Moss Rose (First Edition) by Joseph Shearing - 1935

Sun Dial Press, 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Sun Dial Press, 1947. Later printing; brown cover has spots, edgewear focused on spine ends and corner tips; spine is slightly sunned and cocked; Owner label and bookplate on inside front cover. Hard Cover. Good.

berkley medallion, 1965. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The Sun Dial Press, 1947. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Very minor edge wear to the DJ corners. 20th Century Fox photoplay DJ is protected by a mylar cover. Binding is fine. First Sun Dial Printing.

New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. Murder and blackmail in Victorian London. Basis for the 1947 movie starring Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature, Ethel Barrymore and Vincent Price. Ex-library with residue from pockets or stamp pads removed from the pastedowns. First U.S. edition. Bumped and rubbed with wear at the edges. Front hinge cracked, rear loose, spine cocked. Stains to the first several pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Ex-Library.

Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 8vo in black cloth, titles in gilt. Slight spine lean, no rubbing at the corners, spine ends pushed but not rubbed,. The dustjacket is not price-clipped, very light rubbing at the corners and spine ends, spine a bit sunned.

New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935., 1935. First edition. First U. S. edition. Fine, bright, square copy in dust jacket with light wear to spine ends and corners. Complete with the original wraparound promotional band. Pseudonym of Gabrielle Margaret Vere Campbell. This is one of the author's many fascinating novels based upon actual murder cases using her own interpretations as to what actually happened and who was really guilty. MOSS ROSE is based upon an 1872 murder of a prostitute named Buswell, which was never solved. Belle Adair, is the young woman "of good birth and education but quite ruined in reputation," who knew the truth of what the police had to dismiss as "an unsolved mystery." "How she used her knowledge and silence and her power over the murderer to re-enter the society to which she had been born, and to lift herself from degradation, is the theme of Mr. Shearing's novel." Additionally the movie of the same name, a film noir… Read More

London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1934]., 1934. First edition. First edition. Light foxing to a few preliminary pages else near fine in professionally restored dust jacket at spine ends, corners, and top edge of rear panel. Pseudonym of Gabrielle Margaret Vere Campbell. This is one of the author's many fascinating novels based upon actual murder cases using her own interpretations as to what actually happened and who was really guilty. MOSS ROSE is based upon an 1872 murder of a prostitute named Buswell, which was never solved. Belle Adair, is the young woman "of good birth and education but quite ruined in reputation," who knew the truth of what the police had to dismiss as "an unsolved mystery." "How she used her knowledge and silence and her power over the murderer to re-enter the society to which she had been born, and to lift herself from degradation, is the theme of Mr. Shearing's novel." Additionally the movie of the same name, a film noir selection, was… Read More