The Taste of Ashes

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Inscribed by Browne to pulp writer Robert Randisi. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.95), generally rubbed and creased, chips at the head and foot of the spine. Quarter grey buckram with red paper on the boards, rubbed at the corners. Square, bound with some reading wear, toned pages. The fourth Paul Pine mystery, a classic in the genre.