New York: Doubleday 1997. First edition. Illustrated. 569 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth and boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated. 569 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed on bookplate on ffep "Bon Appétit/ Julia Child." Also inscribed on half-title "To John Ferrone with admiration. Noel Fitch 30 Sept 97." Provenance: John Ferrone Doubleday unknown
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited 1934. Octavo pp. 1-8 9-312 313-320: ads original orange cloth front and spine panels stamped in black publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel. First edition. "Weird thriller of a haunted missal bound in the skin of Philip II's unfaithful mistress whose spirit still seeks new paramours. Marginal vampirism when her mummified corpse is briefly revived by blood-rite thought this may be a hallucination induced by an unscrupulous occultist. Novel is an awkward hybrid of detective and horror genres the latter elements more effective. Author also wrote the bizarre horror thriller THE NEW RACE OF DEVILS 1921 under the pseudonym of John Bernard." - Robert Knowlton. Not in Bleiler 1948; 1978. Day p. 7. Reginald 00979. Cover soiled stain to bottom edge of rear cover lacks front free endpaper endpapers and recto of half title leaf soiled a sound reading copy. A scarce book and especially difficult in such nice condition. #148210 Herbert Jenkins Limited unknown
Alfred A. Knopf 1982. This hardcover book is square and tight. The boards and spine have no wear with pristine lettering. The pages and endpages are clean with no markings or folds. The dustjacket is As New. Original Price is clipped. Not ex-lib. No remainder mark. Prior owner blind stamp seal on title page. Related newspaper clipping laid in. HARDCOVER. Collectible; Fine. First Edition. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 005745 ISBN : 0394507282 9780394507286
New York: Eton Books 1952. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Eton E110. Espionage thriller set in the near future 1959 about a plot to kill Stalin who died anticlimactically in 1953. The hardcover first edition appeared in 1951. Scattered foxing text paper tanned a good copy. #144021 Eton Books unknown
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