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Item Details
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| Author: |
[Adams, Herbert, pseud.] Gray, Jonathan |
| Title: |
The Owl |
| Place: |
Philadelphia |
| Publisher: |
J.B. Lippincott |
| Date: |
[1937] |
| Item # : |
126695 |
| Offered by: |
PBA Galleries
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| End Date |
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12/16/2002 19:00:00 CST |
| Price realized |
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$ 100 |
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Item was sold in an online auction !
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| Description: |
| 272 pp. 7½x5, yellow cloth, pictorial jacket. First American Edition. |
| First published in London by Harrap. Posthumously written by Herbert Adams as Jonathan Gray. A detective novel involving Scotland Yard. "This book, which may bye Adams' best, is sadly very scarce. There is a lot golf - the lifestyle of the story's high society young people is to play golf and tennis during the day and party every night" - Taylor "The Golf Murders" p. 85; Not in Donovan & Murdoch. |
| Condition: |
| Some soiling and rubbing to jacket, faint rubberstamp to front panel; light soiling and shelf wear to volume; rubberstamp on the front free endpaper, else very good in like jacket - still a sturdy copy. |
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