Item description for A.B. Cunningham SKELETON IN THE CLOSET First Edition 1951 Mystery DJ Jess Roden

SKELETON IN THE CLOSET

by A. [Albert] B. [Benjamin] Cunningham

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. Publishers, 1951.

First edition, first printing.

1951 date printed to the title page "First edition" statement to the copyright page, $2.50 price printed to the jacket's flap.

The nineteenth mystery featuring "country reckoning" and deductive reasoning Jess Roden, is set in Green Acres' aristocratic valley near the Appalachian mountains in Kentucky.

Light age-toning to the inner hinge area as usual, slight rub-wear to the upper and lower spine edges and corner tips, else square, firm and very good in black linen-textured boards with blind embossed fedora-donned man with hands-up 'Gilt Edged Mystery' insignia to the front cover and with gilt insignia, titles, rules, and panel with reverse black titles to the spine; in a very good dust jacket with short shelf-edge tears, slight dust-soiling to the rear panel, short tears and nicks to the upper and lower flap folds, tiny surface nick at the rear spine fold, and with very small chips, tears, and rubbing to the upper and lower spine ends; original printed $2.50 price still intact to the front inner flap.

Elusive hardcover, especially in collectible condition.