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New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1940. 1st US edition. No jacket. Rebound, covers and spine slightly faded. Back cover and spine separated from the textblock, easily repaired by any decent binder. Lending Library sticker on the paste-down. Pages 65 to 72 with some liquid stains, the rest bright and clean. The Book Cellar & Henschel.
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Heinemann, London, 1939. First Edition, Second impression. 8vo. pp vi, 334. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt on spine. Some rubbing with corner a little knocked and a slight lean, otherwise sound, generally Good copy.
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Reprint Oct 1939, 1st was Sept 1939. All very clean and firm inside. Firm green cloth boards with slightly faded spine and a few very light marks to edges.
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Very good in boards. Ex-library copy with stamp but no other markings. Sticker removal damage. Stated first edition.
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Octavo. Contemporary rebinding in blue patterned cloth with titles in black on spine and a black circular ink stamp on the lower half of the front cover, in printed dust jacket. 334 pages. Publisher's device on title page. The Adrian Homer Goldstone copy, with his illustrated bookplate on front pastedown. Slight bumps, a very good copy in a slightly soiled dust jacket, darkened on spine. This copy is approx. 1/4-inch shorter than the regular publisher's binding, the jacket has been very slightly trimmed to fit. See 'The Adrian H. Goldstone Collection of Mystery and Detective Fiction', (California Book Auction Galleries, 1981), Part One, Lot No. 966. Joshi & Schweitzer 1A.71.a.1.
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Green cloth. Book has a light sunfade to spine, faint hint of wear to tips of corners, some toning to endpapers. otherwise a very nice copy, clean and sharp and tight. Dust jacket has been clipped on four corners but not price-clipped, some toning to spine, light toning to back, moderate wear to corners and top/bottom of spine. otherwise a very presentable jacket, now protected in a clear cover (would be nearly very good).
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Green cloth with gilt spine titling, very good + with points of rubbing at corners and spine tips. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket toned with a few small spots of staining, edgeworn with minor chipping at spine tips and fore-edge corners. DJ protected in Mylar. Pages lightly toned, text unmarked.
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Octavo. Light green cloth, gilt titles on spine, small blind stamped publisher's device on lower corner of front board, in illustrated dust jacket. 334 pages. Tiny bump to lower page edges, a very nice, bright, near fine copy in the original pictorial dust jacket, lightly toned along the spine panel and with a few tiny chips and closed tears at the edges. Quite a nice copy in an attractive dust jacket. Joshi & Schweitzer 1A.71.b.
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First U.S. edition. D/j minimal wear on bottom and top of spine. Original price still on d/j flap.
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