M.G. Eberhart, Fair Warning, first UK edition, 1936
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Eberhart (M[ignon].G.) Fair Warning

£575

London, Collins Crime Club, 1936.

First UK edition. 8vo. Original red cloth lettered in black. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.

Jacket is reinforced with a number of tape repairs  to verso principally at top and tail of the spine and folds.

Quite cool woodcut-style artwork adorns this first UK edition’s jacket. Eberhart is an interesting author of detective fiction, not least for her ability to extend the same basic premise over nearly forty volumes!

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Book VG+; jacket a little foxed and toned with some modest edge wear, but really a VG example.

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