Ruth Rendell — One Across, Two Down

London, Hutchinson, 1971 . First edition. Cloth. A smart signed first edition of Ruth Rendell"s darkly comic psychological thriller, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding.  First edition.  Complete with the orignial unclipped dust wrapper.  Flat signed by the author, Ruth Rendell, to the title page.  A stand-alone psychological suspense novel centred on Stanley Manning, a crossword enthusiast consumed by the prospect of inheriting his mother-in-law"s money. Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) was an acclaimed English crime novelist, known both for her Inspector Wexford series and for the darker psychological thrillers published under her own name and the pseudonym Barbara Vine. In the publisher's original cloth binding. externally, very smart. Slight bumping to spine ends. Very slight shelf wear to extremities. Faint offsetting to endpapers. Dust wrapper, very smart. Light edge wear to extremities, more so to spine ends. Slight sunning to spine. One or two small spots and marks to extremities of wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Flat signed by the author to the title page. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Near Fine.