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Headed for a Hearse
by Latimer, Jonathan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Leicester, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Methuen, 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK edition in First Issue dustwrapper. Publisher's stone-coloured boards with dark-green lettering to the spine. Boards exceptionally bright and clean. Faint offsetting to both sets of end-papers otherwise a near fine (or better) copy. The dustwrapper is price-clipped to the front flap but the top of the 7 of 7/6 is visible confirming its first issue status. The dustwrapper has a 4 mm slither of loss at the head of the spine and a tiny amount of loss to the corners (hardly worth mentioning). There area couple of very short, closed tears to the top edge of the front panel. Chicago crime beat journalist-turned-novelist Jonathan Latimer blends hardboiled detective fiction with a shot of screwball comedy in the fast-moving "Headed for a Hearse", an exciting combination of the macabre and the humorous starring William Crane a dipsomaniac detective, who somehow manages to solve some intriguing cases. This was an early "locked-room" mystery. Great cover art by C. W. B. (C W Bacon). Quite scarce. Photographs/scans available upon request.
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Details
- Bookseller
- James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 355490723110
- Title
- Headed for a Hearse
- Author
- Latimer, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1936
Terms of Sale
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
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About the Seller
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
Biblio member since 2006
Leicester
About James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
James M Pickard (Rare Books) is proud to be a full member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA).
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...