Crooked House
£295 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books
First edition
London: Collins for the Crime Club, 1949. Detective mystery FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.192 4 . Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. A large black ink ownership inscription of Princess Mary Wolkonsky 1866-1964 to front fly-leaf; otherwise internally clean with some toning to edges. Nice bright cloth. Moderate general wear to jacket, including light chipping to edges,
- Printing: first
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