(#138577) MYSTERY, DETECTIVE, AND ESPIONAGE MAGAZINES. Michael L. Cook.

MYSTERY, DETECTIVE, AND ESPIONAGE MAGAZINES. Westport, Connecticut, London, England: Greenwood Press, [1983]. Octavo, pp. [i-ix] x-xii [xiii-xvii] xviii-xxiv [1-3] 4-795 [796: blank] [797: "About the Author"] [798-800: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], cloth. First edition. A comprehensive guide to magazines that published mystery, detective, and espionage fiction from OLD CAP. COLLIER LIBRARY (1883) to the early 1980s. "Magazines primarily oriented to the weird, horror, fantasy, and the supernatural have been included if some of the fiction can be defined as being in the crime category ..." (preface). Faint wrinkle in cloth on spine panel, some scattered underlining and marginalia in the text, a very good copy without dust jacket as issued. (#138577).

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