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FREEMAN, AUSTIN R.
As A Thief In the Night.
8vo, publisher’s black-let-
tered orange cloth; dust jacket, tape repairs over closed tears on verso, corners narrowly
clipped retaining price, light rubbing to extremities, with the rare original wraparound
advertising band (one tape mend); 4 pages publisher’s promotional material at end; inked
ownership signature to front flyleaf, else contents pristine.
NewYork: Dodd Mead, 1928
[800/1,200]
APPEALING COPY OF THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
,
including the rare wraparound ad band list-
ing five reviews over the Juan Oliver designed unclipped dust jacket.A Dr.Thorndyke detective novel.
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FREEMAN, AUSTIN R.
The Magic Casket.
8vo, publisher’s red-lettered green
cloth; dust jacket, spine panel dulled just slightly, light discoloration to minor portion of
rear panel, mild edgewear; bookplate on front pastedown, contents clean.
NewYork: Dodd Mead, 1927
[1,000/1,500]
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
.
A SUPERIOR COPY IN BRIGHT
,
UNRESTORED JACKET
.
Rare in the dust
jacket, especially so in this condition, with no copies appearing at auction in nearly a decade.
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FRANCIS, DICK.
Blood Sport.
8vo, original blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, fine;
pictorial dust jacket after design by Broom Lynne, light rubbing to folds, slightly tanned in
places though largely evident on flaps and verso; contents pristine.
FIRST EDITION
,
PRESEN
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TATION COPY
, inscribed on front free endpaper to George Thaw and dated October, 1969.
London: Michael Joseph, (1967)
[200/300]
WITH
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Another copy. Few light spots to boards, foxing to fore-edges; dust jacket price-clipped.
First American edition. NewYork, (1967).
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