Gunn (Victor, pseud. Edwy Searles Brooks, aka Berkeley Gray) Ironsides Smahes Through.
£275
London, Collins, 1940
First edition. 8vo. 3pp. advertisements. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7’6.
A very good first edition of this Ironsides title, distinctly uncommon in the original dust-jacket. Victor Gunn was one of several pseudonyms for Edwy Brooks, alongside his perhaps more well-known moniker ‘Berkeley Gray’.
In stock
VG+; jacket with old closed tear and resultant creasing to head of front panel, with neat repair to reverse, 2 small abrasions to front panel, torn with small section of loss at foot of spine, some light ink numbers written to lower panel, overall VG-.
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