Keeler (Harry Stephen) The Mysterious Mr. I
£225
London, Ward Lock, 1937.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, neatly price-clipped.
A very good first UK edition of this the first of two works featuring ‘The Mysterious Mr. I’, by an oft under-appreciated Harry Stephen Keeler, deviser of the “webwork” plot concept.
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Previous owner’s name to front free endpaper; cloth a little bumped; jacket price-clipped with some creasing and resultant chipping/fraying, but overall still very good.
Jacket artwork by Leonard [?]Cohen (not the Leonard Cohen, one assumes, unless he was prodigiously gifted even at the age of 3).
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