Murder

by Matchlight by E. C R. Lorac, Edith Rivett

$1,200 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

New York: Mystery House, 1946. First American edition. 288 pp. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in navy blue. Near Fine, slight lean, in an unfaded, unclipped dust jacket with some foxing, else Near Fine, lightly shelf wear. A lovely example of the scarce jacket. A novel from the golden age of British mysteries named to the British Library Crime Classics in 2019, even more rare in its American edition. Item #140940461

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