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TO BE READ BEFORE MIDNIGHT: 21 STORIES FROM ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
New York: Random House, [1962]. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. 21 stories from Ellery Queen's mystery magazine.
TO BE READ BEFORE MIDNIGHT: 21 STORIES FROM ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
New York: Random House, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. This is the 17th Annual collection of stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Author's included are: Avram Davidson, Lloyd Biggle, Jr., Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, Robert L. Fish, William McGivern and others.
THE ADVENTURES OF ELLERY QUEEN: PROBLEMS IN DEDUCTION.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934. Octavo, pp. [i-viii] ix-xii [xiii-xiv] [1-2] 3-357 [358: blank], pictorial yellow cloth stamped in black. First edition. The first collection of Queen stories with eleven adventures. Queen's Quorum 90. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 92. Hubin, p. 660.
IN THE QUEEN'S PARLOR: AND OTHER LEAVES FROM THE EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK.
New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1969. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Fifty pieces on the aspects of mystery fiction.
THE SIAMESE TWIN MYSTERY.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.d., [c. 1930s]. Octavo, boards. Reprint.
ELLERY QUEEN'S CHALLENGE TO THE READER: AN ANTHOLOGY.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] 1-502 [503: acknowledgments] [504: blank], original gray cloth spine stamped in black, red and gold. First edition. Anthology of 25 detective stories not previously collected in a U. S. anthology, the "Challenge to the Reader" is that the detectives in the stories names are changed and it is left to the reader to identify them and the author. Includes the work of A. Conan Doyle, H. C. Bailey, Agatha Christie, Ernest Bramah, Dashiell Hammett and others. The first anthology edited by Queen.
THE FOUR OF HEARTS...
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi [1-2] 3-304 [305-306: blank], original beige cloth, front and spine stamped in red. First edition. An Ellery Queen mystery novel. Hubin, p. 660.
THE FOURTH SIDE OF THE TRIANGLE.
New York: Random House, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. According to Douglas Dannay, this novel was written by Avram Davidson from a 71-page outline by Frederic Dannay, with Davidson's completed manuscript then revised by Dannay and Lee. Hubin, p. 660.
FOUR MEN CALLED JOHN.
London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1976. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. This novel was first issued in the U. S. as a paperback original in 1964 as THE FOUR JOHNS. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A14j.
A ROOM TO DIE IN.
London: Kinnell, 1987. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Signed by Vance on the title page. First published as a paperback original in 1965. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A19i.
THE MADMAN THEORY by Ellery Queen [pseudonym].
London: Kinnell, 1988. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition.
A ROOM TO DIE IN by Ellery Queen [pseudonym].
London: Kinnell, 1987. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition.