Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America by David Willis McCullough (editor) 1984 First Edition First

Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America — David Willis McCullough (editor)
Pantheon Books, 1984. First edition, first printing.

Condition: Near Fine/Very Good (just short of new — minor shelf presence).
The dust jacket grades Very Good.
Noted flaws, plainly:
• Gift inscription in ink, "Happy Birthday Mom, Love Cindy June 12, 1985", on front free endpaper
• Chipping and loss to jacket spine head
• Overall toning/yellowing to jacket flaps and rear panel
• Small edge tears/creasing to jacket spine extremities
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Printing points, checked on this copy:
• Copyright page states "First Edition" with no later-printing line
• Compilation Copyright © 1984 by David Willis McCullough
• Pantheon Books (a division of Random House), New York
• ISBN 0-394-54065-4 on copyright page and rear jacket
• Jacket rear flap dated "11/84 Printed in the U.S.A. © 1984 Random House, Inc."
• Front flap carries "FPT" price code (trade issue, not clipped BCE)

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