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Lot Closed
February 4, 03:34 PM GMT
Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
Lot Details
Description
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