Goyne (Richard) Danger in Suburbia
£250
London, Stanley Paul, [1939].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Goyne was a career fiction-machine of heroic output: crime under his own name at a rate of several books a year, and, as “Paul Renin,” a parallel production line of mildly scandalous romances that kept the circulating libraries in smelling salts; a double life the suburbs of his titles would have understood perfectly.
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Minor foxing to extremities of text-block; jacket with a some minor rubbing and chipping to extremities, small hole to spine at front hinge, but otherwise very good.
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