Slight toning to text block (as often); boards very good; jacket chipped at head of spine with some loss, closed tear to top edge of lower panel.
Crispin (Edmund, pseud. Bruce Montgomery) The Case of the Gilded Fly
£295
London, Gollancz, 1944.
First edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6 and with ‘The Fanfare Press, London’ printed to bottom edge of lower panel.
The first edition of the debut of the pseudonymous Crispin (in reality, composer Bruce Montgomery), whom the New York Times once called the heir to John Dickson Carr. Gervase Fen’s first outing.
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