first edition
1976 · New York
by Greene, Hugh
New York: Pantheon Books, 1976. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First US edition of these collected early American detective stories by Richard Harding Davis, Frederick Irving Anderson, Samuel Hopkins Adams, and others. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter red cloth with tan boards, stamped in metallic blue. In original unclipped ($8.95) dust jacket. 349, [1] pages. This copy from the library of noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong, with his emboss to title page. Minor scuffing and soil to jacket; small closed tear to front panel. Tiny stain to part of fore-edge.
(Inventory #: 47678)