RINEHART MARY ROBERTS The Man in Lower Ten

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RINEHART, MARY ROBERTS. The Man in Lower Ten. With frontispiece and three full-page color illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. 8vo, publisher's forest green cloth lettered in white; unclipped pictorial dust jacket, very minor rubbing along hinges; small inked note on rear pastedown, erased inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise fine internally; preserved in custom felt-lined cloth drop-back case (LMS booklabel). Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1909)

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first edition in exceedingly scarce dust jacket of the author's second book and her first novel. Highly unlikely example in such a fine state of preservation with binding square and clean, and jacket near mint. "Aggressively advertised by her publishers it was said that the berth 'Lower Ten' was unsalable in Pullmans for some time after its publication" (Lilly, The First Hundred Years of Detective Fiction, 91).