THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY

First edition, first printing. Original orange cloth with black titles to the spine, in the Leslie Stead illustrated dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps, the closed text block edges are a little spotted. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has several short closed tears and a little toning or darkening to the rear panel and flap edges. Not price-clipped (7s 6d net to the lower front flap).

A biblio-mystery featuring Miss Marple. First published in America by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1942, the British edition followed in May the same year. (Hubin; Wagstaff & Poole; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman).