The Seventh Sinner [Signed bookplate laid in]

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1972. Very Good +/Good +. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (22 cm); 243pp. Boards quarter bound in red and cream cloth with red stamping to spine, wrapped in publisher's intact pictorial jacket ($5.95). Red top stain. Jacket gently rubbed and bumped at extremities with damp staining, toning, and soiling to margins of flaps and back panel. Verso shows the same mostly at spine. Board corners and spine ends gently bumped and rubbed with minor discoloration to tail. Binding slightly cocked but firm. Pages clean. A Very Good or better copy in a Good or better jacket.

Signed bookplate (truncated) by Mertz laid in, signed as "Barbara Michaels," another of her pseudonyms. (Inventory #: 33027)