Language: English
Published by E P Dutton & Company, 1952
Seller: Melrose Place, Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1952 1st Edition Very Good Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket wrapped in a mylar cover. Book has green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine.
Published by DUTTON, NEW YORK, 1952
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Scotch tape on jacket flaps; and oblong gouge along the flap foldover, otherwise jacket is bright and unclipped. Book has two new endpapers, otherwise crisp and basically clean. A Jess Roden mystery.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. Ex-library. Seafoam green boards with gilt stamped spine. Library pocket at rear; library rubber stamp on front free endpaper and the initials ''TBH'' stamped on title page and the top edge of the text block; bit of soiling on a few pages, else generally clean. Dust jacket a little rubbed at foot of spine; has a few very small closed edge tears, else near fine; not price clipped ($2.50); in an archival mylar sleeve. 223 pages. The southern, backwoods sheriff and investigator Jess Roden sets out to untangle the questions which arise when the body of a teenage boy washes up on the banks of the Green River, months after a tragic flood. A tale of rustic crime and corruption. Albert Benjamin Cunningham (1888-1962) was the author of 42 books, which included many mysteries, a college administrator, and a longtime professor of English. He received his doctorate (Litt.D) in 1917 from Lebanon (Ohio) University and went on to teach at Washington State University, at the State Teachers College at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, and from 1929 to 1945 at Texas Tech University.