original publisher’s brown cloth, lettering, rules to spine and border to front cover in black, light mark to lower cover, endpapers, tanned & foxed, slight foxing to fore edge , else a very
good copy in the very scarce pictorial jacket which is a little stained and darkened to spine with minor loss to top of spine and lower edge of front panel, otherwise a VG example of this attractive wrapper.
Clark (Andrew) The Way of Lucifer
£475
First edition.
London, John Lane. The Bodley Head, 1928
A scarce novel of fantasy involving the supernatural and the devil. No copies on line.
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