THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY
$4,800 · Offered by Biblio
First edition
London: The Crime Club, 1942. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); red-orange cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-160pp. Light wear to spine ends, hint of sunning to upper board edges, with some mild offsetting onto spine; contents fresh and unfoxed; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently sunned at spine and panels, lightly edgeworn, with a few nicks and tiny tears, and a 1.25" split at upper rear joint; an unrestored, Very Good+ example. "The body that turns up in the married colonel's library is that of a dancing hostess from a neighboring seaside hotel. The setting is St. Mary Mead, whence Miss Marple has drawn her knowledge of human evil and duplicity and applies it to the case at hand, predicting a second murder and averting a third" (Barzun & Taylor 754). Penzler, Bibliomysteries p.26. 8481.
- Publisher: The Crime Club
- Year: 1942
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: unknown
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