Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection

Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection

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Carter Dickson [John Dickson Carr] | The Reader is Warned, 1939

Lot Closed

February 4, 03:34 PM GMT

Estimate

400 - 600 GBP

Lot Details

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Carter Dickson [John Dickson Carr]


The Reader is Warned. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1939


FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 8vo, original black cloth stamped in green and red on spine and upper cover, DUST-JACKET, light fraying and creasing to dust-jacket


"...Can you kill a man by willing his death? And if it were possible so to commit murder, who in this company, shut up at 'Fourways' over a week-end, would have wished to kill blustering old Constable?..."


PROVENANCE

The Alexis Galanos Collection