A Nice Little Business, Eileen Dewhurst — 1st US Edition, Signed

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A Nice Little Business, Eileen Dewhurst — 1st US Edition, Signed

Name: A Nice Little Business, Eileen Dewhurst — 1st US Edition, Signed
Brand: Broadhursts Books
SKU: 6994
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Publication: New York, Doubleday, 1987

Formatting: 8vo, pp. 185.

Condition Report: Very Good. The binding remains notably tight and square, with the boards demonstrating minimal shelf-wear. The pages are bright and clean, completely free from internal foxing. The text block edges display only faint dust-toning. The dust jacket is fully intact, though it exhibits slight rubbing, minor creasing to the spine extremities, and light edge-wear along the margins.

Catalogue Note: This is a stated American First Edition, issued under The Crime Club imprint.

The volume features an informal contemporary presentation inscription penned in blue ink on the front free endpaper reading, "To dearest Bets with my love Eileen December 1987". Dated merely a month after publication, it serves as an excellent authorial association.

Though unsigned copies of this title occasionally appear on the open market, inscribed copies from Dewhurst's own circle are considerably more scarce.

When Cathy Carter meets a sweet older woman named Mrs. Willoughby on a London bus, they quickly become fast friends. After Cathy reveals the news of her first pregnancy, Mrs. Willoughby, who is both a dressmaker and a clairvoyant, offers to craft her a maternity wardrobe and read her future. However, the blossoming friendship ends in a nightmare when Mrs. Willoughby is brutally murdered, stabbed in the throat with her own slender cutting-out scissors.

Book Condition: Very Good

Book Authors: Eileen Dewhurst

Book Publisher: Doubleday

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Fiction

Genre: Crime & Mystery

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: Yes

Book Pages: 185

Book Publication Year: 1987

Book Publication Date: November 1, 1987

Book Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: The Crime Club

Country/region of manufacture: New York, United States

Book Dimensions:

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