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Phoebe Atwood Taylor. The Cape Cod Mystery. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1931]....
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Phoebe Atwood Taylor. The Cape Cod Mystery. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1931].8vo. Original blue cloth, stamped in green on upper cover and spine.
FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper: "Presented to the Society of / Mayflower Descendants by Phoebe Atwood Taylor / August 3, 1931." Also, with two bookplates on pastedown noting the gift from Taylor to the Society, one printed with statement "Presented by the Author a Mayflower Descendant." The author's first book was an immediate success, and according to Penzler sold 5,000 copies, a very large number for a first mystery especially during the Depression Era. The Cape Cod Mystery is the first of the Asey Mayo mysteries set on Cape Cod.
Condition: Slight wear to extremities; minor rubbing or discoloration to covers; small light spot at bottom of the spine from previous library label.
References: Lilly, Detective Fiction 114; A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.
Provenance: Society of Mayflower Descendants in Massachusetts (presentation inscription, and two bookplates from the Society noting the gift from the author); purchased from Howard S. Mott, Inc., Sheffield, Mass., 4 September 2002. From the William A. Strutz Library.
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2025 September 10 - 11 Important English and American Literature: The William A. Strutz Library, Part III, Rare Books Signature® Auction #6321 (go to Auction Home page)
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