Item #36861 Autograph inscription written under periodical portrait of Green, signed “Anna Katharine Green”. Anna Katharine Green.

Autograph inscription written under periodical portrait of Green, signed “Anna Katharine Green”.

Buffalo: March 6, 1930.

Price: $150.00


About the item

1 vols. ca. 3 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (the whole). Inscribed to Seymour Halpern. Periodical portrait of the author laid down on board. Some light discoloration, else very good.

Item #36861

Sending best wishes to Halpern. Green's well-written detective novels were said to have established the standard formulas for that genre. Her “The Leavenworth Case” being her first and best known work in the field.
Seymour Halpern was a Representative from New York. From 1931 to 1933 he was a reporter and feature writer for the Long Island Daily Press and the Chicago Herald Examiner.