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Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection
Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection
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A.E.W. Mason | The House of the Arrow, [1924]
Lot Closed
February 4, 04:32 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A.E.W. Mason
The House of the Arrow. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1924]
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original blue cloth lettered in gilt and black, DUST-JACKET, minor browning to endpapers, dust-jacket very slightly frayed at extremities
A HAYCRAFT-QUEEN CORNERSTONE
Daniel P. King notes in Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers (London, 1980) that "The House of the Arrow is regarded as almost perfect in its conception and plot."
LITERATURE
Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone
PROVENANCE
The Alexis Galanos Collection