Moray Dalton, Body in the Road, first edition
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Moray Dalton, Body in the Road, first edition

Dalton (Moray) [pseud. Katherine M. Renoir]. The Body in the Road

London, Sampson Low, Marston, [1931].

First UK edition, ‘File Copy’. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced at 2/6.

A well-known work by Golden Age crime writer Moray Dalton, marking the debut of private eye Hermann Gilde, and featuring the evocative dust-jacket artwork by John Morton-Sale (1901-90).

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Stamped ‘File Copy’ on title and front pastedown; cloth VG+; dust-jacket a little rubbed at edges with some small, old repairs to reverse, but really VG.

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