Yates (Dornford) Gale Warning
£65
London & Melbourne, Ward, Lock, 1939.
First edition. 8vo. 6pp. advertisements. Original yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
Jonathan Mansel, one of Dornford Yates’ most popular characters, heads a small private organisation dedicated to the detection of serious crime “by methods sadly unavailable to the regular police”. Uncommon in the jacket.
In stock
Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper; cloth spine slightly spotted; dust-jacket with chipping at spine ends and corners with slight loss.
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