David Lindsay, The Ninth Plague, first edition, 1936
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David Lindsay, The Ninth Plague, first edition, 1936
Lindsay (David [Tod]) The Ninth Plague - Image 2
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Lindsay (David [Tod]) The Ninth Plague

£295

London, John Hamilton, 1936.

First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.

A rare dust-jacket. One of this author’s less common and more interesting titles, a Mad Scientist’s attempts to block off the sun’s rays and cause the end of the world. Produced for Hamilton’s Sundial Mystery Library series.

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Book itself VG; jacket worn and with extensive tape repairs to reverse, with some show-through, but the upper panel intact and in good order.

Jacket artwork by Anderson.

In Bleiler.

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