Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 279

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
RAWSON, CLAYTON. Death From a Top Hat. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth, cocked, spine faded, moderate wear; Grosset & Dunlap movie tie-in dust jacket with a design by the author, small tape repairs on verso, folds and edges rubbed, spine panel tips chipped; yellowing on front free end paper from removed booklabel over faint library stamp. New York: Putnam's Sons, 1938

Additional Details

first edition thus of the author's first book and the first Great Merlini Mystery, in the tie-in jacket for the film version, adapted as Miracles for Sale. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.