Ellery Queen; Various — To the Queen&Apos;S Taste

London, Faber and Faber Ltd, 1949. Cloth. An anthology of detective and crime stories. Selected from the first four years of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine is considered to be one of the most influential crime fiction magazines. Edited by Ellery Queen, a pseudonym for Daniel Nathan and Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky. This work contains a series of stories ranging from American Detective Stories, English detective stories, Anglo-American Detective stories, French Detective Stories, Riddle Stories, American Crime Stories, English Crime Stories. Authors include Agatha Christie, Steve Fisher, Mark Twain, James M Cain and more. In original full cloth binding with unclipped dustwrappers, with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear. Dustwrapper is generally smart with a small amount of chipping to the extremities and to the head and tail of spine. Light rubbing to joints and to the extremities. Small tear to the tail of the front joint. Small amount of offsetting to the endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age toned to edges, and generally clean with the odd spot throughout. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.