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The great detective stories : a chronological anthology / compiled and edited with an introduction by Willard Huntington Wright.

Accession number
PML 187964
Creator
Wright, Willard Huntington, 1888-1939, editor.
Published
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First edition.
Library's copy housed in 1/4 dark green morocco over dark green cloth clamshell box by the Dragonfly Bindery.
Published in 1931 under title: The world's great detective stories.
Description
viii, 483 pages ; 20 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Former owner's library blindstamp on third front flyleaf: Library of JG, Jonathan Goodman; editor's inscription in ink on fourth front flyleaf: To Norbert L. Lederer from Willard Huntington Wright. Dear Norrie: Herewith a holographic restatement of my thanks to you. Willard. New York. 1927.
Provenance
Bookplate of and inscribed to Norbert L. Lederer; blindstamp of Jonathan Goodman; Carter Burden.
Binding
1/2 brown morocco over green cloth with green marbled endpapers, with top edge gilded by Dragonfly Bindery.
Classification
Department