Discover a slice of literary history with 'The Album' by Mary Roberts Rinehart, a vintage gem for antique book lovers. Despite its rough condition, it radiates charm and nostalgia, perfect for any collector’s shelf.
Title: The Album
Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart (Often called the "American Agatha Christie," she is famous for inventing the "Had-I-But-Known" mystery subgenre and popularizing the phrase "The butler did it!").
Publisher: Triangle Books (New York)
Publication Date: June 1942 (Triangle Books Edition Reprint; original copyright 1933).
Binding: Original publisher's orange cloth hardcover with black stamped lettering and decorative font on the cover and spine.
Condition Notes: Good / Reading Copy.
Exterior: The red-orange cloth boards show general shelf dust, fading/browning on the spine, and typical corner rubbing. The black stamped text remains clear.
Hinges & Binding: The front internal hinge paper has split, exposing the mesh/binding underneath, but the text remains attached.
Interior: The pages are clean and intact, showing heavy, uniform vintage tanning/browning due to the high-acid wartime paper stock typical of this publisher.
Interesting Note about this title: The Album is famous among classic mystery collectors because of its unique structure. Instead of just introducing characters via text, it contains an actual photographic gallery of the principal characters at the beginning of the book, stylized to look like a vintage photo album. Rinehart wanted the reader to literally look at the faces of the suspects as they tried to solve the axe-murder mystery!
Discover a slice of literary history with 'The Album' by Mary Roberts Rinehart, a vintage gem for antique book lovers. Despite its rough condition, it radiates charm and nostalgia, perfect for any collector’s shelf.
Title: The Album
Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart (Often called the "American Agatha Christie," she is famous for inventing the "Had-I-But-Known" mystery subgenre and popularizing the phrase "The butler did it!").
Publisher: Triangle Books (New York)
Publication Date: June 1942 (Triangle Books Edition Reprint; original copyright 1933).
Binding: Original publisher's orange cloth hardcover with black stamped lettering and decorative font on the cover and spine.
Condition Notes: Good / Reading Copy.
Exterior: The red-orange cloth boards show general shelf dust, fading/browning on the spine, and typical corner rubbing. The black stamped text remains clear.
Hinges & Binding: The front internal hinge paper has split, exposing the mesh/binding underneath, but the text remains attached.
Interior: The pages are clean and intact, showing heavy, uniform vintage tanning/browning due to the high-acid wartime paper stock typical of this publisher.
Interesting Note about this title: The Album is famous among classic mystery collectors because of its unique structure. Instead of just introducing characters via text, it contains an actual photographic gallery of the principal characters at the beginning of the book, stylized to look like a vintage photo album. Rinehart wanted the reader to literally look at the faces of the suspects as they tried to solve the axe-murder mystery!
