THE TOY

Garden City, New York: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975. First edition, first printing. "First edition" statement the copyright page, 1975 date printed to the title page, and $5.95 price printed to the jacket flap. Laid in is the publisher's complimentary note, stiff-card memo, printed: "Memo" and "Candance Lake" and typed in: "Dear Marshall, Per your request, here is THE TOY by Kage Booton, Best," and signed in blue ink with the initial "C". Film Agency copy with Sunset Blvd. printed Agency address plate to the lower front end-paper. A young man thinks he has found the perfect quiet place to do some writing while working as a handyman and watchman at an antiques shop, and renting a room from the owner, a widow with three daughters--until curiosity shows fatal results and a suspenseful perplexing mystery. Kage Booton is a Hubin listed mystery author of high critical acclaim. Quite elusive, especially in such nice condition. Lightly crimped to the upper and lower spine edges, else very tight and fresh in polished textured blue boards with silver embossed titles to the spine; in a very nearly fine dust jacket with a very tiny tear to the upper spine edge, and a very mild crimp to the lower spine edge; original printed $5.95 price still intact to the front inner flap which bears a very tiny tear to the upper corner edge.…