Strong (L.A.G.) All Fall Down
Original price was: £125.£100Current price is: £100.
London, Collins Crime Club, 1944.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
Jocular Ellie McKay, of the Yard, and his book-selling friend Gilkison, happen in on the murder of a cussed old codger, bibliomaniac Hatt Baildon.
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Cloth mildly sunned at head of spine, otherwise very good; jacket a little marked and with a few minor chips and closed tears, but overall very good.
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