First edition, first impression. 256pp. In red cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Cloth gently rounded at corners and spine ends. A few mild marks and some light spotting on text block edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, price clipped, with some minor soiling and bumped on edges. Dust jacket now protected in a Brodart-style sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.
Fiction, Detective Fiction, Modern Fiction Firsts, Collins Crime Club
