Marsh (Ngaio) Overture to Death
£675
London, Collins Crime Club, 1939.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth lettered in black. Dust-jacket, without price (Colonial issue?)
A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone, and a scarce first edition in the original jacket. This is the eighth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and the third novel in which Alleyn’s love interest, the painter Agatha Troy features, hastening the imminent departure of Nigel Bathgate (Alleyn’s “Watson”).
In stock
Cloth a little sunned at spine ends; jacket with some mild toning and occasional marking, chipped at corners and spine ends, but overall VG.
Donald P. Doolittle (blind-stamp to half-title).
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