Burt ([Maxwell] Struthers) The Scarlet Hunter
£125
London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1925].
First UK edition, first printing. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7’6.
An excellent first UK edition of this collection of nine stories by American writer Struthers Burt, author of the non-fiction, intriguingly entitled account The Diary of a Dude Wrangler (1924). Burt’s papers are housed at Princeton University.
In stock
A little very light foxing, text-block slightly dust-soiled at extremities; cloth very slightly dulled and bumped, overall VG; jacket with small split to upper fore-corner of upper panel, but really an excellent jacket.
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