Margaret Erskine, The House of the Enchantress, first edition, 1959
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Margaret Erskine, The House of the Enchantress, first edition, 1959

Erskine (Margaret, pseud. Doris Margaret Wetherby Williams) The House of the Enchantress

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London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1959.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d.

Attractive jacket artwork on this Inspector Septimus Finch title.

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Foxing; softening to head of cloth spine; jacket with some visible foxing to lower panel, otherwise very good.

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