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New York: Crown, 1995. First American Edition. Fine / fine.. Octavo. Cloth and boards,  silver spine. 327,[1] pp. Fine, in fine dust jacket.  Rendell's seventeenth Chief Inspector Reg Wexford mystery blends his heretofore unacknowledged racial bias with changes in his small town of Kingsmarkham in Suffolk. Wexford is asked to look for the missing daughter of his physician, Dr. Raymond Akande, who is a black man and with whom he also socializes. When two women are found dead, and a third found beaten and unconscious, Wexford jumps to the conclusion that one of them is the missing daughter - it isn't.

[New York: Rapho-Guillumette, 1956. One large borderless gelatin silver print original candid production set photograph with the photographer's ink-stamp credit and pencil notes to verso, 13.25 x 8.25 in. (34.25 x 22.5 cm) of Rock Hudson on the set of the film Giant, with a "Vielle," identified as an "old musical instrument." Near fine. Uncommon. Sanford Roth (1906-1962) was an internationally renowned photographer whose work has appeared in many publications including: Time, Life, Look, Fortune, Paris-Match, Elle, Der Stern, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. His photographs of James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, etc.,  still appear regularly in books, magazines and other works all over the world. His work has been exhibited at the Museum Of Modern Art, New York, Chicago Art Institute, Los Angeles County Museum Of Art and San Francisco Museum Of Fine Arts, amongst others.

[London: Bloomsbury, 2007. First UK edition. Fine / fine.. Thick octavo. Pictorial boards. First UK edition, first printing. Fine copy of the children's edition in fine dust jacket of the final edition in the Harry Potter series. Personally purchased by the bookseller in London on first day of issue.