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Editore: Detective Book Club, NY, 1942
Da: The Book Exchange, Hickory, NC, U.S.A.
Libro
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Used hardback, no edition stated, in good to almost very good condition. Text is clean, bright & white whereas the inner boards and endpapers have staining/tanning/foxing and the former owner's name and date on the ffep at the top corner (which also has a red diagonal line). The first story has 303 pages; the second has 288 and the last contains 275. Beige boards have minor edgewear, with slightly bumped corners with light fraying, - also very light staining and smudging to both the front and back boards. Black title medallions on the spine and black DBC dagger logo on the front. Scarce.
Editore: New York: Detective Book Club, (1942) dj, 1942
Da: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover first edition - Original book club edition. An omnibus edition containing three complete mystery novels - "The Unconscious Witness" by R. Austin Freeman, a Thorndyke mystery published in the UK as "Mr. Polton Explains"; "Death on the Aisle" by Frances and Richard Lockridge, in which a wealthy backer of a Broadway play is found stabbed to death backstage and the Norths team up to help their friend Lieutenant Bill Wiegand solve the mystery; and finally "Lady Killer" by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, a study of an unwise marriage and of murder on a cruise ship. One of the pleasures of these omnibus volumes, which combine three very different works in one book, is the opportunity they create of discovering authors or novels which might be unknown to you. The pages appear to be acid free, and are still white and supple, unlike many books from this era. Each novel paginated individually - 303, 288, 275 pp. Back cover of dust jacket has an ad for the Detective Book Club. Very good+ in beige cloth in a very good dust jacket (bookplate on front pastedown, some discoloration from the binding process on endpapers, with a faint "old book" musty odor, in a dustjacket with a few chips, some toning to the spine). A very hard to find vintage book club edition, especially in dust jacket.