Honest Reliable Corpse (signed first printing) An Inspector Schmidt novel & Crime Club Selection

Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY. 1969. 192 pages. First edition stated, first printing. Signed and inscribed on the FFEP by the author, Aaron Marc Stein, along with his pen name also, George Bagby. This book comes from the library of, and inscribed to, William G. Bowen, former President of Princeton University, and president emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and founder of the JSTOR digital library. Authorial inscription dated February 25, 1974. Book is tight and clean. Binding and hinges are sound. A touch of toning in gutters. Small spot of discoloration on fore-edge. Blue cloth boards are clean with a touch of shelf-rubbing at corner tips. Original DJ with $3.95 price intact on flap. DJ shows rubbing along edges and folds, with shallow chipping. A solid VG/VG signed copy, in the first edition, first printing, of the Inspector Schmidt mystery; a Jewish inspector with the NYPD, in 1960s Manhattan.