First Edition. John Drew dustjacket art. Mystery and romance novel moving from “the simplicity of an English farm to the Italian pomp of the estate of the famous Marquis of Albacinna” involving a charming young painter, the famed Marquis, and a lady with suspicions. Very Good in nearly Very Good dustjacket, some soiling to panels, shallow edge chips and short closed tears. Item #27866

Reprint Edition. F. M. dustjacket art. Vintage reprint edition of this English village set murder mystery. Near Fine in Very Good but modestly soiled dustjacket, shallow chipping at top spine end and few edges. Item #22906

First Edition. Nat Falk dustjacket art. One of Fletcher's more uncommon murder mystery titles. This copy, once the property of a West Virginia lending library with few stamps to endpapers. Nearly Very Good, very cheap yellowed pages, fore-edge margin of several pages have broken off (not affecting text), in dustjacket with old dustjacket protector black strip along top and lower edge, else Very Good, tape shadows at flap fore-edge. Item #41280

Fourth Printing, "Office Copy" stamped at top page edge and spine of jacket. Mystery novel in which a young barrister investigates the disappearance of a lovely young woman's guardian. This copy, despite being printed a few months after the first edition, is presumably the publisher's own copy with notes on front flap of jacket with planned changes to text. Uncommon thus. Near Fine but for stamp at top page edge and some soiling to page edges, in dustjacket with about an inch of loss at both top and lower spine ends, else Very Good. Item #22673

First Canadian Edition (in correct Knopf issued First American Edition dustjacket). M. dustjacket art. Very scarce Fletcher title and biblio-mystery. "Would anyone commit violent murder for one musty old book? A famous American book collector, his body a mass of battered flesh, was found at the bottom of Harlesden Scar on the lonely Yorkshire moors." As the novel progresses, it becomes clear that Dr. Essenheim was murdered shortly after having purchased a first edition of Pilgrim's Progress and a medieval book of hours, both of which were missing when the body was found. In one of his Saturday Evening Post articles, Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach claimed that Essenheim was based on him, an homage which the mystery-loving Dr. Rosenbach enjoyed. Almost Near Fine, hint of a splash stain to spine, very mild cocking in nearly Very Good dustjacket, dime sized chip at lower spine end and lower front panel, some tiny edge chips, couple square inch sized light stain at mid rear panel, split along rear spine edge (mended at verso with archival tape). Item #29146

Early Edition, 7/6 price at jacket (but originally published in 1905 by Fisher Unwin). Youngman Carter dustjacket art. Yorkshire set stories of rustic life. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends, small chips at lower front panel. Item #39695

First Edition. E. Reindel dustjacket art. 'On the outskirts of a little Yorkshire town is found the body of an ex-governor of Southmoor prison'. Near Fine but for some soiling to cloth, in Near Fine or Fine bright dustjacket. Item #41090

First Omnibus Edition. Whitfield's classic hard-boiled mystery novel reprinted in this omnibus edition with Bentley's 'Trent's Last Case' and Fletcher's 'The Middle Temple Murder'. Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket, some modest soiling to panels, few edge nicks and wear. Item #22683