Death of a Bookseller
London: William Heinemann, 1956. First edition, first printing. Publisher's black cloth, spine titled in gilt in illustrated dust jacket (price-clipped). 208 pp. 7.5" x 5" Few spots of foxing text block edges, fine in very good minus price-clipped, edge worn, and toned dust jacket with shallow chips tips and corners, one-inch loss at spine foot, in mylar cover. Item #245424
WHAT DO YOU COLLECT?...MURDER!!!
Few writers were better equipped to turn bibliomania into murder than Bernard J. Farmer—a former Metropolitan Police officer, rare book collector, and author of The Gentle Art of Book Collecting (1950). Death of a Bookseller brings that experience to bear on a mystery steeped in the rivalries, jealousies, and irresistible discoveries of the antiquarian book trade. Celebrated as a cult favorite among bibliophiles, it was fittingly revived as the hundredth British Library Crime Classic in 2022.
Presented here is the first edition in original dust jacket.
From the library of Dawson's Book Shop bookseller and poet Dorothy Bevis, with name penciled ffep.
Price: $1,500.00