The Jade Green Cats
New York: Mason Publishing Co., 1932. Charlot (dust jacket illustration). Early Reprint. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 244. Bound in green cloth with black rules on front board, black lettering on spine. Bookplate of Langley Porter, then-dean of the UC School of Medicine, on front pastedown, binding tad cocked. In the color-illustrated dust jacket, price-clipped, that has two old tape reinforcements on verso, edge-wear and chips along spine. Please see photos. Very Good / Good-. Item #5732
Early reprint published a year after the first printing, of the crime novel involving racketeering in the Chicago Loop, and a pair of antique jade green cats. The superb dust jacket illustration by Charlot depicts the inscrutable jade green cats looking down on a murder victim. One of only two mysteries written by Blake. HUBIN, p. 36. Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
Price: $75.00