first edition
1952 · New York
by Helen Reilly
New York: Random House, 1952. Very Good -/Good. New York: Random House, 1952. First Printing Stated. Octavo (19 cm); 245pp. Boards in textured grey cloth with black and gilt stamping, wrapped in publisher's intact pictorial jacket ($2.50). Jacket overall toned, chipped, torn, and scuffed with slight fading to spine. Verso has previous owner tape repairs. Board extremities rubbed and bumped with binding cocked but firm; top stain faded and fore-edge foxed. Library rubber stamp to first free endsheet but no other library markings. Pages clean. A Very Good copy in a Good only jacket of one of Reilly's Inspector McKee mystery novels, this one involving the death of an artist who may or may not have committed suicide. (Inventory #: 33693)
