Long (Manning) Here’s Blood in Your Eye
£150
London, Hammond, Hammond, 1946.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
The American author’s first book, and the first of his Liz Parrott mysteries.
In stock
Cloth very good; jacket with a little rubbing to extremities, but overall very good.
Jacket artwork by Stein.
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