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BELL, JOSEPHINE: : ADVENTURE WITH CRIME

LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1962.

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UK,slim 8vo HB+protected,cropped dw/dj,1st edn. [Josephine Bell,pseudonym of Doris Bell Collier. Born: 8th December 1897,Manchester,UK; Died: 24th April 1987.] VG/VG. No owner name or other inscrptn other than two tiny,blue ink ticks and an ink squiggle to rear pastedown,both the inner flaps of dw/dj appear to have been trimmed - no blurb and no price present - due to missing portion of said flaps.Front endpapers have been replaced,rear pastedown with residual 'ghost' of aged sellotape in a vertical strip commensurate with and replicated with residual 'ghost' to its inner flap's fore-edge,similar residual 'ghost' to front inner flap's fore-edge but no 'ghost' on the commensurate pastedown.Bright,crisp, clean,matt,bold and bright,4-colour block (b/w, grey+orange illustrated pictorial illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with capitalised white-lettered title and capitalised black-lettered author name; white background to spine/backstrip with capitalised black -lettered title and author name,publisher's black illustrated colpohon and black-lettered name to foot of same,rear panel with white background to an orange panel with black-lettered advertisement for 4 author's other titles - includes 2 other titles by Bell.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges slightly aged/toned with a couple of foxing spots,fore-edges equally aged/toned with a few more but still a minimal amount of sporadic foxing spots; contents generally clean,solid and sound with very minimal,sporadic foxing/spotting to page margins - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,would appear unread other than my own collation.Publisher's original bright,sharp-cornered,clean - but for residual sellotape 'ghosts' on front board's fore-edge and rear board's upper+lower corners - green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/ backstrip and clean plain white front endpapers, aforementioned rear endpapers with already described faults.UK,12mo HB+ protected,cropped dw/dj,1st edn,7-192pp [paginated] includes 19 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title with a paragraph synopsis to its reverse,a title page with a small doodled ink circle and a dot inside it drawn just above the title.                    Described hard but honestly and fairly appears better than it reads!                            Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an acceptable condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its age 50+ year-old age. It is only the described faults that prevents a slightly higher overall grading.Despite them,it is still an acceptable example.                                          When newly married young woman Frances Aldridge loses her husband in a freak car accident, friends persuade her that a holiday in the United States would help her to recover her vitality.Deciding to travel by bus, she chooses a route which transverses the vast American landscape, from New York to Colorado. As she crosses the States she begins to fall in love with their splendour, and on the bus, she encounters many friendly people who share their stories, including Jim Field - strangely enigmatic in this open country, handsome and travelling with a companion who she takes to be his mother.                                      One night in Cleveland, Frances is woken abruptly in the middle of the night, by what she thinks is the door to her hotel room clicking shut. The next morning, she discovers that her pearl earrings are missing. She does not bother to report this minor theft,but is appalled to read in the news a few days later that an elderly woman had been murdered in the same hotel the very night she had been there. In the dramatic story that unfolds, Frances finds herself increasingly feeling as though she is being followed, state to state, city to city . . . and murder to murder.                      Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!  N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,12mo HB+protected,cropped dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.