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THE CORRECTOR OF DESTINIES: BEING TALES OF RANDOLPH MASON AS RELATED BY HIS PRIVATE SECRETARY, COURTLANDT PARKS ...
New York: Edward J. Clode Publisher, 1908. Octavo, pp. [iii-iv] v-vi 1-302 [303-304: blank] [notes: (1) text complete despite gap in pagination; front free endpaper is used as the half-title leaf with book title printed on recto and publisher's page count treats the free endpaper as pages [i-ii]; (2) first signature is a gathering of ten leaves; (3) last leaf is a blank], title page printed in black and orange, original pictorial red cloth, front panel stamped in black, white and gold, spine panel stamped in black and white, bottom edge rough-trimmed. First edition. Thirteen short stories. The third volume of Randolph Mason short stories. "In this book Randolph Mason reforms, using his legal knowledge to aid justice." - Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 90. [Reference: Hubin (1994), p. 652].
THE METHODS OF UNCLE ABNER.
Boulder: The Aspen Press, 1974. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects for the first time in book form the final four Uncle Abner stories. "It's primarily on the basis of these tales that Post is universally regarded as the finest American writer of detective/crime short stories between Edgar Allen Poe and Dashiell Hammett." - See Pronzini and Muller: 1001 Midnights, pp. 640-641. [Reference: Hubin, p. 652].
THE METHODS OF UNCLE ABNER.
Boulder: The Aspen Press, 1974. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects for the first time in book form the final four Uncle Abner stories. "It's primarily on the basis of these tales that Post is universally regarded as the finest American writer of detective/crime short stories between Edgar Allen Poe and Dashiell Hammett." - See Pronzini and Muller: 1001 Midnights, pp. 640-641. [Reference: Hubin, p. 652].
THE SILENT WITNESS.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, [1930]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] [1-2] 3-310 [311-312: blank], original black cloth front and spine stamped in red. First edition. Collection of short fiction with Colonel Braxton, set in old Virginia. [Reference: Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 847-848].


