1954, ISBN: be29722eab82d4a60799dd2ade15b620

Gebundene Ausgabe, Erstausgabe

[SC: 33.55], [PU: New York Random House 1954], Jacket, First Edition. Signed presentation copy inscribed by the author Margaret Millar to her sister, Dorothy (nicknamed ÔDoagieÕ), Dorothy… Mehr…

[SC: 33.55], [PU: New York Random House 1954], Jacket, First Edition. Signed presentation copy inscribed by the author Margaret Millar to her sister, Dorothy (nicknamed ÔDoagieÕ), DorothyÕs husband Clarence, and their daughter Jane. Inscribed: ÒFor Doagie, Jane & Clarence, With all my love, Margaret Millar, Santa Barbara.Ó Very good bright copy with a trace of edge wear in a worn dust jacket with some fading to the spine, a bit of dampstaining, and some chips and tears. Margaret Millar (1915 - 1994) was the wife of fellow detective fiction writer Kenneth Millar / Ross Macdonald. In 1956 she won the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Best Novel for ÔBeast in ViewÕ and in 1983 she was awarded the Grand Master Award by the Mystery Writers of America in recognition of her lifetime achievements. H.R.F. Keating included Millar's ÔBeast In ViewÕ in his collection ÔCrime & Mystery. The 100 Best Books,Õ with the following critical praise: "Margaret Millar is surely one of late twentieth-century crime fiction's best writers, in the sense that the actual writing in her books, the prose, is of superb quality. On almost every page of this one there is some description, whether of a physical thing or a mental state, that sends a sharp ray of extra meaning into the reader's mind." She is also the author of such noted works as ÔThe Devil Loves Me,Õ ÔFire Will Freeze,Õ ÔThe Invisible Worm,Õ ÔHow Like an Angel,Õ ÔDo Evil in Return,Õ etc.<

1954, ISBN: be29722eab82d4a60799dd2ade15b620

Gebundene Ausgabe, Erstausgabe

[SC: 34.22], [PU: New York Random House 1954], Jacket, First Edition. Signed presentation copy inscribed by the author Margaret Millar to her sister, Dorothy (nicknamed ÔDoagieÕ), Dorothy… Mehr…

[SC: 34.22], [PU: New York Random House 1954], Jacket, First Edition. Signed presentation copy inscribed by the author Margaret Millar to her sister, Dorothy (nicknamed ÔDoagieÕ), DorothyÕs husband Clarence, and their daughter Jane. Inscribed: ÒFor Doagie, Jane & Clarence, With all my love, Margaret Millar, Santa Barbara.Ó Very good bright copy with a trace of edge wear in a worn dust jacket with some fading to the spine, a bit of dampstaining, and some chips and tears. Margaret Millar (1915 - 1994) was the wife of fellow detective fiction writer Kenneth Millar / Ross Macdonald. In 1956 she won the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Best Novel for ÔBeast in ViewÕ and in 1983 she was awarded the Grand Master Award by the Mystery Writers of America in recognition of her lifetime achievements. H.R.F. Keating included Millar's ÔBeast In ViewÕ in his collection ÔCrime & Mystery. The 100 Best Books,Õ with the following critical praise: "Margaret Millar is surely one of late twentieth-century crime fiction's best writers, in the sense that the actual writing in her books, the prose, is of superb quality. On almost every page of this one there is some description, whether of a physical thing or a mental state, that sends a sharp ray of extra meaning into the reader's mind." She is also the author of such noted works as ÔThe Devil Loves Me,Õ ÔFire Will Freeze,Õ ÔThe Invisible Worm,Õ ÔHow Like an Angel,Õ ÔDo Evil in Return,Õ etc.<

1994, ISBN: be29722eab82d4a60799dd2ade15b620

New York: Random House, 1954. First Edition. Signed presentation copy inscribed by the author Margaret Millar to her sister, Dorothy (nicknamed Doagie), Dorothys husband Clarence, and th… Mehr…

New York: Random House, 1954. First Edition. Signed presentation copy inscribed by the author Margaret Millar to her sister, Dorothy (nicknamed Doagie), Dorothys husband Clarence, and their daughter Jane. Inscribed: For Doagie, Jane & Clarence, With all my love, Margaret Millar, Santa Barbara. Very good bright copy with a trace of edge wear in a worn dust jacket with some fading to the spine, a bit of dampstaining, and some chips and tears. Margaret Millar (1915 - 1994) was the wife of fellow detective fiction writer Kenneth Millar / Ross Macdonald. In 1956 she won the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Best Novel for Beast in View and in 1983 she was awarded the Grand Master Award by the Mystery Writers of America in recognition of her lifetime achievements. H.R.F. Keating included Millar's Beast In View in his collection Crime & Mystery. The 100 Best Books, with the following critical praise: "Margaret Millar is surely one of late twentieth-century crime fiction's best writers, in the sense that the actual writing in her books, the prose, is of superb quality. On almost every page of this one there is some description, whether of a physical thing or a mental state, that sends a sharp ray of extra meaning into the reader's mind." She is also the author of such noted works as The Devil Loves Me, Fire Will Freeze, The Invisible Worm, How Like an Angel, Do Evil in Return, etc., Random House, 1954, 0<

1954, ISBN: be29722eab82d4a60799dd2ade15b620

Random House, 1954. First. . Hardcover. Good/Missing jacket. Good condition. Missing jacket and some dinging to bottom and top cover edges; spine good, Random House, 1954