THE DANCING DETECTIVE (First Edition with TLS Directly Discussing Two of the Stories in The Dancing Detective)
Language: English
Published by Lippincott, 1946
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Lakin & Marley Rare Books ABAA, Mill Valley, CA, U.S.A.Lakin & Marley Rare Books ABAA
AbeBooks seller since June 12, 2009
Condition: Used - Near fine
US$ 2,500.00
Quantity: 1 available
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[Cornell Woolrich]. [By] William Irish (pseudonym). The Dancing Detective. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, [1946]. First edition. A Near Fine copy in original publisher's beige cloth, spine lettered and stamped in dark blue. Original priced ($2.00) dust jacket is very lightly worn with the usual light soil to the fragile back panel else Near Fine. A superior example of this title (WITH :) One page Typed Letter, signed, to Mr. Kenneth White of Popular Publications. New York: unpublished correspondence, October 11, 1945. Single leaf with Hotel Marseilles letterhead, a typewritten letter hand-signed "Cornell," requesting copyright assignments for two of his stories: "LEG MAN" and "What the Well Dressed Corpse Will Wear" so that both could appear in THE DANCING DETECTIVE, the latter under the title "FUR JACKET). Light folds, tiny holes from previous stapling at upper left corner, otherwise Near Fine with superior content related specifically to THE DANCING DETECTIVE. BOTH items formerly in the collection of Otto Penzler.…
Seller Inventory # 003383
Bibliographic details
- Title
- THE DANCING DETECTIVE (First Edition with TLS Directly Discussing Two of the Stories in The Dancing Detective)
- Author
- [Cornell Woolrich]. [By] William Irish (pseudonym).
- Publisher
- Lippincott
- Publication year
- 1946
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Books Into Film, Mystery Novels
Lakin & Marley Rare Books ABAA
Mill Valley, CA, U.S.A.
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We are antiquarian booksellers located in Mill Valley, California and have been buying and selling rare books and manuscripts since 1993. We are also members in good standing of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. Our stock is select. Our emphasis, whenever possible, is on superb condition, rarity, literary importance and generally falls into two categories: 19th and early 20th Century Manuscripts and First Editions...and 20th Century Manuscripts and First Editions which have source relevance to Cinema.…
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