First American edition, first printing.
"First edition" statement to the copyright page.
Published in England in 1961 as THE SUNKEN SAILOR.
The second mystery featuring Chief Inspector Henry Tibbs is set in a small town on a river where Londoners come on weekends to sail.
A well-preserved, and presentable vintage collectible.
Pages tanning as usual, else near fine in textured black boards with white and blue embossed titles to the spine; in a Ben Feder illustrated very good plus dust jacket with a few very short tears to the lower shelf-edges, some intermittent rubbing to the flap folds and spine folds, and minuscule nicks and rubs to the upper and lower spine edges and corner tips; reviewer's red-inked release date of "2/13/61" and original printed $3.50 price to the front inner flap.
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