DEATH IN A LITTLE TOWN.
Garden City, New York: Published for The Crime Club, Inc., by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. This is a scarce member's edition from The Crime Club, bound in red cloth instead of the usual black cloth and with a dust jacket which has no price and has the words Member's Edition included in front panel lettering. Subscribers to The Crime Club would receive their copies in the mail before the book went on sale in the stores. "For a period of time Member's Editions were bound in red cloth and had different dust jackets." - Nehr, Doubleday Crime Club Compendium 1928-1991, p. xv. In the heyday of The Crime Club, which started in 1928, they had over 4,000 subscribers, of which two of the originals remained receiving books that way until 1953. (During WW II Doubleday stopped taking memberships though allowed all previous subscribers to remain). A very good copy, lower corners gently bumped, spine shows some color fade, in a very good dust jacket, closed tear and crease to upper front panel, some mild shelf wear and rubbing. Member's editions are uncommon to the marketplace. (10641). Item #10641
Price: $350.00