The Red Lamp
by RINEHART, Mary Roberts
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with orange lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 317pp. Very good/very good. Faint "flecking" to cloth spine, else near fine and internally fine; jacket rather age toned and edgeworn, with a few tiny edge chips along bottom. Quite handsome first edition of this mystery -- and with lovely autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a Typed Note Signed from Rinehart, 1p, 8" X 10¼", Washington, DC, 31 March 1922. Addressed to George Vincent Campbell. Very good. Lightly age toned and with original folds (not weakened); single small mounting trace. On letterhead of Wardman Park Hotel, Rinehart makes a young admirer very happy: "You have asked for my autograph, so here it is!" Large, bold full signature in blue ink.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44212
- Title
- The Red Lamp
- Author
- RINEHART, Mary Roberts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; American Literature;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts accepts most major credit cards and PayPal. Checks are welcome. Institutions will be accommodated as their procedures require. Every effort has been made to describe each book and any defects accurately. If an item proves unsatisfactory for any reason, it may be returned within seven days. We would appreciate a courtesy call if an item is being returned. Member ABAA, ILAB, MWABA, The Manuscript Society.
About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been serving book lovers, collectors and institutions since 1991. Our inventory of quality out-of-print books spans 50 subjects, while the extensive autograph holdings have a decidedly historical bent, reflecting personages from every field of human endeavor.
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Spine
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