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Bill S. Ballinger : The Body Beautiful

Harper & Brothers, New York, 1949

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. CI1 - A first edition (stated with "E-Y" below it) hardcover book in very good condition in fair dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease, tears and open tears on the edges, corners and some sides, scattered stains/smudges, tanning and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, some tiny open tear/chipped on the cover edges, some scattered rubbing and chipping on the cover, some scattered light smudges on the page edges, light tanning and shelf wear. Although not marked in any way, this copy comes from the personal collection of Otto Penzler, legendary editor and founder of the Mysterious Press, an award-winning icon in the genre. A Harper Mystery. 8.25"x5.75", 244 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Murder on stage brings back Barr Breed, in a fast, tough mystery of show business. Barr met Coffee Stearns on a blind date. She was a show girl, in "Golden Girls," which was playing in Chicago. On their first date she had been surprisingly aloof. Then she began to warm up. Their next date seemed promising. But while Barr was watching the show from out front, a girl, suspended in a gilded cage, pitched forward into the orchestra pit, with a long knife buried in her lovely, gold-painted back. Barr went into the case with a bitterness that was new to him. He was blown up by a bomb sent through a darkened theater, and finally solved an ingenious criminal plot.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fair

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