Death's Old Sweet Song by Stagge, Jonathan

Harper Collins Publishers, 2013. Wraps have only light wear, spine is unbent. Pages are clean with no markings in text.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

DD 1946 CONDITION: g- NOTE: tight.

Collier Books. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1946. Crime Club. Hardcover. Nice copy in blue binding with gilt spine title and black tree / gunman cover design. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 239 pages .

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. 239 pages. No dust jacket. Minor wear to binding. Contents clean and tight. "Dr. Westlake and his daughter, Dawn, again tangle with murder, this time to the tune of an old ballad.

1946. 1946 Stagge, Jonathan DEATH'S OLD SWEET SONG Garden City: Doubleday, 1946 book club edition 239pp sm 8vo fine bright hardcover copy in VG+ b/c d/j with minor wear along the edges.

P. F. Collier & Son Corporation, 1946. Hardcover. Fine. Some markings on cover and FFEP, text clean.

Michael Joseph, 1950. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1950. First cheap edition. 216 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good. 1946. Hardcover. Very Good, Book Club Edition in a great dust jacket. .

A near fine hardcover sans dust jacket. Bindings are tight and straight. Pages tanned from age, a reprint "Crime Club" edition. Pen marks on back free end paper

Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Doubleday, 1946. First edition, so stated. Slight spine slant, spine slightly darkened, light soiling, small spot at cover looks like a price label was removed. Dr. Hugh Westlake; Massachusetts. "A song holds the key to murder in this Dr. Hugh Westlake mystery from the Edgar Award--winning author who wrote the Peter Duluth series as Patrick Quentin. Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote: "Quentin is particularly noted for the enviable polish and grace which make him one of the leading American fabricants of the murderous comedy of manners; but this surface smoothness conceals intricate and meticulous plot construction as faultless as that of Agatha Christie." The affluent Bray family was known for throwing the most enjoyable picnics, and this one seemed to be no different to Dr. Hugh… Read More