AFFAIR OF THE SCARLET CRAB by Knight Clifford - 1937

Dell Publishing Company. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. (mystery, crime, fiction) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

New York: Dell Publishing, 1945. 1st. Softcover. Fair/None. 238 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #75. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover.Spine heavily faded, chipped and worn. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Record # 368632

Dell 75 mapback. Good softcover. Clean, lightly scuffed covers and spine; some edge wear especially at top fore corner; tightly bound; clean interior with some general age darkening; leaves remain supple. 16mo, 238 pp.

Dell Paperback #75 CONDITION: g.

Dodd, Mead & Company, 1937. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. The volume is bumped on the spine ends, has light foxing on the fore and bottom edges of the text block, and there is a bit of a spine cant. The unclipped dust jacket, protected in a sleeve, is restored at spine and flap fold ends and along top edge of rear panel, with color added at recto. It has light edge wear, with wrinkles, a small abrasion near the spine crown, and shows the repaired closed tear on the top of the rear panel. The clue index bound in at the end of the text is complete and unbroken. Author's first mystery.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1937., 1937. First edition. First edition of the author's scarce first book. Winner of the first Red Badge Mystery Prize, winning out over a field of more than 300 entries. Inked inscription on the front fly leaf: "To Pauline Giles, Able exponent of the theory that girl always gets boy. With my very best wishes, Clifford Knight, 1937." Cloth lightly rubbed at spine ends, and corners, else a near fine copy in dust jacket with professional restoration to the spine ends. The CLUE INDEX at the rear of the book is present Introduces English Professor Huntoon Rogers in his first of many adventures. This time he goes along on a scientific cruise to the Galapagos Islands amid the tangled relationships of millionaire yachtsman Carlos Lanfrey, his wife, and their assorted passengers, including feuding scientists, a gambling photographer, and a beautiful young artist, all make for a promising closed circle whodunit, when Rogers must track down a relentless… Read More