Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 325

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
TAYLOR, PHOEBE ATWOOD. The Cape Cod Mystery. 8vo, original blue cloth stamped in green, corners and spine tips lightly rubbed; pictorial dust jacket after a design by Charles K. Stevens, tape mends to verso repairing shallow chips to spine panel ends and front flap corner nicks, folds lightly rubbed and toned, occasional soft creasing and rubbing, spine panel a trifle faded, unclipped; residue of small removed label on front flyleaf, else contents clean; preserved in custom cloth drop-back case (booklabel). Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1931)

Additional Details

first edition of the author's first book. The first of the Asey Mayo mysteries set on Cape Cod. Scarce in jacket. Lilly, Detective Fiction 114; Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.