Erskine (Margaret, pseud. Doris Margaret Wetherby Williams) The House of the Enchantress
£150
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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