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The Man In The Mist
by Bonnamy, Francis
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. Signed first edition of Man in the Mist by Francis Bonnamy.. Octavo, 253pp. Gray cloth, title printed on spine in yellow. No additional printings on copyright page, with "I" noting a first printing. Light wear to tips of spine, solid text block. Business card with "Sherlock Holmes" illustration attached to front pastedown endpaper. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, price-clipped, tape repairs to verso, chipping along top edge, a very good example. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "A Merry Christmas to our long-time friend and almost relative, Grace Osterhus. Francis Bonnamy. Dec. 25, 1951." An exceptionally rare signed book by Francis Bonnamy (Audrey Boyers Walz), with no other known examples appearing on the public market in 30+ years. Francis Bonnamy was the pseudonym of American author Audrey Boyers Walz (1906-1983). Her primary character was detective Peter Utley Shane, who appeared in eight novels from 1931-1951.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13015
- Title
- The Man In The Mist
- Author
- Bonnamy, Francis
- Illustrator
- Signed first edition of Man in the Mist by Francis Bonnamy.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Duell, Sloan and Pearce
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- first edition Francis Bonnamy, signed book Bonnamy, Audrey Walz, death by appointment, death on a dude ranch, dead reckoning Bonnamy, rope of Sand Bonnamy, man in the mist Bonnamy
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
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