A Question of Proof

by Nicholas Blake, Cecil Day Lewis

£250 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1935. Crime Mystery FIRST EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.286; 2 , advertisements. Publisher's brick red cloth with black titles to spine. Contents clean, edges and endpapers toned, no inscriptions, covers show some gentle use, spine sunned. A very good copy indeed, lacking the scarce jacket. The author's debut novel, introducing detective Nigel Strangeways. Item #72054

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