Devil Bush by Head Matthew, Signed (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good, no dust jacket as issued. SIGNED and inscribed to a fellow mystery novelist "Signed with great pleasure for Carolyn Wheat by "Matthew Head" - John Canaday " by the author on the inside of the front cover. Original 1945 Dell paperback. "A Dell Mystery Complete with Crime Map on Back Cover" medallion. There is handling wear and some peeling to the laminate. Toning to the pageblock. Matthew Head is the pseudonym of John Edwin Canaday (1907-1985), an art critic and writer. Canaday was the New York Times art critic for seventeen years and authored several monographs of visual art scholarship. A Dr. Mary Finney mystery by the late author of "The Smell of Money" and "Another Man's Life". Dell editions are rare, especially signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. H. Lawrence Hoffman (dust jacket) (illustrator). First Edition. 12mo. Pp. 184. Black cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Leaves of wartime paper variably toned and fragile with a few chips and closed tears, front free endpaper inscribed in ink. In the color illustrated dust jacket with price intact on the front flap: spine ends chipped and edges rubbed, colors remain vivid. The first of four Dr. Mary Finney novels, set in the Belgian Congo. The author John Canaday, long-time art critic at the New York Times, has inscribed this copy "Lucky Hoop! p. 87 / Caroline from John 'Matthew Head'" to Caroline Houser, a noted Greek art historian and professor at Smith College. On the referenced page Gabrielle Boutegourde relinquishes her virginity to Hooper Taliaferro.Dust jacket is now housed in a removable clear archival sleeve.