Blood Is a Beggar

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book is clean in solid binding. Slight spine lean. Light toning to endpapers. Text bright. DJ has edgewear and chip to rear top corner. Inside of DJ spine has some foxing. $2.00 price at bottom of front flap. Alfred Harbage's first mystery novel.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1946]., 1946. First edition. First edition. Author's first book. Pseudonym of Alfred B. Harbage, a college professor and eminent Shakespearean scholar. Fine in dust jacket with light restoration to the spine ends and corners. This story is set in the university and is a hard-boiled novel involving the murder of a college professor. Sam… Read more about this item

J. B. Lippincott, 1946. hardcover. Very Good/Good. 3x0x9.

Hardcover. Good. New York / Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1946. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. 5 x 7 ½”. 256 pp. Very good in a good dust jacket. The dust jacket is protected in mylar. Creases and chipping to the dust jacket’s extremities. Previous owner’s name in ink on the front pastedown. The text appears unmarked. The binding… Read more about this item