Hardcover Travis McGee Mystery
The Long Lavender Look
Publication: Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1972. First Edition.
Notes: The 12th Travis McGee mystery. This is the first hardcover edition, published in February 1972, a month before the UK hardbound version, according to Firsts Magazine (Nov. 2002, John D. MacDonald special issue). The true first was a massmarket paperback, published in 1970.
Edition + Condition: First hardcover edition (first printing). Shelf wear to the bottom edges, a slight spine lean, and a bit of foxing to the page edges, but a solid copy in a very good dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and a bit of tanning. The jacket is slightly smaller than the book, which is how the jacket for this book was manufactured. The jacket is priced at $5.50 and has the code 372 at the top of the front flap, as called for.
ISBN: 0397007396
Item No: #363149
Price: $100