Freeman, R. Austin

The Red Thumb Mark

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1935. Hardcover. New Edition. Very Good in a Fair jacket, unclipped ($2.00), heavily rubbed and soiled, multiple chips and tears throughout. Grey buckram, rubbed at the edges, with red ink lettering on the spine and front board. Bound with some reading wear and a forward lean, former owner's name on the front endpaper and inside the front board. A Dr. Thorndyke novel, one written with so much of an aristocratic intellect that Edith Hamilton is quoted as saying, "You don't know The Red Thumb Mark? Why you might just as well tell me you have never heard of Hamlet!" Very Good / Fair. Item #5520

Price: $400.00