The Indigo Necklace -
Frances Crane
1945 - Random House, New York - First Edition
A fine example of the rubbing-prone dust jacket with a very good book which appears to have been matched to the dust jacket, would benefit from a better book.
Featuring crime solving couple Lieutenant Pat and Jean Abbot, the locationn isis New Orleans and the famous French quarter. References: Reilly, ’Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers’ (1980), 372.
Octavo (book size 18.8x12.8cm), pp. [12] 238 [6]. In publisher’s black cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt with red coloured panels and rules, small round vignette stamped in red to front board, top edge stained light blue, fore-edge untrimmed, with grey endpapers illustrated with maps in black and white. Dust jacket priced ‘$2.00’ to upper corner of front panel. Condition: Very good, spine rubbed lettering faded, wear to spine ends and corners, abrasion to name on front free endpaper, two spots to title page, in a fine dust jacket. Ref: 110386 Price: HK$ 1,600
Featuring crime solving couple Lieutenant Pat and Jean Abbot, the locationn isis New Orleans and the famous French quarter. References: Reilly, ’Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers’ (1980), 372.
Octavo (book size 18.8x12.8cm), pp. [12] 238 [6]. In publisher’s black cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt with red coloured panels and rules, small round vignette stamped in red to front board, top edge stained light blue, fore-edge untrimmed, with grey endpapers illustrated with maps in black and white. Dust jacket priced ‘$2.00’ to upper corner of front panel. Condition: Very good, spine rubbed lettering faded, wear to spine ends and corners, abrasion to name on front free endpaper, two spots to title page, in a fine dust jacket. Ref: 110386 Price: HK$ 1,600