The Snarl of the Beast

by Carroll John Daly

$250 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Edward J. Clode, 1927 . First Edition. First printing. Octavo 20cm ; textured dark brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 318pp. Tight and straight, with rubbing to cloth at base of spine and board corners; text slightly toned at margins; just Very Good overall and lacking the scarce dustwrapper. A seminal work in the hardboiled canon, scarce in or out of

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