The Fabulous Clipjoint [Signed]
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- SIGNED
- New York: E. P. Dutton, 1947
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1947. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1947. First Edition, stated. Octavo; 224pp. Illustrated dust jacket; blue cloth boards stamped in gray. Dust jacket chipped with several tears and adjacent creasing along edges; tape mending to verso. Boards slightly crushed at spine ends; shelfwear. Prior owner's initials on front free endpaper, else interior unmarked. Binding sound.
Signed by Fredric Brown without inscription at front free endpaper. Brown's first full-length novel, which won him an Edgar Award. Per Roseman's Detectionary, "Eighteen-year-old Ed Hunter joins forces with his uncle, carnival-pitchman Ambrose Hunter, to track the person who bludgeoned Ed's father (Am's brother) to death in a dark Chicago alley. Later Ed and Am open their own detective agency and are involved regularly in murder."
Rossman pp. 184-185.
Signed by Fredric Brown without inscription at front free endpaper. Brown's first full-length novel, which won him an Edgar Award. Per Roseman's Detectionary, "Eighteen-year-old Ed Hunter joins forces with his uncle, carnival-pitchman Ambrose Hunter, to track the person who bludgeoned Ed's father (Am's brother) to death in a dark Chicago alley. Later Ed and Am open their own detective agency and are involved regularly in murder."
Rossman pp. 184-185.