The Woman in Red

New York: Smith and Durrell, 1943. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Smith and Durrell, 1943. First US Edition. Octavo (19 cm); 197pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with price intact ($2.00). Boards full bound in baby blue cloth with black stamping to spine. Jacket generally scuffed, chipped and creased at edges with minor tear to rear spine joint and minor loss to head and tail of spine. Verso toned with shadows of previous tape. Boards lightly dust soiled with glue staining peeking through at rear and spine joints. Board corners and spine ends bumped. Binding cocked but firm. Top edge toned. Endsheets toned with offsetting from glue. Pages relatively clean. A Very Good copy in like jacket.

Malleson's ninth in her Arthur Crook series, The Woman in Red was adapted into the movie My Name is Julia Ross in 1945, which dropped Arthur Crook from the story completely.