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Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
PALMER, STUART. The Penguin Pool Murder. 8vo, publisher's pictorial grey cloth stamped in black, cocked, soiling; unclipped dust jacket, closed tears, dust soiling, edgewear with small chips and nicks to corners and spine panel tips, abrading with some loss to front flap verso from removed label with remnants of jacket glued to front pastedown, further paper remnants to blank following front fly, front hinge cracked but holding. New York: Brentano's Publishers, 1931
first edition in the very scarce dust jacket, superb association copy warmly inscribed, with an original penguin drawing: "June 3 1959 / To my good friend and / collaborator, John D. Ball Jr. / I might say my fine un- / feathered friend. / Best always / Stuart Palmer / [drawing]." John Ball is best known for his 1965 debut novel In the Heat of the Night, featuring protagonist Virgil Tibbs, memorably portrayed onscreen by Sidney Poitier in the 1967 film adaptation that won the Best Picture Oscar. Rare Book Hub lists only two other copies in the jacket at auction, with no copies signed.
