Keeler (Harry Stephen) The Wonderful Scheme
£125
London, Ward, Lock, 1937.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, with code ‘736’ to spine, price-clipped.
The Wonderful Scheme (issued in the US the same year as The Wonderful Scheme of Mr. Christopher Thorne) belongs to Keeler’s Marceau Case sequence, offering “a third solution” to that case.
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Gift inscription to front free endpaper; jacket price-clipped to inside front panel, section affecting head of spine and corner of upper panel, some other general rubbing, chipping and marking.
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