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Lot 208
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
Lots Open
Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$600 -
800
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$975
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Lot Description
HUGHES, Dorothy Belle (1904-1993). The So Blue Marble. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940.
8vo. Original color pictorial wrappers (slight lean, few tiny spots of rubbing, spotting to top edge).
ADVANCE READING COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, with the publisher's publication rubberstamp on the front fly leaf. The So Blue Marble is a noir thriller about a former actress who becomes entangled in a dangerous conspiracy when she is pursued by sinister twin brothers seeking a mysterious, coveted blue marble. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.
Selections from the Library of Dr. John Talbot Gernon
This lot is located in Chicago.