Morland (Nigel) The Phantom Gunman.
£795
First edition.
London, Cassell, 1935.
The Phantom Gunman is the author’s first crime novel and imagines what would happen if Chicago gangsters were to come over to London. Features serial character Mrs Pym.
Exceptionally scarce in a jacket
In stock
VG+/VG+ – front boards has some discolouration and is slightly bowed; contents clean and free of inscriptions. The jacket has a small v shaped area of loss at top of front panel, small closed tear at bottom of front panel, correctly priced at 7/6 net on spine. An excellent example overall.
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