Murder for Pleasure. The Life and Times of the Detective Story

HAYCRAFT, Howard (1905-1991), [BLAKE, Nicholas, introduction]

Verlag: London: Peter Davies, 1942

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[Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xxvii; 347; [1]. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price 10s 6d to front flap. Black and white illustrations throughout, including frontispiece of Wilkie Collins. Small previous ownership inscription in black ink to free endpaper, toning to textblock edges, bumping to board corners and rolling to spine. Slight toning to dust-jacket spine, tearing to jacket edges. Very good. In this copy of 'Murder for Pleasure', Haycraft, an expert in detective fiction, traces the genre's development from the 1840s through the 1940s, looking at key contributions from a range of detective fiction authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle and Wilkie Collins. This copy is scarce in its dust-jacket. Bestandsnummer des Verk�ufers 69545

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Titel: Murder for Pleasure. The Life and Times of ...

Verlag: London: Peter Davies, 1942

Einband: Hardcover

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