Call for the Saint

by Leslie Charteris

£48 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1948. Crime caper FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo 20 x 14cm , pp.253; 2 , advertisements; 1 , blank. Publisher's pale blue cloth in illustrated dust-wrapper designed by Jarvis, priced 8/6 to front flap. A few spots to edges, usual light bleaching to cloth in places, jacket with some chips and tears, rubbed to joints, tape strip to each panel; very good. Simon Templar, alias The Saint, on two racket-busting

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