The Perennial Boarder

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1941. First edition (stated). Small octavo in white DJ, 288 pages; 20 cm. Extremely mild wear and light sunning to spine head and foot, pale sunning to front board-top edges, exceedingly mellow rubbing to rear board-top edge, drastically gentle bumping to other three corners, light soiling to front free endpaper and half-title page, faint sunning to spine, bright pages, tight binding, pale spotting and soiling to two fore-edges, one inch tear to front DJ-rear edge, almost one inch tear to front DJ-rear corner, less than quarter-inch tear to DJ top corners, moderately edge-torn DJ (very minimal), faint soiling to DJ, light fading and soiling to front DJ-fore-edge board, sunning to DJ spine, else Very Good(+) in Good(+) DJ. Hardcover.

Private investigators -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod -- Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve.