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Cassell & Company. 1947. First edition. . Hard cover. Very good. light shelf wear, mild spine lean.

Clayton Rawson wrote two mysteries under the pseudonym "Stuart Towne" before going on to found the Mystery Writers of America and editing Elery Queen's Mystery Magazine .  This is the first, and the only hardback---very rare with jacket.  This copy is cocked, stamped on f.e.p. with "The Walsh Treasure Chest, Forest Hills, N.Y." (from whence it was originally sold), has wear commensurate with its age, and has the original jacket (except the inside front flap) that bears the marks of many readings.  The book is very good-shape, and the jacket good+ only.  Priced mainly on rarity.
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New York: Coward-McCann, [1941]. First edition. A very good plus copy, some mild soiling to cloth, tear to cloth (mendable) at upper rear cover in a very good dust jacket with some edge wear, wrinkling to upper front panel stain marks to upper rear panel. Uncommon in jacket. (9869). Octavo, cloth. Two novelettes featuring Don Diavolo, The Scarlet Wizard-magician detective. These were first published in separate issues of the pulp Red Star Mystery in 1940. This is the first of two books published with the Towne pseudonym (and the only one in hardcover).