Orient Express. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1933.
First American Edition (stated). Lazarnick Studio designed dustjacket art. Uncommon American edition of author's first major success. 'Five people linked by the sole accident of their imprisonment together on the train. The brilliant and wealthy young Jewish fruit merchant; Dr. Richard John with his English passport and his strange accent. Coral Musker, cold and hungry and desperately poor; Josef Grunlich, a murderer with the police of Austria snarling on his trail; and Mabel Warren, a crack English journalist [and lesbian] who scented something strange'. Basis for the 1934 Fox Film directed by Paul Martin and starring Heather Angle, Norman Foster and Ralph Morgan. Almost Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket (but with the word 'price' still visible), some tiny chips at spine ends and flap corners, edges with modest wear and short closed tears.
Price: $3,500.00