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SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE
by BIGGERS, EARL DERR
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About This Item
New York: Popular Library, 1947., 1947. First edition. 12mo. in color pictorial wrappers with vivid Art Deco cover art of keys and house on cliff. 190 pp., plus 2 pp. publisher’s advertisements. First Popular Library movie tie-in edition, No. 132. Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for the winter. The owner has given him the "only" key to the front door. But there are six other keys, and peculiar characters, some of them up to no good, keep turning up as the mystery deepens. Published in conjunction with the 1947 film directed by Lew Landers and starring Phillip Terry. Neat ownership label of Hiro Wakabayashi (1930-2017), Japanese-American and Korean War veteran on front pastedown, minor wear to spine ends and top edge of rear cover, tiny closed tear to fore-edge of title page, else near fine, bright copy.
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- Bookseller
- BUCKINGHAM BOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44863
- Title
- SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE
- Author
- BIGGERS, EARL DERR
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Popular Library, 1947.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
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- Title Page
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- 12mo
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- First Edition
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- Movie tie-in
- an edition of a book which is produced in conjunction with a movie which is usually based on the book, often with a cover image...
- Spine
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