The Delights of Detection (warmly inscribed by Barzun)
New York: Criterion, 1961. Hardcover. Finer in crisp dust jacket with some rubbing just along the flap edge folds and foot of the spine. Warmly inscribed by Barzun on the front free endpaper, "To Katie/ who bought this out of loyalty, my greetings out of utmost affection/ Jacques/ July 19, 1961". 381 pp. Eminent critic Jacques Barzun was also an avid fancier of detective fiction. In curating this collection of tales he favored stories of "pure detection" rather than "crime stories" and "mystery stories". Here are tales classic, modern and historic from masters such as Dorothy Sayers, G.K. Chesterton, E.C. Bentley, John D. Macdonald, Rex Stout, R. Austin Freeman, and others. Fine / very good. Item #E35936
Price: $85.00