Julian Symons — Bogue&Apos;S Fortune

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1957 . First edition. Cloth. The first US edition of Julian Symon's thrilling novel, set in a progressive school in England, named Bramley Hall. First published the year prior in the UK under the title 'The Paper Chase', this is the first US edition of Symons novel. Harper's 'B-G' code to the colophon indicated that this was published in February 1957.In the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper.Symons's novel follows a crime writer looking for material for his second novel, who decides to set it in a progressive school, and gets a job in one to help his research. Before long, a murder takes place and he is drawn into the investigation. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Rubbing to board and back strip heads, resulting in fading to the cloth. Shelf wear to back strip tail. Dust wrapper bright, with chipping to back strip tail, and small areas of loss to back strip head and head of rear wrap. Small loss of paper to fore edge of tail of rear wrap. Light rubbing to joints. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with marks to head of page 19. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good/Very Good.