Be Shot For Sixpence

by Michael Gilbert

$58 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1956. Spy Fiction FIRST EDITION. Octavo 20 x 14cm , pp. 8 ; 223; 1 , publisher's advertisement. Bound in dark red cloth, with titles and smoking gun in gilt to spine, illustrated price-clipped dust-wrapper. Contents clean, no inscriptions, jacket with a few small nicks and tears. A very good copy. Gilbert's earliest espionage novel. His popularity was achieved through his detective mysteries featuring the series sleuth

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