Great Detective Stories, Volume Two: From Dickens to Gaboriau (First Edition, Scofield Thayer's copy)
New York: Lincoln MacVeagh / The Dial Press, 1924. First Edition. 16mo., sextodecimo. Copy belonging to Scofield Thayer, notable poet, publisher, and art collector, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Thayer was publisher and editor of the American literary, political, and art magazine, "The Dial," from 1920 to 1929, his health deteriorating and the magazine eventually folding. The magazine.....