Death and the Joyful Woman

by Ellis Peters

£48 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. Detective novel FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. Edges of text block toned, date stamp to pastedown, offset from flap to half-title and final leaf, small ink scribble to rear pastedown, cloth gently handled. A very good copy without the scarce wrapper. Author Edith Pargeter's acclaimed third crime novel writing as Ellis Peters, for which

• Printing: first

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