VANCE, Louis Joseph. The Street of Strange Faces
VANCE, Louis Joseph. The Street of Strange Faces. Philadelphia and London: Lippincott. 1934. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's vibrant red cloth lettered in black to spine and front board, red topstain, in the excellent dust jacket. Publisher's file copy with stamp to textblock bottom edge, front endpaper and, faintly, to centre of front panel of jacket. A fine copy, the board extremities just a trifle bumped, the cloth and topstain bright, the binding tight and square, the contents fine. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.00) and complete, spine a touch faded with a few shallow nicks around spine head and corners.
The popular author's final novel, finished just before his untimely death in an accidental house fire. His most popular volumes involved the devilish jewel thief turned detective, the Lone Wolf. This novel uses similar tropes--New York gangsters, a sinister stranger and, at the centre, a woman. The jacket does much to capture the mystery and suspense.
VANCE, Louis Joseph. The Street of Strange Faces. Philadelphia and London: Lippincott. 1934. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's vibrant red cloth lettered in black to spine and front board, red topstain, in the excellent dust jacket. Publisher's file copy with stamp to textblock bottom edge, front endpaper and, faintly, to centre of front panel of jacket. A fine copy, the board extremities just a trifle bumped, the cloth and topstain bright, the binding tight and square, the contents fine. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.00) and complete, spine a touch faded with a few shallow nicks around spine head and corners.
The popular author's final novel, finished just before his untimely death in an accidental house fire. His most popular volumes involved the devilish jewel thief turned detective, the Lone Wolf. This novel uses similar tropes--New York gangsters, a sinister stranger and, at the centre, a woman. The jacket does much to capture the mystery and suspense.
VANCE, Louis Joseph. The Street of Strange Faces. Philadelphia and London: Lippincott. 1934. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's vibrant red cloth lettered in black to spine and front board, red topstain, in the excellent dust jacket. Publisher's file copy with stamp to textblock bottom edge, front endpaper and, faintly, to centre of front panel of jacket. A fine copy, the board extremities just a trifle bumped, the cloth and topstain bright, the binding tight and square, the contents fine. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.00) and complete, spine a touch faded with a few shallow nicks around spine head and corners.
The popular author's final novel, finished just before his untimely death in an accidental house fire. His most popular volumes involved the devilish jewel thief turned detective, the Lone Wolf. This novel uses similar tropes--New York gangsters, a sinister stranger and, at the centre, a woman. The jacket does much to capture the mystery and suspense.