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VINCENT STARRETT, ed. FOURTEEN GREAT DETECTIVE STORIES. 1928–1949. (ML 144)

155a. First printing (1928)

Pp. [i–iv] v–xv [xvi], 1–400. [1–13]¹⁶

[i] half title; [ii] pub. note D5; [iii] title; [iv] Copyright, 1928, by | THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | First Modern Library Edition | 1928; v–vi PREFACE signed p. vi: V. S.; [vii] CONTENTS; [viii] blank; ix–xv OF DETECTIVE LITERATURE signed p. xv: Vincent Starrett. | November, 1927.; [xvi] blank; 1–400 text.

Contents: The Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allan Poe – The Red-Headed League, by A. Conan Doyle – The Blue Cross, by G. K. Chesterton – The Stanway Cameo Mystery, by Arthur Morrison – The Case of Oscar Brodski, by R. Austin Freeman – The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage, by Ernest Bramah – In the Fog, by Richard Harding Davis – The Age of Miracles, by Melville Davisson Post – The Absent-Minded Coterie, by Robert Barr – The Fenchurch Street Mystery, by Baroness Orczy – The Problem of Cell 13, by Jacques Futrelle – The One Best Bet, by Samuel Hopkins Adams – The Private Bank Puzzle, by Edwin Balmer and William MacHarg – One Hundred in the Dark, by Owen Johnson.

Jacket A: Uniform typographic jacket B2.

Text on front:

This anthology includes stories by
EDGAR ALLAN POE A. CONAN DOYLE G. K. CHESTERTON RICHARD HARDING DAVIS ARTHUR MORRISON ERNEST BRAMAH MELVILLE DAVISSON POST BARONESS ORCZY SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS OWEN JOHNSON EDWIN BALMER and WILLIAM MACHARG ROBERT BARR JACQUES FUTRELLE N. [sic] AUSTIN FREEMAN There are fourteen stories in all – some of them appearing in an anthology for the first time, all of them notable examples of a type of fiction whose popularity seems to know no bounds. (Spring 1928)

Jacket B: Uniform typographic jacket D.

Front flap:
Detective story addicts will need no introduction to any of the authors represented in this collection. It is an all-star list. The volume is particularly recommended to readers who are inclined to sneer at detective fiction in general, for here they may learn how thrilling—and how well-written—these tales can be made when fashioned by the masters of the craft! Many of these stories appear in an anthology for the first time. (Fall 1933)

Original ML anthology. Published March 1928. WR 7 April 1928. First printing: Not ascertained. Superseded 1949 by a revised edition edited by Howard Haycraft (424).

Four years after the publication of Fourteen Great Detective Stories Starrett suggested a volume of crook stories as a companion volume (Starrett to Cerf, 17 October 1932). Nothing came of this idea.

Fourteen Great Detective Stories was the ML’s tenth best-selling title during the first six months of 1928. During the 18-month period May 1942–October 1943 it was in the middle of the second quarter of ML titles in terms of sales.

Starrett declined an invitation in 1946 to revise Fourteen Great Detective Stories, citing lack of time, the “wildly inadequate” fee, and his lack of sympathy with the hard-boiled genre which he believed should be represented (Starrett to Harry E. Maule, 28 July 1946). The revised edition, edited by Howard Haycraft, was published in 1949.

155b. Title page reset (c. 1940)

Pagination and collation as 155a. Contents as 155a except: [ii] blank; [iv] COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC.

Jacket: Pictorial in moderate greenish blue (173), light yellow (86) and black on coated white paper depicting a figure in top hat walking through deserted street of town at night with gas light in light yellow; lettering in reverse. Signed: Galdone.

Front flap as 155a jacket B. (Spring 1941) Note: A redesigned version of the jacket was used on the revised edition of Fourteen Great Detective Stories, edited by Howard Haycraft and published in 1949. The redesigned jacket is based on Galdone’s 1940 jacket but is unsigned.

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  *This anthology includes stories by*  \n>   EDGAR ALLAN POE  \n> A. CONAN DOYLE  \n>  G. K. CHESTERTON  \n>  RICHARD HARDING DAVIS  \n>  ARTHUR MORRISON  \n>  ERNEST BRAMAH  \n>  MELVILLE DAVISSON POST  \n>  BARONESS ORCZY  \n>  SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS  \n>  OWEN JOHNSON  \n>  EDWIN BALMER and  \n>  WILLIAM MACHARG  \n>  ROBERT BARR  \n>  JACQUES FUTRELLE  \n>  N. [sic] AUSTIN FREEMAN  \n> There are fourteen stories in all – some of them appearing in an anthology for the first time, all of them notable examples of a type of fiction whose popularity seems to know no bounds. (Spring 1928) \n\n*Jacket B:* Uniform typographic jacket D.  \n\n>Front flap:\nDetective story addicts will need no introduction to any of the authors represented in this collection. It is an all-star list. The volume is particularly recommended to readers who are inclined to sneer at detective fiction in general, for here they may learn how thrilling—and how well-written—these tales can be made when fashioned by the masters of the craft! Many of these stories appear in an anthology for the first time. (*Fall 1933*)  \n\nOriginal ML anthology. Published March 1928. *WR* 7 April 1928. First printing: Not ascertained. Superseded 1949 by a revised edition edited by Howard Haycraft (424).  \n\nFour years after the publication of *Fourteen Great Detective Stories* Starrett suggested a volume of crook stories as a companion volume (Starrett to Cerf, 17 October 1932). Nothing came of this idea.  \n\n*Fourteen Great Detective Stories* was the ML’s tenth best-selling title during the first six months of 1928. During the 18-month period May 1942–October 1943 it was in the middle of the second quarter of ML titles in terms of sales.  \n\nStarrett declined an invitation in 1946 to revise *Fourteen Great Detective Stories*, citing lack of time, the “wildly inadequate” fee, and his lack of sympathy with the hard-boiled genre which he believed should be represented (Starrett to Harry E. Maule, 28 July 1946). The revised edition, edited by Howard Haycraft, was published in 1949.  \n\n#### 155b. Title page reset (c. 1940)  \n\nFOURTEEN | GREAT | DETECTIVE | STORIES | EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | VINCENT STARRETT | [torchbearer D1 at right; 3-line imprint at left] THE | MODERN LIBRARY | NEW YORK | [rule]  \n\nPagination and collation as 155a. Contents as 155a except: [ii] blank; [iv] COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC.  \n\n*Jacket:* Pictorial in moderate greenish blue (173), light yellow (86) and black on coated white paper depicting a figure in top hat walking through deserted street of town at night with gas light in light yellow; lettering in reverse. Signed: Galdone. \n\n>Front flap as 155a jacket B. (*Spring 1941*) *Note:* A redesigned version of the jacket was used on the revised edition of *Fourteen Great Detective Stories*, edited by Howard Haycraft and published in 1949. The redesigned jacket is based on Galdone’s 1940 jacket but is unsigned.  \n\n",
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  *This anthology includes stories by*  \n>   EDGAR ALLAN POE  \n> A. CONAN DOYLE  \n>  G. K. CHESTERTON  \n>  RICHARD HARDING DAVIS  \n>  ARTHUR MORRISON  \n>  ERNEST BRAMAH  \n>  MELVILLE DAVISSON POST  \n>  BARONESS ORCZY  \n>  SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS  \n>  OWEN JOHNSON  \n>  EDWIN BALMER and  \n>  WILLIAM MACHARG  \n>  ROBERT BARR  \n>  JACQUES FUTRELLE  \n>  N. [sic] AUSTIN FREEMAN  \n> There are fourteen stories in all – some of them appearing in an anthology for the first time, all of them notable examples of a type of fiction whose popularity seems to know no bounds. (Spring 1928) \n\n*Jacket B:* Uniform typographic jacket D.  \n\n>Front flap:\nDetective story addicts will need no introduction to any of the authors represented in this collection. It is an all-star list. The volume is particularly recommended to readers who are inclined to sneer at detective fiction in general, for here they may learn how thrilling—and how well-written—these tales can be made when fashioned by the masters of the craft! Many of these stories appear in an anthology for the first time. (*Fall 1933*)  \n\nOriginal ML anthology. Published March 1928. *WR* 7 April 1928. First printing: Not ascertained. Superseded 1949 by a revised edition edited by Howard Haycraft (424).  \n\nFour years after the publication of *Fourteen Great Detective Stories* Starrett suggested a volume of crook stories as a companion volume (Starrett to Cerf, 17 October 1932). Nothing came of this idea.  \n\n*Fourteen Great Detective Stories* was the ML’s tenth best-selling title during the first six months of 1928. During the 18-month period May 1942–October 1943 it was in the middle of the second quarter of ML titles in terms of sales.  \n\nStarrett declined an invitation in 1946 to revise *Fourteen Great Detective Stories*, citing lack of time, the “wildly inadequate” fee, and his lack of sympathy with the hard-boiled genre which he believed should be represented (Starrett to Harry E. Maule, 28 July 1946). The revised edition, edited by Howard Haycraft, was published in 1949.  \n\n"
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