Elma K. Lobaugh Shadows In Succession First and 12 similar items

SHADOWS IN SUCCESSION By Elma K.[Klinedorf] Lobaugh. Garden City, New York: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday Company, Inc., 1946. First edition, first printing. "First edition" statement to the copyright page, 1946 to the title page. SIGNED, dated in the year of publication "October 1, 1946" and warmly inscribed with a nice book writing association mention "My Love to Elvira who read this book long ago in manuscript", by the author to the front end-paper. A scarce crime title selected for The Crime Club as a superior detective novel, is set in a richly described New Orleans as seen by a young lady and her friends on vacation--who also see murder, the hidden mean streets, and wide assortment of characters and suspects. A Scarce SIGNED collectible in an eye-catching vintage art dust jacket. Uniform rectangular age-toning to the end-sheets as usual, stain to the upper rear cover, faint tan stain to the upper corners of the last few pages, else good, square and firm, in polished, textured gray boards with green embossed titles and The Crime Club's shooting man insignia to the spine; in a very good dust jacket with bright-yellow accented, stylized art including a back-stabbed man by Cary, with tiny tears, minuscule nicks and some creases to the shelf-edges, very light hairline crease the the front panel at the spine joint, slender chips to the lower front spine fold; original printed $2.00 price still intact to the front inner flap. The dust jacket will be placed in a clear, removable protective sleeve after scanning for this entry. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION MYSTERY BOOKS THANKS!