Murder of Mr. Mallabee

by Winifred Duke

£350 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Jarrolds, 1937. Detective mystery . FIRST EDITION. Octavo 18 x 13cm , pp.287; 1 . Secondary binding of blue cloth with black titles trimmed, W.H. Smith's library style , illustrated dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Contents clean, owner stamps to endpapers, jacket cropped to fit binding, some chips and tears, sunned to spine, remnants of price label to same. A very good copy of a scarce pre-war thriller. A murder case set in a North of England industrial

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