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ELLERY QUEEN'S GRAND SLAM: 25 STORIES FROM ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1970. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The twenty-fifth annual selection of stories reprinted from EQMM. Contributions by Stanley Ellin, Christina Brand, Anthony Gilbert, Michael Gilbert, Lawrence Treat, Margery Allingham, Julian Symons, Joe Gores, and others. Review slip laid in.
THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN...
Boston: Litttle, Brown and Company, 1943. Octavo, illustrated by Pauline Jackson, cloth. First edition. An Ellery Queen mystery novel.
THE ADVENTURE OF THE MURDERED MOTHS: AND OTHER RADIO MYSTERIES.
Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2005. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 275 numbered copies signed by the publisher Douglas Greene. Collects 14 radio scripts which aired on The Adventures of Ellery Queen. Includes a separate pamphlet "The Case of the Three Macklins" which was aired on the Kate Smith Hour.
THE LITERATURE OF CRIMES: STORIES BY WORLD-FAMOUS AUTHORS.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty-six stories from writers not known for mystery fiction. Authors included are Sinclair Lewis, Pearl S. Buck, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Will Cather, Aldous Huxley, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon and others. Introductory comment before each story.
THE LITERATURE OF CRIMES: STORIES BY WORLD-FAMOUS AUTHORS.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty-six stories from writers not known for mystery fiction. Authors included are Sinclair Lewis, Pearl S. Buck, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Will Cather, Aldous Huxley, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon and others. Introductory comment before each story.
THE QUEEN'S AWARDS 1947.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. First hardcover appearance of Jack Finney's first story "The Widow's Walk"
THE QUEEN'S AWARDS 1947.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM, the second in the series. Fiction by H. F. Heard, Carter Dickson, Q. Patrick, Leslie Charteris, Stuart Palmer and others. Also includes the first hardcover appearance of Jack Finney's first story "The Widow's Walk"
THE QUEEN'S AWARDS: EIGHTH SERIES.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. This volume collects 16 of the 55 prize winning stories. Authors include Steve Frazee, Roy Vickers, Stanley Ellin, Eleazar Lipsky, Lillian de la Torre, Edgar Pangborn and others.
THE QUEEN'S AWARDS: FIFTH SERIES.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. This volume collects 13 of the 33 prize winning stories. Authors include John Dickson Carr, Craig Rice & Stuart Palmer, Stanley Ellin, Margery Allingham, John D. MacDonald and others.
THE QUEEN'S AWARDS: SIXTH SERIES.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1951. Octavo, boards. First edition. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. This volume collects 14 of the 30 prize winning stories. Authors include Charlotte Armstrong, Stanley Ellin, Roy Vickers, Q. Patrick, C. S. Forester, Lord Dunsany and others.
ROGUES' GALLERY: THE GREAT CRIMINALS OF MODERN FICTION.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Companion volume to 101 YEAR'S ENTERTAINMENT. This anthology collects 32 stories with focus on successful crooks. With commentary before each story. This contains the first book publication of the Dashiell Hammett story, "Ruffian's Wife" (from Sunset Magazine, 1925). Author's included are a who's who of the best; Agatha Christie, H. C. Bailey, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Dickson Carr, Grant Allen, Roy Vickers, R. Austin Freeman, William Hope Hodgson, Leslie Charteris, Fredric Brown and many more.
25th ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL: ELLERY QUEEN'S GRAND SLAM: 25 STORIES FROM ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, [1970]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The 25th annual collection, 25 stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Edward Hoch, Stanley Ellin, Anthony Gilbert, Joe Gores and others.
CHALLENGE TO THE READER.
New York: The American Mercury, n.d. Wrappers. First paperback edition. Abridged from the 1938 hardcover edition. Anthology of stories in which the detective's name is changed and the reader must deduct their identity from reading the story.
ELLERY QUEEN'S 16th MYSTERY ANNUAL: THE YEAR'S BEST FROM ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
New York: Random House, [1961]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The 16th annual collection, 22 stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Frances and Richard Lockridge, Stanley Ellin, Evan Hunter, Hal Ellson, Arthur C. Clarke and many others. This also includes the first appearance in hardcover of Hammett's, "A Man Named Thin." The Hammett story was previously unpublished, it was acquired by in 1946 by the editors but did not see print in the magazine until 1960 (this story has no relation to The Thin Man).
ELLERY QUEEN'S 20th ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL: 20 STORIES FROM ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
New York: Random House, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The 20th annual collection, stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Stanley Ellin, Nicholas Blake, Robert L. Fish, Avram Davidson, Fredric Brown and many others.
ELLERY QUEEN'S AWARDS: TWELFTH SERIES.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Winner's of the magazines annual short story contest. Includes the Edgar nominated "And Already Lost" by Charlotte Armstrong. Another significant fiction, "Malice in Wonderland" by Rufus King. Other authors include Avram Davidson, Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, Manly Wade Wellman and ten others.
ELLERY QUEEN'S DOUBLE DOZEN: 24 STORIES FROM ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
New York: Random House, [1964]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The 19th annual collection, 24 stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
ELLERY QUEEN'S DOUBLE DOZEN: 24 STORIES FROM ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
New York: Random House, [1964]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The 19th annual collection, 24 stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. John D. MacDonald, Michael Gilbert, Roy Vickers, Helen McCloy Gerald Kersh and many others.
ELLERY QUEEN'S GIANTS OF MYSTERY: ELLERY QUEEN'S ANTHOLOGY, VOLUME #31.
New York: The Dial Press/Davis Publications, Inc., [1976]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Anthology. 3 short novels and 11 short stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe is featured in one of the short novels, Ed McBain's 87th precinct is featured in another.
ELLERY QUEEN'S MURDER MENU.
New York: World, 1969. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. 22 stories from EQMM.
THE QUEEN'S AWARDS 1946.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The best detective stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, the first volume in this series. First hardcover appearance of Kenneth Millar's (Ross MacDonald) with his first story "Find the Woman."
THE QUEEN'S AWARDS 1948.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1948. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The best detective stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. First hardcover appearances of the first Merlini short story by Clayton Rawson, and "The Specialty of the House" by Stanley Ellin.
THE QUEEN'S AWARDS 1949.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1949. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. Includes stories by Fredric Brown, Helen McCloy, Clayton Rawson, Leslie Charteris and many others.
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.