COVER HER FACE

by James

$2,000 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

Signed

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962 . Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Signed by James on the title page. The author's first book, introducing Chief Detective Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. Her first detective story, immediately pleasing and impressive. - Barzun and Taylor: A Catalogue of Crime 1989 #1913. Former owner's inked signature on front free endpaper. Small scratch to cloth at upper edge of front panel, else

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