Man Queue by Daviot Gordon (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 246 p.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The first of the author's 'Alan Grant' novels published under her pseudonym. Statement on copyright page dated 1929 with no other printings mentioned. In lavender cloth with yellow type. Bump to bottom front corner with lesser ding to bottom rear. Small sticker shadow to front board and general spotting/light soiling to boards. Spine is well faded and tinted top page ends have some marks and spotting. Front hinge a little shaken, but binding solid. Some smudging to endpapers and dedication page. In brand new high quality facsimile. 1st Printing.

Hard Cover. First Edition. (London: Methuen & co. Ltd. 1929). First UK Edition. Sumptuously re-bound (by the noted UK book-binder Ralph Corbett) in 1/2 brown calf with marbled boards and matching marbled end-papers. Title and author in gold to the spine. A lovely production. Gordon Daviot is a pseudonym of Josephine Tey and this is her first book. "This book holds up incredibly well considering it was written a century ago. Inspector Grant investigates a man stabbed while standing in the rush line for the theater. Nobody saw it happen, but a man left the queue shortly afterward. Grant pursues various inquiries and the top suspect changes as new surprises are revealed. Very Agatha Christie-like.the book is also a delightful view of 1920s England when inspectors rode the tube to interview witnesses and every man was still haunted by the Great War" (Good Reads). Photographs/scans available upon request.