Foxing; slight sunning to cloth; dust-jacket price-clipped and rather worn with some loss, dust-soiling.
Jacket artwork by Ejia.
£275
London, Constable, 1931.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
Tales of Chinatown and Limehouse: “horrible, ironical, whimsically aloof”
In stock
Foxing; slight sunning to cloth; dust-jacket price-clipped and rather worn with some loss, dust-soiling.
Jacket artwork by Ejia.
Detective Fiction
London, Hutchinson, 1937. One of the Inspector Williams novels, by an author also known for writing Sexton Blake titles.
Detective Fiction
First edition. London, Heinemann, 1928 Fifteen episodes of crimes studied by Rowland Hern and his Watson-like unnamed narrator with strong supernatural content.
Detective Fiction
Translated from the French by Maverick Terrell. First English edition, London, T. Werner Laurie, 1936. One of the prolific French author's whodunits. Dekobra (real name Maurice Tessier) was one of France's best-known authors during the interwar period, and several of his books were made into films.