DEATH AND LETTERS
by Daly, Elizabeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing to the head of the spine panel and vertical crease to the spine panel. (
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York, Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., [1950]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing to the head of the spine panel and vertical crease to the spine panel. (23529). Octavo, boards. The fifteenth Henry Gamadge novel. "This is a well organized and appropriately atmospheric novel about a woman kept under drugs and restraint in a big Hudson River family mansion. Gamadge does a good job of work, and there are no embarrassing episodes of spiritualism or bibliomania to spoil the plot" - Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1989), 1030. Hubin, p. 211. Penzler, Bibliomysteries, p. 36.
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Details
- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23529
- Title
- DEATH AND LETTERS
- Author
- Daly, Elizabeth
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing to the head of the spine panel and vertical crease to the spine panel. (
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Rinehart & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, Toronto
- Date Published
- [1950]
- Keywords
- Mystery
Terms of Sale
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Rubbing
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
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