Recoil
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1936. Emery Clarke. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. [1], 2-300. Bound in light brown cloth with black lettering on spine. With the discreet stamp of Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books on the front pastedown, along with remnant of bookplate that was removed. In the color illustrated dust jacket that shows slight edge-wear; price of $2.00 is intact, but below that written in pen is "2668," Very Good / Very Good. Item #5677
A mystery novel involving foreign political intrigue and a "crack secret-service agent." The dust jacket illustration by Emery Clarke aptly evokes the era's genre, with the woman "whose beauty was her livelihood" looking sullen in the presence of the paramour-agent and a black pistol. HUBIN, p. 193. Dust jacket now enclosed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
Price: $50.00