Crispin (Edmund, pseud. Bruce Montgomery) Swan Song
£195
London, Gollancz, 1947.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6 and with ‘The Fanfare Press, London’ printed to bottom edge of lower panel.
First edition of the fourth in Crispin’s series featuring the Oxford Don and amateur detective Gervase Fen.
In stock
Bookplate tipped onto front free endpaper; cloth very good; jacket chipped at corners and spine ends, but otherwise very good.
Bookplate of Ann & David Galloway.
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