Frank Gruber BUFFALO BOX First edition 1942 and similar items

THE BUFFALO BOX by Frank Gruber New York: Farrar Rinehart, (1942). First edition, first printing. Farrar Rinehart's first edition seal to the copyright page. The second of three mysteries featuring private detective Simon Lash is a bibliomystery, and deals with an artifact uncovered that might have belonged to a Donner party member. The first Simon Lash mystery was adapted by Gruber to the 1946 film 'Accomplice'. Some rubbing to the lower shelf-edges, spine edges, and corner tips, small remains of a lending library rate charge pasted to the upper front end-paper, and with their stamped 'Book Sweet Shop' pocket pasted to the rear inside cover, original jacket's clipped front inner flap pasted to the inside front cover, some dust soils to the upper rear cover, else good and sound in coral-orange linen with blue titles to the front cover, and with blue titles and an ace of spades card image with 'A Frank Gruber Ace Mystery' to the spine, deckle page fore-edges; a portion of the original dust jacket's front and spine panels laid in. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT MYSTERY BOOKS THANKS!