The Franchise Affair

by Josephine Tey, Elizabeth MacKintosh

$100 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

New York: Macmillan, 1949. First Edition. First American edition, first printing, 8vo, pp. 238. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Very good in a very good dust jacket with rubbing to the extremities and small chips to the jacket. Item #1378 Based loosely on the eighteenth-century case of Elizabeth Canning, a girl whose accusations of kidnapping against two women divided English

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