Hardcover
1908-1921 · New York
by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
New York: Review of Reviews Company, 1908-1921. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo (19 cm). Full faux-leather with decorative tooling and gilt embossed titling. Deckle edge. One volume (The Amazing Interlude) with frontispiece portrait of the author with her facsimile signature. Published by arrangement with George H. Doran Company. Two of the volumes with previous owner's name on inside front board. Bumping to corners, light foxing and edge wear.The unnumbered volumes include: The Circular Staircase (1908), The Man in Lower Ten (1909), When a Man Marries (1909), Bab, a Sub-Deb (1917), The Amazing Interlude (1918), Dangerous Days (1919), Love Stories (1919), Affinities (1920), A Poor Wise Man (1920), More Tish and 23 1/2 Hours Leave (1921), Sight Unseen and The Confession (1921). "Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the 'American Agatha Christie,' although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel. Rinehart is considered the source of the phrase 'The butler did it' from her novel The Door (1930), although the novel does not use the exact phrase. Rinehart is also considered to have invented the 'Had-I-but-Known' school of mystery writing, with the publication of The Circular Staircase (1908). (Wikipedia). Will require extra postage.
(Inventory #: 28592)