Mary Fitt [Kathleen Freeman] — Pity for Pamela

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1950 . First edition. Cloth. The vanishingly scarce first US edition of this 'novel of suspense' in which heiress Pamela pilots a plane and dies as a result. The very scarce first US edition, first impression. This work is vanishingly scarce in all first editions.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.The work of British classical scholar Kathleen Freeman, who published detective novels under the name Mary Fitt.A story of psychological suspense and coldly calculated retribution about the life and death of heiress Pamela Deansworthy. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. A touch of shelf wear to back strip tail, otherwise externally excellent. Significant loss to dust wrapper back strip, with further loss to back strip head. Spotting and handling marks to rear wrap. Closed tears to head of front wrap, and to head of rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Good.