first edition
1954 · New York
by Helen Reilly
New York: Random House, 1954. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Random House, 1954. First Printing Stated. Octavo (19 cm); 242pp. Boards in textured gray cloth with black and gilt stamping wrapped in publisher's intact pictorial jacket ($2.75); black top stain. Jacket gently bumped at extremities with light toning overall; verso foxed. Board corners and spine ends gently bumped. Top stain scratched slightly. Endsheets offset from glue but otherwise pages clean. A Very Good to Near Fine copy in a Very Good or better jacket of a later series Inspector McKee novel, this one involving the murder of a child. (Inventory #: 33696)
