The Practicing of Christopher

by Josephine Eckert, aka Josesphine Eckert Gill

$75 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Dial Press, 1947. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 246pp. Text evenly age-toned, else tight and fine in the original Arthur Hawkins dustwrapper, slightly darkened on spine panel, lightly worn at extremities, still Near Fine. Bright copy of the author's uncommon first book, winner of the Avery Hopwood prize for 1946. Eckert went on to pen a few Crime Club

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