BURNHAM, David. Last Act in Bermuda
BURNHAM, David. Last Act in Bermuda. New York: Scribner’s. 1940. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in blue to spine and front board, in the attractive dust jacket designed by Baron Encona (?). A very good copy, the cloth clean but the backstrip a little faded, front board a trifle dulled. Corners and tips gently bumped, the binding tight and very slightly rolled. The contents clean and fine but for some toning towards gutters of endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.00 net) with several small chips, nicks, closed tears and creases, the corners, joints and spine tips gently bumped.
The first and only work of detective fiction by Chicago-born David Burnham. He wrote a small handful of other novels, including Winter in the Sun (1937) which depicts rancher life in the Arizona desert. The novel itself utilises that contemporaneously new Golden Age plot device in which a murder takes place in an enclosed setting with few witnesses—in this case, a quiet island. Despite its scarcity, both contemporary and modern reviews rate it highly. As for the jacket designer, a fitting mystery. Scarce.
BURNHAM, David. Last Act in Bermuda. New York: Scribner’s. 1940. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in blue to spine and front board, in the attractive dust jacket designed by Baron Encona (?). A very good copy, the cloth clean but the backstrip a little faded, front board a trifle dulled. Corners and tips gently bumped, the binding tight and very slightly rolled. The contents clean and fine but for some toning towards gutters of endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.00 net) with several small chips, nicks, closed tears and creases, the corners, joints and spine tips gently bumped.
The first and only work of detective fiction by Chicago-born David Burnham. He wrote a small handful of other novels, including Winter in the Sun (1937) which depicts rancher life in the Arizona desert. The novel itself utilises that contemporaneously new Golden Age plot device in which a murder takes place in an enclosed setting with few witnesses—in this case, a quiet island. Despite its scarcity, both contemporary and modern reviews rate it highly. As for the jacket designer, a fitting mystery. Scarce.
BURNHAM, David. Last Act in Bermuda. New York: Scribner’s. 1940. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in blue to spine and front board, in the attractive dust jacket designed by Baron Encona (?). A very good copy, the cloth clean but the backstrip a little faded, front board a trifle dulled. Corners and tips gently bumped, the binding tight and very slightly rolled. The contents clean and fine but for some toning towards gutters of endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.00 net) with several small chips, nicks, closed tears and creases, the corners, joints and spine tips gently bumped.
The first and only work of detective fiction by Chicago-born David Burnham. He wrote a small handful of other novels, including Winter in the Sun (1937) which depicts rancher life in the Arizona desert. The novel itself utilises that contemporaneously new Golden Age plot device in which a murder takes place in an enclosed setting with few witnesses—in this case, a quiet island. Despite its scarcity, both contemporary and modern reviews rate it highly. As for the jacket designer, a fitting mystery. Scarce.