Devil Loves Me, First Edition (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Solid with a reading crease along the spine on the front cover and a few creases on the back.

1st. Owner's name on front free endpaper. Red cloth faded on spine with some surface wear and light colour loss on front board. Corners and spine head/foot bumped. Endpapers browned. Internally clean and tidy. Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback (no dust jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition ( so stated). A VERY GOOD+ book with some wear to bottom rails ; a small book store label to rear pastedown and the occasional thumb soiling to a few page edges are the only faults. No writing, damp, etc. in a VERY GOOD- , but intact jacket. Surface chipping at folds. Chipping to spine ends ( see pics) . A couple of chips to bottom of rear panel. Some fade to red lettering on spine. Price still present. A difficult title to find in jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth with black type to front and spine. Original dust jacket, unclipped with $2.00 price intact, mylar protected. A Crime Club Selection. First Edition thus. Inside clean. Dust jacket has large chip from top of spine and some staining to the reverse of back panel. Shallow chipping to heel of spine and corners but o/w a nice copy of a scarce book.

Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. First Edition. Original red cloth, black titles. Light paperclip removal from inside front cover. Small review laid in. Scarce in this nice condition.

Cloth. Condition: Near VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Near VG. First Edition. Heavy bump to the upper front corner which affect both boards and extends through the entire book; moisture spotting/stains to both boards with a tiny area on the rear board were the DJ was previous stuck; slight spine slant; some age darkening to endpapers; unusal ~3/8" x 4" red remnant on the rear endpaper from either a tape or a paste down; contemporaneous bookstore stamp on lower rear endpaper. DJ has wear to edges with numerous small tears and creases; slightly heavier wear to spine ends with minor loss; wear to folds with some flaking (front flap fold the worse with fairly heavy wear/flaking to the lower half); spine sunned with moderate color loss (mostly to the red in the title). Scarce third Paul Prye mystery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First Edition. The Crime Club. 304 p. 21 cm. Red cloth hardcover with black print in mylar-covered dustjacket. Top edge red. Faint tape stains to edges of book with darker stain on edge of rear panel of jacket. Front flap price clipped. A little discolouration to endpapers. A bridesmaid is poisoned at a society wedding and any of a dozen house guests might have done it. Several bodies and lots of suspicion in this genteel murder tale set in Toronto.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Devil Loves Me by Margaret Millar First Edition The Crime Club Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc 1942. New York. A near fine copy. Contents are clean throughout and free of foxing. Uncut edges. Covers are bright and unblemished and have no fading or toning to spine. In original VG dust jacket. Not price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 304 pages. First edition, first printing. Her 3rd book. Dr. Paul Prye, whose wedding was interrupted by a mysterious illness and whose brilliant sleuthing made short work of a murderer who was merely clever. Fine red cloth book in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of fading to the red lettering on the spine and a very slight amount of rubbing to the corners. A beautiful copy!

First Edition. Very good bright copy with some slight edge wear without dust jacket.

First edition. Author's third mystery novel. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket lightly soiled on the white rear panel and a tiny closed tear to the bottom edge of the rear cover panel. Dr. Paul Pyne's wedding was dramatically interrupted, when Jane Stevens, a bridesmaid, became ill in the church vestibule. Prye recognized the symptoms as poison. With one poisoning, one bashed head, several hysterical women, and a most amusing inebriated divorcee, this book is a combination of a fine plot, humor, and characterization. An elusive Crime Club title.