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Graeme (Bruce, pseud. Graham Montague Jeffries) Blackshirt
£750
London, T. Fisher Unwin, [1925].
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in red. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 3/6.
The notoriously difficult first edition of the first book in the Blackshirt series, by a founding member of the Crime Writer’s Association. Despite the chipping, the upper panel with its wonderful artwork is intact.
In stock
Minor splitting front endpapers at hinge; covers very slightly rubbed and bumped but overall VG; jacket with a few chips including larger ones from head of spine and upper fore-corner of lower panel.
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