MURDER BELOW WALL STREET
by Delancey, Roger
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1934. First Edition. Wall Street mystery featuring Dr. Hiram Arthur, an engineer-turned-private investigator who serves the upper echelons of Manhattan's financial district. After a financier is murdered in his private office, "wily old Dr. Arthur and his team of voluptuous secretaries tangle with the carefully non-committal suspects (bankers, in-laws, office manager, and a Bolivian revolutionists' envoy), until one of them is not so non-committal as he thought he was" (from front flap). Uncommon in dustjacket; OCLC notes 7 holdings in the U.S. Hubin, p.112. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); purple moiré cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; light green topstain; dustjacket; [vi],305,[1]pp. Upper corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with a shallow chip to upper right corner of crown; contents clean; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), with a hint of sunning to spine, some light wear along upper edge and flap folds, a few tiny tears, and corresponding shallow loss to upper right corner of spine panel; Very Good+.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4301
- Title
- MURDER BELOW WALL STREET
- Author
- Delancey, Roger
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Biblio member since 2010
Stephenson, Virginia
About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Founded in 2010, Captain Ahab's Rare Books specializes in first editions of literature, genre fiction, film-related books and ephemera, zines, manuscript and archival material.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Good+
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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