The Yellow Room
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: Farrar & Rinehart, 1945. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Grey cloth with orange spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 248pp. Decorative endpapers. Very good/very good. Text block lightly age toned per usual "War Production Board" standards; jacket only faintly edgeworn. Exceptionally tight and bright first edition of this "Murray Hill Mystery" whose "ingredients are a Maine background, a big house, a bewildered and bedeviled girl, a helpful neighbor and, more importantly, the chef...." Nice autograph addition: Tipped by one edge opposite half-title page is a heavy stock 7¼" X 4" envelope, cancelled in Washington, DC on 21 November 1927, boldly addressed to a Wisconsin address in Rinehart's distinctive handwriting in black ink. NOT signed by her, but a handsome sample of her handwriting and if you tip up the envelope on its verso can be seen her imprinted name and Washington, DC residential address,
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44448
- Title
- The Yellow Room
- Author
- RINEHART, Mary Roberts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1945
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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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