Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 246

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
ORCZY, BARONESS. The Man in the Corner. Illustrated by H.M. Brock. 8vo, publisher's grey cloth with pictorial design stamped in black and grey, head and tail of spine lightly bumped; unclipped original dust jacket, numerous archival tape repairs on verso, nicks to head and foot of spine panel; faint waterstain to top outer corner of first thirty pages; preserved in a custom cloth drop-back case. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1909

Additional Details

first american edition in the rare dust jacket. A square, tight copy; prone to leaning due to the heavy paper stock used. "Among the first and greatest of all 'armchair detectives'" (Steinbrunner and Penzler, Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, p. 298). Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone; Queens Quorum 41.