The Dirty Duck [Inscribed and Signed]
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- SIGNED
- Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984. Very Good-/Very Good-. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1984]. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; [10],240pp. Jacket margins rather rubbed and worn with fairly extensive surfaced scratches to rear panel, corners bumped and textblock edges foxed; overall a Good to Very Good copy only.
Inscribed and signed on title page, "For Colleen Walrath / with best wishes, as a Happy Mum's Day from your daughter / Martha Grimes." Not actually inscribed to the author's mother, but a message written on behalf of Colleen's daughter, who has added her own Mother's Day message in a juvenile hand on the front free endpaper.
Inscribed and signed on title page, "For Colleen Walrath / with best wishes, as a Happy Mum's Day from your daughter / Martha Grimes." Not actually inscribed to the author's mother, but a message written on behalf of Colleen's daughter, who has added her own Mother's Day message in a juvenile hand on the front free endpaper.