The Scent of Danger
£38 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books
First edition
London: Collins Mysteries, 1958. Crime Thriller FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.192. Publisher's burgundy cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by William Randell, priced at 10/6. Contents clean, edges toned, light spotting to endpapers, jacket is bright and fresh. Originally a career criminal himself, MacKenzie is unusual amongst crime-writers for making many of his protagonists criminals, rather than
- Printing: first
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