A Daisy Chain for Satan by Fleming, Joan - 1950

Ballantine. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 6x4x0.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1969. First Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Dustjacket. First Ballantine Printing, 969, #01655. The Publisher's Own Copy, Direct From Ian Ballantine's Library, With A Loose Printed Card Certifying That It Was His Book. Fine, No Wear. With Ballantine's Printed Label "Permanent Editorial Library Copy / Do Not Remove" Right In The Middle Of The Cover Illustration.

No date. ( British Library catalogue states 1950.) Presumed 1st U.K. edition. Good for age but slightly shelf skewed and with light discolouration to page tops in lightly bumped and marked boards. No dustjacket. Previous owner's name on front endpaper.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1971. front endpaper removed, minimal library marks endpapers, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: some edge wear. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex Library.

NY: RANDOM HOUSE. UNMARKED, CLEAN COPY. . VG. Hardcover. FIRST PRINTING. 1960.

Interior Clean and Unmarked: Published for the Crime Club By Doubleday and Company Inc 1950 Hardback : hard cover edition in good plus condition, a typical used book with slight wear to edges and spine. Some minor bumping or scuffs. Overall good / nice copy of this scarce title. Excellent reading on the subject. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand for yourself. Or would make an ideal gift for the fan / reader in your life. Reading is one of the great pleasures in life. Reading is one of the great pleasures in life. Mark on ffep. In chipping dust cover. Please send us a note if you have any questions. Thank you. . Hard Back / Cloth Binding. Good Clean Cond./Yes / Good Minus. Illus. by Dust Cover Illustrated. FICTION / Crime / Mystery Stories. Fiction, Novel, Enjoyable Read.

Hutchinson, London [1950]. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's second crime novel. 8vo. 192pp. Brown cloth lettered in black at the spine. Top- and fore edge quite spotted, and with a touch of additional spotting and browning to several preliminary leaves. Quite a crisp copy in publisher clipped and re-priced dust wrapper, a somewhat handled example with several short closed tears and accompanying creases and four or five area of loss to spine ends and tips of several corners. Fleming published five children's books before her first crime novel, 'Two Lovers too Many', in 1949. Her second, 'A Daisy-Chain for Satan', was published the following year followed by over thirty further crime novels, two of which won her the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award: 'When I Grow Rich' (1962) and 'Young Man I Think You're Dying' (1970)..

Ballantine Books. Mass Market Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

London: Hutchinson, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (London: Hutchinson n.d. [1950]). First UK Edition. Publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to the spine and front board. Boards really bright and clean. No inscriptions. Faint offsetting to both sets of end-papers and light foxing to the fore-edge still a VG+ copy in like dustwrapper foxed on the verso to the spine portion. Quite a nice copy of a fairly uncommon book. Photographs/scans available upon request.