The Shadow of the Rope

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently rubbed, lightly shelf worn, overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Wonderfully well-preserved! Illustrated Frontispiece: "She had recoiled into the narrow hall, driven by an uncontrollable revulsion.....". Red cloth with gilt design on the front cover and lettering on the spine and gilt upper page edges! 377 very clean, unmarked and uncreased, suspense-filled and mystery-riddled pages! "In the larger life of cities, Alexander Minchin was no longer the idle and good-humored cavalier to whom Rachel had learned to look for unfailing consideration at sea. The illustrative incidents may be omitted; but here he gambled, there he drank; and in his cups every virtue dissolved. Rachel's pride did not mend matters; she was a thought too ready with her resentment; of this, however, she was herself aware, and would forgive the more freely because there was often some obvious fault on her side before all was said. Quarrels of infinite bitterness were thus patched up, and the end indefinitely delayed."-----from Chapter One: The End of Their Life. Reprint (1902). Maroon Cloth . Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Harvey T. Dunn . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.