Royce Howes — Death on the Bridge

Garden City, New York, The Crime Club by Doubleday, 1935 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this crime novel by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Royce Howes, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first printing, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Howes's novel, set on a tramp steamer, begins with the murder of the ship captain and first officer, with the inexperienced second officer left to take charge of a vessel that is housing a murderer.The publishers term this 'a fast moving, perplexing yarn full of the sea tang and atmosphere so popular with the reading public&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Rubbing to the centre of the back strip, with bumping to back strip head and tail. Light marks to boards. Discolouration to centre of dust wrapper back strip, with two areas of partial loss to the front wrap, with areas of the paper lifting. Small number of small closed tears to dust wrapper tail. Rubbing to centre of reverse of dust wrapper back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good/Very Good.