Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, Date: 1944. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket (lightly foxed on the rear panel's white parts). NOT price clipped ($3.50). Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. Corners are NOT bumped. Hinges are perfect. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and crisp. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1944. First Edition. True first printing which is identified by "The Loeb Classical Library" (rather than "Excepts from Reviews") printed at the top of the jacket's rear inner flap. This is a spellbinding collection of tales of literary detection in the libraries and old bookshops in New York, Florence, Paris, and Dublin. Illustrated with 6 plates including a frontispiece. Bound in the original blue boards with a gilt-stamped red cloth spine and printed paper label on its front cover. From the dust jacket: "With a gay, humorous touch, the author depicts his adventures, relating an infinite variety of curious tales - from forgery to leprosy, from Tarzan to abandoned babies, from tragedy in a Swiss crevasse to murder in California, from an Arabic novel to an Irish yarn. Not only book lovers, but everyone eager for strange information served deftly and with laughter will find diversion in Mr. Altrocchi's sleuthing…". First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good ...

Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press, Date: 1944. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition. Good in good dustwrapper. Stamped inside, dustwrapper is price-clipped, w/expected tearing and wear, shelf-rub, rough-cut pages, minor foxing on the front end-pages. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. 1944. Harvard Univ. Press [US]

Kennikat Press, Port Washington, N.Y, Date: 1968. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, hardcover. No dj, orange-red cloth. Vg condition. Ex-lib copy, markings to opening pgs, text-block edges stamped, pocket in rear, spine label removed. Exterior mildly rubbed, else contents bright & clean, binding tight. xiii, 279 p., illus., facsim. 1968. Kennikat Press, Port Washington, N.Y [US]

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Date: 1944. Authors reminiscences of studying classic literature, previous owners name on ffep otherwise unmarked, 279pp, VG/--.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 1944. Harvard University Press [CA]

ALTROCCHI, Rudolph. SLEUTHING IN THE STACKS. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1944. 8vo. Cloth spine, boards. Frontispiece, xiii, (i), 279, pages, 6 plates. Second printing. Seven essays on scholarship, partly uncut. Spine slightly sunned, else very good. US