Make my bed soon, by Strange, John Stephen - 1948

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co./Crime Club, 1948. Barney Gantt investigates three deaths, apparently from food poisoning. Ex-library with remnants of a stamp pad on the rear end paper. Bumped and rubbed with tape residue to the boards and pastedowns. Binding solid, pages well tanned. Jacket has been trimmed with residue from an old, edged protector, price intact. Long closed tear down the upper 2/3rd of the front flap fold, small chips and tape residue to the edges of the flaps, in Brodart.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Ex-Library.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday / Crime Club, 1948. First printing (first edition stated on the copyright page). The boards are dampstained around the spine tail. The leaves are tanned. Three leaves have tiny chips. The front flap of the dust jacket, with $2.00 price, is laid in.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Cambridge, UK: Black Bear Publishing. Giving numerous types of production, engraving & manufacture. A detailed look. Many many examples of banknotes are shown, most in full colour, some in black & white. Takes a detailed look at the currencies / banknotes of Australia, Austria, China, England, Germany, Spain, Sweden & USA. Large format hardback. Very detailed & informative. Approx 102 x 10". 324 pages . Fine. 1st Edition. 1989.

London,, 1948. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket.. A moderately used, very good-minus copy: some rubbing, marks and general wear - otherwise sound with clean text.. 8vo. pp 190. Original publisherÕs orange cloth lettered black at spine. From the Donald Rudd collection of detective fiction.

Garden City: Doubleday/ Crime Club, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardcover. 191 pp. Very good, tape marks to the covfers and date stamps rear endpaper so presumably from a rental or hotel library. In dust jacket, very good, striking design of a giant skull in the clouds overlooking a grim countryside. A novel of suspense, mystery and the effects of murder on norman people, set in Bucks County, Pennslyvania.

London: Collins / The Crime Club. Good with No dust jacket as issued. (1948). First Edition. Hardcover. Spine faded. Front hinge broken, with narrow split to gutter between front free endpaper and half-title page. ; 190 pages + [2] pages advertisements. Red cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 184 x 122mm. Crime fiction. John Stephen Strange is a pseudonym of Dorothy Stockbridge Tillett. "Barney and Muriel Gantt rented the old Kaufman house in Bucks County on an impulse, because, for once in their stormy careers, they felt that the world was too much with them." - the opening sentence. .

New York: Doubleday / Crime Club, 1948. Book. About Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. After a married couple rents a farmhouse, the male half of the duo finds an elderly woman dead of apparent food poisoning, soon after which stories of earlier deaths in the community begin to surface. Grey buckram w/green lettering to front cover/spine, 191 pages. Bumped corners/spine ends, tanned edges/pages, previous owner's name on front end paper, in price-clipped dust jacket w/edgewear all around, chipping, short (less than 3/4") edge tears, roughly two-inch uneven tear to bottom edge of rear panel, front flap about 60% detached, rubbing/impressions edge creasing. Jacket now in protective mylar sleeve in order to prevent further damage..

New York: Crime Club Doubleday, 1948. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First US edition hardback in original dustjacket , Book has no inscriptions , no spine lean , usual page toning with age , no offsetting to endpapers , no foxing , in jacket that is not faded , not price-clipped showing $2.00 on flap , toned with age , minor wear to edges, slight crease to spine , not a remainder , not an ex-library copy. All orders are sent in quality inert removable dust jacket plastic, bubble-wrapped and in a strong box. We are a full time Independent bookseller established in 1999..

London: The Crime Club, 1948. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. 6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers very clean, minor shelf wear. BInding tight and text unmarked. DJ is VERY GOOD ; very clean, mild edge wear. Small chips to spine ends. Not clipped. Fic. Stax.