Feb 25, 2021 - Sale 2559

Sale 2559 - Lot 185

Price Realized: $ 552
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
LAWRENCE, MARGERY. The Madonna of Seven Moons. 8vo, publisher's green cloth stamped in red; unclipped pictorial dust jacket with $2.00 price, abrasions along portion of front flap fold and spine/front panel, few short closed tears with associated creasing; maroon top-stain bright, contents clean and unmarked. First edition in scarce unrestored dust jacket. Filmed in 1945 by Arthur Crabtree with Phyllis Calvert and Stewart Granger. According to Rare Book Hub and ABPC, the first auction appearance. A tight, clean copy in bright, unfaded jacket of an elusive Golden Age mystery. Hubin p. 488. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1933)