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New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., [1956]., 1956. First edition. First edition. Edgar Award Winner for Best Novel of 1956. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket with minor wear to the spine ends and corners, small closed tear to top edge of front cover and small closed tear to top edge of rear cover, and light rubbed on front flap fold.. Poetry instructor Kenneth Gibson is a quiet, sensitive fellow in his mid-fifties. He meets Rosemary James at her father's funeral. Now in her early thirties, she hasn't the strength, skills, or determination to carry on by herself. Kenneth decides to intervene in an unobtrusive way. When Rosemary is about to lose her house, Kenneth proposes a platonic marriage. After the wedding they move to a cottage on the property of a handsome widower. Some of the psychological barriers between the newlyweds start to fall. Then a serious accident derails their relationship and brings Kenneth's domineering and opinionated sister Ethel into their lives. An elusive title,… Read More

New York: Coward-McCann , 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A fine copy, bright and clean inside and out. In a near-fine dust jacket ($3.00 price intact) with slight rubbing at the spine ends and corners. A scarce title, rare in this condition.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Very slightly spine-cocked, near fine in very good dust jacket with a creased tear at the crown, light rubbing and tiny tears. A reasonably nice copy of a book usually in middling condition. Winner of the Edgar Award.

Coward - McCann, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Dark red cloth first edition is VG+ with some wear to spine ends. The clipped jacket has light wear along edges and light toning along spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Coward McC Ann, 1956 Color dust jacket art, unclipped, $3.00 ADOP ink initials margin of DJ real flap. Foxing , ghost tape marks. Solid tight copy of rare edition.. First American Edition.. Cloth. Good/Good.

London: Peter Davies, 1956. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Small 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. London: Peter Davies,(1956). First Edition. Fine.<br/> <br/>

New York: Coward-McCann, 1956. Book. Illus. by Rus Anderson (dust jacket illustration). Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Pseudonym of Charlotte Armstrong Lewi. Winner of the 1957 Edgar Award. After five decades of bachelorhood, a poetry teacher marries a hapless woman whose awkwardness and depression fade away after marriage, just in time to attract the interest of a younger, more handsome and wealthier man. Jealousy and a murder scheme ensue. Garnet cloth w/red lettering to spine, 253 pages, bookseller tag (DeWolfe & Fiske Co./Booksellers/2 Park St.--Boston) to bottom left corner of first end paper. Moderately cocked w/similar wear to corners/spine ends, dusty/lightly soiled edges, foxing/glue stains to end papers, tanning, in edgeworn dust jacket w/light chipping to corners/spine ends, a couple of small chips to top edge of front panel, sunned-but-still-legible spine (a fairly common flaw for this title), impressions, some soil to rear panel..

London: Peter Davies, 1956. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardcover, browning to eps, foxing to edges, covers rubbed, spine faded, otherwise Good in Good dustjacket with edge loss, foxing on inside, and spine browned on inside.

Crest Books, 1947. First THUS edition. fine. fine 1st Crest 191 1957 edition paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Canada: Berkley, 1972. Solid with light wear on the covers.. 1st Printing. Paperback. Very Good.