New York: Delacorte, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Anthology containing sixteen new original stories. SIGNED by TWO contributors - editor Otto Penzler on the title page and Anne Perry at her story "The Blackmailer." Contributors include William Caunitz, Carol Higgins Clark, Mary Higgins Clark, James Crumley, John Gardner, Faye Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman, Elmore Leonard, Michael Malone, Bobbie Ann Mason, Ed McBain, Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, Anne Perry, Shel Silverstein, and Donna Tartt. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-385-314663.

Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Co., (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of stories published since 1970 in Japan, selected from over 2,500 stories and with an introduction by Queen. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-8048-12543.

New York: Davis Publications/ Dial Press, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 36th volume in the series of semi-annual anthologies of mystery and detective stories originally published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Includes one short novel by Rex Stout ('Kill Now, Pay Later), 4 novelettes and 12 short stories by writers, Isaac Asimov, Ruth Rendell, Michael Innes, Hugh Pentecost, Edmund Crispin, Christianna Brand and others. Editor's note. Illustrated with tail pieces at the end of each selection. 283 pp. ISBN: 0-803722583.

New York: Davis Publications/ Dial Press, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 34th volume in the series of semi-annual anthologies of mystery and detective stories originally published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Includes one short novel by Rex Stout ('The Gun Puzzle"), 3 novelettes and 14 short stories by writers, Dick Francis, Geoges Simenon, Hugh Pentecost, Michael Gilbert, Patricia Highsmith and others. Editor's note. Illustrated with tail pieces at the end of each selection. 316 pp. ISBN: 0-803722281.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1957 dj. Hardcover first edition - The winners of the 12th annual short story contest sponsored by Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Contributors include Rufus King, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Charlotte Armstrong, Avrom Davidson, Hugh Pentecost, Robert Bloch and more. 338 pp.

New York: Random House, (1961.) dj. Hardcover - An anthology of the 'year's best' from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Twenty-two stories from ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE by Frances and Richard Lockridge, Stanley Ellin, Evan Hunter, Hal Ellson, Arthur C. Clarke, Edmund Crispin; Hugh Pentecost, Margery Allingham, John Reese, Norman Daniels, Avram Davidson; Geoffrey Household; Elaine Slater; Rick Rubin; June McMahan Roy Anthony Boucher, and others.. Includes the first book appearance of "A Man Named Thin" by Dashiell Hammett.

New York: Davis Publications/ Dial Press, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Anthology collecting 22 mystery and detective stories originally published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Includes stories by H. F. R. Keating, Anthony Gilbert, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, and many others. Editor's note. Illustrated with tail pieces at the end of each selection. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-385-196458.

New York: Doubleday, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes stories by Max Allan Collins, Joan Hess, John Lutz, Michael Collins, Susan Dunlap, Loren Estleman, Jeremiah Healy, Faye Kellerman, Marcia Muller, Les Roberts, S. J. Rozan and others. SIGNED by TWO authors at their stories: Jeremiah Healy at "Yellow Snow" and S. J. Rozan at "Film at Eleven." Foreword and brief notes preceding each story by the editors. x, 467 pp. ISBN: 0-385-42468X.

New York: St Martin's, (1997). Hardcover first edition - "Twenty-Four Unforgettable and Chilling Stories by Some of the World's Best-Loved, Most Celebrated Writers." Includes stories by Louisa May Alcott, Isabel Allende, John Cheever, Isak Dinesen, W. S. Gilbert, Nadine Gordimer, Rudyard Kipling, A. A. Milne, Paul Theroux, James Thurber, William Trevor, Patrick O'Brian, Alice Walker, Evelyn Waugh, Virgina Woolf, Edith Wharton and others. Introduction by Slung. xiii, 343 pp. ISBN: 0-31216937X.

Nashville, Tennessee: Cumberland House, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology containing 19 stories of betrayal, revenge, and treachery, ranging from Victorian England to the post-Cold War world. Contributors include Mark Twain, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stuart Kaminsky, John D. MacDonald and more. Authors' biographies. 415 pp. ISBN: 1581820402.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of stories which show that "even in its early days, Hollywood was a community riddled with scandal and murders left unsolved." Includes stories Robert Bloch, Ross MacDonald, F. Paul Wilson, John Jakes, Jon L. Breen, Ed Gorman and others. Introduction by John Jakes. 367 pp. ISBN: 0-881848794.

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology of 13 original stories written especially for this collection. I ntroduction by Julian Symons. In addition to the contributors shown above, this includes stories by Gwendolyn Butler, Michael Gilbert, Christianna Brand, Michael Innes, Celia Fremlin, H. R. F. Keating, Michael Underwood, Peter Dickinson, and Symons. ISBN: 0-06-014212x.

Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, (2017). SIGNED first edition - A title in the Akashic Noir series, this contains 16 new stories by Nick Petrulakis, Kim Addonizio, Keenan Norris, Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder, Katie Gilmartin, Dorothy Lazard, Harry Louis Williams II, Carolyn Alexander, Phil Canalin, Judy Juanita, Jamie DeWolf, Nayomi Munaweera, Mahmud Rahman, Tom McElravey, Joe Loya, and Eddie Muller. Introduction by Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller - Kirkus Reviews commented that they "have taken such pains to choose stories highlighting Oakland's diversity and history that the result is a volume rich in local culture as well as crime." SIGNED on the title page and dated 4/7/17, in the year of publication by TWO authors : Jerry Thompson and Nick Petrulakis. 267 pp plus 4 pp of Notes on contributors. ISBN: 1-617755303.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, (1934). Hardcover first edition - A rather uncommon mystery anthology, selected and with an introduction by Carolyn Wells. Includes 'The Farewell Murder' by Dashiell Hammett, "The Ax" by Ben Hecht, and contributions by Ben Ames Williams, Melville Post, Jerome Beatty, Faraday Keene, McKinley Kantor and more. xvii, 533 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays by eleven top mystery writers on their work, and on the genre, including Robert Barnard, Rex Burns, K.C. Constantine, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Michael Gilbert, Donald Hamilton, Joseph Hansen, Tony Hillerman, Reginald Hill, James McClure, and Robert B. Parker. Introduction and afterword by Winks. Notes on the contributors, index. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-684-184281.

Oakland CA: PM Press, (2015). SIGNED first edition - A collection of 33 new stories by authors both Jewish and not-Jewish, including Marge Piercy, Harlan Ellison, S. J. Rozan, Wendy Hornsby, Charles Ardai, Moe Prager/Reed Farrell Coleman, Alan Orloff, Jonathan Santlofer, Gary Phillips, and many others. The stories "explore such issues as the Holocaust and its long-term effects on subsequent generations, anti-Semitism in the mid- and late-20th-century United States, and the dark side of the Diaspora." Includes an introduction by Wishnia and brief biographical notes on the contributors. INSCRIBED by Wishnia on the title page. 418 pp plus 12 pp publishers' ads. ISBN: 978-1629631110.