X Marks The Dot de Stafford, Muriel - 1943

Duell, 1943. 1st. hardcover. VG+.

Duell, 1943. 1st. hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dj w/lite wear at spine ends, 1st Edition

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1943. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. "Mr. X, the curious stranger, asked to see everyone at the newspaper office. One of them saw him first Probably he had no hane to turn his head before the crushing blow fell on his skull.' Author was a graphologist who read the handwriting of the Duchess of Windsor, J. Edgar Hoover, Christopher Morley, Frank Sinatra, Louis Bromfield, Noel Coward, Mae West and Thornton Wilder. Book has tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Duell, Sloan and Pearce is shown as publisher on spine of dust jacket, while Coward-McCann, Inc. is shown as publisher on title page. Dust jacket has chips and tears around edges. Original price of $2.00 on front flap. Blue boards with red lettering on spine. Size: Sm 8vo (7.5" to 8"). 245 pp.

First edition first printing of the only mystery novel by this author. A graphologist mystery. Light edge wear. Price clipped otherwise in very good / very good condition.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. Very Good+ in Good+ dj. (c.1943). First Edition. Hardcover. [book is moderately worn at the extremities, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper, bookplate on front pastedown; the jacket, which has some edgewear and a couple of tiny chips, has been internally tape-reinforced along most edges and folds, and has also been touched up and filled-in along both the top and bottom edges]. (A Bloodhound Mystery) Series An unusual mystery novel, centering around the use of graphology (handwriting analysis) to solve a murder that takes place in a newspaper office. This was the only novel by Ms. Stafford, described in the jacket blurb as "America's best-known and most gifted graphologist," as indeed she was (best-known, anyway, by virtue of having had a regular newpaper column, which debuted in the Chicago Tribune in 1934 and later in papers across the country. (When it began running in the Los… Leer más

New York: The Guinn Company, 1943. Edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, spine is gently creased, pages are toning, a couple of chips out of the base of the rear cover, 435 written in red on the front cover, overall a clean collectible first paperback edition! Wonderfully well-preserved! Full-color illustrated wrapper. 124 very clean unmarked and uncreased suspense-filled and mystery-riddled pages! "You'll find much more than you expected in this suspensive, spinetingling, unusual 'whodunit.'". First Thus. Stapled Soft Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Duell, 1943-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Blue cloth cover shows minor wear and rubbing, no dj. Missing about 1/3 of the ffep. Pages are tanned and clean.

New York: Duell, Sloan, 1943. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943 . First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 8" by 6". None. An excellent example of Muriel Stafford's thrilling murder mystery novel, in which handwriting analysis plays a major role. The first edition, first printing, with 'first edition' to colophon.In the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper.A graphologist herself, in this work Muriel Stafford's central character shares her name. The fictional Stafford is writing a newspaper column about handwriting analysis when a visitor at the newspaper's office is murdered.A thrilling murder mystery. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. Light shelf wear to back strip tail, with minor are of fraying to spine head. Otherwise, externally fine. Three small closed tears to front wrap head, with light chipping to back strip head, and edgewear to back strip tail. Light mark to head of rear wrap. Tape repair to head of back strip reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages… Leer más