The Lute and the Glove.
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., [1955]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with white spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 313pp. Very good/very good. Faint binding edgewear, else tight and internally fine; mild jacket edgewear, with couple of tiny edge chips. Item #50598
Attractive and tight second printing of this Gothic thriller, whose front jacket panel luridly proclaims, "A Tudor Manor and a Heroine Who Feels a Strange Affinity with a Beautiful Woman Out of the Past." Boldly signed and inscribed by the author in blue ballpoint on title page: "With affectionate regards / to Anne and Gage -- / Katherine Wigmore Eyre." Eyre (1901-70) cranked out a series of popular thrillers starting in 1942.
Price: $50.00