Ellery Queen [Ed.] — To the Queen&Apos;S Taste

Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1946 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition anthology of 36 classic mystery stories by Christie, Hammett, Chesterton, Simenon and others, edited by Ellery Queen, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original black cloth binding.  First Edition, first Impression.  Complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper.  The first supplement to Ellery Queen's celebrated anthology 101 Years' Entertainment, collecting 36 detective and mystery stories selected from the early years of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, established in 1941. The collection brings together established masters of detective fiction and writers. Contributors include Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, G. K. Chesterton, John Dickson Carr, Georges Simenon, Eric Ambler, James M. Cain, S. J. Perelman and W. Somerset Maugham, among others.  In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Light shelf wear to extremities. Very light offsetting to endpapers. Dust wrapper, smart. Edge wear to extremities resulting in the odd small chip, crease, and closed tear, more to so spine ends. Tape repairs along extremities to verso. Slight sunning to spine. Light soiling to wraps, more apparent to extremities of pale rear panel. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with very minor age toning to fore edge. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.