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George H Doran Co., NY, 1926-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Moderate shelf wear. Pages are tanning.

Triangle Books. Used - Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Triangle Books Edition. (mystery, crime novel)

London: Cassell & Co, 1926. Book. VG+. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition. Crime mystery adventure, featuring Miss Cordelia van Gorder. Red boards, with black titles. Spine faded; shelfwear, bumping & fraying to spine head/heel and board corners; spine heel is soiled; several splash marks on the front board, rear board has some abrasions; uniform page edge browning. Binding lacks the tightness of its salad days , but is intact and still firm. Scan on request..

New York: Grosset & nDunlap, 1926. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 19.5 x 13 cm. 12mo. 319pp. Yellow-orange cloth in the uncommon Nathan Machtey illustrated dust jacket. No interior illustrations Bit of chipping to jacket spine. Small pieace out of back cover. All four flaps are clipped. Tail of spine and corners of boards are bumped. Originally titled "The Circular Staircase" when it was published in 1908, it was adapted and renamed as a play performed in 1920 and a silent film was done in 1926. This work is said to be the inspiration for Batman.

New York: George H. Doran, [1926]. First edition. Foxing to page edges and somewhat throughout, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket from the Grosset & Dunlap photoplay tie-in edition (for the 1926 film), with edge wear with some shallow chips and several small closed tears, foxing to the verso with some bleed through, mostly to the rear panel. Small bookplate of late collector John Ruyle affixed to front paste-down. (30912). Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi [vii-viii] 9-319 [320: blank], original decorated orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. In 1920 Rinehart's 1908 mystery thriller THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE was adapted into a very popular play, The Bat, by Rinehart and Avery Hopwood. The 1926 silent film, The Bat, directed by Roland West and starring Jack Pickford and Louise Fazenda, was based on Rinehart and Hopwood's play. The play was also the basis for a 1930 film (also done by Roland West), The Bat Whispers, which features a black shrouded arch-criminal. Comic-book creator Bob… Leer más

New York: George H. Doran, 1926. First Edition. Signed by the author, Mary Roberts Rinehart in vintage fountain pen ink on a piece of paper affixed to the front free endpaper. Ownership inscription. Near fine bright copy with a trace of edge wear in a very good slightly dust soiled dust jacket with a few mends by an expert paper conservationist. The front panel of the dust jacket is a striking design of the shadow of a bat.