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Hardcover. Condition: As New. As new condition red faux leather boards with elaborately decorated gold front cover, rear cover and spine decorations, plus a traditional six - hubbed spine. Includes an Introduction by Ellery Queen. Illustrated with black-and-white author photographs at the beginning of each story plus matching red front and rear endpapers. "This volume of Masterpieces of Mystery . contains 16 stories - about Ellery Queen. Carter Dickson's Colonel March, Anthony Berkeley's Roger Sheringham, David Frome's (Leslie Ford's) Evan Pinkerton, Stuart Palmer's Hildegarde Withers, Patrick Quentin's (Q. Patrick's) Peter and Iris Duluth, Erle Stanley Gardner's Sidney Zoom, Margery Allingham's Albert Campion, Irvin S. Cobb's Judge William Priest, Helen Reilly's Inspector McKee, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe, Nicholas Blake's Nigel Strangeways, Michael Innes's Inspector John Appleby, Clayton Rawson's The Great Merlini, Ngaio Marsh's Inspector Roderick Alleyn, and Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret. Happy detecting!"- excerpt from the Introduction by Ellery Queen.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. As new condition red faux leather boards with elaborately decorated gold front cover, rear cover and spine decorations. All three sides of the page edges are gilt, the volume contains a bound-into-the-volume matching red satin ribbon page marker, plus a traditional six-hubbed spine. Includes an Introduction by Ellery Queen. Illustrated with black-and-white author photographs at the beginning of each story plus matching red front and rear endpapers. ". In this volume - Part One of the Detective Directory . here are the exploits of 16 detectives to whom the detection of crime might be called an avocation - the criminological adventures of a doctor sleuth, a psychiatrist, lawyer, magician, priest, teacher, and banker; a girl and a boy detective; correspondence-school "detectatif", and even a thief-detective; an insurance agent, American Indian, author, artist, and armchair detective.".…

Cloth in Dj. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 8vo, cloyh in dj, 312 pages .Preface Claude Rawson, Part I. The Political Swift 1 (England): 1. Jonathan Swift's political confession Ian Higgins, 2. Situating Swift's politics in 1701 Mark Goldie, 3. Swift and Walpole Paul Langford, Part II. The Writer and His World: 4. Burying the fanatic partridge: Swift's Holy Week hoax Valerie Rumbold, 5. Swift and the art of political publication: hints and title pages, 1711-1714 James McLaverty, 6. Swift's poetics of friendship Helen Deutsch, 7. 'Now deaf 1740': entrapment, foreboding, and exorcism in late Swift David Womersley, 8. Savage indignation revisited: Swift, Yeats, and the 'cry' of liberty Claude Rawson, Part III. The Political Swift 2 (Ireland): 9. 'Paltry Underlings of State'? The character and aspirations of the 'Castle' Party, 1715-32 D. W. Hayton, 10. Old English, New English and Ancient Irish: Swift and the Irish past Sean Connolly, 11. Jonathan Swift and the Irish Colonial Project Robert Mahony, Index. BiographicalNote: Claude Rawson is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University. …