Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1908. First edition. Color frontispiece, illustrations by Lester Ralph. 1 vols. 8vo. Original olive cloth with pictorial spine and upper board stamped in black and orange. Bookplate of novelist Stewart Edward White. Some minor wear to extremities, front hinge starting, else an attractive copy of the author's celebrated first book. Ralph, Lester. First edition. Color frontispiece, illustrations by Lester Ralph. 1 vols. 8vo. First Book. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone

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This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous. For twenty years I had been perfectly comfortable; for twenty years I had had the window-boxes filled in the spring, the carpets lifted, the awnings put up and the furniture covered with brown linen; for as many summers I had said good-by to my friends, and, after watching their perspiring hegira, had settled down to a delicious quiet in town, where the mail comes three times a day, and the water supply does not depend on a tank on the roof.

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Bookseller: James Cummins Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 35047
Title: The Circular Staircase
Author: Rinehart, Mary Roberts
Format/Binding: Color frontispiece, illustrations by Lester Ralph. 1 vols. 8vo
Book Condition: Used - Original olive cloth with pictorial spine and upper board stamped in black and orange. Bookplate of novelist Stewart Edward Whit
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Place of Publication: Indianapolis
Date Published: 1908
Keywords: Detective Fiction
Bookseller catalogs: Literature;

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