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Sprigg (C. St John) The Six Queer Things
£975
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1937.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original orange cloth blocked in black. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
Attractive jacket artwork graces this uncommon, posthumously published mystery novel by Marxist writer, literary critic, intellectual and activist St John Sprigg.
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Neat ink stamp to front free endpaper; cloth slightly darkened at head of spine; jacket with some wear and creasing around spine and fore-corners, some loss.
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