John Holbrook Vance [Jack Vance] - The House on Lily Street: A Murder Mystery

San Francisco, Underwood/Miller, 1979 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this murder mystery novel by Jack Vance, following the investigation of the murder of a social worker in 1960s Oakland. Flat signed by Vance to the title page.The first edition, first impression of this work, one of four-hundred and fifty unnumbered Limited Edition copies produced. In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Vance's novel follows Lieutenant George Shaw as he leads the murder investigation of a social worker, who had sought the identity of an extortionist who threatened a number of his cases. Shaw encounters the jazz community and beatnik culture of Oakland, California, in the early 60s.Illustrated with a frontispiece. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Sunning to dust wrapper back strip, otherwise excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Flat signed to title page. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.

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