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Brown Frederic & Haffner, Stephen (editor).
Murder Draws a Crowd: Frederic Brown Mystery Library Volume One.
Publisher: Haffner Press, Royal Oak, Michigan;
Date of Publication: 2017
Stock Code: 12857
First edition, in an edition of 1200 copies only. Octavo, pp. xx, 722, [2]. Photographic frontispiece of Brown with facsimile signature below, and numerous illustrations within text. Publishers’ chestnut brown cloth with titles to black panels to spine and upper board, with printed end-papers; in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by Stephen Haffner. Clean, bright and crisp with no annotation or inscriptions. Dust-jacket very lightly creased at spine tips. A fine book in a near fine dust-jacket. First volume in the series collecting all of Brown’s mystery fiction, with each volume featuring the illustrations from their first magazine appearance. The stories were originally published in pulp magazines including 10-Story Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly and Exciting Detective. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery. £65.00