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The Cape Cod Mystery
by Taylor, Phoebe Atwood
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, 1931. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition. 320 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with green lettering on front board, yellow on spine. Very Good+, lightly rubbed along edges, subtle lean; lacking dust jacket, clad in facsimile. Signed by the author on the illustrated front free endpaper, neatly inscribed, "This is the first book I ever autographed - by request - but I hope at least it's legible [signed] Phoebe Atwood Taylor." Apparently this copy is the very first book of her own the Boston author ever signed. A unique copy of her first novel, a comic mystery which debuted Asey Mayo.
Synopsis
Dale Sanborn has made a lot of enemies in his career as a muckraking author, philanderer and occasional blackmailer. When he vacations at a cabin in Cape Cod, any of his many visitors... an old girlfriend, his fiancee, an outraged husband, a long-lost brother, etc. ... could have killed him, and all of them wanted to. Asey Mayo, the 'Codfish Sherlock' investigates. The published novel of Phoebe Atwood Taylor, and the first of the Asey Mayo series. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140941553
- Title
- The Cape Cod Mystery
- Author
- Taylor, Phoebe Atwood
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- signed, inscribed, first books, Massachusetts, mysteries, mystery, female, sleuths, Asey Mayo, Cape Cod
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Portland, Oregon
About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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- Spine
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- Inscribed
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- First Edition
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- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Jacket
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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