GREEN, ANNA KATHARINE. THE LEAVENWORTH CASE: A LAWYER'S STORY. Folding facsimile letter (slightly tape-reinforced on verso). 8vo, original

terracotta cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, minor rubbing; 1/4 morocco slipcase. AN EXCELLENT COPY. New York: Putnam's, 1878 FIRST EDITION of the first American detective novel, the first detective novel written by a woman, and the author's first book. From the Library of Frederic Dannay, signed "Barnaby Ross" and "Ellery Queen" (the pseudonyms used jointly by Dannay and Manfred B. Lee) on the front free endpaper. Bookplate of Florence and Edward Kaye. Grolier/American 60; Glover & Greene 212; Lilly, Detective Fiction 81; a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone (and on the original Haycraft Cornerstone list).