Daly (Elizabeth) Deadly Nightshade
£395
New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1940.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
An excellent first edition of this the second work by Daly, an often under-appreciated author these days; her serial character Henry Gamadge is a bibliophile and expert on rare books & manuscripts, no less!
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An excellent copy in price-clipped but otherwise near fine dust-jacket.
Jacket artwork by Robert Graves.
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