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Book Condition: Used Fine
Jacket condition: Fine
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd

United States
About Item: Boston: Little, Brown, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing ("Published August, 1930," with no further printings noted) of one of the author's later novels. 8vo: [4],294pp. Publisher's yellow cloth stamped in black, pictorial dust jacket by the incomparable Bip Pares, priced $2.00 and with wraparound band announcing "The New Oppenheim—Presenting Tottie Green's Gang." A Fine, virtually pristine copy in like jacket. Oppenheim published some 150 novels, mainly suspense and international intrigue but also romances and comedies. He was one of the earliest writers of spy fiction and of the "Rogue Male" school of adventure thriller later popularized by John Buchan. The year he published The Lion and the Lamb, P. G. Wodehouse's dedicated his collection of short stories, Very Good, Jeeves, to Oppenheim. Ethel "Bip" Pares (1904-1977) is "a name seen so often on some of the most eye-catching designs of the nineteen-thirties and forties. . . . She has long been admired and collected—she… Read More
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