Mr. Fortune's Trials

by H. C. Bailey

$75 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1926. Octavo 19.5cm ; blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and ruling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; 248pp. Spine-tanned, with shelf-soil, and light rubbing to spine ends and board edges; Very Good. Lacking dustjacket. Bailey's detective short story collection, with six works including The Furnished Cottage , The Hermit Crab , and The Profiteers .

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