Taylor (Phoebe Atwood) Going, Going, Gone!
£100
London, Collins Crime Club, 1944.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original dark orange cloth lettered in black to spine. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 7s6d.
An auction that starts as a treasure hunt and ends with a murder has Asey Mayo on the hunt for a killer. A very good first UK edition.
Out of stock
New front endpapers; cloth very slightly sunned at extremities; dust-jacket slightly sunned at spine and with some edge-wear – VG+/VG-
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