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Beat Not the Bones
by Jay, Charlotte
- Used
- very good
- First
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon
Item Price
$500.00
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original tan cloth over black spine cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with some foxing to cloth and pages, pages toned. In an unclipped dust jacket, Very Good, with toning, foxing and wear. A very nice copy of the winner of the very first Edgar Award for best novel. A suspenseful novel by an Australian author, set in New Guinea, which has been compared to Conrad's Heart of Darkness for its anti-colonial themes.
Synopsis
Beat Not the Bones is a 1952 suspense novel by Charlotte Jay (pseudonym of Geraldine Halls) which won the inaugural Edgar award for best novel . The novel follows the actions of a sheltered young women who arrives in New Guinea from Australia, determined to find out what really happened to her husband, the Chief Anthropologist in the colonial administration. His death has been ascribed to suicide but she has reason to believe it was murder.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140940443
- Title
- Beat Not the Bones
- Author
- Jay, Charlotte
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket condition
- Very Good
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- mmm
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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Portland, Oregon
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About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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- spine
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