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TAYLOR, Phoebe Atwood. The Cape Cod Mystery. Indi, 1931. FIRST EDITON. INSCRIBED. RARE IN JACKET. 
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TAYLOR, Phoebe Atwood (1909-1976). The Cape Cod Mystery. Indianapolis: The Bobs-Merrill Company, 1931.

8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in light green; dust jacket (spine lightly sunned, some edgewear and soiling).

FIRST EDITON OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY TAYLOR: "There is still another 1st edition misprint of gold club for gay club which I cannot find in my own copy, but it exists. The other points I have marked. This is anyway a copy in every respect similar to my own author's advance copy- and is, as far a I know, the only copy ever collected of the assorted works of Phoebe Atwood Taylor. P.S. The dust jacket was a lot of seagulls by Charles Steneus, and a source of great pride to me, being the best jacket I ever had." The Cape Cod Mystery is the first of the Asey Mayo mysteries set on Cape Cod. Lilly, Detective Fiction 114; Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.


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