SPEEDY DEATH
Lincoln MacVeagh/ The Dial Press, 1929. Item #2523
MITCHELL, Gladys. SPEEDY DEATH. NY: Lincoln MacVeagh/ The Dial Press, [1929]. Small 8vo, embossed green cloth with black-stamped title on spine. First American Edition. Mitchell's rare first mystery title, introducing Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, a polymathic psychoanalyst and author that was featured in 65 further novels by Mitchell. The novel begins with the death of famous explorer Everard Mountjoy, who drowned in his bath. The rare first Mrs. Bradley novel. Very Good (spine sunned; contents clean & tight; very small Brentano's bookstore label on rear pastedown). $650.00.
Price: $650.00
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