Wilson (Alexander) Chronicles of the Secret Service
£295
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1940.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
Major Alexander Wallace continues to thrill with the exploits of Sir Leonard Wallace, Chief of Secret Service, in this forties first edition. Scarce in dust-jacket.
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Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper; cloth partly sunned at spine, otherwise very good; some edge wear to jacket with loss to head of spine.
Jacket artwork initialled ‘B’.
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