of text block are gilded. Paper illustration affixed to top cover. Gilded edges of text block show scattered slight scuffs. Volume remains tight and very clean, and is otherwise Fine..… Read more about this item

NY: Mysterious, 1979. First Edition. hardcover. Anniversary Edition," 1st trade printing. Fine in a near fine Dust Jacket. The first Ellery Queen mystery and a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title

Triangle, 1942. Book. Good. Hardcover. Clean hardcover reprint edition, no dust jacket. Teal cloth boards with skeleton figure in lower right corner of front cover. Black lettering and decoration on spine. No fraying or bumping. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean, but tanned. 325 pages..

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1979., 1979. First edition. First Golden Anniversary edition. Fine in dust jacket. Monte Field was murdered in the Roman Theater shortly before the second act began, but there were several curious facts .... there were seven empty chairs surrounding Monte even though the play was sold out; Monte's top hat was unable to be… Read more about this item

New York: Otto Penzler Books. As New in As New dust jacket. 1993. Facsimile; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; As new facsimile edition in the original shrinkwrap. No slipcase. .

Shelton, CT: The First Edition Library. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket and slipcase. 19 x 13.5 cm. 325pp. Red boards in dust jacket and slipcase. FEL slip describing the work laid-in. The publisher "The First Edition Library" produced high quality facsimiles of first editions of many classic works. This is one of the mystery novels published in… Read more about this item

A fine first Franklin Mystery edition sans dust jacket as issued, a very nice clean copy. Perfect for a collector

Open Road Media, 1/20/2015. Later Edition. Trade Paperback (i.e. 5-6 by 8-9 inch softcover). New (Condition varies from Fine to Near Fine. Please inquire as to specific condition)/N/A (volume is softcover). New

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1929. First Edition, First Printing. . Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, FIRST PRINTING of the FIRST Ellery Queen mystery! Near Fine/No DJ (in mylar cover). Mild slant, owner name front endpaper, else Fine and unmarked. 325pp. Nice example of the First Printing. … Read more about this item

Grosset & Dunlap, 1932-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 2.0000 6.0000 4.0000. Cover shows minor wear, tear, rubbing, and soiling. No dj. Gift inscription on the ffep. Pages are tanned with some minor spotting.

Shelton: First Edition Library, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Otto Penzler Books facsimile. Fine in a Very Good jacket, faded at the spine and part of the back panel. Red boards with black ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, informational slip laid in, clean internally.

Ulverscroft, 1981. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Ex-library with typical marks, lean to the spine; pages toned; a good solid book. No jacket. Large print edition. (Theatre goer Monte Field, a shady criminal lawyer, is found dead in this theater seat by a passion patron. He had obviously been murdered. The police are informed bringing… Read more about this item