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Wallace, Edgar : The Green Ribbon

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, NY, 1930

First American Edition. Original publisher's black cloth binding in a green, red, black, and white paper dust jacket. White lettering on green, red, and black dust jacket spine. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 311 pages, complete. Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning. Covers are virtually pristine and intact except for light rubbing and slight wear to extremities. Corners of the covers are sharp and not bumped. Dust jacket is clean and intact except for light age toning and tiny chips at the head of spine. No remainder marks. A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. Published for the Crime Club, Inc., a reading club specializing in crime fiction. This is a crime novel by Edgar Wallace. The Green Ribbon is about the Green Ribbon Agency, a horse-race betting agency embroiled in a number of dubious activities. The protagonist, Detective Inspector Luke, becomes deeply involved in matters surrounding the Green Ribbon Agency after he runs into a woman named Edna Grey who was duped by them. Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a British author, screenwriter, and reporter. He became well-known for his prolific output and for writing a diverse variety of literary works. He wrote detective novels, adventure novels, science fiction, plays, poetry, short stories, and historical non-fiction. He is credited for writing 957 short stories, over 170 novels, and eighteen plays. Wallace is perhaps best-known for his crime fiction and his screenplay for the famous film, King Kong (1933).. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

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