Bailey Hilea (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Octavo, (viii), 274pp, publisher's blue cloth lettered in dark blue at spine (fading and some white spotting mostly at spine, slightly cocked, some soiling, extremities rubbed, offsetting to endpapers, "Doubleday Doran Syndicate Fiction Offering" stamped at ffep, offsetting from clipping at page 1, else good). Pictorial dust jacket with $2.00 price at flap (chipping with loss at edges affecting text, moderate soiling, some spotting and moisture damage visible at verso, tiny gouge at rear panel, else good).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Kula (Dust Jacket) (illustrator). First Edition. :: The Crime Club :: Hilary Bailey Mystery :: An old book, a missing buckshot, a crippled dog - a macabre household which could not shut its doors to murder. :: Bound in publisher's sky-blue cloth. Title, author, gas-mask illustration and Crime Club emblem lettered in black on spine. Top of text block blue, fore-edge deckled. Duodecimo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 196 x 133 millimeters). 270 pages. Condition: Very Good-, in a Very Good dust jacket. General soiling, wear to cloth along edges and at crown and foot of spine. Boards peep through at bottom. Endpapers toned, front free endpaper has prior owner's inscription and a rectangular sticker pull. Spine slightly shaken, rounded. Light spotting and a pen mark at top of text block. Pages have petite stains. Interior of dust jacket has foxing and spotting. Age-toned, light wear along edges, a vertical crease to the rear panel and a partial crease down the spine.

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. [viii], 274 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with navy spine lettering. Very Good+ with foxing to edges, offsetting and lean to spine, slight curve to back board, bookplate on paste down. In a Near Fine example of the rare dust jacket with light shelf wear, a few small puckers along gutter, pencil checkmark to spine panel, unclipped and unfaded. A mystery set in a funeral home, with a female assistant sleuth helping out her detective father by going undercover as an older lady. Barnett Mystery Women p. 25.