G/VG – Wrapper has slight loss to foot of spine taking out ‘M’ of publisher’s name; correctly priced 7/6 on spine: some foxing to fore-edge and ink inscription on front endpapers.
Moroso (John) The People Against Nancy Preston
£575
First edition.
London, Methuen 1922
A Hubin listed mystery in the very elusive jacket which has some visual similarity to the jacket design of ‘Mysterious Affair at Styles’, Agatha Christie’s first novel, published two years earlier. John Moroso was a New York based writer who contributed to various publications in the 1910s and 1920s and also wrote a story about life in an east side New York City ghetto titled The Stumbling Herd, which was made into a silent film in 1926
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