THE PENROSE MYSTERY. 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). Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1989) 1369. Hubin (1994), p. 306. Donaldson 34b. Neat penciled owner's signature on the front free endpaper. Paste-downs lightly darkened along gutter margins, a bright, clean, nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket priced $2.00 on the front flap with light wear along top and bottom edges with fraying and mild loss at spine ends and corner tips and a 25x10 v-chip along the top edge of the rear panel near the spine fold. (#177747).
Price: $250.00
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