Crispin (Edmund, pseud. Bruce Montgomery) Obsequies at Oxford
£150
Philadelphia & New York, Lippincott, 1945.
First US edition of The Case of the Gilded Fly. 8vo. Original black cloth stamped in white. Dust-jacket, priced $2.00.
The first US edition of the first Gervase Fen title.
In stock
Ownership inscription and small inked number to front endpapers; cloth very good; jacket slightly worn at spine ends, but overall very good.
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