The Library of an English Bibliophile Part VII

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Lot 10
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Bentley, E.C.

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Description

  • Bentley, E.C.
  • Trent's Last Case. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1913]
  • PAPER
8vo (183 x 118mm.), FIRST EDITION, coloured frontispiece, original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine with design in blind, illustrated endpapers, DUST-JACKET, some restoration to head of dust-jacket

Literature

Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone

Catalogue Note

First edition of the author's first novel. Bentley's detective novel comprises the first sendup of the whodunit genre.