{"id":25285,"date":"2025-08-11T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25285"},"modified":"2026-01-25T16:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:42:12","slug":"library-additions-two-avram-davidson-ellery-queen-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25285","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Two Avram Davidson Ellery Queen Firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are the last books from that Kathryn Cramer purchase:<\/p>\n

  • Davidson, Avram (as Ellery Queen). And on the Eighth Day<\/b>. Random House, 1964. First edition hardback (“First Printing” stated, as per Currey), a Near Fine- copy with wear at head, heel and points, in a Very Good dust jacket with several 1\/4″ to 1\/8″ chips at head, heel, points and bottom center, “3-24” written in pen on inside top flap, two hairline tears to bottom front cover, and trace of dust soiling to white rear cover. Currey, page 131. Hubin, page 326.\n

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  • Davidson, Avram (as Ellery Queen). The Fourth Side of the Triangle<\/b>. Random House, 1965. First edition hardback (“First Printing” stated, as per Currey), a Fine- copy with a trace of wear at head, heel and points in a Near Fine+ dust jacket with slight grubbiness to white jacket, 1\/4″ close hairline tear at bottom front, and a touch of edgewear. Currey, page 131. Hubin, page 326. Currey says this Random House edition precedes, but Hubin says the Gollancz edition precedes.\n

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    Bought for $10 each. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    These are the last books from that Kathryn Cramer purchase: Davidson, Avram (as Ellery Queen). And on the Eighth Day. Random House, 1964. First edition hardback (“First Printing” stated, as per Currey), a Near Fine- copy with wear at head, heel and points, in a Very Good dust jacket with several 1\/4″ to 1\/8″ chips […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137],"tags":[1617,1973,1983,409],"class_list":["post-25285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","tag-avram-davidson","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25285"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25999,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25285\/revisions\/25999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}