signed first edition Hardcover
1935 · New York
by SIMMONS, Addison
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Buff cloth decorated in green. Modest staining at the bottom of the spine, else very good lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by the author: "For Mr. and Mrs. William J. Murray. Sincerely, Addison Simmons, Boston 1935." Mystery about an English professor at a thinly disguised Harvard, who likes to solve mysteries as a hobby, called upon to investigate the murder of another faculty member. Scarce.
(Inventory #: 608271)