Starr (Richard) Somebody’s Baby
£95
London, Sampson Low, [1938].
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Attractive jacket artwork on this story of literal kidnapping.
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Jacket with some light rubbing to extremities, but otherwise a very good copy.
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