Thou Shell of Death

by Nicholas Blake, Cecil Day Lewis

£175 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1937 . Crime Mystery FIRST EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.288. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. Bookseller's discreet ticket to pastedown, some spotting to edges and prelims, owner nameplate to free endpaper, covers carefully handled, spine sunned. Very good. The author's second novel, featuring the return of detective Nigel Strangeways. Item #72055

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