Rickard (Jessie Louisa) Murder by Night
£250
London, Jarrold, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in green to spine. Supplied dust-jacket, correctly priced 3/6.
Superb jacket married to a somewhat pre-loved example of the first edition of this Hubin-listed crime thriller. Jessie Louisa Rickard (1876-1963), who published as Mrs Victor Rickard, was an Irish novelist born in Dublin as Jessica Louisa Moore. She began at 18 with a series of hunting sketches for the Cork Examiner, popular enough that the Irish Times took a hunting serial from her, though she did not publish a novel until 1912, aged 36. She went on to produce over forty books, adopting the “Mrs Victor Rickard” style expressly to avoid confusion with a young woman of her own name murdered in the case the press called the Cornish Tragedy.
In stock
Some foxing in initial and terminal leaves, library stamps to front free endpaper, hinges pulling slightly; cloth rather worn and bumped; jacket with crease down spine where previously folded, damage to inside rear flap, but otherwise an exceptional copy.
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