Marsh (Richard) The Beetle A Mystery
£575
25th impression.
London, Ernest Benn, 1931
A very rare example. There are no copies of this edition online let alone with a near fine wrapper.
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The book is bound in pinkish red cloth; boards are sharp, contents clean and free of inscriptions, there is minor loss to last page of text (p351 otherwise fine. The wrapper is complete without any loss or repairs and remarkably clean given the large amount of white. There is a 4/6 price label on the spine. There is a fabulously lurid and anti-Semitic illustration on the front panel showing a scarab beetle with stereotypical features of a Jewish man.
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