Bramah (Ernest) The Specimen Case
£795
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1924.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
A great first edition of this collection of tales by Max Carrados and Kai Lung creator Bramah; includes his sci-fi story ‘The War Hawks’, a brief sequel to his only sci-fi novel, What Might Have Been: The Story of a Social War (1907). Rare thus.
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Cloth slightly mottled at spine, but overall VG; jacket with a little minor creasing, but overall quite excellent.
Jacket artwork by Ellen Edwards.
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