Blood Is a Beggar
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1946. Very Good / Very Good-. Item #48717
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1946]. First Edition Stated. Octavo (19cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket by George Salter retaining original price ($2.00); 256pp. Moderate chipping and wear to jacket margins, rear panel quite heavily foxed and dust-soiled, corners bumped; About Very Good overall.
The first of a series of four pseudonymous crime novels by the Shakespeare scholar Alfred B. Harbage, who combined "the essence of the hard-boiled school with a tone of academic persiflage" (St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, p. 617).
Price: $100.00