Rutledge (Maryse) The Sad Adventurers
£95
London, Constable, 1924.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6, with publisher’s ‘file’ sticker to spine. Publisher’s promotional card loosely inserted.
A tale of mild villainy and opportunism featuring a parasitical couple on the fringes of cosmopolitan society. Attractive jacket artwork by A. Mary Ryland.
In stock
Slight toning to endpapers and extremities of text-block; a fine copy; dust-jacket rubbed at fore-corners and spine ends, some general overall rubbing, spine slightly toned.
In Hubin.
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