SOFTBACK ?PAN No: 203,?SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1952* Publisher: Pan Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps. Slight shelf wear to edges & corners. Some chips at head & tail of spine. Light creases, ageing & slight lean to spine, hinges good. ACC+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Considerable overall tanning. Otherwise, GD* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 192 pp.* Product Description:- This thriller is one of those seminally adapted by Arthur Hitchcock for the Cinema. The original title, The Wheel Spins, was changed to its present one by Hitchcock for the film and it was known from then on by this title. A single woman, Iris Carr, on a continental train journey is befriended by an English governess, Miss Froy who disappears whilst Iris is asleep. From then on despite her extensive efforts to find the governess, everyone else on the train denies that she was ever there! An excellent plot, enhanced by Hitchcock in the film makes this one of the best-known mystery tales of the early 20th century.* This is a NEAR GOOD copy of the 1st./1st. thus with some shelf wear & ageing reducing it to ACC*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 5043
Title: THE LADY VANISHES (aka The Wheel Spins)
Author: White, Ethel Lina
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - ACC/GD/ND
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
Publisher: Pan
Place of Publication: UK 192
Date Published: 1952-01-01

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