Strangler's Serenade by Irish, William (Woolrich, Cornell) - 1951

Walter J. Black/Detective Book Club, New York, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover with DJ. Pages are unmarked. Covers show light edge wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear and foxing. This book has been affected by damp basement storage conditions and has a musty smell with light foxing/dust dulling on page edges. Book shelf-cocked. Presented with protective clear book jacket cover.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Rinehart & Company, January 1951. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. used hardcover copy lacking a dust jacket. book is very shelfworn and corners bumped. coversare scuffed and outer edge of page block somewhat dusty/discolored with age. Remnants of tape to covers and front endpapers, binding is intact and no marks to text.

New York: Walter J. Black. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1951). Book Club Edition. Hardcover. [light bumping to spine ends, otherwise a nice clean copy; jacket shows moderate wear at edges and extremities, slight paper loss at top of spine (just nicking the first "S" in the title a bit), split along top rear foldover, front panel a little rubbed]. A New York detective who's supposed to be taking it easy, on vacation at "Joseph's Vineyard," runs into a murder case, in that way that vacationing detectives invariably do. "What could be the connection between an quiet, elderly male boarder, an indolent, middle-aged toper, a dim-witted youth who lived on the beach and whistled Yankee Doodle over and over, and the town's wealthiest spinster?" (I dunno, but judging from that jacket blurb Woolrich was only about two characters short of a Harry Stephen Keeler plot.) [This is the Detective Book Club issue (unpriced jacket with a blurb for the Club on the… Read More

Walter J. Black, 1951. Hard cover. Good/Good. Ex library with typical stamps on inside front and back covers, pocket for check-out card. Jacket worn on corners and edges, overall clean. Unmarked inside but with occasional, very light spotting.

New York: Rinehart & Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1951. First Edition. Hardback. Worn and soiled black cloth with yellow lettering and icon on spine/seller stamp on front end page/tear at bottom spine; 249 pages .

NY: Popular Library. VG. 1952. 1st Printing. Paperback. Popular Library Book #431. First printing. A Very Good copy. Slight sp ine lean. Rubs to the spine tips. Tiny corner bumps. Faint crease alo ng the spine. Rubs to to the seams. Spine has some rub marks along th e seams. Tiny corner bumps. There is a 1" and a 2" diagonal crease at the rear cover's lower left corner. Mild dust soiling to the rear cove r. Mild tanning to the pages. Cover art by Rudolph Belarski. .

London: Robert Hale, 1952. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hardcover, spine ends rubbed, inside both covers lightly marked, otherwise VG without dustjacket.

rinehart, walter black, 1951, . near fine book by walter black in a very good dust jacket by rinehart, spine end and corner chips, some edge chipping

NY: Popular Library. Fine. 1952. First Edition. Softcover. First edition softcover. Mass market paperback. Published in June, 1952, stated. Fine condition, appears unread. Pages slightly toned, green block edge has a hint of fading. Popular Library 431. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Popular Library Books. NY: Popular Library, Inc. , 1952 first edition . 431 very good -fine or better, reading crease Cover by Rudolph Belarski. paperback,