Theodore Mathieson Great Detectives First and 12 similar items

THE GREAT "DETECTIVES": An Inner Sanctum Mystery. By Theodore Mathieson. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First edition, first printing. "First printing" statement to the copyright page, 1960 printed to the title page, $2.95 to the jacket's flap. SIGNED and warmly inscribed to the title page by Mathieson, a short story author, historian, and English teacher. Introduction by Ellery Queen. A collection of ten historical mystery stories--one of which is a locked room puzzle--each featuring an authentically depicted famous person as a detective solving a murder, including Alexander The Great, Omar Khayyam, Leonardo Da Vinci, Hernando Cortez, Cervantes, Daniel Defoe, Captain Cook, Daniel Boone, Stanley Livingstone, and Florence Nightingale. Elusive book that is quite Scarce Signed. Pages tanned, as usual, a trace of fading at the cover shelf-edges, else very good plus, square, and tight in blue linen boards with silver embossed titles and Inner Sanctum book-reading man emblem to the spine, patterned red-and-white book-reading man emblems to gray end-papers, deckle page fore-edges; in a rubbed and slightly scratched very good dust jacket; original printed $2.95 price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 230 pages; plus introduction. Please note* the dust jacket will be placed in a clear, removable protective sleeve after photographing for this entry. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT SIGNED MYSTERY BOOKS THANKS!