New York: The Mysterious Press / Time Warner, (1990).
Price: $1,500.00
Hardcover. First edition. Fine, without dustwrapper as issued. A book of significant days in the history of detective fiction. Someone has used this copy as a "birthday" or autograph book, and it has been Signed by many mystery and detective fiction authors including James Melville, Joan Hess, Michael Collins, D.R. Meredith, Annette Meyers, P.M. Carlson, Jolee Tanner, Edward D. Hoch, Sharyn McCrumb, Max Allan Collins, Jake Tanner, Paul Bishop, Barbara D'Amato, Bill Pronzini, Sue Grafton, David Stout, Jesse Sublett, Edward Marston, Gar Haywood, Linda Grant, Marion Z. Bradley, Linda Barnes, Patricia Cornwell, George Baxt, Rex Burns, John Maddox Roberts, Otto Penzler, Earl Emerson, Les Roberts, Aaron Elkins, Gillian Roberts, Faye Kellerman, R. Meyers, Dorothy B. Hughes, Ruth Furie, Rochelle Krich, Carolyn G. Host, Ken Kuhlken, John Lutz, David Handler, Nancy Pickard, Wendy Hornsby, Marcia Muller, Jim Stinson, Dick Lochte, Janet Dawson, John L. Breen, Wayne Warga, A. Maxwell, John Gardner, Julie Smith, Robert J. Randisi, Camilla Crespi, Medora Sale, Nancy Baker Jacobs, Gloria White, and William F. (Bill) Love, as well as some indecipherable signatures on the following pages (unnumbered, so these are the calendar dates that correspond to the pages on which the signatures appear): frontispiece, April 24th, April 28th, May 30th, June 25th, July 8th, August 9th, October 21st, October 30th, November 7th, November 21st and December 1st. All of the authors have signed their names at their birthdays. Perhaps the most comprehensive collection of contemporary mystery author signatures one could find in a single volume.
Item #354439
ISBN: 0892964227
