Browne (Douglas C.) What Beckoning Ghost
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London, Macdonald, 1947.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 8/6.
An intriguing tale by this author of crime fiction, the title taken from a line by Pope, “What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps and points to yonder glade?”.
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G+; jacket with some tears, fraying and creasing.
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