Kaye (M.M.) The House of Shade
£85
London, Longmans, Green, 1959.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 13/6.
An attractive first edition of this suspense novel by the author of The Far Pavilions. Republished subsequently as Death in Zanzibar.
In stock
W.H. Smith library label to front pastedown, minor spotting to extremities of text-block; cloth slightly sunned at head of spine; jacket a little rubbed and creased at corners and spine ends, but overall very good.
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