Some marking to front free endpaper; cloth a little bumped; jacket worn with loss to spine ends and corners, some marking and overall rubbing.
Jacket artwork by Sinclair.
£225
London, Odhams, [1921].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
A thriller set against the backdrop of Revolutionary Russia, a popular subject for British popular fiction of the immediate post-war years. Jepson (1863–1938) was principally a writer of adventure and detective fiction, who also wrote supernatural and fantasy stories; he used the pseudonym R. Edison Page for some short stories and collaborated with John Gawsworth, Arthur Machen and others.
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