Michael Innes — The Long Farewell

New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1958 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first US edition of Michael Innes's murder mystery novel about the death of a scholar of Elizabethan literature. The vanishingly scarce first US edition, first printing. Published in the same year as the UK true first.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A thrilling John Appleby novel by Scottish novelist J.I.M. Stewart, writing under the pseudonym Michael Innes.The novel follows Sir John Appleby of the Met as he investigates the suspicious suicide of Louis Packford, a well-to-do scholar, and discovers that a valuable volume is missing from his extensive literary collection. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Shelf wear to back strip tail, otherwise externally excellent. Loss of paper to dust wrapper head and tail, and to head of rear wrap. Closed tears to head and tail of front wrap. Major closed tears to dust wrapper at tail of folds over front and rear joints. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Good.