PRELUDE TO A CERTAIN MIDNIGHT - INSCRIBED

by Gerald Kersh

$450 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

Signed

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1947. First UK Edition. One of Kersh's bleakest novels, telling the story about the hunt for the murderer of a ten year-old child in Soho, carrying the reader through the seamy underbelly of London. Inscribed to American photographer Carl Perutz, a friend and traveling companion of Kersh's who took several well-known portraits of the author. Uncommon signed. Hubin, p.230. Item #2004

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