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Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. 1st Edition. Some handling wear and marks including mended detached spine. Inner hinges are cracked. Marks on some pages inside.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Undated but c1926 when film was released. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt titles and decoration to front and spine. Gilt to spine slightly dulled. Binding tight with minor rubbing to corners and spine ends. Boards clean. Very minor spotting to fore-edge. Content clean and bright. Unclipped (not priced) wraparound dust jacket with light edgewear, 2cm x 1cm loss to foot of spine, small abrasion to top of front panel, small splits. Not ex-library. No labels, names, notes or inscriptions. 250pp. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Very Good dj. First American Edition. [light wear to book at spine ends, vintage price sticket (J.W. Robinson Co.) on rear pastedown; jacket a little faded at edges and spine, tiny chip at bottom of front panel, about 1/2" paper loss at top of spine, a couple of other small nicks and tears]. One of several of this Danish attorney-writer's novels (many of them mysteries) to be published in the United States, this is the tale of a young man who discovers after the death of his father that "his only inheritance was a noble name, a mass of debts which fortunately were unknown to all but himself, and good credit." A man of letters (as they used to say) who wrote plays, histories, journalism, and even silent films, Rosenkrantz was a best-selling author prior to World War I, and is credited with establishing the crime novel as a literary genre in Denmark. An annual prize presented by the Danish Police College (Det danske Kriminalakademi) for the best crime novel published in Danish is named after him.…