DEAD MAN TWICE.
Garden City, NY: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] ix-x [xi-xii] [1] 2-309 [310: Crime Club blurb] [note: pagination correct], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange. First U. S. edition. Bush had a long career and started writing during the "Golden Age" of detective fiction. A Ludovic Travers novel, the third published in the U. S. "The novels are remarkable in their ingenuity, their complexity, and their concentrated focus on the matter at hand. The tend to be unsensational, unfolding with scrupulous logic and eschewing the extremes of melodrama and fast or violent action. They are absorbing rather than thrilling, their appeal is more to the intellect than to the headier emotions." - St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers (Fourth Edition), p. 137. Hubin, p. 122. Front hinge partially cracked, neat inked name to upper corner of front free end paper, lower front corner bumped, a very good to nearly fine copy in a very good price clipped dust jacket with "OFFICE FILE COPY" ink stamped to the spine panel and upper page edges, penciled annotations to the copy of the front flap with cross outs and new words noted, mild wear to corner tips and spine ends with a tiny shallow chip to base of spine panel, small closed tear at upper front panel and at lower left front corner. With no provenance this cataloger has no idea as to whose office copy this was, though with the annotations to the front flap it was likely a publisher's file copy. Uncommon in jacket. (25264). Item #25264
Price: $350.00