THE PENROSE MYSTERY

by Freeman, Austin

$250 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1936. Octavo, pp. i-vi vii-viii 1-2 3-300 301-304: blank , publisher's orange cloth stamped in black, top edge stained orange, fore-edge untrimmed. First U.S. edition. Dr. Thorndyke investigates the mysterious disappearance of Daniel Penrose, a well-to-do collector of antiquities. ... easy going and pleasant in the telling ... Barzun and Taylor .

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