Conrad (Joseph) and Ford Madox Hueffer. The Nature of a Crime
£45
London, Duckworth, 1924.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
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Slight dulling to cloth extremities; jacket rubbed at edges and slightly darkened at spine.
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