A GAMBIT FOR MR.GROODE by GEORGE GRISWOLD - 1952

e.P. Dutton, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: . Some soiling and wear to the covers and page edges; discoloring; a solid reading copy overall. No jacket. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 196979. .

New York:: E. P. Dutton & Co.,, 1952.. First edition.. publisher's boards in dust jacket.. Fine in a jacket with some light foxing to the rear panel and some minor edge wear.. 8vo,. A Guilt-Edged Mystery.

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1953. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1953. No Edition Remarks. 222 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Medium tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to spine. Wear marks overall.

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1953,, 1953. Hardcover. Good. 1953. 222 pages. No dust jacket. Red pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

New York: Dutton, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First edition stated. Hardcover. 220 pp. Fine, some offsetting to the endpapers. In very good dust jacket with some wear at the extremities and at the flap folds, some light splotches to the rear panel. Jim Furlong was of tottaly undistinguished mien, utterly harmless acting and of so conventional appearance as to seem completely familar--all valuable attributes in detection of international espionage activies. This is the story of a manhunt on a gigantic acale, ranging from its opening scenes of the Orient Express run from Nuremburg to Paris, all the way to a small town outside of Washington.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1953. 1st edition. Very Good. small octavo. chipped dust jacket 252pp., Dust jacket rather worn & chipped o/w VG copy. PHOTO available

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1952. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with a crease on the front panel and some foxing on the rear panel. Manhunt starts on the Orient Express, ends up in suburban Washington, D.C.