Blue City
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.
First Edition. Hardcover.
First Edition of the author's 3rd novel.
A veteran returns to his mid-Western small town after the war to find that his father - one-time mayor of Blue City - has been murdered and he sets out to solve the crime.
Item #9024897-3/4 x 5-1/4", red cloth with blue decoration and spine title, light gray top-edge, 276pp.
Two short tears to cloth at heel of spine, a little roughing to top-edge, off-set toning to endpapers at gutters, thin 3/4" long ink mark to gutter of rear endpaper, free of owner's marks, cloth bright, tight, square, very good in dust wrapper with a few tape repairs and small chips with original price of $2.50 intact and nearby carbon sale stamp of 3/1.00 still very faintly visible, in protective mylar.
Price: $275.00