This Union brigadier general is best remembered for founding Wisconsin's famed Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac, although health issues shortened his Civil War career; prior to that, he served as 17th Adjutant General of New York (1839-43) and worked as a journalist; after the war, he was..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1944. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with black lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 192pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket only mildly edgeworn. This wonderfully tight and sharp and bright "Crime Club" first edition is described on jacket front panel as "A Sinister Mixture of Mirth and Murder."..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue paper over boards with white lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 192pp. Near fine/very good. Text block moderately age toned as usual; jacket lightly edgeworn. Handsome "Crime Club" first edition of this whodunit by the prolific mystery author (1893-1966). Rather scarce in a...... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue paper over boards with white lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 192pp. Near fine/very good. Text block typically, mildly age toned; mild jacket edgewear. An attractive early (not first) printing of this "Crime Club" whodunit by the prolific mystery author (1893-1966). Possibly a...... More