Thwing Eugene Editor Chief (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. A VERY GOOD book in a FAIR+++ jacket (now in a new brodart).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume One of a ten volume, early 20th century collection of the best detective stories. Gilt lettering on spine strip, red cloth binding. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Volume 3 of this ten volume set, an early 20th century collection of the best detective stories. Dust jacket has minor wear. Book.

Flexible Boards. Condition: Good. Moderate wear including an exterior edge stain. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Thwing, Eugene (editor-in-chief). The World's Best One Hundred Detective Stories (in Ten Volumes). Volume Seven. New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1929. Small 8vo, red textured cloth with black diamond spine design, 219 pp. Printed in the U.S.A. First Edition, First Printing (1929) - issued as part of Funk & Wagnalls' ten-volume anthology series presenting landmark works in early 20th-century detective fiction. This volume features stories by Octavus Roy Cohen, Edmund Snell, R. Austin Freeman ('The Pathologist to the Rescue'; 'The Blue Sequin'), Thomas W. Hanshew ('The Mystery of the Steel Room'), George Barton, and William B. Maxwell. The series sought to showcase 'the world's best' examples of deduction, forensic method, and narrative suspense drawn from British and American magazine literature of the preceding decades. Condition: Very Good. Bound in clean red publisher's cloth with minimal rubbing; spine titles sharp and unfaded. Binding sound and hinges firm. Textblock evenly toned but supple, free of writing or tears. A well-preserved example of this fragile Depression-era production. Edition details: Copyright 1929 by Funk & Wagnalls Company; no later printings indicated. Issued simultaneously across all ten numbered volumes, uniformly bound in red cloth with black decorative spine stamping. Printed under the Articles of the Pan-American Copyright Convention, August 11 1910. Eugene Thwing (1873-1940) was an American editor and anthologist best known for his work compiling the World's Best literary series for Funk & Wagnalls. Through these collections - spanning detective, mystery, and adventure fiction - Thwing helped preserve and popularize early genre writing from both sides of the Atlantic, bridging popular magazine fiction and emerging literary recognition of detective storytelling.

First Edition. Good copy in original title-blocked cloth with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Includes previous owner's signature. Physical description; vol. 8 (only): 205 pages ; 16 cm. Subjects; Detective and mystery stories. Genre; Fiction. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Good copy in original title-blocked cloth with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Includes previous owner's signature. Physical description; vol. 8 (only): 205 pages ; 16 cm. Subjects; Detective and mystery stories. Genre; Fiction. 1 Kg.

Condition: Fair. Fair condition. Moderate wear. Binding beginning to loosen,pages very age toned. Pictures available upon request. AP.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 5"x7.25" 208 numbered pgs. Volume 3 of a 5 volume set. Grass green cloth boards w/faded gold letters and black ink design on spine. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/vanilla tone. Not x-library, no DJ, unmarked. Small tear to bottom of title page. Top edge faded green. Faint rubs and soiling to boards. Back gutter exposed. Price covers secure ship in box w/track #. See photos for contents.

Hard Cover in Red Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Nine of ten volumes. Volume V is missing. All with the green paper jackets in poor conditions. Hard cover in red cloth FINE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 10 volumes. 12mo, publisher's red cloth decoratively stamped in gilt at spine (gilt darkened, some spots to boards, one with small marginal coffee stain, overall very good). Decorative art nouveau dust jackets (some chips with moderate loss to spine ends and extremities, mild toning, overall fairly clean and attractive, very good).