Holt (Gavin, pseud. Percival Charles Rodda) Drums Beat at Night
£125
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1932.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 3/6.
“Drums beat at night…and Professor Bastion hears the echo on Hampstead Heath” (jacket blurb)
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Contemporary ink name to front free endpaper; cloth very good; jacket a little chipped at spine ends with a couple of minor, light creases, otherwise very good.
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