Item #131944 BONY BUYS A WOMAN. Arthur W. Upfield.
BONY BUYS A WOMAN.
BONY BUYS A WOMAN.

BONY BUYS A WOMAN.

Pp. [iv]+238(last blank); blue textured papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper, designed by Bill Morden, edges lightly rubbed and split, the back panel slightly soiled and with number stamp near top edge, backstrip faded; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, free endpapers lightly offset; Heinemann, London, 1957. First U.K. edition. Loder p. 234. *Inscribed and signed by Upfield (to Rob Blackmore) on the title page, and with the publisher's original pictorial order form loosely inserted (also advertising Follow My Dust). Published in America in the same year (apparently preceding the British edition) under the title The Bushman who came back. In 1962 another version of the story was published in Bestseller Mystery Magazine, Volume 3 No. 2, (Concord, N.H.) as Murder in Eden, rewritten and with removal of some of the British edition chapter headings. Item #131944

Price: $600.00

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