Innes (Michael, pseud. John Innes Mackintosh Stewart) The Secret Vanguard
£495
London, Gollancz, 1940.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
The first edition of the fifth novel to feature John Appleby, a young Detective Inspector in the Metropolitan Police, straddling detective and spy fiction admirably.
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Cloth sunned at spine; jacket toned at spine with some light rubbing and general, light dust-soiling.
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