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The Unsuspected

ARMSTRONG, CHARLOTTE

The Unsuspected

Coward-McCann, New York: 1946

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Original dark blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to the spine. 8vo - 217 pp. A clean, bright and solid copy. In a complete and not price-clipped dust jacket. The jacket shows only minor edge-wear and shallow closed tears. This story first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1945. Winner of the Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone award for 1946. Very cool half-tone illustrated endpapers. Made into a film in 1947 starring Claude Raines. Fine / Near Fine.

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