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Mitchell (Gladys) Dead Men’s Morris
£3,750
London, Michael Joseph, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth lettered in white. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
Murder mystery set amongst beautiful Oxfordshire villages. A genuinely nice copy.
Out of stock
Book itself VG; jacket a little sunned at spine, some minor rubbing, but overall VG.
Map frontispiece.
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