A Dram Of Poison
by Armstrong, Charlotte
55-year-old poetry instructor Kenneth Gibson has remained a bachelor his whole life, but when he meets 32-year-old Rosemary, who seems helpless and alone, he decides to offer to help her by offering his hand. What he imagines to be a platonic relationship is interrupted when Rosemary blossoms under his care and Gibson begins falling in love with her. Then, just as Rosemary begins to reciprocate the feelings, the couple is involved in a car crash, making Gibson lame. His sister Ethel moves in to help the couple, but her meddling creates tension and drives them apart. Gibson resolves to kill himself with a dram of poison but then loses it, and the characters join together in search of the deadly vial. Edgar Award Winner for best novel in 1957.
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First published by Coward-McCann in the US and Peter Davies in the UK in 1956. Edgar Award Winner for best novel 1957. Dust jacket illustration by Rus Anderson. -
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New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 253pp. Burgundy cloth lettered in red on the spine. 1957 Edgar Award winner for best novel. Previous owner's name in pencil on the front free endpaper, barely a hint of wear to the lower edges. A bright, fine copy in very good dustjacket with mild wear to the edges, tiny chip… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., [1956]., 1956. First edition. First edition. Edgar Award Winner for Best Novel of 1956. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket with minor wear to the spine ends and corners, small closed tear to top edge of front cover and small closed tear to top edge of rear cover, and light rubbed on front flap fold..… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Coward-McCann, 1956. Book. Illus. by Rus Anderson (dust jacket illustration). Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Pseudonym of Charlotte Armstrong Lewi. Winner of the 1957 Edgar Award. After five decades of bachelorhood, a poetry teacher marries a hapless woman whose awkwardness and depression fade away after marriage, just in time to… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Crest Book, 1960. Third Crest Printing June 1960. Book Condition: Good. Illustrated front cover of profile of lady in white coat poison bottle behind her. Large blue ribbon, "1st Prize Best Mystery Novel of the Year" MWA Award" . Large red title and author. Red Crest Logo with 383. Original price of… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Coward-McCann , 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A fine copy, bright and clean inside and out. In a near-fine dust jacket ($3.00 price intact) with slight rubbing at the spine ends and corners. A scarce title, rare in this condition.
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A Dram of Poison
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A DRAM OF POISON (Suspense, Violence & Terror)
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U. S. A.: Berkley Medallion Book, 1972. Berkley Medallion Edition, April 1972 Book Condition: Good. Ilustrated pink cover of lady with black and white letters Light rub wear, spine a little faded, no creases. S2152 75c with Berkley logo on cover. Page edges tinted yellow, tightly bound. No writing, original owner stamp on first page, no other marks.… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Coward-McCann, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Very slightly spine-cocked, near fine in very good dust jacket with a creased tear at the crown, light rubbing and tiny tears. A reasonably nice copy of a book usually in middling condition. Winner of the Edgar Award. Item Price
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Coward McCann, 1956 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Unmarked, clean and siolid copy. Dust jacket clean with a few small cuts on edges and a couple tiny bits missing. Dj now in a protective mylar jacket. Dj picture shows man's gray head, and other heads all around in orange brown… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Peter Davies, 1956. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardcover, browning to eps, foxing to edges, covers rubbed, spine faded, otherwise Good in Good dustjacket with edge loss, foxing on inside, and spine browned on inside.
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