Crispin (Edmund, pseud. Bruce Montgomery) Holy Disorders
£325
London, Gollancz, 1945.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6 and with ‘The Fanfare Press, London’ printed to bottom edge of lower panel.
The author’s second novel, continuing the capers of the Oxford professor and amateur detective Gervase Fen. The copyright page includes a printed dedication to the poet Philip Larkin.
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A very good copy of the book; jacket slightly toned at spine, very minor rubbing, but overall very good.
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