Keeler (Harry Stephen) Thieves’ Nights.
£75
The Chronicles of Delancey, King of Thieves
London, Ward, Lock, 1931.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Later issue dust-jacket.
In this companion to Sing Sing Nights, Ward Sharlow agrees to impersonate the late son of a wealthy man, a device framing a sequence of nested tales about Bayard DeLancey, a Raffles-like gentleman-thief styled the “King of Thieves.”
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Some foxing to extremities; slight bowing to boards; jacket with some wear to edges, minor chipping.
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