Frome (David) [pseud. Zenith Jones Brown]. Arsenic in Richmond
£165
London [&c.], Longmans Green & Co., 1937.
Longmans Thrillers edition, second impression thus. 8vo. Original red cloth with publisher’s device in black to upper cover. Dust-jacket, with publisher’s 4/ price-sticker on spine.
Striking jacket artwork, in our opinion more interesting than the first edition of 1934, on an early issue of this title by prolific author Zenith Brown, who also wrote as Leslie Ford. Rare.
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F, a sharp copy; VG, some minor rubbing and creasing, conservational tape to reverse at top & bottom edge.
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