Item #5564 The Venus Death. Ben BENSON.
The Venus Death
The Venus Death

The Venus Death

New York: The M. S. Mill Co. and William Morrow & Co., (1953). Isabel Dawson (dust jacket illustration). First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 211. Bound in finished red cloth with black lettering stamped on spine. Slight scuff to corner front ffep where a price was partially erased. In the dust jacket, price-clipped. In sum, a handsome, well preserved copy. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #5564

First edition of this popular mystery featuring lurid dust jacket art by Isabel Dawson: a comely full-lipped woman with long golden locks with a cocktail in hand. According to the jacket blurb, author Benson served as a machine gun squad leader in the Battle of the Bulge, where he was injured, and turned to writing as therapy. HUBIN, p. 30. Dust jacket is now protected in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

Price: $40.00