The Roman Hat Mystery

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1929. First Edition. The first Ellery Queen mystery, and a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone.

Very Good in a Very Good example of the rare dust jacket. Slight lean, contemporary gift inscription to the front endpaper, with some light, scattered foxing to the page edges. Jacket is professionally reinforced at the folds, but with no restoration, only a few small chips to the spine ends and one corner. In a custom red cloth clamshell box.

[Book #173656]