first edition
1952 · New York
by Mignon G. Eberhart
New York: Random House, 1952. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1952. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); [vi], 246pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; boards in charcoal cloth with black and gilt lettering and decoration. Black topstain. Jacket rubbed along bottom edge and bumped at corners and spine ends, with foxing to rear panel and top edges of flaps and heavy toning to verso. Boards bumped at a couple corners with some scuffing to surface; spine slightly cocked and nudged at ends. Prior owner's lepidopteran bookplate (Matilda J. Matthews) on front pastedown. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. (truncated)