The Queen's Awards 1946: The Winners of the First Annual Detective Short-Story Contest Sponsored By Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1946. Hardcover. Yellow cloth boards in green printed dust jacket. 8vo. 5-1/2 x 7-3/4 inches. 382 pp. First printing. Mystery stories. Includes first book appearance of "An Error in Chemistry" by William Faulker (and first book publication of "Find the Woman" by Canada-born Kenneth Millar ("Ross MacDonald"), this author's first published short story. Stories by Manley Wade Wellman, Philip MacDonald, Anthony Gilbert, Ngaio Marsh, Michael Innes, and others. Un-clipped dust jacket has yellowing and sunning to spine, light sunning to front panel. One-inch tear at top of rear panel. Binding is sound. Inner pages are clean, fairly bright. A Very Good copy of this interesting anthology of crime fiction. Item #59-3899
Price: $50.00