The Spider's Touch

by Valentine Williams

$100 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. Espionage novel . FIRST EDITION. Octavo 18 x 13cm , pp.313; 7 . Secondary binding of blue cloth with black titles trimmed, W.H. Smith library style , illustrated dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Contents clean, owner stamps to endpapers, jacket cropped to fit binding, square section excised from spine. Remains presentable. A serviceable copy of a scarce pre-war thriller. Mystery featuring the series detective 'Clubfoot' Dr.

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