Rice (Craig) [pseud. Georgiana Ann Randolph]. 8 Faces at 3
£575
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1939.
First UK edition, first impression, stamped ‘Special Presentation Edition’ on copyright page. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in red to spine. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7s. 6d. net.
The first UK edition of the author’s first book. Amateur sleuth Jake Justus is on the case in this Chicago lakeside murder-mystery, and a large amount of alcohol is apparently consumed… Scarce in the original dust-jacket.
‘Craig Rice’ was a pseudonym for Georgiana Ann Randolph (1908-1957). J. Randolph Cox notes in Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers (London, 1980) that “…the warmth and humanity in her writing were matched by a sense of form and discipline all her own. She never forgot that the primary purpose of the detective story was entertainment.”
In stock
A Fine copy, in somewhat worn and chipped dust-jacket, slight toning to spine, light dust-soiling to lower panel.
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