William Plomer THE CASE IS ALTERED 1st American ed/DJ 1932 VG+ condition

Description

The Case Is Altered
Author:
PLOMER, William
Title:
The Case Is Altered
Publication:
Philadelphia: Farrar & Rinehart, 1932
Edition:
First American Edition
Description:
First American Edition. Octavo (20cm); publisher's tan cloth boards, lettered in brown on spine and front cover; green top-stain; pictorial endpapers; dust jacket; 378pp. Corners gently bumped, tiny chip at spine crown, rear panel very slightly wrinkled, else Very Good or better. Novel based on the true case of James Achew who murdered Sybil Da Costa, the mother of his daughter, and whose insanity plea was rejected though his death sentence would eventually be reprieved. Plomer himself had been a lodger in Achew's house the year of the murder in 1929. (See M.C. Rintoul's "Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction" (2014), p. 140.).
Seller ID:
41968
Subject:
Great Britain, Law, Modern Fiction, Social Fiction
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