The Bride Wore Black

by John Drummond, John Chance

$50 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: John Gifford, 1942. Wartime Novel FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.247 1 . Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate to front pastedown, over a removed library bookplate. The blurb from the jacket flap pasted to fly-leaf. Both hinges repaired with gummed 'On His Majesty's Service' labels. Some dated stamps to rear pastedown. As brown as they come and extremely brittle,

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