To Love and Be Wise by Josephine Tey, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1951, 210pp, hardcover, 5.5 x 8.5”, 12mo
Fair condition. Wear to dust jacket, mostly around the edges and at headcap. A plastic cover has been applied to dust jacket to prevent further damage. Minor staining along top fore edge of front and rear boards. Stamp for Reid & Hughes Home Furnishing Center, Norwich, Conn. on flyleaf. Tea-stain along hinge of title page. Toning and age-staining throughout textblock. Binding intact. Please see photos.
1st edition copy of To Love and Be Wise by Josephine Tey, a pen-name for Elizabeth MacKintosh (25 July 1896 - 13 February 1952). MacKintosh was a Scottish author who also wrote under the name Gordon Daviot. Her novel,
The Daughter of Time, a detective work investigating the death of the Princes in the Tower, was chosen by the Crime Writers’ Association in 1990 as the greatest crime novel of all time. Under the Gordon Daviot pen name, she also penned multiple plays, such as
Richard Bordeaux and
The Stars Bow Down.
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