The Immaterial Murder Case
by Symons, Julian
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Blue cloth. Textblock toned as usual. Very good in very good dust jacket. With two bookplates of George Sims
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Inscribed "For George Sims with very good wishes Julian Symons February 1949"
Julian Symons and George Sims, antiquarian bookseller and crime novelist, were friends of many, many years. This would have been one of the earliest inscriptions to Sims. They met in connection with the papers of Symons' elder brother A. J. A. Symons (author of The Quest for Corvo). Walsdorf A1b. Provenance: George Sims; David Holmes
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 365168
- Title
- The Immaterial Murder Case
- Author
- Symons, Julian
- Format/Binding
- 160 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Blue cloth. Textblock toned as usual. Very good in very good dust jacket. With two bookplates of George Sims
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First cheap edition, May 1948 (second impression of the first ed
- Publisher
- Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- Detective Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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